Cross-system feature use in the IBM Spectrum Accelerate family

The tables in the following sections specify which functional features are available when used across different IBM Spectrum Accelerate family storage systems and microcode versions.

The IBM Spectrum Accelerate family includes:
Last updated: 23 November 2018
Note: The listed functional features are supported by using:
  • IBM Hyper-Scale Manager management GUI 5.5.0 or later
  • IBM Extended Command-Line Interface (XCLI) utility 5.2.0 or later

HyperSwap

HyperSwap® delivers highly-available, non-disruptive storage service, through partial or complete system failures and disasters, in the same data center and between metro-distant data centers.

HyperSwap high availability is based on active-active pairing of storage systems per volume or per consistency group. Each volume or consistency group pair uses synchronous replication to keep both systems updated at all times.

Important: Use of HyperSwap requires Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity between the systems.

For more information, see High availability with HyperSwap.


Last updated: 20 July 2017
From Primary/To Secondary To IBM XIV Gen2 To IBM XIV Gen3 To IBM Spectrum Accelerate To IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.1.0 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.1.0 or later
From IBM XIV Gen2          
From IBM XIV Gen3          
From IBM Spectrum Accelerate          
From IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.1.0 or later      
From IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.1.0 or later      

Synchronous mirroring (two systems)

The process of ensuring that both storage systems contain identical data at all times is called remote mirroring. Synchronous remote mirroring provides continuous availability of critical information in the case of a disaster scenario. For more information, see Synchronous remote mirroring.

Last updated: 20 July 2017
From Primary/To Secondary To IBM XIV Gen2 To IBM XIV Gen3 To IBM Spectrum Accelerate To IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.0.1 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.0.1 or later
From IBM XIV Gen2      
From IBM XIV Gen3    
From IBM Spectrum Accelerate      
From IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.0.1 or later      
From IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.0.1 or later      

Asynchronous mirroring (two systems)

Asynchronous mirroring enables you to attain high availability of critical data through a process that asynchronously replicates updated data from a primary storage peer to a remote, secondary peer. For more information, see Asynchronous remote mirroring.

Last updated: 24 November 2017
From Primary/To Secondary To IBM XIV Gen2 To IBM XIV Gen3 11.0.0 or later To IBM XIV Gen3 11.6.2.a or later To IBM Spectrum Accelerate To IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.0.1 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.0.1 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.2.0 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.2.0 or later
From IBM XIV Gen2          
From IBM XIV Gen3 11.0.0 or later        
From IBM XIV Gen3 11.6.2.a or later    
From IBM Spectrum Accelerate          
From IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.0.1 or later        
From IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.0.1 or later        
From IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.2.0 or later      
From IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.2.0 or later      

Multi-site HA/DR (High Availability & Disaster Recovery) for system software 12.x.x

The Multi-site HA/DR function allows customers to deploy high availability and disaster recovery solutions over multiple sites, keeping three concurrent copies of data.

Important: Use of Multi-site HA/DR requires that the HyperSwap relation have Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity between the systems, while the Asynchronous relations (active and standby) can be either over FC or over iSCSI.

For more information, see Multi-site mirroring.


Last updated: 7 November 2018
From Primary/To Secondary To IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.3.0 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.3.0 or later
From IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.3.0 or later
From IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.3.0 or later

Multi-site mirroring ("3-way") for system software 11.x.x

Multi-site mirroring (also known as "3-way mirroring") is an IBM XIV Storage System technology that allows customers to set disaster recovery solutions over multiple sites, keeping three copies of their data. For more information, see Multi-site mirroring.


Last updated: 1 November 2018
From Primary/To Secondary To IBM XIV Gen3 To IBM Spectrum Accelerate
From IBM XIV Gen3 11.6.0 or later  
From IBM Spectrum Accelerate    

IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility

IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility enables non-disruptive migration of volumes from one storage system to another. IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility helps achieve storage management objectives that are otherwise difficult to address, like:
  • Migrating data out of an over-provisioned system.
  • Migrating all the data from a system that will be decommissioned or re-purposed.
  • Migrating data to another storage system to achieve adequate (lower or higher) performance, or to load-balance systems to ensure uniform performance.
  • Migrating data to another storage system to load-balance capacity utilization.
Important: Use of IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility requires Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity between the systems, except for on IBM Spectrum Accelerate storage systems which require iSCSI connectivity.

For more information, see IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility.


Last updated: 20 March 2018
From Primary/To Secondary To IBM XIV Gen3 To IBM Spectrum Accelerate 11.5.3 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.0.1 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.0.1 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.2.0 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.2.0 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.2.1 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.2.1 or later
From IBM XIV Gen3          
From IBM Spectrum Accelerate 11.5.3 or later              
From IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.0.1 or later          
From IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.0.1 or later                
From IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.2.0 or later      
From IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.2.0 or later        
From IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.2.1 or later      
From IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.2.1 or later        

Data migration

Note: Data migration can be done from any SCSI storage device to all storage systems of the IBM Spectrum Accelerate family.

Last updated: 1 November 2018
From Primary/To Secondary To IBM XIV Gen2 To IBM XIV Gen3 To IBM Spectrum Accelerate 11.5.3 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.0.0 or later To IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.0.0 or later
From IBM XIV Gen2
From IBM XIV Gen3
From IBM Spectrum Accelerate 11.5.3 or later
From IBM FlashSystem A9000 12.0.0 or later
From IBM FlashSystem A9000R 12.0.0 or later
From SCSI Storage Array