Using Dynamic Provisioning and Dynamic Tiering with other software products
Interoperability of DP-VOLs and pool-VOLs
DP-VOLs and pool-VOLs can be used in conjunction with other software products with certain limitations and restrictions. The following table lists the software products and indicates the operations that are permitted and not permitted for each product.
Software product (user guide) |
Permitted |
Not permitted |
Data Retention Utility (Provisioning Guide) |
Performing operations on DP-VOLs. |
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Global-active device (Global-Active Device User Guide) |
Using a DP-VOL as a global-active device primary volume (P-VOL) or secondary volume (S-VOL). |
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LUN Manager (Provisioning Guide) LUN Security (Provisioning Guide) |
Performing operations on DP-VOLs. |
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ShadowImage (Hitachi ShadowImage® User Guide) |
Using a DP-VOL as a ShadowImage primary volume (P-VOL) or secondary volume (S-VOL). If a pool contains both the P-VOL and S-VOL of a pair and deduplication is enabled for the pool, only one copy of the P-VOL data is saved physically due to deduplication of the P-VOL and S-VOL data. If you want to protect the P-VOL data, use separate pools for the P-VOL and S-VOL. |
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Thin Image (Hitachi Thin Image User Guide) |
Using a DP-VOL as a Thin Image primary volume. |
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TrueCopy (Hitachi TrueCopy® User Guide) |
Using a DP-VOL as a TrueCopy primary volume (P-VOL) or secondary volume (S-VOL). For disaster recovery (DR) operations, apply the same capacity saving setting to the P-VOL and S-VOL of the pair by assuming failover. |
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Universal Replicator (Hitachi Universal Replicator User Guide) |
Using a DP-VOL as a Universal Replicator primary volume (P-VOL), secondary volume (S-VOL), or journal volume. The journal volume must be a DP-VOL. For disaster recovery (DR) operations, apply the same capacity saving setting to the P-VOL and S-VOL of the pair by assuming failover. |
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Universal Volume Manager (Hitachi Universal Volume Manager User Guide) |
Using Universal Volume Manager volumes as pool-VOLs. |
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Virtual LUN (Provisioning Guide) |
Registering Virtual LUN volumes in Dynamic Provisioning pools. |
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Virtual Partition Manager (Performance Guide) |
Performing operations on DP-VOLs and pool-VOLs. |
Not applicable |
Volume Migration (For details, contact customer support.) |
Using a DP-VOL as a migration source or a migration target. The maximum capacity of a DP-VOL used as a migration source or target is the same as the maximum capacity of a DP-VOL. |
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Volume Shredder (Hitachi Volume Shredder User Guide) |
Use on DP-VOLs. |
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ShadowImage
ShadowImage pair status for reclaiming zero pages
You can use this table to determine whether reclaiming zero pages is possible for a particular pair status
Pair status |
Reclaim zero pages from Hitachi Device Manager - Storage Navigator |
Reclaim zero pages from Command Control Interface |
SMPL, status of an unpaired volume |
Enabled |
Enabled |
COPY(PD)/COPY |
Disabled |
Disabled |
PAIR |
Disabled |
Disabled |
COPY(SP) |
Disabled |
Disabled |
PSUS(SP)/PSUS |
Disabled |
Disabled |
PSUS |
Enabled |
Enabled |
COPY(RS)/COPY |
Disabled |
Disabled |
COPY(RS-R)/RCPY |
Disabled |
Disabled |
PSUE |
Disabled |
Disabled |
ShadowImage
You can use Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, or active flash in combination with ShadowImage to replicate DP-VOLs.

The following table lists the interaction when the ShadowImage primary volume and secondary volume are also DP-VOLs.
ShadowImage P-VOL |
ShadowImage S-VOL |
Explanation |
DP-VOLs |
DP-VOLs |
Supported. |
DP-VOLs |
Normal (ordinary) volumes1 |
Supported. The Quick Restore function is unavailable. |
Normal (ordinary) volumes1 |
DP-VOLs |
Supported. Note, however, that this combination consumes the same amount of pool capacity as the normal volume. The Quick Restore function is unavailable. |
Note:
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You cannot specify a Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering or active flash pool-VOL as a primary volume or secondary volume.
TrueCopy
You can use Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, or active flash in combination with TrueCopy to replicate V-VOLs.
The following figure illustrates the interaction when the TrueCopy primary volume and secondary volume are also V-VOLs.

TrueCopy P-VOL |
TrueCopy S-VOL |
Explanation |
DP-VOLs |
DP-VOLs |
Supported. |
DP-VOLs |
Normal (ordinary) volumes1 |
Supported. |
Normal (ordinary) volumes1 |
DP-VOLs |
Supported. Note, however, that this combination consumes the same amount of pool capacity as the original normal volume (primary volume). |
Note:
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You cannot specify a Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, or active flash pool-VOL as a primary volume or secondary volume.
Universal Replicator
You can use Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, or active flash in combination with Universal Replicator to replicate DP-VOLs.

The following table lists the supported Universal Replicator and Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering or active flash volume combinations.
Universal Replicator P-VOL |
Universal Replicator S-VOL |
Universal Replicator journal volume |
Explanation |
DP-VOLs |
DP-VOLs |
DP-VOL that has the OPEN-V emulation type |
Supported. |
DP-VOLs |
Normal (ordinary) volumes1 |
DP-VOL that has the OPEN-V emulation type |
Supported. |
Normal (ordinary) volumes1 |
DP-VOLs |
DP-VOL that has the OPEN-V emulation type |
Supported. Note, however, that this combination consumes the same amount of pool capacity as the original normal volume (primary volume). |
Notes:
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You cannot specify a Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, or active flash pool-VOL as a primary volume, secondary volume, or journal volume.
Global-active device
You can use Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, or active flash in combination with global-active device to replicate V-VOLs. The following figure illustrates the interaction when the global-active device primary volume and secondary volume are also V-VOLs.

Global-active device P-VOL |
Global-active device S-VOL |
Explanation |
DP-VOLs |
DP-VOLs |
Supported. |
DP-VOLs |
Normal (ordinary) volumes1 |
Not supported. |
Normal (ordinary) volumes1 |
DP-VOLs |
Not supported. |
Note: 1. Normal volumes include the internal volumes and external volumes that are mapped to the volumes of the external storage system using by Universal Volume Manager. For more information about external volumes, see the Hitachi Universal Volume Manager User Guide. |
You cannot specify a Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, or active flash pool-VOL as a primary volume or secondary volume. For more information, see the Global-Active Device User Guide.
Volume Migration
You can use Dynamic Provisioning or Dynamic Tiering in combination with Volume Migration to migrate DP-VOLs.
The following shows the interaction when the Volume Migration source volume and target volume are also DP-VOLs.

Volume Migration source volume |
Volume Migration target volume |
Explanation |
DP-VOLs |
DP-VOLs |
Supported. |
DP-VOLs |
Normal (ordinary) volumes* |
Supported. |
Normal (ordinary) volumes* |
DP-VOLs |
Supported. Note, however, that this combination consumes the same amount of pool capacity as the normal volume. |
*Normal volumes include the internal volumes and external volumes that are mapped to the volumes of the external storage system by Universal Volume Manager. For more information about external volumes, see the Hitachi Universal Volume Manager User Guide. |
You cannot specify a Dynamic Provisioning or Dynamic Tiering pool-VOL as a Volume Migration source volume and target volume.
If you specify the DP-VOL as the source volume, you must not specify the DP-VOL that uses the same pool of the source volume.
For details about the migration of DP-VOLs used in the following pairs, see Hitachi Volume Migration User Guide.
- ShadowImage
- Universal Replicator
Interoperability restrictions for Thin Image
When you are using Thin Image and Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, or active flash in the same storage system, the following interoperability restrictions apply.
- The maximum total number of pools per storage system, including Thin Image, Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, and active flash pools, is 128.
- A Thin Image pool-VOL cannot be shared with Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, or active flash.
Virtual Partition Manager CLPR setting
If DP-VOLs and pool-VOLs related to the same pool are assigned to a CLPR, the DP-VOLs and pool-VOLs in the same pool should be assigned to the same CLPR.
For details about CLPRs, see the Performance Guide.