IBM FlashSystem Best Practices and Performance Guidelines

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Copy services

Copy services are a collection of functions that provide capabilities for disaster recovery, data migration, and data duplication solutions. This chapter provides an overview and the preferred practices of IBM FlashSystem copy services capabilities, including FlashCopy, Metro Mirror and Global Mirror, and Volume Mirroring.

This chapter includes the following sections:

•6.1, “Introduction to copy services” on page 230

•6.2, “FlashCopy” on page 231

•6.3, “Remote Copy services” on page 257

•6.4, “Native IP replication” on page 314

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