HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual
Hp xp p9000 fast snap user guide
HP XP P9000 Fast Snap User Guide
Abstract
This guide explains how to use HP XP P9000 Fast Snapshot Software to create space-efficient point-in-time copies of data
volumes on an HP XP P9000 disk array. Topics include creating, monitoring, and troubleshooting pools, virtual volumes, and
copy pairs. The intended audience is a storage system administrator or authorized service provider with independent knowledge
of HP XP P9000 disk arrays and the HP Remote Web Console.
HP Part Number: AV400-96610
Published: January 2014
Edition: Third
Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP XP P9000 Fast Snap User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Overview of Fast Snap
- Fast Snap
- Components of Fast Snap
- How Fast Snap works
- Pair status
- Copy threshold option
- Interoperability with other software applications
- About acronyms and abbreviations for software applications
- 2 Planning and design
- System requirements
- Requirements for Fast Snap tasks
- Calculating the number of virtual volumes that the storage system can create
- Calculating the number of Fast Snap pairs
- Calculating the maximum number of pairs based on differential tables
- Calculating the number of Fast Snap pairs based on pair tables
- Calculating the number of Fast Snap pairs based on the snapshot estimated manageable capacity
- Calculating the number of Fast Snap pairs based on the number of cache management devices
- Calculating the number of cache management devices
- Effects on I/O performance of the storage system
- Calculating pool capacity
- Using external volumes as pool-VOLs
- 3 Performing configuration tasks
- 4 Pair tasks
- 5 Monitoring and maintenance
- 6 Troubleshooting
- 7 Support and other resources
- A RAID Manager command reference
- B Fast Snap GUI reference
- Glossary
- index