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Chapter 26. Global Mirror examples 
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To query the newly created FlashCopy relationships use the command 
lsflash
 as described 
26.12.4  Verify FlashCopy status between B and C volumes
After a local site failure, you will need to check the status of all FlashCopy pairs that were in 
the Global Mirror session.
Let us see how to verify and eventually take some corrective actions on the Global Mirror 
FlashCopy pairs at the remote site, when there has been a primary site failure. For a more 
detailed discussion on this topic, see 26.4.4, “Check Global Mirror FlashCopy status between 
B and C volumes” on page 355 and
 23.7.4, “Check for valid Consistency Group state” on 
page 285.
To verify the 
sequence number 
and 
revertible
 state of the FlashCopy sessions, first use the 
command 
lsflash
Secondly, execute either the 
commitflash
 or the 
revertflash
 command, depending on 
whether or not the FlashCopy pairs were successfully set to a revertible state, and whether 
their sequence numbers are equal or not.
We need to remember that Global Mirror is a distributed solution:
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When a Consistency Group is processed, the Master acts as a session manager and does 
an incremental revertible FlashCopy on its own recovery site, while at the same time 
asking its Subordinates to also perform such a task at their recovery sites.
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When a Consistency Group is in progress, several incremental revertible FlashCopy 
operations may be running. The FlashCopy process is looking at the change recording bit 
map on the B volumes, and is comparing it with the target bit map on the C volumes. 
When the incremental FlashCopy is finished, the change recording bit map is cleared and, 
therefore, all the changes are committed on the C volumes. The corresponding FlashCopy 
pairs are set to a nonrevertible state by the Master.
These are the reasons why one of these four situations could occur:
1. If all FlashCopy pairs are nonrevertible and their sequence numbers are equal, it means 
that the Consistency Group process had finished.
There is no action required because the Consistency Group is intact on the C volumes.
2. If some FlashCopy pairs are revertible and their sequence numbers are equal, and others 
are not revertible and their sequence numbers are equal but do not match the revertible 
FlashCopies sequence number, it means that some FlashCopy pairs are running in a 
Consistency Group process and some have not yet started their incremental process.
To preserve the consistency we need to overwrite new data with data saved at the last 
consistency formation for the FlashCopy pairs already in the new Consistency Group 
process. For this use the 
revertflash 
command of the DS CLI.
3. If all FlashCopy pairs are revertible and their sequence numbers are equal, it means that 
all the FlashCopy pairs are running in a Consistency Group process and none have 
finished their incremental process.
We need to overwrite new data with data saved at the last consistency formation for all the 
FlashCopy pairs. For this use the 
revertflash 
command of the DS CLI.
Note: At this level, we do not use the command 
setflashrevertible
 because Global 
Mirror has already issued this command internally.