HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 About Compatible FlashCopy operations.......................................................7
About Compatible FlashCopy.....................................................................................................7
Establishing a Compatible FlashCopy relationship.........................................................................7
Copy modes............................................................................................................................8
Copying by volume.................................................................................................................10
Copying by dataset................................................................................................................10
Using Consistency Groups for Dataset Copies that Span Volumes.................................................11
Incremental FlashCopy function.................................................................................................12
Reverse Restore function...........................................................................................................13
Fast Reverse Restore function....................................................................................................14
FlashCopy to PPRC Primary Volume function...............................................................................15
Comparison of Results of Cnt Ac-S Z Pair operations...............................................................17
Remote Compatible FlashCopy function.....................................................................................18
Compatible FlashCopy to Continuous Access Journal Z Primary Volume Function............................20
Preserve Mirror Compatible FlashCopy Function.........................................................................20
Releasing Compatible FlashCopy relationships...........................................................................23
Interoperability with other products and functions........................................................................24
Using Compatible FlashCopy with Business Copy Z................................................................26
Using Compatible FlashCopy with Continuous Access Synchronous Z.......................................27
Using Compatible FlashCopy with Continuous Access Journal Z...............................................31
Using Compatible FlashCopy with Concurrent Copy and Extended Remote Copy.......................32
Using Compatible FlashCopy with Thin Provisioning Z............................................................33
Optimizing Volumes................................................................................................................33
2 Preparing for Compatible FlashCopy operations...........................................34
Requirements of Compatible FlashCopy.....................................................................................34
Calculating the maximum number of Compatible FlashCopy relationships......................................34
Selecting Prior operation.........................................................................................................40
FC Slower Copy1 option....................................................................................................40
FC Slower Copy2 Option...................................................................................................40
FC Ext. Slower Copy1 Option..................................................................................................41
FC Ext. Slower Copy2 Option..................................................................................................41
Cautions on turning off the power while using Compatible FlashCopy...........................................41
Installing and removing Compatible FlashCopy..........................................................................42
Installing Compatible FlashCopy..........................................................................................42
Removing Compatible FlashCopy.........................................................................................42
License Capacity Requirements.................................................................................................43
3 Performing Compatible FlashCopy operations .............................................44
Operating commands for Compatible FlashCopy .......................................................................44
Operating systems supporting Compatible FlashCopy..................................................................45
Setting options.......................................................................................................................45
Establishing relationships by volumes for Compatible FlashCopy...................................................46
Using PPRC TSO to establish Compatible FlashCopy relationships by volumes ...........................46
Using DFMSdss to establish Compatible FlashCopy relationships by volumes.............................48
Using ICKDSF to establish Compatible FlashCopy relationships by volumes...............................51
Creating Compatible FlashCopy pairs using Incremental FlashCopy (Reverse Restore): FLASHCPY
ESTABLISH....................................................................................................................53
Creating pairs using Incremental FlashCopy (Fast Reverse Restore): FLASHCPY ESTABLISH......54
Recreating pairs with Incremental FlashCopy (Restore): FLASHCPY ESTABLISH.......................54
Using ANTRQST macro to establish Compatible FlashCopy relationships by volumes .................55
Establishing relationships by extents for Compatible FlashCopy.....................................................58
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