Re: Any users of FlashCopy with Hitachi

2009-07-29 Thread Ron Hawkins
Yes it does. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > Mike Shorkend > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:36 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Any users of FlashCopy with Hitachi > &g

Re: Any users of FlashCopy with Hitachi

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Shorkend
We use Flashcopy on a USP600 and it is also available on the USP-V machines. It is an additional priced feature. It is almost compatible with IBM Flashcopy. The one missing feature that we have found is that it does not support the dfdss FCTOPPRCPRIMARY parameter. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:47 P

Re: Any users of FlashCopy with Hitachi

2009-07-28 Thread John Kelly
FlashCopy on HDS provides all its capabilities through the same host API as IBM storage After our various experiences with the USP-V, we'd like to 'see' customers who have used the feature before we pay for a feature and then find out that we can't use it. The best way to drive Shadowimage

Re: Any users of FlashCopy with Hitachi

2009-07-28 Thread Ron Hawkins
essage- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > John Kelly > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:44 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Any users of FlashCopy with Hitachi > > We have a Hitachi "USP V" SAN wit

Any users of FlashCopy with Hitachi

2009-07-28 Thread John Kelly
We have a Hitachi "USP V" SAN with almost support from VION. We have ShadowImage but since this seems to be PRRC by another name, it is difficult to use operationally. VION stated that the only way we could get it to work was to use FDR's API instead of DSS. I asked VION to check with Hitachi t