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2 Business Copy Z system requirements and planning
This chapter describes system requirements and planning tasks for BC Z storage systems.
Business Copy Z system requirements
The following table shows minimum requirements for BC Z.
Requirement Item
Based on purchased capacity. BC Z license capacity
For more information about license capacity requirements, see “BC Z licensed capacity
and licensed capacity requirements” (page 14) .
Must be installed. License key
RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 RAID level
Required. RWC
Use BCM or IBM PPRC but not both interface tools. BCM/IBM PPRC
If you use BCM, a command device is required.
For more information about preparing BCM and IBM PPRC, see “Business Continuity
Manager and IBM PPRC preparation” (page 23) .
Required if you are running commands through an in-band connection. Otherwise, RAID
Manager is not required. RAID Manager
For more information about RAID Manager and running commands through an in-band
connection, see the HP XP7 RAID Manager User Guide.
The pair volumes. Pair volumes
Values:
• Number of P-VOLs per S-VOL: One
•
Number of S-VOLs per P-VOL:
Range: At least one and up to three
•
Volume Capacity: The P-VOL and S-VOLs must have the same capacity.
•
Supported emulation types.
For more information about the supported emulation types, see “Pair volumes and
supported emulation types” (page 12) .
•
Supported volume types:
◦
Internal volumes.
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External volumes.
Note: External Storage license is required.
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Custom-sized volumes.
Note: VLVI is required. Pair volumes must have the same capacity and emulation
type.
•
Mirror Unit number (MU number):
Values:
◦
(For RWC and RAID Manager) 0, 1, or 2
◦
(For BCM or IBM PPRC) Not specified
You can share volumes with other software applications.
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