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5 pair operations, 7 business copy/snapshot troubleshooting, 8 support and other resources – HP XP RAID Manager Software User Manual

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5 Pair operations.........................................................................................35

Pair operations.......................................................................................................................35
Checking the pair status..........................................................................................................35
Pair creation workflow.............................................................................................................35

Pair creation......................................................................................................................35
Configuring pairs...............................................................................................................36

Removing and moving volumes.......................................................................................37

Creating pairs...................................................................................................................37

Pair split................................................................................................................................40

Splitting pairs....................................................................................................................41
Splitting pairs in consistency groups at a pre-determined time..................................................41

Pair resynchronization and restoration .......................................................................................42

Resynchronizing and restoring pairs.....................................................................................42

Pair deletion..........................................................................................................................42

Deleting pairs....................................................................................................................43

6 Business Copy/Snapshot monitoring and maintenance..................................44

Monitoring the storage system..................................................................................................44

Monitoring pair information, license capacity, status...............................................................44

Pair status definitions.....................................................................................................44

Monitoring pair properties..................................................................................................45
Monitoring synchronous rates..............................................................................................45
Monitoring consistency groups.............................................................................................46
Monitoring pair operations history.......................................................................................46
Monitoring pool information................................................................................................46

Maintaining the storage system................................................................................................47

Managing data pools........................................................................................................47

Increasing data pool volume capacity..............................................................................48
Changing pool volume threshold.....................................................................................48
Changing pool volume names........................................................................................48
Recovering pool volumes................................................................................................49
Deleting pool volumes...................................................................................................49

Managing virtual volumes...................................................................................................49

Changing virtual volume names......................................................................................50
Deleting virtual volumes.................................................................................................50

Switching off the storage system power and replacing the microcode .......................................50

Switching off the power supply........................................................................................51
Replacing the microcode offline......................................................................................51

7 Business Copy/Snapshot troubleshooting.....................................................52

General troubleshooting..........................................................................................................52

Recovering from failure during pairresync -restore operation.....................................................55
Recovering a terminated HP-UX host server............................................................................55
Recovering a blocked pool workflow....................................................................................55
Pool-related SIM entry removal workflow...............................................................................56

Completing Service Information Messages........................................................................56

Troubleshooting with RAID Manager.........................................................................................57

Identifying errors using the log on the RAID Manager window.................................................62
Identifying errors using the RAID Manager operation log file...................................................63

8 Support and other resources......................................................................64

Contacting HP........................................................................................................................64

Subscription service............................................................................................................64
Documentation feedback....................................................................................................64

Related information.................................................................................................................64

HP websites......................................................................................................................64

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