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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 17, 2022

Capability to generate a "application consistent" snapshot on a secondary when replicating data with new policy-based async replication

Scenario is quite simple: client wants to generate an "application consistent" snapshot on his secondary site while data are replicated using new policy-based replication. 
To do so client will freeze I/O on primary site once application is in a consistent state with the objective to generate snapshot of this “application consistent" data state on secondary site. T

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Philip Clark
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    Feb 10, 2023

    We have reviewed this request and believe it is a good candidate for FlashSystem / Virtualize.

    Policy-based replication does not have a manual mode, to pause and quiesce, everything is automated. But we plan to enable replicated snapshots in the future, which should meet this requirement.

  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
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    Nov 22, 2022

    Thank you for submitting this Idea. We are currently evaluating your request.


    Thanks,
    SpecV Team

    philipclark@ibm.com