IBMcopy199: Unlocking the Power of zOS HyperSwap for High Availability of Storage

Project and Program: Data Center Management

Tags: Proceedings, SHARE Orlando 2026, 2026

z/OS HyperSwap offers enterprise class high availability protection against storage failures. Storage demands continue to increase, and it is increasingly critical that the data is available when needed. Have you been leveraging HyperSwap and want more tips and tricks to maximize your usage? Do you want to be prepared for Unplanned HyperSwap events before they occur? In this session, we will share details to help you ensure your HyperSwap environment is ready for when you need it. We will shed light on how z/OS HyperSwap works, monitoring your setup, diagnosis when things go wrong, the functionality you may not know that HyperSwap has, and benchmarks from the IBM lab to give an idea of its performance. We will also touch on utilizing zHyperWrite, zHyperlink, and Consistent Read from Secondary. As a storage administrator looking to make best use of your z/OS storage replication environment, you won’t want to miss this detailed session.

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