Hp 3par grow remote copy virtual volume th february 2016 5th may 2015 by alex bytes growing a virtual volume vv on a 3par array is very easy however when using remote copy rc to replicate this volume between arrays you need to carry out the growth task slightly differently. But with one big raid, its like 20 people filling in words to a book at the same time. Im licensed for virtual copy, but not remote copy as well. And also the physical copy takes the space as same as the base volume. Hpe 3par recovery manager for hyperv rmh hpe 3par recovery manager for exchange rme hpe 3par recovery. Perform your unplanned failover on the test virtual volume and then issue the no shutdown command against your 3par storeserv remote copy and management interfaces. Hpe 3par 8400 virtual copy license 1 drive l7b82aae. Are security and performance concerns standing in the way of infrastructure consolidation. Hpe 3par replication software suite installation and startup service hpe lifecycle event services hpe 3par replication software suite installation and startup service provides a limited implementation of the hpe 3par remote copy, virtual copy, and peer persistence components of hpe 3par replication software suite. Make a virtual copy with expiry are you virtual copying the whole virtual volume i dont understand this completly 3 make a schedule for the virtual copy on the remote site i. Learning the 3par lingo for the eva administrator techazine.
It can be a difficult task to determine which copying technologyphysical or logicalis best. Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. Dec 21, 2017 storeonce is not intended to run primary storage workloads and the readonly copy would allow for a restore but not for a workload to run. I am newbie with the hp 3par and i want and advise, i want to do a backup of a couple of virtual volumes and i think it could be done with virtual copy.
This is the figure that shows the useable capacity available to the 3par. However, physical allows me to play my games on any system, including the future when the ps5. Learning 3par part 1 chunklets, logical disk, cpgs, and virtual volumes quick to the point a specified parameter was not correct spec. Hp data replication solution service for 3par virtual copy provides implementation of the hp 3par storage systems virtual copy product. If you still use the 3par management console read on. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice agenda day 1 3par product overview 3par hardware architecture 3par concepts overview 3par software overview 3par service architecture lab. These spare chunklets are distributed across all drives. In the last several years, e books have become a mainstay and a powerful trend in the publishing industry. Hp 3par storeserv 7200 2node administrators manual pdf. Hpe 3par virtual copy is one of the 3par availability features created with your critical business applications in mind. Growing a virtual volume vv on a 3par array is very easy however when using remote copy rc to replicate this volume between arrays you need to carry out the growth task slightly differently. Provide the identification information for the array to ensure access.
Efficiencies in the initial copy creation of the target volumes that do not require replication of zero data across the replication network regardless of target volume type, thick or thin result in a faster initial synchronization. Hpe recovery manager central rmc for vmware vsphere, ms sql, oracle and more. Apr 08, 20 system reporter is a lightweight web application that runs separately from the 3par arrays and storage processors. Symantec netbackup oracle rman backup 3par service architecture. You can create physical copies or virtual copy snapshots of virtual volumes for use if the original base. System reporter offers views into the performance of physical disks, virtual volumes, host ports and remote copy ports among other things. Hpe storage users group view topic virtual copy vs. It sits to the side and quietly collects metrics for consumption after the fact. Simplifying storage administration with 3par autonomic groups. Heres how digital games and physical games stack up in terms of convenience and value. Products sold prior to the november 1, 2015 separation of hewlettpackard company into hewlett packard enterprise company and hp inc.
If there are any scripts that you can share, i will be very grateful. For a complete list of options available for the createsv command, see the hp 3par command line interface reference and the hp 3par cli help. The source volumes used in the creation of a virtual copy or full copy backup can also be restored to the earlier point in time represented by the backup, but with the current version of the hp 3par os and cli, version 3. We have just moved our production vms to a new 3par 7200 array. Slas minimize administrative tasks by tight integration with applications buildin scheduler for taking nondisruptive virtual copy.
The information contained herein is subject to change without notice agenda day 1. Automated virtual copy 3par users group index page. Snapclone on 3par hewlett packard enterprise community. Promoting a virtual copy if you have created multiple copies of a base volume, the data on a virtual copy can be rolled back to the base volume or to any of the virtual copys rw parents in the same. The hp 3par thin copy reclamation feature keeps your storage lean and efficient by reclaiming unused space resulting from the deletion of virtual copy snapshots associated with virtual copy and remote copy volumes. To view get a similar view of disk capacity utilisation as in part 1 run. Purpose the purpose of this post is to document the expected behaviour of the 3par storeserv 7x00 and vmware site recovery manager in both a planned failover and unplanned failover. Technical white paper hp 3par storeserv virtual copy 5 hp 3par snapshot configuration the snapshots were configured with performance in mind.
Hp 3par storeserv does not have the similar snapclone feature as in eva. Sep 20, 20 in this video i talk about what i think about physical copy vs digital copy add me on twitter add on facebook. A snapshot, like a photograph, is a copy created at a specific pointintime. The followingsection s describe how to use autonomic groups to create a consistent set of. Hpe 3par replication software suite installation and startup. Apr 28, 2015 purpose the purpose of this post is to document the expected behaviour of the 3par storeserv 7x00 and vmware site recovery manager in both a planned failover and unplanned failover. Paper vs digital reading is an exhausted debate books. Snapshots allow you to efficiently protect application data by minimizing the amount of physical capacity that copies of data actually consume. Moving virtual volume between remote copy groups 3par.
Then finally reconnect the virtual nics on your vcenter and site recovery manager virtual machines. Virtual copy software hpe 3par virtual copy software is an hpe 3par snapshot implementation used to provide a pit v irtual copy of a vv. Anyone who plans storage policies, configures storage resources, or monitors the storage usage of hp 3par storeserv storage should read this guide. This means you wouldnt need a 3par on the remote end, however it would work best with a 3par on the remote side. I confirm that only virtual copy snapshots licence is required. Hp 3par recovery manager software for vmware vsphere uses hp 3par virtual copy software to create pointintime, vm and applicationaware, diskbased snapshots giving vmware administrators a simple process for recovering whole virtual machine disks. I say this with hundreds of dd games on my pcs, 360s, wii, and ps3s. Hp data replication solution service for 3par virtual copy. Another look at what is the best snapshot method dcig. Any changes to either volume causes them to lose synchronization with each other. On vmware esx, if you copy or data migrate 1tb of data from one datastore to another datastore.
Physical copies are configured for the primary volumes and virtual copies are created against physical copies in order to avoid virtual copy overhead on primary volumes. Simplifying storage administration with 3par autonomic groups karl l. An overview for college students, deciding on what textbooks to buy can be a tough decision. Envrionment the tests where performed on two different environments each containing the same infrastructure. Efficiencies in the initial copy creation of the target volumes that do not require replication of zero data across the replication network regardless of target volume type, thick or thin result in a faster initial synchronization and better network utilization. Discussions specific to the vmware vsphere hypervisor. I have never used the virtual copy feature, and the last training we got was over 5 years ago. We had an incident where i had to go back to a virtual copy of the data as quickly as possible, so i created a rw vc of the ro vc, exported and have been running on in for a couple of days. But hp 3par has taken an innovative approach to overcome the limitations of copy onwrite snapshots such that hp 3par s implementation of copy onwrite can arguably said to be as good or better than allocateonwrite. However, you can use physical copy feature on the 3par.
Hpe 3par adaptive optimization hpe 3par adaptive optimization improves storage utilization by enabling costoptimized storage tiering. I took a physical copy of lun size 100gb it took about 30min. It also ensures that the original data can always be obtained if a problem occurs when updating the data on a vv. Its why retailers still sell physical copies of games. Be mindful that multiple cpgs can consume space from the same set of physical disks, check out our cpg overview if you need a refresher on this. This service provides the analysis, design, implementation, and testing services necessary to deploy virtual copy functionality. I need to program a task to do a virtual copy of a couple of virtual volumes and export them to a new server for the backup, this task need to be done every day at midnight. View topic snapshot and remote copy 3par users group. Hp 3par storeserv virtual copy ingram micro, hpe and the btc solution center. The physical copy creation depends on the size of the lun and also the size of the data inside it. Jan 06, 2015 if your down with the kids and use the modern management tools thats it you can move onto part 3 of this 3par 101 series which covers virtual volumes and vluns. Ensure that all members in the 3par array are running firmware version 2. Technical white paper spaceefficient snapshots for oracle. Understanding how the copy onwrite function works will help it administrators make better use of this capability.
Simplifying storage administration with 3par autonomic. Each hpe 3par storeserv storage system features a high speed, fullmesh passive interconnect that joins mu ltiple controller nodes the highperformance data movement engines of the hpe 3par storeserv architecture to form a cachecoherent, meshactive cluster. The only advantage i can give to digital copies is the one copy that should be submitted to the the strong national museum of play. But resyncing of the physical copy does not take much time since it considers after the previous sync. It can be a difficult task to determine which copying technology physical or logicalis best. Learning 3par part 1 chunklets, logical disk, cpgs. Mar 04, 2011 a couple of months ago i wrote a blog entry commenting that, based upon the research that dcig had done to date, allocateonwrite or redirectonwrite had emerged as the best snapshot method that a midrange array could support. A physical copy duplicates all the data from one original base volume to another volume called the destination volume. Below we have a screenshot from the hp 3par management console. Promoting a virtual copy if you have created multiple copies of a base volume, the data on a virtual copy can be rolled back to the base volume or to any of the virtual copy s rw parents in the same.
Hpe storage users group 3par users group index page. If you missed it, catch part 1 when we talked about chunklets and the fundamentals of 3par. Remote copy is used when you replicate to others arrays. Hpe 3par 8400 virtual copy license 1 drive electronic l7b82aae. Hp 3par storeserv storage best practices guide docshare. View and download hp 3par storeserv 7200 2node manual online. As usual screenshots and command output may be edited to remove sensitive details. Long story behind this, but basically i have a 15tb thin provisioned virtual volume with about 8tb of actual data on it. Hpe 3par virtual copy hpe 3par virtual copy software protects and shares data affordably with rapid recovery using reservationless, nonduplicative, copy onwrite snapshots. Hp 3par grow remote copy virtual volume bytesizedalex. Hp 3par storeserv site to site replication with remote copy duration.
That opinion was formed after looking at snapshot functionality on over 20 midrange arrays and the pros and cons of each snapshot type. I am looking to find out if the virtual copy feature in our 3par 7400 storage system, will help me out with a current situation. Jan, 2015 in this 3par 101 series so far we have looked at 3par fundamentals and the systems unique approach to raid, in part 2 we looked into common provisioning groups cpgs now we get onto the stage where we can provision some storage to hosts by using virtual volumes and vluns. A physical or clone copy requires a capacity equal to that of the original volume. Virtual copy provides enhanced availability and disaster recovery protection. Understanding how the copyonwrite function works will help it administrators make better use of this capability. If you are a command line junkie you can get exactly the same stats from the cli. Moving a 3par virtual volume between two remote groups is a scenario i have encountered which i feel isnt very well documented on the internet. Technical white paper hp 3par storeserv storage best practices guide introduction audience this guide is for system and storage administrators of all levels. Virtual volumes are the only data layer visible to hosts. We run a script that snaps vms then snaps the volumes on the 3par, then throws the snaps of the vm away.