HP XP7 Storage User Manual
Hp xp7 fast snap user guide
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP XP7 Fast Snap User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Overview of Fast Snap
- Workflow for Fast Snap
- Components of Fast Snap
- How Fast Snap works
- Fast Snap pair status
- The copy threshold option and host server I/O performance
- Sharing FS volumes with other XP7 storage system software applications
- Sharing volumes and Data Retention access attributes
- Sharing Fast Snap volumes with Auto LUN
- Sharing Fast Snap volumes with Business Copy
- Sharing Fast Snap volumes with Continuous Access Synchronous and Continuous Access Journal
- Capacity and using Fast Snap, Thin Provisioning, and Thin Provisioning Z in a single storage system
- Resource Partition
- Acronyms and abbreviations for XP7 storage system software applications used in this guide
- 2 Planning and design requirements
- System requirements
- Requirements for Fast Snap tasks
- Calculating the number of Fast Snap pairs based on pair tables
- Workflow for calculating Fast Snap pairs based on the snapshot estimated manageable capacity
- Calculating the remaining shared memory
- Workflow for calculating Fast Snap pairs based on cache management devices
- Calculating the number of cache management devices
- Fast Snap cache management device requirements
- Fast Snap pair restoration and host server I/O performance
- Calculating and assigning pool capacity
- External Storage and external volumes used as pool-VOLs
- 3 Configuring Fast Snap
- 4 Managing Fast Snap Pairs
- Fast Snap pair tasks
- Checking Fast Snap pair status
- Reloading configuration information
- Workflow for creating and managing Fast Snap pairs
- Workflow for creating Fast Snap pairs using Remote Web Console
- Creating Fast Snap pairs and defining them in snapshot or consistency groups using the RAID Manager
- Creating Fast Snap pairs
- Workflow for defining pairs to consistency groups when the host is down
- Snapshot data storage methods
- Splitting Fast Snap pairs to store snapshot data
- Workflow for splitting Fast Snap pairs in consistency groups
- Restoring Fast Snap pairs
- Formatting external volumes
- Fast Snap pair resynchronization
- Deleting Fast Snap pairs
- 5 Monitoring and maintaining Fast Snap
- Monitoring pair information
- Monitoring consistency groups
- Viewing Fast Snap pair task history
- Viewing the number of cache management devices
- Managing pools
- Monitoring pool information
- Viewing formatted pool capacity and pool usage rates
- Workflow for rebalancing pool volume usage rates among parity groups
- Viewing the progress of rebalancing pool volume usage rates and levels
- Increasing pool capacity
- Decreasing pool capacity
- Editing the data pool warning threshold
- Editing pool names
- Recovering blocked pools
- Workflow for deleting pools
- Managing virtual volumes
- Maintaining pairs by switching off the storage system power and replacing the microcode
- 6 Troubleshooting
- 7 Support and other resources
- A RAID Manager command reference
- B Fast Snap GUI reference
- Glossary
- Index