HA and DR Solutions for i/OS

The i/OS High Availability market place has been dominated for some years by the big three; Vision, Lakeview and DataMirror. With the introduction of remote journaling and increased functionality within the operating system a number of other solutions have come to market, the most successful being iTERA. With the consolidation of the market, Vision now incorporates the ORION, MIMIX and iTERA brands, whilst IBM now owns DataMirror (iCluster).

As an IBM Business Partner and Vision Partner; Applied Technologies can help clients chose the most suitable product taking into account the clients RPO and RTO requirements, technical competency within the client to manage the tool, application complexity to ensure ease of integration and whether other functionality such as virtual role swap, continuous data protection or bi-directional replication is required.

For those customers who prefer disk based replication Applied technologies can evaluate the suitability of using either IBM DS5000, DS6800 and DS8000 external disk with Global Mirror, Metro Mirror or with PowerHA using either internal or external disk subsystems. Combined with the IBM Lab Services Advanced Copy Services Toolkit, these solutions provide HA/DR solutions with near zero management overhead.

Following an initial application review, determining the business RPO and RTO requirements, expectation regarding regularity of tests and type of tests, Applied Technologies will be able to recommend the best solution for the client, from hardware design through to product / solution choice, implementation and completion of the required acceptance tests.

Resources :

• iCluster Demo (video)
• Next Generation HA for POWER Systems (Vision Systems)
• 5 Reasons Why Smaller Companies Should Consider HA (Vision Systems)