HP XP Racks - Manual (Page 69)

Reclaim zero pages from RAID Manager Reclaim zero pages from Remote Web
Console Pair status
Disabled Disabled COPY(RS-R)/RCPY
Disabled Disabled PSUE
Continuous Access Synchronous
You can use Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers in combination with Continuous Access Synchronous
to replicate V-VOLs. The following figure illustrates the interaction when the Continuous Access
Synchronous primary volume and secondary volume are also V-VOLs.
Figure 1 Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers and Continuous Access Synchronous
Explanation Continuous Access
Synchronous S-VOL Continuous Access
Synchronous P-VOL
Supported. THP V-VOLs THP V-VOLs
Supported. Normal (ordinary)
volumes* THP V-VOLs
Supported. THP V-VOLs Normal (ordinary) volumes*
Note, however, that this combination consumes the same
amount of pool capacity as the original normal volume
(primary volume).
*Normal volumes include the internal volumes and external volumes that are mapped to the volumes of the external
storage system using External Storage. For more information on external volumes, see the HP XP7 External Storage
for Open and Mainframe Systems User Guide.
You cannot specify a Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers pool-VOL as a Continuous Access Synchronous
primary volume and secondary volume
Continuous Access Journal
You can use Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers in combination with Continuous Access Journal to
replicate THP V-VOLs.
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