Hi Sebbo, if a feature was not formally announced, it won't be discussed here.
Thank you for your understanding, and stay tuned.
Original Message:
Sent: Fri October 25, 2024 02:14 PM
From: Sebbo
Subject: Storage Virtualize Global Mirror, Metro Mirror and Hyperswap users (FlashSystem and SVC)
Hi
Ist there anything on the roadmap for
Volumes renaming within a PBHA ?
Volumes resizing within a PBHA ?
Host clusters within a PBHA setup ?
Thanks
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Sebbo
Original Message:
Sent: Tue September 24, 2024 01:25 PM
From: T Masteen
Subject: Storage Virtualize Global Mirror, Metro Mirror and Hyperswap users (FlashSystem and SVC)
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
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TMasteen
Original Message:
Sent: Tue September 24, 2024 01:00 PM
From: Evelyn Perez
Subject: Storage Virtualize Global Mirror, Metro Mirror and Hyperswap users (FlashSystem and SVC)
Updates to the original document should now have this clarified! Please have a look.
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Evelyn Perez
IBM Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM Storage Virtualize Software Architect for SVC and FlashSystem
Original Message:
Sent: Mon September 23, 2024 09:27 AM
From: T Masteen
Subject: Storage Virtualize Global Mirror, Metro Mirror and Hyperswap users (FlashSystem and SVC)
Hello Evelyn,
Thanks for your answer. But just to be sure, with PB replication and PB HA we can ignore the backgroundcopyrate parameter and can have any value?
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TMasteen
Original Message:
Sent: Mon September 23, 2024 08:55 AM
From: Evelyn Perez
Subject: Storage Virtualize Global Mirror, Metro Mirror and Hyperswap users (FlashSystem and SVC)
Hello TMasteen,
You need to validate the partnership bandwidth limit against the link being used. For more context, please review the intersite link planning and partnership portions of the IBM Documentation.
The partnership bandwidth limit is the only value used for PBR/PBHA and it is for all IO, including Background, whereas for old remote copy technologies you had 2 settings, one of which was for background. That is why if you are migrating, this is likely to be incorrect.
I hope that clarifies things. If not, please let me know what is still unclear.
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Evelyn Perez
IBM Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM Storage Virtualize Software Architect for SVC and FlashSystem
Original Message:
Sent: Mon September 23, 2024 05:54 AM
From: T Masteen
Subject: Storage Virtualize Global Mirror, Metro Mirror and Hyperswap users (FlashSystem and SVC)
Hello Evelyn,
The document is telling:
In Policy-based replication, all replication traffic is controlled by the partnership bandwidth limit. This is different to Metro Mirror, Global Mirror and HyperSwap - where the partnership bandwidth limit was only used to control the rate of the synchronization. So make sure you review this setting when you migrate from Global Mirror to PBR, because it will probably need to be increased.
do you have more context for the piece: make sure you review this setting.?
What should we pay attention to?
Do we still have to take the backgroundcopyrate parameter into account with PB replication and/or PB HA? Has this changed compared to Global Mirror (with change volumes).
Thanks,
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TMasteen
Original Message:
Sent: Fri September 20, 2024 12:00 PM
From: Evelyn Perez
Subject: Storage Virtualize Global Mirror, Metro Mirror and Hyperswap users (FlashSystem and SVC)
Howdy folks! I just wanted to make sure everyone had seen a new support page recently released to cover the various migration paths to get from our legacy copy services which have now been replaced by our new Policy Based technologies.
You can read more on how to migrate and make use of our newest features here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7166967
This document provides clear direction on what the new technology is and links to how to get started using it as well as all the migration paths currently available if you are running existing technology.
So for everyone thinking of deploying a new FlashSystem or SVC system, for folks who are looking to stay updated with the upcoming 8.7.1 or beyond release, and want to do replication, please have a look and let us know if you have any questions!
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Evelyn Perez
IBM Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM Storage Virtualize Software Architect for SVC and FlashSystem
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