Managing Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, and active-active relationship

To work with Metro Mirror or Global Mirror relationships in the management GUI, select Copy Services > Remote Copy > New relationship.

Creating Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, or active-active relationships using the CLI
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to create Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, or active-active relationships.
Modifying Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, or active-active relationships using the CLI
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to modify certain attributes of Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, or active-active relationships. You can change only one attribute at a time for each command submission.
Switching Metro Mirror or Global Mirror relationships using the CLI
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to reverse the roles of primary and secondary volumes in a stand-alone Metro Mirror or Global Mirror relationship when that relationship is in a consistent state. You cannot switch roles between primary and secondary volumes for an active-active relationships.
Replacing a master volume with an auxiliary volume in active-active relationships
In active-active relationships, you cannot switch the roles of the volumes in the relationship; however, you can uses the rmvdisk -keepaux command.
Starting and stopping Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, or active-active relationships using the CLI
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to start and stop stand-alone Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, or an active-active relationships. Relationships that are members of consistency groups must be started and stopped using the consistency group CLI commands.
Displaying the progress of Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, or active-active relationships using the CLI
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to display the background copy of Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, or active-active relationships as a percentage. When the initial background copy process for a relationship has completed, null is displayed for the progress of that relationship.
Deleting Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, or active-active relationships using the CLI
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to delete Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, or active-active relationships.

Parent topic: Managing Copy Services