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Using compatible flashcopy with business copy z – HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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Table 7 Reverse Restore and Fast Reverse Restore when a Compatible FlashCopy volume is used

as volume of other solutions (continued)

Compatible FlashCopy SE Volume

Compatible FlashCopy V2
Volume

Solutions

T-VOL (TSE-VOL)

S-VOL

T-VOL

S-VOL

-

OK

OK

OK

Thin Provisioning Z

-

OK

OK

OK

Smart Tiers Z

The following volumes cannot be used as the S-VOL or the T-VOL of a Compatible FlashCopy pair.

Command devices used by Business Continuity Manager

Journal volumes of Continuous Access Journal Z

Reserve volumes used by Business Copy Z

Alias volumes used by Parallel Access Volumes feature

System disks

Using Compatible FlashCopy with Business Copy Z

The following figure shows an example of combining Compatible FlashCopy with Business Copy
Z.

Figure 17 Pair configuration: Compatible FlashCopy S-VOL is shared with a Business Copy Z pair

Usually, you need to specify a volume in Simplex status as a copy source (S-VOL) or a copy target
(T-VOL). When you specify a BC Z S-VOL as a copy source, you can establish a Compatible
FlashCopy relationship only if the BC Z pair is not in Resync-R/REVRSY status.

You can establish or release a Compatible FlashCopy relationship if you meet the requirements
described above. When there is a Compatible FlashCopy relationship, you cannot perform the
backward resynchronization (Reverse Resync or Quick Restore) on the BC Z pair.

Even if the BC Z S-VOL already has three T-VOLs, you can create up to 16 pairs by specifying the
volumes of Compatible FlashCopy relationships as the copy source.

In the following cases, you cannot create BC Z pairs (see the following figure).

Compatible FlashCopy S-VOL and the T-VOL of the BC Z pair are shared.

Compatible FlashCopy T-VOL and the T-VOL of the BC Z pair are shared.

Compatible FlashCopy T-VOL and the S-VOL of the BC Z pair are shared.

When you use Compatible FlashCopy volumes, you cannot create pairs sharing the volumes shown
in the following figure.

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