IBM DS8000 Copy Services: Updated for IBM DS8000 Release 9.1

FlashCopy performance

This chapter describes the preferred practices when you configure FlashCopy for specific environments or scenarios.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•11.1, “FlashCopy performance overview” on page 86

•11.2, “FlashCopy establish performance” on page 88

•11.3, “Background copy performance” on page 88

•11.4, “FlashCopy impact on applications” on page 89

•11.5, “FlashCopy scenarios” on page 91

11.1 FlashCopy performance overview

Many parameters can affect the performance of FlashCopy operations. It is important to ...