Changing the Global Mirror session topology

If you wish to add storage control subordinates to an existing Global Mirror session, you must stop the session and start it again with the new ESS specified.

To add storage control subordinates to a session that is already started:

  1. Issue the RSESSION STOP command to the same CKD LSS in the master storage control where the start was issued.
  2. Use the PPRC Establish Path command to establish FCP paths between the master and any new subordinate storage controls that will be participating in the session.
  3. Use the RSESSION DEFINE command to define the session to the LSSs in the new subordinate storage controls that are to participate in the session.
  4. Issue the RSESSION START command to the master, specifying the updated topology and performance parameters for the session.

If additional LSSs are to be added to a session that is already started, and another LSS in the same ESS already belongs to the session (the ESS is already a master or subordinate), the session need not be stopped and restarted.