IBM Copy Services Manager V6.2.7

IBM Copy Services Manager V6.2.7 delivers replication management with simplified and automated replication tasks

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

With Copy Services Manager, you can coordinate copy services on a variety of Storage Systems, including DS8000, SAN Volume Controller (SVC), Storwize V7000, FlashSystem 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 V6.2.7 offers following improvements over previous release:

Scheduled task improvements:
Wait for percentage complete
Validate role pair consistency
Enable scheduled tasks at specified times
Support for email alert categories
Ability to lock practice copy
Copy Services Manager CLI can be launched with -Xquickstart and other Java parameters
Copy sets can be removed with CSV file from Copy Services Manager CLI
Sorting and filtering capabilities on the View Copy Set panel
Ability to see user-defined Consistency Group names from the Session Overview panel
Support for Linux PPC Little Endian platforms
Logging improvements for performance
Support for new MT MM-MM 4 site session type
Support for A9000 multitarget
Improved GUI dual-control command management

Copy Services Manager supports Metro Mirror, FlashCopy, and Global Mirror on the DS8000 and SVC hardware platforms. Advanced DR functions are also supported with failover/failback (planned and unplanned) from a primary site to a DR site. It 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 multitarget with practice capability for both Metro Mirror and Global Mirror.

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 so that you can run a practice session before you perform the actual action.

Key requirements: None

Planned availability date: December 13, 2019