HA 3.9 Enhancements

Geographic Mirroring FlashCopy Automation 7.5 HA 5.1.2 7.4 HA 4.7.2 7.2 HA 3.9

The Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) based FlashCopy automation integrated into PowerHA now includes additional automation at the target system of Geographic Mirroring, eliminating the need to manually suspend or detach the geographic mirroring replication as part of the FlashCopy process.

The following operations are now automated:

• SVC FlashCopy verifies the replication state if the FlashCopy is at the target side of geographic mirroring replication and prompts the user to confirm if replication is not active.

• If replication is at the target of geographic mirroring, the replication is automatically suspended at the appropriate point during the FlashCopy process, and automatically resumed, with as little impact on the recovery point objective (RPO) as possible.

• The ability to automatically quiesce the production copy when performing a FlashCopy operation using the source ASP Action (SRCASPACN) parameter.

• The target ASP Action (TGTASPACN) parameter provides support for automatically varying on a FlashCopy target ASP.

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