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Restoring a Consistency Group from a Snapshot
Group................113
Unlocking a Snapshot Group ........114
Sets a Snapshot Group Descriptor ......115
Returns the Snapshot Group's Descriptor ....116
Chapter 8. Storage Pool Management 119
Moving Consistency Groups between Storage Pools
or or Grouped Pools ...........119
Changing Pool Limitation .........120
Changing Pool Settings for Snapshots .....121
Creating Storage Pools ..........124
Deleting a Storage Pool ..........126
Listing Storage Pools ...........127
Renaming a Storage Pool .........128
Resizing a Storage Pool ..........129
Moving a Volume between Storage Pools ....131
Chapter 9. System Management . . . 135
Displaying Current Consumed Capacity of the
System ...............136
Printing Configuration Parameters ......137
Setting Configuration Parameters.......138
Testing the DNS ............139
Printing Help .............140
Printing the Current Maintenance Urgency . . . 142
Adding a Patch Script that will be Run on System's
Modules ...............143
Deletes a Patch Script ..........145
Listing Patch Scripts ...........145
Updating a Patch Script that will be Run on
Systems Modules ............147
Gets a Patch Script Log ..........148
Trigger Patch Script Execution on One or All
Modules. ...............149
Get Patch Script Execution Inforamtion.....150
Shutting Down .............151
Changing the Operational State .......153
Listing Operational State .........154
Local Storage Free Space .........154
Showing System Runtime, Power Consumption,
System Alert, Numbet Of Psus With No Power In . 155
Showing System Capacity, Free Space and Spares 156
Showing the Current Time .........157
Setting the System's Time .........157
Listing Optional Time Zones ........158
Setting the Time Zone ..........159
Aborting the Upgrade to a New Software Version 159
Initiating Download of a New Software Version 160
Canceling an Upgrade Download Process ....161
Forcing a Continuation of the Upgrade Process . . 161
Displaying Status of Upgrade Process .....162
Upgrading a System ...........164
Validating the Prerequisites of an Upgrade to a
New Software Version ..........165
Printing the Current System Version......166
Showing Values of VPD Parameters.......166
Setting VPD Parameters ..........167
Showing Values of Maintenance Module
Parameters. ..............169
Displaying the System's MIB File .......170
Retrieves the Electronic License Acceptance Status. 171
Retrieving a Fragment of the Electronic License File 171
Accept the Electronic License Agreement ....172
Chapter 10. Remote Target
Connectivity ............175
Setting a Threshold for Link Disruption Duration
that Triggers an Event ..........176
Updating the Target Mirroring Configuration. . . 177
Activating Connectivity to a Remote Target . . . 178
Deactivating Connectivity to a Remote Target . . 179
Defining Connectivity to a Remote Target ....180
Deleting Connectivity to a Remote Target ....182
Listing Target Connectivity Definitions .....183
Defining a Remote Target .........184
Deleting a Remote Target .........186
Listing Remote Targets ..........187
Allowing Remote Mirroring Access ......188
Activating a Port ............189
Adding a New Port to a Remote Target ....190
Deactivating a Port ...........191
Deleting a Port from a Remote System .....192
Listing the Ports of a Remote Target......193
Renaming a Remote Target .........194
Updating the Target Configuration ......194
Chapter 11. Remote Mirroring ....197
Canceling a Snapshot Mirror (Ad Hoc Sync Job) 198
Creating a Snapshot Mirror (Ad Hoc Sync Job) . . 199
Activating Mirroring ...........203
Changing the RPO for Local/Remote System. . . 205
Changing a the Mirroring Peers' Designation . . . 206
Changing a Mirroring Schedule for Remote Slave
Peers ................208
Changing the Roles of a Mirrored Volume ....210
Changing a Mirroring Schedule for Local Peers . . 212
Creating a Mirroring Definition .......214
Deactivating Mirroring ..........219
Deleting a Remote Mirroring Definition ....221
Viewing Mirroring Status .........223
Obtaining Statistics On Past Sync Jobs .....226
Switching Roles between Master and Slave . . . 227
Retrieving RPO Threshold .........229
Setting RPO Threshold ..........229
Changes the Interval For a Schedule......230
Creating a Schedule Object .........232
Triggering a Schedule ..........233
Deletes a Schedule Object .........234
Listing a Schedule Object .........235
Renaming a Schedule Object ........236
Viewing Sync Job Status ..........237
Chapter 12. Data Migration .....239
Activating Data Migration .........239
Deactivating Data Migration ........240
Defining Data Migration Configuration.....241
Deleting the Data Migration Process......243
Listing Data Migration Statuses .......244
Testing the Data Migration Definition .....245
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IBM XIV Specifications

General

Power Supply	Redundant power supplies
Drive Type	SATA
Redundancy	Fully redundant components
Connectivity	Fibre Channel, iSCSI
Form Factor	Rack-mounted
Cache	Distributed cache across modules
Data Protection	Snapshots, remote mirroring
Performance	High throughput and low latency
Scalability	Modular, scale-out architecture
Cooling	Redundant cooling
Architecture	Grid-based, distributed architecture