Metro And Global Mirror; Copy Services And Ibm I - IBM I VIRTUALIZATION - READ ME FIRST 7-9-2010 Manual

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Both SVC Metro and Global Mirror are supported by IBM i as a client of VIOS on both
IBM Power servers and IBM Power blades
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Only full-system replication is supported
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Replication of IASPs with Metro or Global Mirror is not supported
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Both Metro and Global Mirror are supported for a planned switchover (IBM i production
partition is powered off)
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Both Metro and Global Mirror are supported for an unplanned failover (IBM i production
partition is running)
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Suspend and resume in case of link failure between SVC clusters is supported for both

Metro and Global Mirror

For assistance with using SVC Metro and Global Mirror with IBM i, contact IBM Lab Services
using this Web site: http://www.ibm.com/systems/services/labservices/contact.html.
15. XIV Copy Services and IBM i
IBM has conducted some basic functional testing of XIV Copy Services with IBM i as client of
VIOS. Below, you will find the resulting statements of support for using XIV Copy Services with
IBM i.
Snapshots and Volume Copy:
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XIV snapshots and Volume Copy are supported by IBM i as a client of VIOS on both IBM
Power servers and IBM Power blades
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Full-system snapshots and Volume Copy when the production IBM i logical partition
(LPAR) is powered off are supported
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Full-system snapshots and Volume Copy when the production IBM i LPAR is in restricted
state are supported
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Full-system snapshots and Volume Copy of the production IBM i logical partition (LPAR)
after using the IBM i 6.1 memory flush to disk (quiesce) function are supported
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Full-system snapshots and Volume Copy when the production IBM i LPAR is running are
not supported
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Snapshots and Volume Copy of Independent Auxiliary Storage Pools (IASPs) are not
supported
Remote Mirror:
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XIV Remote Mirror (synchronous replication) is supported by IBM i as a client of VIOS on
both IBM Power servers and IBM Power blades
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XIV asynchronous replication is also supported by IBM i as a client of VIOS on both IBM
Power servers and IBM Power blades
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Only full-system replication is supported
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Replication of IASPs with Remote Mirror is not supported
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Remote Mirror is supported for a planned switchover (IBM i production partition is
powered off)
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Remote Mirror is supported for an unplanned failover (IBM i production partition is
running)
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