Copy Services license

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Copy Services features help you implement storage solutions to keep your business running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by providing data duplication, data migration, and disaster recovery functions. The Copy Services license is based on provisioned capacity of the volumes involved in Copy Services functionality.

Copy Services features help you implement storage solutions to keep your business running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by providing data duplication, data migration, and disaster recovery functions. The Copy Services license is based on provisioned capacity of the volumes involved in Copy Services functionality.

The Copy Services license includes the following features:
  • Global Mirror
  • Metro Mirror
  • Metro/Global Mirror
  • Point-in-Time Copy/FlashCopy®
  • Safeguarded Copy
  • z/OS® Global Mirror
  • z/OS Metro/Global Mirror Incremental Resync (RMZ)
  • Multi-Target-PPRC
  • Cascaded Incremental Resync (6-Site Replication)
  • HyperSwap
  • Copy Services Manager on the Hardware Management Console

The Copy Services license feature codes are ordered in increments up to a specific capacity. For example, if you require 160 TB of capacity, order 10 of feature code BAB1 (10 TB each up to 100 TB capacity), and 4 of feature code BAB2 (15 TB each, for an extra 60 TB).

The Copy Services license includes the following feature codes.

Table 1. Copy Services license feature codes
Feature Code Feature code for licensed function indicator
BAB1 CS - inactive
BAB2 CS - 10 TB (up to 100 TB capacity)
BAB3 CS - 15 TB (from 100.1 TB to 250 TB capacity)
BAB4 CS - 25 TB (from 250.1 TB to 500 TB capacity)
BAB5 CS - 75 TB (from 500.1 to 1250 TB capacity)
BAB6 CS - 175 TB (from 1250.1 TB to 3000 TB capacity)
BAB7 CS - 300 TB (from 3000.1 TB to 6000 TB capacity)

Copy Services license rules

The following ordering rules apply when you order the Copy Services license:
  • The Copy Services license should be ordered based on the provisioned capacity of all volumes involved in one or more Copy Services relationships.
  • The licensed authorization must be equal to or less than the provisioned capacity allocated to the volumes that participate in Copy Services operations.
  • You must purchase features for both the source (primary) and target (secondary) storage system.