Cross vraid guidelines, Instant restore overview (virtual disks) – HP P6000 Continuous Access Software User Manual

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Impacts of an occupancy warning

When an occupancy warning is issued:

No virtual disks (LUNs) in the disk group can be created or enlarged.

No mirrorclones, snapclones, or snapshots can be created in the disk group.

The disk drive failure protection level (spares) in the disk group cannot be increased.

Cross Vraid guidelines

Cross Vraid (redundancy) guidelines:

Snapclone copy. Redundancy level can be higher or lower than the source.

Snapshot copy. Redundancy level cannot be higher than the source.

Remote copy. Redundancy level can be higher or lower than the source.

See also virtual disk

Redundancy level

.

Quick reference

Remote copy

Snapshot copy

Snapclone copy

Source

Vraid0, Vraid1, or Vraid5,
Vraid6

Vraid0

Vraid0, Vraid1, or Vraid5,
Vraid6

>>>

none

Vraid0

Vraid0, Vraid1, or Vraid5,
Vraid6

Vraid0, Vraid1, or Vraid5

Vraid0, Vraid1, or Vraid5,
Vraid6

>>>

high

Vraid1

Vraid0, Vraid1, or Vraid5,
Vraid6

Vraid0, Vraid5

Vraid0, Vraid1, or Vraid5,
Vraid6

>>>

medium

Vraid5

Vraid0, Vraid1, or Vraid5,
Vraid6

Vraid0, Vraid1, or Vraid5,
Vraid6

Vraid0, Vraid1, or Vraid5,
Vraid6

Vraid6

Instant restore overview (virtual disks)

The instant restore feature allows you to restore data on a virtual disk with data from one of its
previously created replicas (mirrorclone, snapclone or snapshot). The operation is instant because
the restored data is available within seconds for host I/O (the actual data transfer occurs in the
background).

For example, assume that the database named sales_db becomes corrupt. You can instantly restore
it to a prior state from one of its replicas.

sales_db_backup

<======

sales_db

replica to restore from

disk being restored

See also, instant restore from

Mirrorclones

,

Snapclones

, and

Snapshots

.

Best practices

For most situations, HP recommends that you perform instant restores using GUI actions, not
jobs.

To ensure data integrity, an instant restore should only be performed on an unmounted,
unpresented virtual disk.

Instant restore of the snapshot of a mirrorclone is supported on some versions of controller
software. See

Controller software features - local replication

for the software versions that

support this feature.

If the virtual disk is mounted, use the following general approach.

260 Virtual disks

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