PowerVM and SAN Copy Services

This IBM® RedpapersTM publication is a guide to Copy Services as managed by AIX® in a IBM PowerVMTM virtualized environment. The goal of this paper is to provide step-by-step procedures about how storage subsystem-based Copy Services are accomplished in a virtualized environment and the approach for which they should be adopted. This paper focuses on Copy Services technology from EMC, Hitachi, and IBM within the following storage subsystem models: - EMC DMX-4 - Hitachi USP V - IBM DS8300 - IBM SVC The storage software products that will be used for the different Copy Services are as follows: - EMC TimeFinder - Hitachi ShadowImage - IBM FlashCopy® While there are numerous storage subsystem vendors in the marketplace and industry, this paper has been limited to the vendors and the technologies described above.