Operating systems configured for creating and loading a storage high availability solution configuration

A method of running a storage high availability solution configuration, the method comprising:

• determining, by an operating system, that a storage high availability solution configuration has been loaded, wherein the storage high availability solution configuration indicates a list of device pairs configured for a storage high availability solution;
• for each device pair indicated in the storage high availability solution configuration:
• determining whether the device pair is in a Peer to Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) relationship and fully duplicated;
• and
• indicating, if the device pair is not in a PPRC relationship or is not fully duplicated, that the device pair is not ready for the storage high availability solution;
• and
• responsive to determining that none of the device pairs indicated in the storage high availability solution configuration are indicated as not ready, enabling the storage high availability solution.

A system comprising:

• a replication manager server;
• a group of computing systems, wherein each computing system comprises an operating system;
• a first volume group communicatively coupled to the group of computing systems, wherein the first volume group comprises multiple volumes;
• and
• a second volume group communicatively coupled to the group of computing systems and separate from the first volume group, wherein the second volume group is a copy of the first volume group.