XIV Remote Mirror replication resources

To use mirroring with the XIV® Remote Mirror management, you must be running PowerHA® SystemMirror® Enterprise Edition 7.1.2, or later in your environment. By using the XIV Remote Mirror management, you can deploy your PowerHA SystemMirror cluster to be integrated with XIV Remote Mirror replicated resources.

PowerHA SystemMirror discovers the XIV deployment, and captures any missing replication-related information from the administrator. By using this captured information, PowerHA SystemMirror manages the XIV replicated storage as part of the High Availability management environment for the applications and resource groups.

PowerHA SystemMirror supports high availability disaster recovery (HADR) for storage from the IBM® XIV Storage Systems. XIV Storage Systems that are capable of replication, support short distance and long-distance mirroring through synchronous and asynchronous mirroring functions.

PowerHA SystemMirror enables integrated discovery and management of mirrored storage resources for the high availability management of resource groups.

To use PowerHA SystemMirror for HADR of XIV mirrored storage, you must complete the following steps:
  1. Plan for the deployment of XIV storage across two sites. You must understand your application and middleware requirements and verify that these requirements are covered in the context of a high availability PowerHA SystemMirror solution.
  2. Use the following XIV configuration tools to set up and configure the XIV Storage System:
    • XIV Storage System command-line interface (XCLI)
    • XIV Storage Management GUI (XIVGUI)
  3. Plan for the PowerHA SystemMirror implementation. You should design resource groups, policies, and scripts around your applications and mirrored storage resources.
  4. Install and configure PowerHA SystemMirror to implement the settings that you planned for in Step 3.
  5. Test and verify that the configuration is working correctly.
Note: This documentation focuses on step 3 and step 4, but does mention and discuss the other steps at a high level. You must complete step 1 and step 2 before configuring PowerHA SystemMirror for HADR management of XIV storage.