Resuming Metro Mirror sessions

After you have completed routine operations, such as performing maintenance on your system, you need to resume a suspended Metro Mirror session to re-enable high availability.

Resuming metro mirroring with PowerHA® graphical interface

To resume a Metro Mirror session by using the PowerHA graphical interface, follow these steps:
  1. In a web browser, enter http://mysystem:2001, where mysystem is the host name of the system.
  2. Log on to the system with your user profile and password.
  3. Click PowerHA in the IBM® Navigator for i window.
  4. On the PowerHA page, click Independent ASPs.
  5. On the Independent ASPs page, select Details… from the context menu of the independent disk pool for which you want to resume geographic mirroring.
  6. On the Independent ASP Details page, select Resume Mirroring from the Select Action menu below the mirroring status.
  7. Click Yes on the confirmation panel.

Resuming metro mirroring with command-line interface

To resume a Metro Mirror session by using the command-line interface, issue the following command:
  • CHGASPSSN SESSION(session-name) OPTION(*RESUME) where session-name is the name of your DS8000® Metro Mirror session.
  • CHGSVCSSN SESSION(session-name) OPTION(*RESUME) where session-name is the name of your SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Metro Mirror session.