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The Copy Services Manager GUI provides a visual aid to help you create and manage your sessions. The visual aid shows the number of volume roles in the session and how the roles are distributed between the sites. It also shows the copy method and direction.

Volume role symbols

The volume role symbols represent the replication status on the volumes.

Table 1. Volume role symbols
Symbol Description Meaning
This is a graphic showing a host and two blue volumes
 Active host volumes This symbol represents volumes that contain the source of updated tracks to which the application is actively issuing read and write input/output (I/O).
This is a graphic showing a host, two blue volumes, and three light blue volumes
 Active host volumes with change volumesActive host volumes with change volumes or Safeguarded Copy volumes This symbol represents volumes that contain the source of updated tracks to which the application is actively issuing read and write I/O and change volumes.
This is a graphic showing three blue volumes.
 Recoverable volumes This symbol represents volumes that contain a consistent copy of the data.
This is a graphic showing three blue volumes and three light blue volumes.
 Recoverable volumes with change volumes This symbol represents volumes and change volumes that contain a consistent copy of the data.
This is a graphic showing three greyed-out volumes.
 Inconsistent volumes This symbol represents the volumes that do not contain a consistent copy of the data.
This is a graphic showing six greyed-out volumes.
 Inconsistent volumes with change volumes This symbol represents the volumes and change volumes that do not contain a consistent copy of the data.

Data copying symbols

The data copying symbols indicate the type of copy that occurs between the volume roles. The direction that the symbol is displayed in the Copy Services Manager GUI depends on the direction of the copy.

Table 2. Data copying symbols
Symbol Type of Copy Meaning
This is a graphic showing a yellow lightning bolt pointing down.
 FlashCopy® This symbol represents a FlashCopy operation.
This is a graphic showing a yellow lightning bolt, pointing down, with a red X.
 FlashCopy with errors This symbol represents a FlashCopy operation with errors on one or more pair.
This is a graphic showing a gray lightning bolt, pointing down.
 FlashCopy inactive This symbol represents an inactive FlashCopy operation.
This is a graphic showing a gray lightning bolt, pointing down, with a red X.
 FlashCopy inactive with errors This symbol represents an inactive FlashCopy operation with errors on one or more pair.
This is a graphic showing a blue arrow.
 Synchronous This symbol represents a synchronous copy.
This is a graphic showing a blue arrow with a red X.
 Synchronous with errors This symbol represents a synchronous copy with errors on one or more pairs.
This is a graphic showing a gray arrow.
 Synchronous inactive This symbol represents an inactive synchronous copy.
This is a graphic showing a gray arrow with a red X.
 Synchronous inactive with errors This symbol represents an inactive synchronous copy with errors on one or more pair.
This is a graphic showing a blue arrow with white stripes.
 Asynchronous (Global Copy) This symbol represents an asynchronous copy in Global Copy mode.
This is a graphic of a broken blue error with a red X.
 Asynchronous (Global Copy) with errors This symbol represents an asynchronous copy in Global Copy mode with errors on one or more pair.
This is a graphic showing a gray arrow with broken lines.
 Asynchronous (Global Copy) inactive This symbol represents an inactive asynchronous copy in Global Copy mode.
This is a graphic of a gray error with a red X.
 Asynchronous (Global Copy) inactive with error This symbol represents an asynchronous inactive copy in Global Copy mode with an error.
This is a graphic of a broken blue arrow with a global symbol.
 Global Mirror This symbol represents an asynchronous consistent copy in Global Mirror mode.
This is a graphic of a broken blue error with a red X.
 Global Mirror with error This symbol represents an asynchronous consistent copy in Global Mirror mode with an error.
This is a graphic of a blue arrow that has an overlay of an arrow in a circle.
 HyperSwap® This symbol indicates that the HyperSwap feature is enabled for the relationship. If a failure occurs when I/O is being written to the primary storage system, these features automatically swap the I/O to the secondary site with no user interaction and little or no application impact.
This is a graphic of a broken gray arrow
 Suspended This symbol represents a suspended copy relationship.
This is a graphic of two gray arrows pointing at each other.
 Failed over This symbol represents a failover copy relationship.