- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Preface
- Introduction
- Disaster recovery
- High availability
- Data migration
- SRDF I/O operations
- SRDF write operations
- SRDF read operations
- SRDF/A resilience and performance features
- Management tools
- More information
Reading data from R2 devices directly from a host connected to the R2 is not recommended, because:
Dell Technologies strongly recommends that you allow the remote host to read data from the R2 devices while in Read-Only mode only when:
In a mainframe environment, however, PPRC does allow secondary devices to be defined as read-only. Dell Technologies supports this with extra controls in SCF, AutoSwap, and ConGroup software. Such a configuration is known as Host Read Only (HRD).