IBM DS8000 Transparent Cloud Tiering: DS8000 Release 9.3

Transparent Cloud Tiering

In this chapter, we describe how Transparent Cloud Tiering (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 20

•3.2, “Transparent Cloud Tiering data flow” on page 21

•3.3, “Storing and retrieving data by using DFSMS” on page 24

•3.4, “Transparent Cloud Tiering and disaster recovery” on page 26

•3.5, “Transparent Cloud Tiering and DS8000 Copy Services” on page 27

•3.6, “DS8900F ...