IBM System Storage Ideas Portal
This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).
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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.
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"A solution was created in Copy Services Manager to allow customers to use the DS8000 in Distributed environments such that they could "manage" sets of volumes individually without going over the current limit on consistency groups on the hardware.
The way this is handled is in Copy Services Manager you would create a different CSM Global Mirror session for each set of volumes you want to manage as a group, however, on the session you would define a User Defined Consistency Group number (2 digit hex value) that is "shared" across multiple CSM Global Mirror sessions. The separate CSM sessions will add the volumes to the same hardware consistency group, but allow the customer to suspend/recover and monitor each of the individual CSM session separately. This means you could failover a set of volumes for a particular VMWare image for example, without having to failover the rest. This setup is documented here " https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/csm/6.3.8?topic=replication-working-user-defined-consistency-groups "