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Support statements for ERM:
 DS4000 and DS5000 ERM is supported by IBM i as a client of VIOS on both IBM Power
servers and IBM Power blades.
 Synchronous ERM (DS4000 and DS5000 Metro Mirror) is supported.
 Asynchronous ERM with Write Consistency Groups (DS4000 and DS5000 Global
Mirror) is supported.
 Asynchronous ERM (DS4000 and DS5000 Global Copy) is not supported.
 Full-system ERM (Metro Mirror and Global Mirror) for a planned switchover (IBM i
production LPAR is powered off) is supported.
 Full-system ERM (Metro Mirror and Global Mirror) for an unplanned failover (IBM i
production LPAR is running) is supported.
 Replication of IASPs is not supported.
 Suspending replication and accessing the replicated LUNs on backup site is not
supported.
For assistance with using DS4000 and DS5000 Enhanced Remote Mirroring with IBM i, contact
IBM Lab Services using the follwoing website:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/services/labservices/contact.html.
12.2 SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Copy Services and IBM i
IBM has conducted some basic functional testing of SVC Copy Services with IBM i as client of
VIOS. In this section, you will find information on the scenarios tested and the resulting
statements of support for using SVC Copy Services with IBM i.
12.2.1 FlashCopy
12.2.1.1 Test scenario
Figure 13 shows the test environment used for FlashCopy.