HP XP Racks - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Business Copy Z overview...........................................................................7
Hardware and software components...........................................................................................7
Interface tools......................................................................................................................7
Remote Web Console......................................................................................................8
RAID Manager...............................................................................................................8
Consistency groups..............................................................................................................8
Volume pairs............................................................................................................................8
Initial and update copy operations..............................................................................................9
Initial copy workflow............................................................................................................9
Update copy workflow.........................................................................................................9
2 Business Copy Z system requirements and planning......................................11
Business Copy Z system requirements........................................................................................11
Pair volumes and supported emulation types..............................................................................12
BC Z licensed capacity and licensed capacity requirements.........................................................14
Determining capacity of BC Z pairs in XP7 workflow...................................................................14
Differential and pair tables..................................................................................................14
Software applications that use tables...............................................................................15
Tables and installed shared memory.....................................................................................15
Calculating the number of tables if you are sharing tables.......................................................15
Determining the number of tables required for Business Copy Z...............................................15
Determining the number of used tables in the storage system...................................................15
Calculating the number of tables for Business Copy Z.............................................................16
Calculating the maximum number of BC Z pairs.....................................................................16
Quick Split and Steady Split performance planning....................................................................17
Performance planning and calibrating your XP7 storage system....................................................18
Guidelines for maximizing host I/O performance...................................................................18
Workflow for maximizing Quick Restore performance.............................................................19
Splitting pairs using consistency groups.....................................................................................20
Using consistency group pair-split with shared volumes...........................................................20
Requirements, restrictions, and guidelines for using consistency group pair-split with shared
BC Z and Cnt Ac-S Z or Cnt Ac-J Z volumes......................................................................21
Supported pair statuses for consistency group pair-split...........................................................22
Using ATTIME Suspend to split CG pairs at a specific time......................................................23
Business Continuity Manager and IBM PPRC preparation.............................................................23
Preparing Business Continuity Manager command devices workflow........................................24
3 Sharing Business Copy Z volumes...............................................................25
Sharing Business Copy Z volumes with other XP7 software application volumes..............................25
Sharing volumes with Cache Residency.....................................................................................26
Sharing volumes with Compatible FlashCopy.............................................................................26
Sharing volumes with Compatible XRC......................................................................................26
Sharing volumes with Concurrent Copy......................................................................................27
Sharing volumes with Thin Provisioning Z and Smart Tiers Z.........................................................27
Sharing volumes with Resource Partition.....................................................................................27
Sharing volumes with Continuous Access Synchronous Z..............................................................27
Sharing volumes with Continuous Access Journal Z.....................................................................28
Sharing volumes with External Storage......................................................................................28
Sharing volumes with Auto LUN................................................................................................28
Assigning BC Z volumes to volumes reserved for Auto LUN workflow........................................29
Sharing volumes and Volume Retention access attributes..............................................................29
Workflow for setting up to use volumes in Business Copy Z pairs..............................................29
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