Download or read book IBM z/OS Global Mirror Planning, Operations, and Best Practices written by Bertrand Dufrasne and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2013-10-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBM® z/OS® Global Mirror (zGM), also known as Extended Remote Copy (XRC), is a combined hardware and software solution that offers the highest levels of continuous data availability in a disaster recovery (DR) and workload movement environment. Available for the IBM DS8000® Storage System, zGM provides an asynchronous remote copy solution. This IBM RedpaperTM publication takes you through best practices for planning, tuning, operating, and monitoring a zGM installation. This publication is intended for clients and storage administrators who need to understand and maintain a zGM environment.