214 IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server: Implementing ESS Copy Services with IBM eServer zSeries
2. The application I/O operation is signalled completed when the data is written to primary
ESS cache and NVS; this is when
channel end and device end are returned to the primary
system. Thus, the application write I/O operation has completed, and now the updated
data will be mirrored asynchronously as per the following steps.
3. The ESS groups the updates into record sets which are asynchronously off-loaded from
the cache to the SDM system. As XRC uses this aynchronous copy technique, there is no
performance impact on the primary applications’ I/O operations.
4. The record sets, perhaps from multiple primary storage subsystems, are proce ...