Planning host applications for policy-based replication

Before you implement policy-based replication, you must plan the requirements of the host applications that use policy-based replication.

Ensure that following considerations are taken for host applications that use policy-based replication:

Policy-based replication can be used with all host operating systems that are supported by IBM Storage Virtualize systems. The full interoperability list can be found at IBM® System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC).
For the best possible performance, configure the multipath drivers on the operating system to use SCSI ALUA or NVMe ANA. For more information, see Host attachment.
With policy-based replication, you can replicate a thin-clone or the target volumes of a FlashCopy mapping to the recovery system for application consistency. You cannot replicate Safeguarded copies.