Setting up the Global Mirror Environment

This task lists the high-level steps that you must complete in order to set up the Global Mirror environment to allow Global Mirror processing.

1. Create fibre-channel paths between all Global Mirror source and target pairs and between the Master and subordinate storage units. See Creating fibre-channel paths (Global Mirror setup) for additional steps.
2. Create Global Copy pairs from the local storage units to the remote storage units. See Creating Global Copy pairs (Global Mirror setup) for additional information.
3. Create FlashCopy relationships at the remote site between the Global Copy secondary volumes and the FlashCopy target volumes. See Creating FlashCopy relationships (Global Mirror setup) for additional information.
4. Create the Global Mirror session. See Creating the Global Mirror session for additional information.

• Creating fibre-channel paths (Global Mirror setup)
  Complete this task to create fibre-channel paths between all Global Mirror source and target pairs and between the Master and subordinate storage units. This is the first step in setting up your Global Mirror environment.
• Creating Global Copy pairs (Global Mirror setup)
  Complete this task to create Global Copy pairs from the local storage units to the remote storage units. This is the second step in setting up your Global Mirror environment.
• Creating FlashCopy relationships (Global Mirror setup)
  Complete this task to create FlashCopy relationships at the remote site between the Global Copy secondary volumes and the FlashCopy target volumes. This is the third step in setting up your Global Mirror environment.
• Creating the Global Mirror session
  Complete this task to create a Global Mirror session. This is the fourth step in setting up your Global Mirror environment. After you complete this step you are ready to start Global Mirror processing.