11.0 HP StoreVirtual Storage Remote Copy User Guide (AX696-96306, September 2013)
Contents
1 Understanding and planning Remote Copy....................................................4
How Remote Copy works...........................................................................................................4
Planning for Remote Copy.........................................................................................................6
Using schedules for Remote Copy...............................................................................................7
2 Using Remote Copy..................................................................................11
Working with remote snapshots................................................................................................11
Monitoring remote snapshots...................................................................................................18
Scheduling remote snapshots...................................................................................................20
Best practices for scheduling remote snapshots...........................................................................21
Creating the schedule.............................................................................................................21
Pausing and resuming scheduled snapshots................................................................................23
Editing the schedule to remote snapshot a volume.......................................................................24
Deleting the remote snapshot schedule......................................................................................24
Failover and failback using Remote Copy..................................................................................24
Using the Volume Failover/Failback Wizard...............................................................................25
Resuming production after failover............................................................................................26
Rolling back primary and remote volumes..................................................................................28
Using remote snapshots for data migration and data mining........................................................29
Disassociating remote management groups................................................................................29
3 Sample Remote Copy configurations...........................................................31
Using Remote Copy for business continuance.............................................................................31
Using Remote Copy for off-site backup and recovery...................................................................38
Using Remote Copy for data migration or cloning.......................................................................43
4 Support and other resources......................................................................46
Contacting HP........................................................................................................................46
HP Insight Remote Support software..........................................................................................46
Related information.................................................................................................................46
5 Documentation feedback...........................................................................48
Glossary....................................................................................................49
Index.........................................................................................................55
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