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storage systems. When powering off the primary storage systems, you must power off the supervisor DKC

first, and then the subordinate DKCs.
Caution: If you want to power off the primary storage system, please contact your HP account team

and ask them to power off the storage system.
If data volume pairs are split and the primary storage system is powered off as mentioned above, you

can resume remote copy operations by taking the following steps:

1.

Power on the primary storage system.
If more than one primary storage system is to be used with extended consistency groups, power on

the subordinate DKCs first, and then the supervisor DKC.

2.

If the primary storage system is ready to resume remote copy operations, please restore the data

volume pairs that have been split, and then confirm that the status of the data volume pairs is

Pending duplex or Duplex. This operation must be performed at the primary site.

After you take these steps, remote copy operations will be resumed. The primary storage system will be

able to respond to read journal commands issued by the secondary storage system.

NOTE:

To power off both the primary and secondary storage systems at the same time, please see

When You Power Off the Secondary Storage System

” on page 210. If the system is powered-off without

changing the status of all data volume pairs to Suspend, and then you turn the power back on, the status

of all data volume pairs could be suspended according to a failure.

When You Power Off the Secondary Storage System

If you want to power off the secondary storage system during remote copy operations, you must ensure,

before powering off the storage system, that all data volume pairs or mirrors (i.e., pairs of journal groups)

are split, and that the status of all the data volume pairs is Suspend.
If more than one primary and secondary storage systems are used with extended consistency groups, you

must split all data volume pairs in the extended consistency groups before powering off the secondary

storage systems. When powering off the secondary storage systems, you must power off the supervisor

DKC first, and then the subordinate DKCs.
Caution: If you want to power off the secondary storage system, please contact your HP account team

and ask them to power off the storage system.
If data volume pairs are split and the secondary storage system is powered off as mentioned above, you

can resume remote copy operations by taking the following steps:

1.

Power on the secondary storage system.
If more than one secondary storage system is to be used with extended consistency groups, power

on the subordinate DKCs first, and then the supervisor DKC.

2.

If the secondary storage system is ready to resume remote copy operations, please restore the

data volume pairs that have been split, and then confirm that the status of the data volume pairs

is Pending or Duplex. This operation must be performed at the primary site.

After you take these steps, remote copy operations will be resumed. The secondary storage

system will be able to issue read journal commands to the primary storage system. If you want

to power off both the primary and secondary storage systems at the same time, please see

When You Power Off the Primary and Secondary Storage Systems at the Same Time

” on page 211.

Important: If you turn the power off without changing the status of all data volume pairs to Suspend,

and then you turn the power back on, the status of all data volume pairs could be suspended according

to a failure.

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Power Management for Disk Storage Systems and Network Relay Devices

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