Hitachi VSP G400 User Guide

Thin Image host access and pair status..............................................................39
Workflow for Thin Image pair status changes..................................................... 40
Copy threshold option and host server I/O performance for Thin Image.....................41
Sharing Thin Image volumes with other software applications................................... 42
Sharing Thin Image volumes that have Data Retention Utility access attributes..... 44
Sharing Thin Image volumes with Hitachi Volume Migration.................................47
Sharing Thin Image volumes with ShadowImage................................................ 47
Sharing Thin Image volumes with TrueCopy and Universal Replicator................... 49
Volume backup with Thin Image, TrueCopy, and Universal Replicator in a 3DC
multitarget configuration workflow............................................................... 51
Volume backup with Thin Image and Universal Replicator in a 3DC multitarget
configuration workflow (VSP G1000, G1500, and VSP F1500)......................... 52
Volume backup with Thin Image and Universal Replicator in a 3DC cascade
configuration workflow (VSP G1000, G1500, and VSP F1500)......................... 52
Sharing Thin Image volumes with global-active device........................................ 53
Storage system configuration with Thin Image and GAD................................ 54
Consistency group configuration with Thin Image and GAD............................ 58
Snapshot group configuration with Thin Image and GAD................................60
Sharing Thin Image volumes with Dynamic Provisioning and Dynamic Provisioning
for Mainframe in a single storage system............................................................62
Sharing Thin Image volumes with Resource Partition Manager............................. 63
System option modes for Thin Image...................................................................... 63
Acronyms and abbreviations for VSP family storage system software applications used
in this guide...........................................................................................................66
2 Thin Image system and planning requirements...................................... 67
Thin Image system requirements............................................................................ 68
Installing Thin Image........................................................................................68
Uninstalling Thin Image.................................................................................... 68
Thin Image licensed capacity requirements.........................................................68
Thin Image shared memory requirements.......................................................... 69
Thin Image volume requirements.......................................................................70
Thin Image data pool requirements................................................................... 73
Thin Image consistency group requirements.......................................................74
Thin Image snapshot group requirements.......................................................... 75
Thin Image planning requirements.......................................................................... 76
Calculating the number of Thin Image pairs based on pair tables......................... 76
Calculating Thin Image pairs based on the snapshot estimated manageable capacity
.......................................................................................................................76
Calculating Thin Image pairs based on cache management devices......................77
Calculating the number of cache management devices........................................ 77
Calculating the Thin Image pair capacity for DP pools..........................................78
Thin Image cache management device requirements.......................................... 80
Calculating and assigning pool capacity.............................................................. 80
Resolving insufficient pool capacity...............................................................81
Pool capacity calculations.............................................................................82
Creating a backup of data............................................................................82
Universal Volume Manager and external volumes used as pool-VOLs.................... 82
Simultaneous processing of multiple Thin Image pair tasks..................................83
Pair operations when pairs are cascaded ........................................................... 83
Pair operations when pairs are not cascaded.......................................................94
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Hitachi Thin Image User Guide for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series and F Series

Hitachi VSP G400 Specifications

General

Brand	Hitachi
Model	VSP G400
Category	Storage
Language	English