IBM Copy Services Manager V6.1.4

IBM Copy Services Manager V6.1.4 delivers replication management
with simplified and automated replication tasks

It is a replication management solution that delivers central control of the replication environment while helping to simplify and automate complex replication tasks. You can coordinate copy services on a variety of IBM Storage Systems, including DS8000, SAN Volume Controller (SVC), Storwize V7000, 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 V6.1.4 offers following improvements
over previously announced V6.1.3:

• Support for extent space-efficient (ESE) to standard Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) relationships
• Support for Ubuntu
• DSCLI shipped with Copy Services Manager on z/OS
• Ability to Setup SNMP and email notifications through the Copy Services Manager GUI
• Single direction support in port pairing CSV file
• Support for FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R
• New event for SVC auto restart and auto restart failure

Copy Services Manager delivers support for advanced copy services capabilities on DS8000 systems, in addition to the already supported SVC, Storwize V7000, and XIV. This includes automating administration and configuration of these services, operational control (starting, suspending, and resuming) of copy services tasks, and monitoring and managing the copy services sessions.

It supports Metro Mirror, FlashCopy, and Global Mirror on the DS8000 and SVC hardware platforms. DR functions are also supported with failover/failback (planned and unplanned) from a primary site to a DR site.

Copy Services Manager can also 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 multi-target 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 in Copy Services Manager enables to test DR environment without interfering with daily operations to run a practice session before you perform the actual action.

Key prerequisites: None

Planned availability date: November 18, 2016, Electronic download