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With regard to GLVM mirroring, which of the following is a true statement?
The correct answer is A. Mirrored locations are limited to being 254 miles apart. GLVM (Geographic Logical Volume Manager) enforces a maximum distance of 254 miles between mirrored sites due to round-trip latency constraints on synchronous write operations.
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With regard to GLVM mirroring, which of the following is a true statement?
Options
- AMirrored locations are limited to being 254 miles apart
- BData mirroring is performed over standard TCP/IP networks
- CGLVM requires any hosted database applications to be mirror-tolerant.
- DProduction and backup sites must use the exact same model of IBM Power System server
How the community answered
(27 responses)- A70% (19)
- B11% (3)
- C4% (1)
- D15% (4)
Why each option
GLVM (Geographic Logical Volume Manager) enforces a maximum distance of 254 miles between mirrored sites due to round-trip latency constraints on synchronous write operations.
IBM GLVM imposes a documented 254-mile maximum distance between production and backup sites to keep round-trip latency within bounds that synchronous mirroring can tolerate without causing I/O timeouts or data inconsistency. This is a hard architectural limit of the RPV (Remote Physical Volume) protocol that underlies GLVM's inter-site communication. Exceeding this distance risks write failures and mirror desynchronization under normal workloads.
GLVM mirroring requires a dedicated, high-bandwidth, low-latency network connection - not arbitrary standard TCP/IP infrastructure - because the RPV protocol's synchronous write requirements impose strict network quality constraints that a general TCP/IP network cannot reliably guarantee.
GLVM mirroring is fully transparent to applications because it operates at the LVM layer of the OS; no application needs to be coded or configured as mirror-tolerant since AIX handles all mirror synchronization below the application stack.
GLVM does not require identical IBM Power System server models at both sites - differing hardware generations are supported as long as AIX and GLVM version compatibility is maintained between the two sites.
Concept tested: GLVM geographic mirroring distance limitation
Source: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.3?topic=volumes-geographic-logical-volume-manager
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