Configuring Metro Mirror
For IBM® i high availability solutions that use IBM System Storage® Metro Mirror technology, you need to configure a session between the IBM i machine and IBM System Storage external storage units that have Metro Mirror configured. In IBM i, Metro Mirror sessions do not set up the mirroring on the external storage units, but rather sets up a relationship between the IBM i systems and the existing Metro Mirror configuration on external storage units.
Before creating a Metro Mirror session on IBM i, you should have configured
Metro Mirror on the IBM System Storage external
storage units.
- For information about using Metro Mirror on IBM
System Storage
DS8000®, see Copy Services in the IBM
System Storage
DS8000 Information Center
. - For information about using Metro Mirror with SAN Volume Controller (SVC) or Storwize storage devices, see IBM SAN Volume Controller Information Center.
To use the PowerHA® graphical interface
to configure Metro Mirror, follow these steps:
- In a web browser, enter http://mysystem:2001,
where mysystem is the host name of the system.
- Log on to the system with your user profile and password.
- Click PowerHA in the IBM Navigator
for i window.
- On the PowerHA page, click Independent
ASPs.
- On the Independent ASPs page, select Details ... from the context menu of the independent disk pool for which you want to configure Metro Mirror.
- On the Independent ASP Details page, select Configure Mirroring ... from the context menu of the production copy of the independent disk pool.
- Follow the instructions in the Configure Mirroring wizard to configure Metro Mirror.
To use the Configuration and Service graphical interface to configure Metro Mirror session, follow these steps:
- In a Web browser, enter http://mysystem:2001, where mysystem is the host name of the system.
- Log on to the system with your user profile and password.
- Select Configuration and Service from
your IBM Navigator
for i window.
- Select Disk Pools.
- Select the disk pool that you want to use as the production (source) copy.
- From the Select Actions menu, select New Session.
- Follow the wizard's instructions to complete the task.