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9 maintaining the system, 10 disaster recovery operations, 11 troubleshooting – HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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Saving pair status information into a text file.....................................................................85

Monitor copy operations data, I/O .....................................................................................86

Select data to be graphed..............................................................................................87
Manipulate graph, save data..........................................................................................89

Monitor journal status..............................................................................................................89

Mirror Journal status definitions............................................................................................89

Monitor logical path status.......................................................................................................90

History of operations for data volume pairs...........................................................................91

9 Maintaining the system ............................................................................92

Pair maintenance—change the pair-split option .........................................................................92
Journal and mirror maintenance...............................................................................................93

Change Continuous Access Journal Z options used by journals................................................93
Change Continuous Access Journal Z options used by mirrors .................................................95
Delete journal volumes from a journal...................................................................................97
Delete a journal.................................................................................................................98

Logical path maintenance........................................................................................................98

Modify data-transfer time threshold .....................................................................................98
Delete logical paths ..........................................................................................................99
Delete the Continuous Access Journal Z relationship ............................................................100

Manage power-off for systems and network devices .................................................................100

When power stops unexpectedly.......................................................................................100

When power is removed from primary or secondary system..............................................100
When power is removed from network relay devices .......................................................101

Power-off storage systems intentionally................................................................................101

Power-off the primary or secondary system......................................................................101
Power-off primary and secondary systems at the same time...............................................101

Power-off network relay devices..........................................................................................102

10 Disaster recovery operations ..................................................................103

Preparing for disaster recovery ..............................................................................................103
File and database recovery procedures ..................................................................................103
Switch operations to the secondary site ..................................................................................103
Copy data back to the primary site ........................................................................................104
Resume normal operations at the primary site ..........................................................................104
Disaster recovery for multiple primary and secondary storage systems.........................................105

Consistency of data update sequence when a disaster occurs................................................105
Disaster recovery for multiple primary and secondary storage systems....................................105

Recovery procedures with shared volumes................................................................................105

Recovery in a 3DC cascade configuration ..........................................................................106

Transferring business tasks back to the primary site..........................................................106

Recovering from primary site disaster in 3DC multi target configuration...................................107
Recovering from primary site failures (when delta resync operation is performed)......................109
Recovering from failures in the primary site and the Continuous Access Synchronous Z secondary
site................................................................................................................................112
Recovery with Business Copy Z configuration ......................................................................113

11 Troubleshooting....................................................................................114

General troubleshooting........................................................................................................114
Troubleshooting logical paths ................................................................................................115
Troubleshooting suspended pairs ...........................................................................................117
Troubleshooting using Remote Web Console............................................................................118
Error codes .........................................................................................................................119
Service information messages (SIMs) ......................................................................................119

Enabling or disabling SIM reporting...................................................................................121
Clearing SIMs.................................................................................................................122

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