Managing Global Mirror
In IBM® i high availability
environment that use IBM System Storage® Global Mirror technology,
you must configure a global mirroring session between the IBM i systems and the external
disk units with Global Mirror configured. From the system, you can
manage these sessions.
- Suspending Global Mirror
You might need to suspend Global Mirror sessions to perform maintenance on the system. - Resuming Global Mirror
After you have completed routine operations, such as performing maintenance on your system, you need to resume a suspended Global Mirror session to re-enable high availability. - Detaching Global Mirror copy
If you are using Global Mirror and want to access the target copy to perform save operations or data mining, you must detach the target copy from the source copy. - Reattaching Global Mirror
If you detached the target copy and have completed your work with the detached target copy, you must reattach the detached target copy to resume using Global Mirror. - Ending Global Mirror
You can end the Global Mirror session to no longer use the session for high availability and disaster recovery. - Changing Global Mirror session properties
Display information about a Global Mirror session to change the associated copy descriptions.
Parent topic: Managing PowerHA