Hitachi Compatible Mirroring Software for IBM FlashCopy

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Compatible Mirroring Software for IBM® FlashCopy®

Compatibility, Interoperability with IBM® FlashCopy®

  • Delivers FlashCopy® data mirroring compatibility and interoperability for Hitachi enterprise storage
  • Provides data set level copy functionality
  • Enables point-in-time, unattended full volume mirror-based data backup under a FlashCopy operating environment
Overview

Compatible Host-based Solution

Hitachi Compatible Mirroring software for IBM® FlashCopy® provides a server host-based FlashCopy®compatible solution for data backup and replication tasks on Hitachi storage.

Operations from Compatible Mirroring for IBM FlashCopy are nondisruptive. This allows the main volume of each FlashCopy pair to remain online to all hosts for both read and write I/O operations. Once established, FlashCopy operations continue to provide unattended point-in-time data backups.

Easily integrate and develop data backup and protection tasks on a superior, Hitachi-developed, mainframe-compatible, enterprise storage platform.

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Features and Benefits

Features

  • Functionally compatible with IBM® FlashCopy® v2
  • Supports full volume dataset level copies
  • Supports both IBM DFSMSdss commands and TSO peer-to-peer remote copy (PPRC)
  • Enables replication and subsequent copies for z/OS ® host mainframe systems

Benefits

  • Smoothly and quickly transition to mainframe and open system compatible Hitachi enterprise storage platforms while maintaining a familiar FlashCopy® v2 replication operation environment
  • Efficiently create full volume copies
  • Enable replication operations that are nondisruptive to production applications