Suspending a Metro Mirror relationship

Complete this task to suspend a Metro Mirror relationship.

You must resynchronize a volume pair after suspending it to allow operations to continue.

To get access to the target volumes or for maintenance of the remote storage unit, you can suspend (pause) the Metro Mirror volume pair. Metro Mirror stops transferring data to the target volume. The source storage unit keeps track of all changed data on the source volume, and after you resume the connection only the changes to the source volume are copied to the target volume.

Perform the following steps to suspend a Metro Mirror relationship:

In the navigation, select Real-time Manager > Copy Services > Metro Mirror. A page containing a list of Metro Mirror volumes displays. Select one or more volumes on which to perform an action.
In Metro Mirror — Main Page, select Suspend from the Select Action drop-down box. Then click Go. The Suspend Metro Mirror — Select volumes page is displayed.
The source or target volumes that are eligible for suspension are already selected. Accept or modify the selected volumes, and then click OK to confirm your selection.