Metro Mirror Properties — General

Use this page to view and monitor selected Metro Mirror relationships after the source and target relationships are created.

Introduction

Use this page to view information about source and target volumes in Metro Mirror relationships.

Menu path

Real-time manager > Copy services > Metro Mirror > Select a volume pair > Select Action: Properties > Go

Fields

Attribute
The category that displays about the volume pair.
Value
Displays status information about volumes that are participating in Metro Mirror relationships.
Source nickname
The nickname of the source volumes. If you click on the volumes link, open systems or zSeries® volume properties page is displayed.
Source number
The volume numbers of the source volumes.
Target nickname
The nickname of the target volumes. If you click on the volumes link, open systems or zSeries volume properties page is displayed.
Target number
The volume numbers of the target volumes.
Created
The date and time that the relationship was created.
Last refresh
The date and time that the target volume in the specific relationship was refreshed.
Properties
The copy states of the volume pairs is displayed based on the following criteria:
Last suspended
The date and time that the specified relationship was suspended.
Status
The status of the volume pair in the Metro Mirror relationship:
Full duplex
The state of the volume pair whose source and target volumes are in sync; that is, both source and target volumes contain exactly the same data. This state is also referred to as full copy mode.
Copy pending
The state of the volume pair after the Metro Mirror relationship is created, but the source and target volume are out of sync. In that case, data still must be copied from the source to the target volume of a Metro Mirror pair.
Suspended
The state of the volume pair when the source and target storage units cannot communicate anymore, or when the pair is suspended manually. In this state, write operations to the source volume are not mirrored onto the target volume and the target volume becomes out of sync. During this time, a bitmap record of the changed tracks is kept in the source volume. Later, when the volumes are re-synchronized, only the tracks that were updated are copied.
No new status
The state of the volume pair is not available.

Full duplex and copy pending status apply only to Metro Mirror relationships.

Suspend Reason
The reason for the volume pair suspension.
Read access to the target
Displays whether read access to the target volume is allowed while the target volume of the selected relationship is active.
Refresh interval
Specifies a refresh interval that determines how often this page is refreshed, based on the following categories:
  • Refresh now
  • Disable
  • 1 minute
  • 2 minutes
  • 5 minutes
  • 15 minutes
Out-of-sync tracks
Displays the out-of-sync tracks for the specified volume pairs.
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