IBM DS8000 Transparent Cloud Tiering (DS8000 Release 9.2)

Transparent Cloud Tiering

In this chapter, we describe how TCT extends the tiering process a step further, by adding cloud object storage as another tier.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•3.1, “Transparent Cloud Tiering overview” on page 18

•3.2, “Transparent Cloud Tiering data flow” on page 19

•3.3, “Storing and retrieving data using DFSMS” on page 21

•3.4, “Transparent cloud tiering and disaster recovery” on page 23

•3.5, “Transparent cloud tiering and DS8000 Copy Services” on page 24

•3.6, “DS8900F multi-cloud support” on page 27 ...