We currently use EMC disk (DMX 2000) for our z/VM environment. At this time there is no support for entering flashcopy commands under z/VM with the DMX 2000 type disk.
Paul Feller AIT Mainframe Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319)-355-7824 -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dusha, Cecelia CIV WHS/ITMD Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: EMC disk storage & Flashcopy Hello, Presently we have DS6800 disk storage configured for 3390-3 and 3390-9. Our address range for production is 1000-10FF with 2000-20FF for the flashcopied volumes. EMC disk storage is being considered as a replacement for our current disk storage. I am told EMC disk storage functions differently for flashcopy. EMC disk storage utilizes BVCs for images... The interface for implementing BVC images does not support z/VM... (I am not sure if this is accurate, but this is what I have gathered from meetings with a group of zOS systems programmers. I may have misunderstood what they were saying...) Has anyone used EMC disk storage for flashcopy purposes in the VM environment? How was it implemented? Presently for flashcopies in z/VM I just enter: FLASHCOPY vdev1 scyl1 ecyl2 TO vdev2 scyl2 ecyl2 Would EMC disk storage function the same? Please advice. Thank you. Cecelia Dusha
