text: **11.7 Remote Copy commands**
  
  This section presents commands that need to be issued to create and operate remote copy 
  services. 
  
  **11.7.1 Remote Copy process**
  
  The MM/GM process includes the following steps: 
  
  1. A system partnership is created between two IBM Spectrum Virtualize systems (for 
  intercluster MM/GM). 
  
  2. A MM/GM relationship is created between two volumes of the same size. 
  
  3. To manage multiple MM/GM relationships as one entity, the relationships can be made 
  
  part of a MM/GM Consistency Group to ensure data consistency across multiple MM/GM 
  relationships, or for ease of management. 
  
  4. The MM/GM relationship is started. When the background copy completes, the 
  
  relationship is consistent and synchronized. When synchronized, the auxiliary volume 
  holds a copy of the production data at the master that can be used for disaster recovery. 
  
  5. To access the auxiliary volume, the MM/GM relationship must be stopped with the access 
  option enabled before write I/O is submitted to the auxiliary. 
  
  Following these steps, the remote host server is mapped to the auxiliary volume and the disk 
  is available for I/O. 
  
  For more information about MM/GM commands, see IBM System Storage SAN Volume 
  Controller and IBM Storwize V7000 Command-Line Interface User’s Guide, GC27-2287. 