￿Efficient synchronization of the local and remote sites with support for failover and failback modes, helping to reduce the time that is required to switch back to the local site after a planned or unplanned outage.

Server write

1

A

2 Write acknowledge

 

FlashCopy

B

(automatically)

 

Write to secondary (non-synchronously)

C

Automatic cycle in active session

Figure 6-9 Global Mirror

How Global Mirror works

We explain how Global Mirror works in Figure 6-10 on page 101.

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