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ETERNUS SF AdvancedCopy Manager V16.9.1 Operation Guide
FUJITSU Storage

Preface

Purpose of This Manual

This manual describes the functionality of 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 back up 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

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Trademarks

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Copyright Notice

Copyright 2013-2024 Fujitsu Limited

Update History

Content of Update

Updated Section

Revision

The fonts used in the PDF manual have been changed.

General

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The "FUJITSU Storage" part of the product name has been changed to "Fujitsu Storage".

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Information related to the following devices has been added.

  • ETERNUS DX S6 series

Information related to the following device and software has been deleted.

  • ETERNUS DX200F

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012

  • AIX

General

[Note] has been added.

1.2, Chapter 6

The description has been modified.

1.4.1, 8.5.8

In [Information], the explanation has been modified.

6.1.1.1

In [Point], information has been added.

7.1, Appendix B

The section title has been changed.

8.5.8

The version information has been changed to V16.9A.

Cover page

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The ETERNUS DX S5 series has been added to the supported storage devices.

8.5.8

10.2

The description has been modified.

9.3.1.4

10.1

The articles about the product configuration and function overview have been deleted from this manual and they have been moved to the Overview.

General

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The description indicating that the available software version level may vary depending on the system environment has been clarified.

1.1.1, 1.1.2

The terms in this manual have been changed to be consistent with the terms in the PRIMECLUSTER GD manuals.

3.8.3.4, 6.8.3.3, 6.8.3.4, 10.1.6.4, 10.1.7.3 - 10.1.7.5

[Note] has been deleted.

6.2.1

The adapter name "FCRA" has been changed to "RA".

6.5.2.2

The work procedure has been modified.

8.6

Unnecessary description has been deleted.

9.1.2.1, 9.3.2.2, 9.3.2.4

The command execution example has been modified.

9.3.1.4

The content of the pre-processing script has been modified.

A.2.1, A.2.3, A.3.1, A.3.3, C.2.2, C.2.4

The manual to refer the details of the AdvancedCopy Manager functions has been changed.

F.4.1, G.1.3, H.3.1

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

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9.2

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10.1.1.19

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

9.1

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1.6.3

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

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Information related to the following devices and software has been 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

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

"Conventions" in Preface

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

Preface

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

Chapter 2, 9.4.2

The explanations in stop the SnapOPC+ have been 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 has been added.

9.3.2.4

Information related to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 has been added.

"Notation" and "Others" in Preface

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The work procedure has been modified.

8.6, 8.7.2.1, 8.7.2.2

Information related to the ETERNUS DX8900 S4 has been added.

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Information related to the ETERNUS DX500 S4/DX600 S4 has been added.

"Notation" in Preface

Information related to the ETERNUS AF250 S2/AF650 S2 has been added.

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[Point] has been added.

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The explanation in the table 8.1 and the table 8.2 has been modified.

8.1

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10.1.1.14

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

F.5

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F.7.1

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"Notation" in Preface

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"Notation" in Preface

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

1.1.2

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6.1.2

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Information related to the ETERNUS LT60 has been deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

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

3.4.4, 4.4.4, 5.4.4, 6.4.4

The explanation related to SnapOPC/SnapOPC+ has been 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 have been added.

8.5.5

The explanation of the item "Manager IP address" has been modified.

9.2.10

The explanation has been modified.

10.1.1.13, 10.1.8

Information related to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 has been deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

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"Notation" in Preface

A note has been added.

3.4.3, 4.4.3, 5.4.3, 6.4.3, F.7.4

The explanation related to the "stgxfwcmmodsrv" command execution has been 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 has been modified.

9.1, 9.3

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H.4.2

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H.4.2

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"Notation" in Preface

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The reference destination manual has been modified.

H.4.2

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

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"Notation" in Preface

The command name of Figure 6.30 has been corrected.

6.5.2.2

The Copyright has been 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 has been modified.

"Others" in Preface

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

1.2.1, Chapter3, Chapter4, Chapter5

The explanation of Storage Cluster Continuous Copy function has been added.

1.2.2

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

1.3.2, 1.4.1

The explanations of preparations have been modified.

4.4, 5.4

The explanations of the replication operation of AdvancedCopy Manager using the Storage Cluster Continuous Copy function have been 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 has been modified.

8.3.2.2,8.4.2.1

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

9.2.16

The support device of the guest domain has been added.

H.4.2

The explanations for the Oracle Database systems have been added.

1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.2

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

6.5.1.1, 6.5.2.3

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

6.5.2.2

The explanations of backup of databases have been modified.

7.1.2.2

The steps for backing up the data base have been added.

7.1.2.2

The explanations to restore the data base have been modified.

7.1.2.3

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

7.2.1.1

The explanations in regard to how to correspond to certain situations have been 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 have been added.

7.5.3

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

8.1

Precautions for when operating on a clustered environment have been added.

9.1.6

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

Appendix E

The information related to ETERNUS DX200F has been described.

"Others" in Preface

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