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ETERNUS SF AdvancedCopy Manager V16.8 Operation Guide
FUJITSU Storage

Preface

Purpose of This Manual

This manual describes the functionality of FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF AdvancedCopy Manager (hereafter abbreviated as "AdvancedCopy Manager").

Intended Readers

This manual is intended for a system administrator who performs storage management using AdvancedCopy Manager.

Structure of This Manual

The structure of this manual is as follows.

Chapter 1 Overview

This chapter provides an overview of AdvancedCopy Manager.

Chapter 2 Starting and Stopping Daemons

This chapter describes how to start and stop daemons provided by AdvancedCopy Manager.

Chapter 3 Backup Operation

This chapter describes how to backup data.

Chapter 4 Backup Operation Using Suspend/Resume Function

This chapter describes how to use the Suspend/Resume function in the backup operation.

Chapter 5 Backup Operation Using QuickOPC Function

This chapter describes how to use the QuickOPC function in the backup operation.

Chapter 6 Replication

This chapter describes the replication operation.

Chapter 7 Storage Cluster Continuous Copy Function

This chapter describes the replication operation of AdvancedCopy Manager using the Storage Cluster Continuous Copy function.

Chapter 8 Operation Maintenance

This chapter describes how to perform configuration and system maintenance tasks and troubleshooting on the system management information database.

Chapter 9 Command References

This chapter describes commands.

Chapter 10 Notes on Operations

This chapter describes additional operational notes on Backup and Replication.

Appendix A Pre-processing and Post-processing of Backup and Restoration

This appendix describes the script used for pre-processing and post-processing of backup and restore functionality.

Appendix B Sample Script for Backup Operations

This appendix describes some sample scripts using AdvancedCopy Manager.

Appendix C Pre-processing and Post-processing of Replication

This appendix describes the script used for pre-processing and post-processing replication.

Appendix D System Volume Backup Operation

This appendix describes how to back up and restore the system volume.

Appendix E Backup Operations Using Power-Saving

This appendix describes backup operations using the power-saving features of disks in ETERNUS Disk storage system.

Appendix F Operation in Oracle Solaris Zones

This appendix describes the operation using the Oracle Solaris Zones Support function.

Appendix G Backup and Restoration of ZFS File Systems

This appendix describes backup and restoration of ZFS file systems.

Appendix H Operation in Oracle VM Server for SPARC

This appendix describes the operation in Oracle VM Server for SPARC.

Conventions

This manual abides by the conventions listed in "Conventions" in the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF Express / Storage Cruiser / AdvancedCopy Manager Documentation Road Map.

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Trademarks

Revision History

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Notes

Copyright Notice

Copyright 2013-2020 FUJITSU LIMITED

Update History

Content of Update

Updated Section

Revision

In the Figure 9.4, the explanation of the "stgxfwcmdelsrv" command has been modified.

9.2

9.2

A new sub section has been added.

10.1.1.19

The section title is changed.

Chapter 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3, 1.6.3

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In [Point], the explanation is added.

1.6.3

The section "1.6.4 Combination in Environment Where Earlier Version Number and IPv6 Unsupported Operating System Coexist" of previous version is deleted.

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Information related to the following devices and software is deleted.

  • ETERNUS DX60, DX400 series, DX8000 series

  • Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g

  • VERITAS Cluster Server 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 (For Solaris)

  • SynfinityCLUSTER

  • SynfinityDISK

  • SynfinityFILE

General

9

The description for Conventions is changed so that the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF Express / Storage Cruiser / AdvancedCopy Manager Documentation Road Map is referenced.

"Conventions" in Preface

The "Manual Organization and Reading Suggestions" section is deleted from Preface.

Preface

The explanation related to starting and stopping the ETERNUS SF Manager service is modified.

Chapter 2, 9.4.2

The explanations in stop the SnapOPC+ are added.

6.1.1.3, 6.7, 9.3.2.2 - 9.3.2.4, 10.1.5.2

In the table "Processing Differences in Accordance with Operating Status" of [NOTES], information is added.

9.3.2.4

Information related to Windows Server 2019 is added.

"Notation" and "Others" in Preface

8.1

The work procedure is modified.

8.6, 8.7.2.1, 8.7.2.2

Information related to the ETERNUS DX8900 S4 is added.

"Notation" in Preface

8

Information related to Solaris 9 is deleted.

"Notation" in Preface, 1.3.2, F.3

7

Information related to the ETERNUS DX500 S4/DX600 S4 is added.

"Notation" in Preface

Information related to the ETERNUS AF250 S2/AF650 S2 is added.

"Notation" in Preface, 8.5.8

[Point] is added.

6.5.2.2, F.7.7

The explanation in the table 8.1 and the table 8.2 is modified.

8.1

The explanation is modified.

10.1.1.14

The MPLB resources are added for the devices that can use the Oracle Solaris Zones Support function.

F.5

In [See], the explanation is added.

F.7.1

Information related to Windows Server 2016 is added.

"Notation" and "Others" in Preface

6

Information related to Windows Vista is deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

Information related to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 is deleted and information related to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 is added.

"Notation" in Preface

Information related to the ETERNUS DX60 S4/DX100 S4/DX200 S4 is added.

"Notation" in Preface

The reference destination related to the combination of the manager program and the agent program is changed.

1.1.2

In [Note], information is added.

6.1.2

A new condition is added.

6.4.7.1

A new section is added.

8.5.8

In DESCRIPTION, information is modified.

9.2.10

In NOTES, the factors that cannot set the replication volume information are added.

9.3.1.1

Information related to HP-UX 11i v1/v2 is deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

5

Information related to VMware vSphere 4 is deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

Information related to the ETERNUS DX80/DX90 is deleted.

"Notation" in Preface, 9.3.2.2, 10.1.2, 10.1.9, 10.1.10

Information related to the ETERNUS AF250/AF650 is added.

"Notation" and "Others" in Preface

Information related to the ETERNUS LT60 is deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

The description of referring to the ETERNUS SF Web Console Guide is added.

3.4.4, 4.4.4, 5.4.4, 6.4.4

The explanation related to SnapOPC/SnapOPC+ is modified.

6.1.1.1, 6.1.1.2, 6.2.3.1 - 6.2.3.5, 6.5.1, 8.4.2, 8.4.2.3, 9.3.2.2, 9.5.1

The operations to change the device configuration are added.

8.5.5

The explanation of the item "Manager IP address" is modified.

9.2.10

The explanation is modified.

10.1.1.13, 10.1.8

Information related to Windows Server 2003 is deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

4

Information related to Windows 10 is added.

"Notation" in Preface

A note is added.

3.4.3, 4.4.3, 5.4.3, 6.4.3, F.7.4

The explanation related to the "stgxfwcmmodsrv" command execution is modified.

8.5.1 - 8.5.4, 8.5.6.2 - 8.5.6.4

The explanation related to the operating environment during a command execution is modified.

9.1, 9.3

A point is added.

H.4.2

An unnecessary information is deleted.

H.4.2

Information related to ETERNUS DX8700 S3/DX8900 S3 is added.

"Notation" in Preface

3.2

The reference destination manual is modified.

H.4.2

The term "VMware Virtual Volumes" is changed to "VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes" according to the terms used by VMware, Inc.

Throughout this manual

3.1

Information related to VMware vSphere(R) 6 is added.

"Notation" in Preface

The command name of Figure 6.30 is corrected.

6.5.2.2

The Copyright is modified.

A.2.2.1, A.3.1.1, A.3.2.1, C.2.2.2, C.2.3.1, C.2.3.2

Information related to the ETERNUS DX200F is modified.

"Others" in Preface

3

Notes for the Advanced Copy function that uses TFOV's are added.

1.2.1, Chapter3, Chapter4, Chapter5

The explanation of Storage Cluster Continuous Copy function is added.

1.2.2

Solaris 11 is added to the software condition of ETERNUS Multipath Driver.

1.3.2, 1.4.1

The explanations of preparations are modified.

4.4, 5.4

The explanations of the replication operation of AdvancedCopy Manager using the Storage Cluster Continuous Copy function are added.

1.2.1, 1.2.2, Chapter3, Chapter4, Chapter5, Chapter7, 9.1, 9.1.1.3, 9.1.2.1, 9.1.2.3, 9.1.2.8, 9.3.1.1, 9.3.1.4, 9.3.1.5, 9.3.2.1, 9.3.2.2, 9.3.2.3, 9.3.2.4, 9.3.2.6, 9.5.1, 9.5.2, F.2

The corrective procedure when hardware failure occurs in volumes is modified.

8.3.2.2,8.4.2.1

The explanation when migrating from ETERNUS SF Manager V16.1 or later is added to options.

9.2.16

The support device of the guest domain is added.

H.4.2

The explanations for the Oracle Database systems are added.

1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.2

2

Notes regarding the number of simultaneous executions of Concurrent OPC and Concurrent Suspend processes are modified.

6.5.1.1, 6.5.2.3

The section regarding the transfer mode of the inter-box synchronous replication is modified.

6.5.2.2

The explanations of backup of databases are modified.

7.1.2.2

The steps for backing up the data base are added.

7.1.2.2

The explanations to restore the data base are modified.

7.1.2.3

Notes of the collecting error survey information in the cluster environment are modified.

7.2.1.1

The explanations in regard to how to correspond to certain situations are modified.

7.3.2.2, 7.4.2.1, 8.3.1.1

The explanations on changing the port number of the Management Server / Managed Server are added.

7.5.3

The operating environments of AdvancedCopy Manager for the "swstresrst" command and the "swstsrsemtch" command are modified.

8.1

Precautions for when operating on a clustered environment are added.

9.1.6

The explanations in regard to energy-saving operation (eco-mode) are altered.

Appendix E

The information related to ETERNUS DX200F is described.

"Others" in Preface

1.1