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PowerHA Enterprise Edition 7.1.2 adds support for Hitachi VSP

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IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX V7.1.2 Enterprise Edition* for AIX V6.1 and V7.1 is adding support for the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP).

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 IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX V7.1.2 Enterprise Edition Adds Support for the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) March 31, 2013IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX V7.1.2 Enterprise Edition* for AIX V6.1 and V7.1 is adding support for the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP). IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX V7.1.2 Enterprise Edition for AIX V6.1 and V7.1 will now support High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) capability with Hitachi TrueCopy replication for the Hitachi VSP.
Support is available for both FC-attach and NPIV.

Support includes:

synchronous replication via TrueCopy

asynchronous replication via Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR).Please refer to the following information for support details.
Testing was performed with the following levels:

 Hitachi VSP 
 AIX V6.1 
 AIX V7.1 
 PowerHA SystemMirror V7.1.2 Enterprise Edition 
PowerHA V7.1.2 SP 1AIX V6.1 TL 5AIX APAR IV31365

PowerHA V7.1.2 SP 1AIX V7.1 TL 2AIX APAR IV31373

Clients are advised to obtain the latest available service updates from IBM and Hitachi.The following Hitachi software and microcode were used as part of the testing:

1.Microcode: 70-01-66-00/00

2.MPIO: Hitachi.aix.support.rte 5.0.52.3 and DLManager.mpio.rte 6.5.3.0

Service can be obtained from the IBM Electronic Fix Distribution site at:      http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ 
For questions or concerns, please send a note to HA Feedback at:

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Modified date:
07 August 2013

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