HP XP P9500 User Manual

Contents
1 Overview of HP P9000 for Business Continuity Manager Software..................16
Why use Business Continuity Manager?....................................................................................16
Communication with HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software..........................17
Products that can be controlled by Business Continuity Manager...................................................18
Business Copy for Mainframe (BC Z)....................................................................................19
Continuous Access Synchronous for Mainframe (Cnt Ac-S Z)....................................................19
Continuous Access Asynchronous for Mainframe (Cnt Ac-A).....................................................20
Continuous Access Journal for Mainframe (Cnt Ac-J Z)............................................................20
Remote volume operations.......................................................................................................21
Grouping to simplify volume operations.....................................................................................22
Copy groups.....................................................................................................................22
Consistency groups............................................................................................................23
Journal groups..............................................................................................................24
Open/MF Consistency Groups.......................................................................................25
Copy group containers.......................................................................................................25
Extended Consistency Groups.........................................................................................26
Terminology by Copy Type..................................................................................................27
Data Center Configurations......................................................................................................27
2DC Configuration.............................................................................................................27
3DC Cascade Configuration...............................................................................................28
3DC Multi-Target Configuration...........................................................................................28
3DC Multi-Target Configuration with the Delta Resync Function.................................................28
2DC Configuration with HyperSwap and Continuous Access Journal........................................29
4x4 Configuration.............................................................................................................29
4x4x4 Cascade Configuration............................................................................................30
4x4x4 Multi-Target Configuration.........................................................................................31
Compatible FlashCopy linkage configuration.........................................................................32
Functions Supporting the Automatic Operation (BCM Monitor)......................................................32
Disaster Recovery Functions.................................................................................................33
Operational testing function................................................................................................33
Functions that Support Copy Group Definitions and Operations...............................................33
Specified Time Suspend functions.........................................................................................34
Functions for Acquiring Volume Information...........................................................................34
Logical Path Control function................................................................................................34
For monitoring events and errors..........................................................................................34
Functionalities Dependent on the Storage System........................................................................35
Storage System Identification ...................................................................................................38
Preparing to set up Business Continuity Manager........................................................................39
2 Business Continuity Manager with replication products..................................41
Storage System Settings and Copy Group Definitions..................................................................41
Replication products and data center configurations....................................................................42
The 2DC configurations......................................................................................................42
The 3DC configurations......................................................................................................43
The 3DC Cascade configuration.....................................................................................44
The 3DC Multi-Target configuration..................................................................................44
Operations during local or remote site storage system maintenance or a failure.....................45
Operations during primary site host maintenance or a host failure.......................................46
The Delta Resync configuration........................................................................................47
2DC Configuration with HyperSwap and Continuous Access Journal........................................48
The 4x4 configuration........................................................................................................50
The 4x4x4 Cascade configuration.......................................................................................51
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HP XP P9500 Specifications

General

Brand	HP
Model	XP P9500
Category	Software
Language	English