IBM Copy Services Manager Supporting DS8000 Series Storage Systems

IBM Copy Services Manager supports IBM DS8000 series storage configuration through AAS

IBM Copy Services Manager is a replication management solution that delivers central control of replication environment while helping to simplify and automate complex replication tasks.

With Copy Services Manager, you can coordinate copy services on a variety of IBM storage systems, including DS8000, SAN Volume Controller (SVC), Storwize V7000, FlashSystem V9000 and A9000/A9000R, and XIV.

You can help prevent errors and increase system continuity using source and target volume matching, site awareness, DR testing, and standby management. Copy Services Manager is now orderable with DS8000 series storage to run on the DS8000 series hardware management console (HMC).

Copy Services Manager delivers support for copy services capabilities on DS8000 systems. This includes automating administration and configuration of these services, operational control of copy services tasks (starting, suspending, and resuming), and monitoring and managing the copy services sessions.

Copy Services Manager supports Metro Mirror, FlashCopy, and Global Mirror on IBM DS8000.

DR functions are also supported with failover/failback (planned and unplanned) from a primary site to a DR site.

Copy Services Manager also can monitor the performance of the copy services that provide a measurement of the amount of replication and the amount of time that is required to complete the replication operations. It also supports multitarget for both metro mirror and global mirror, with practice capability.

By using Copy Services Manager on IBM DS storage devices, tasks that took up to five steps can be accomplished in just one. The practice session enables to test DR environment without interfering with daily operations. This means you can run a practice session before you perform the actual action.

Copy Services Manager z/OS FlashCopy Manager is an included tool to assist in the integration of IBM DS8000 FlashCopy Services into the z/OS batch production environment.

Key prerequisites: None

Planned availability date: June 16, 2017