Download or read book DS8000 Global Mirror Best Practices written by Nick Clayton and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® RedpaperTM publication reviews the architecture and operations of the IBM DS8000® Global Mirror function. The document looks at different aspects of the solution in terms of performance, infrastructure requirements, data integrity, business continuity, and impact on production. Hints and tips are provided on how to best configure the overall Global Mirror environment, in terms of connectivity, storage configuration, and specific parameters tuning. The guidelines that are provided are in general related to performance, which ultimately ensures a better recovery point objective (RPO). Therefore, we encourage you to follow those guidelines.