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  • 1.  PowerHA Tools for IBM i partition

    Posted 10 days ago

    Hello all,

    Someone with experience in implementing PowerHA Tools for a DR process and full backup using Full System Flash Copy, aiming to achieve minimal application downtime?
    How does it integrate with Tape for longer retention?
    What experience do you have, and what alerts and recommendations can you share?

    Thanks,



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    Alexandre Figueiredo
    IBM Power Solution Architect
    ARROW ECS
    Lisboa
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  • 2.  RE: PowerHA Tools for IBM i partition

    Posted 9 days ago

    It integrates with Tape very well.  That is what it is built to do.

    The Full System Flash Copy toolkit integrates with BRMS to retain all of your backup history.  It makes the backups on the target Flash Copy partition and then transfers the BRMS data back to the source partition so you have a full record of what was backed up on the source partition.



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    Vincent Greene
    IT Consultant
    Technology Expert labs
    IBM
    Vincent.Greene@ibm.com


    The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
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  • 3.  RE: PowerHA Tools for IBM i partition

    Posted 9 days ago

    Thank you Vincent,

    The Target Flash Copy partition can be in the same system or in a different one, right?



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    Alexandre Figueiredo
    IBM Power Solution Architect
    ARROW ECS
    Lisboa
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  • 4.  RE: PowerHA Tools for IBM i partition

    Posted 9 days ago

    That is correct.  

    Within the same storage, you can run the flashcopy target on any Power system that is attached to that storage.  You can also leverage IBM storage replication to take the flashcopy on the replication target in most cases. 

    You can find more information about the Full System Flash Copy toolkit at:   http://ibm.biz/FSFCManager



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    Vincent Greene
    IT Consultant
    Technology Expert labs
    IBM
    Vincent.Greene@ibm.com


    The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
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