What are the benefits of the iSeries Hardware/Total Storage Solution for HA/DR/Backup?
This new environment offers the following benefits:
- Easily managed by small IT staff
- Cluster-enabled for HA switched-disk local fail-over
- An IBM solution with no non-IBM components
- 24X7 availability on production systems with FlashCopy
- Hardware solution, not software solution
- Remote journaling not required
iASP implementation benefits
- Simple to implement
- ALL iASP objects copied to target, including IFS
FlashCopy for interrupt-free backups
- FlashCopy target can be used on development system as current data for testing refreshed daily
- Data available for destructive testing after save completes
- Object locks eliminated
- No impact on production system
- Requires no check-point interruption to production system
- Point-in-time backups, executed from a different LPAR or system, requiring no interruption to the production system jobs or users and not requiring any HA/DR software on the production system.
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FlashCopy data available for 23 hrs
- Allows on-line object restore from FC system
- Save tapes available immediately for off-site storage
Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
- Continuous Copy to a High Availability or Disaster Recovery system nearby or at a great distance.
- Fully supported by IBM Support line
- IBM iSeries Copy Services toolkit
- Employs industry-proven Total Storage DS6000 or DS8000 SAN
- Lights-out operation. Set it and forget it.
- Fiber connected DASD with multipath (up to 8 fiber paths) for high performance redundant fibers to eliminate single-point-of-failure
- RMC (Remote Mirror Copy) for HA/DR
- PTC (Point in Time Copy) for FlashCopy Backups
