HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Understanding and planning Remote Copy....................................................6
How Remote Copy works...........................................................................................................6
Graphical representations of Remote Copy..............................................................................6
Copying the primary snapshot to the remote snapshot..........................................................7
Graphical legend for Remote Copy icons...........................................................................7
Remote Copy and volume replication......................................................................................7
Uses for Remote Copy..........................................................................................................7
Benefits of Remote Copy.......................................................................................................8
Planning for Remote Copy.........................................................................................................8
Planning the remote snapshot................................................................................................9
Prerequisites for creating a remote snapshot........................................................................9
Logging in to primary and remote management groups........................................................9
Designating or creating the remote volume.........................................................................9
Using schedules for Remote Copy.............................................................................................10
Planning the Remote Copy schedule.....................................................................................10
Recurrence...................................................................................................................10
Testing the copy time................................................................................................10
Capacity......................................................................................................................10
Retention policies..........................................................................................................10
Best practices....................................................................................................................11
2 Using Remote Copy..................................................................................13
Working with remote snapshots................................................................................................13
Application-managed snapshots..........................................................................................13
Creating a remote snapshot................................................................................................13
Best practice.................................................................................................................13
Getting there................................................................................................................13
Creating the primary snapshot........................................................................................14
Creating primary snapshots for volume sets......................................................................15
Creating a remote volume..............................................................................................16
Designating an existing volume as a remote volume......................................................16
Creating a new remote volume manually.....................................................................16
Creating a remote volume while creating a remote snapshot..........................................16
What the system does....................................................................................................17
Creating the first copy...................................................................................................17
Viewing a list of remote snapshots........................................................................................18
Setting the remote bandwidth..............................................................................................18
Selecting remote bandwidth rate.....................................................................................18
Canceling a remote snapshot..............................................................................................19
Editing a remote snapshot...................................................................................................19
Deleting a remote snapshot.................................................................................................20
Monitoring remote snapshots...................................................................................................20
Monitoring details from the Remote Snapshots feature.............................................................20
Viewing information in the Remote Snapshots tab..............................................................20
Viewing the status in the Remote Snapshot Details window.................................................21
Scheduling remote snapshots...................................................................................................23
Best practices for scheduling remote snapshots...........................................................................23
Creating the schedule.............................................................................................................23
Creating the schedule for volume sets...................................................................................24
What the system does........................................................................................................25
Pausing and resuming scheduled snapshots................................................................................25
Editing the schedule to remote snapshot a volume.......................................................................26
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