Starting and stopping Metro Mirror and Global Mirror partnerships using the CLI

You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to start and stop Metro Mirror and Global Mirror partnerships.

Complete the following steps to start and stop Metro Mirror and Global Mirror partnerships:

  1. To start a Metro Mirror or Global Mirror partnership, run the chpartnership command from either cluster.
    For example, enter:
    chpartnership -start cluster_id

    Where cluster_id is the ID of the local or remote cluster. The mkfcpartnership or mkippartnership command starts the partnership by default.

  2. To stop a Metro Mirror or Global Mirror partnership, run the chpartnership command from either cluster.

    For example, enter:

    chpartnership -stop cluster_id

    Where cluster_id is the ID of the local or remote cluster.