Creating partnership for replication

For policy-based replication, a two-site partnership must be configured between the production and recovery systems. The partnership establishes a secure connection between systems that use IP protocols. You can use management GUI and command-line interface to create partnership between the two systems.

To set up policy-based replication, you must configure a partnership on the local system. After you create the partnership on the local system on the management GUI, the replication setup checklist is displayed. Select the remote system and click Complete Partnership to finish configuring partnership on remote system.

Creating Fibre Channel partnership

Using the management GUI

If the two-site partnership is not configured on the local system, complete the steps that correspond with the connection you are using between systems:

To create a 2-site partnership over a Fibre Channel connection, complete these steps:
  1. Configure 2-site partnerships on the local system in the management GUI by completing these steps:
    1. Select Copy Services > Partnerships and Remote Copy and select Create Partnership.
    2. Select 2-site Partnership and click Continue.
    3. On the Create Partnership page, select Fibre Channel.
    4. Select Use Policy-Based Replication checkbox to create partnerships for policy-based replication. Uncheck the checkbox if you want to create a partnership with Global Mirror or Metro Mirror, nondisruptive system migration, or 3-site partnerships.
    5. In the View certificate, select See details to display the certificate from the remote system. Verify that the certificate is signed by a trusted certificate authority and that the Subject/Issuer Name are the expected values. If the retrieved certificate is signed by an unrecognized authority, then from the Validate certificate select Upload File to upload the root certificate of the certificate authority that signed the partner system's certificate.
    6. Enter the following information for the 2-site partnership:
      Partner System
      Select the name of the partner system.
      Link Bandwidth
      Enter the amount of bandwidth used for replication between systems in the partnership.
      Background Copy Rate
      Enter the maximum percentage of the link bandwidth that can be used for background copy operations. Set this value so enough bandwidth is available for both systems in the partnership.
  2. If you are configuring partnerships for policy-based replication, the interactive checklist displays. The checklist automates and simplifies the configuration of policy-based replication. In the checklist, select Complete Partnership to configure the partnership on the remote system. If you are configuring a partnership for another remote copy function, repeat the preceding steps on the remote system in the partnership.

Creating IP partnership

For information on creating IP partnership, see Creating IP partnership