IBM System Storage Business Continuity Solutions Overview

IBM System Storage Business Continuity Solutions Overview

by Charlotte Brooks, Clem Leung, Aslam Mirza, Curtis Neal, Yin Lei Qiu, John Sing, Francis TH Wong, Ian R Wright
Released February 2007
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

This IBM Redbooks publication presents an overview and descriptions of IBM System Storage Business Continuity Solutions for Backup / Restore, Rapid Data Recovery, and Continuous Availability.

IT Business Continuity concepts are discussed; advice, tips, and a roadmap for selecting the optimum IT Business Continuity solution for your organization is provided.

IBM System Storage products are described that can fulfill your IT Business Continuity solution design. This book is a summary of the detailed information contained in IBM TotalStorage Business Continuity Solutions Guide, SG24-6547 and IBM System Storage Business Continuity: Part 2 Solutions Guide, SG24-6548.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this redbook
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  3. Part 1: Business Continuity principles
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction to Business Continuity in an On Demand World
    1. 1.1: Business Continuity pain points
    2. 1.2: What is Business Continuity
      1. Definition: value of Business Continuity to the entire business
      2. What is IT Business Continuity
      3. Definition: high availability
      4. Continuous operations
      5. Disaster Recovery
      6. Differentiating Business Continuity from Disaster Recovery
    3. 1.3: Business Continuity: Why now
      1. If you are down, what do you lose
      2. What are the most likely causes of outages
      3. Assess where you are today
      4. Determine what your metrics of success should be
      5. Final step: Decide where you want to go
    4. 1.4: Summary
  5. Chapter 2: Selecting Business Continuity solutions
    1. 2.1: Roadmap to IT Business Continuity
    2. 2.2: The System Storage Resiliency Portfolio
      1. Reliable hardware infrastructure layer
      2. Core technologies layer
      3. Platform-specific integration layer
      4. Application-specific integration layer
      5. Summary
    3. 2.3: Selecting Business Continuity solutions
    4. 2.4: The tiers of Business Continuity
    5. 2.5: Blending tiers into an optimized solution
      1. Three Business Continuity solution segments
    6. 2.6: Select a solution by segment
      1. Refine with a detailed evaluation team
      2. Value of Business Continuity solution selection via segmentation
  6. Part 2: Business Continuity solution offerings
  7. Chapter 3: Continuous Availability
    1. 3.1: Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)
      1. GDPS/XRC overview
      2. GDPS/Global Mirror (GDPS/GM) overview
      3. GDPS three site support
      4. Global Technology Services (GTS) offerings for GDPS overview
      5. GDPS summary
      6. Additional GDPS information
    2. 3.2: GDOC
      1. Solution components
      2. GDOC in greater detail
      3. Additional information
    3. 3.3: HACMP/XD
    4. 3.4: Continuous Availability for MaxDB and SAP liveCache
      1. Solution components
    5. 3.5: Copy Services for System i
      1. Copy Services with IASPs
      2. Copy Services for System i
      3. Metro Cluster for N series overview
  8. Chapter 4: Rapid Data Recovery
    1. 4.1: System Storage Rapid Data Recovery for System z and mixed z+Open platforms (GDPS/PPRC HyperSwap Manager)
      1. GDPS/PPRC Open LUN management
      2. Product components
      3. Additional information
    2. 4.2: System Storage Rapid Data Recovery for System z and mixed z+Distributed platforms using TPC for Replication
    3. 4.3: TPC for Replication functionality
      1. Functionality of TPC for Replication Two Site BC
      2. Environment and supported hardware
    4. 4.4: IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
      1. SVC FlashCopy
    5. 4.5: SVC remote mirroring
    6. 4.6: Rapid Data Recovery with System i
    7. 4.7: FlashCopy Manager and PPRC Migration Manager
  9. Chapter 5: Backup and Restore
    1. 5.1: An overview of Backup and Restore and archive and retrieve
      1. What is Backup and Restore
      2. What is archive and retrieve
    2. 5.2: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager overview
      1. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager solutions overview
      2. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager solutions in detail (1/3)
      3. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager solutions in detail (2/3)
      4. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager solutions in detail (3/3)
      5. Integrated solution capabilities of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
      6. Further information
      7. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager summary
    3. 5.3: IBM Data Retention 550
      1. Retention-managed data
      2. Storage and data characteristics
      3. IBM strategy and key products
      4. IBM System Storage DR550
    4. 5.4: Summary
    5. 5.5: System z backup and restore software
      1. DFSMSdss
      2. DFSMShsm
      3. z/VM Utilities
  10. Part 3: End-to-end Business Continuity solution components
  11. Chapter 6: Networking and inter-site connectivity options
    1. 6.1: Network topologies
    2. 6.2: Fiber transport
      1. Dedicated fiber
      2. SONET
      3. Data transport speed, bandwidth, and latency
      4. Technology selection
    3. 6.3: Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)
      1. Optical amplification and regenerative repeaters
      2. CWDM versus DWDM
      3. Subrate multiplexing
    4. 6.4: Channel extension
      1. Methods of channel extension
    5. 6.5: Testing
  12. Chapter 7: High-availability clusters and database applications
    1. 7.1: High availability
    2. 7.2: Clustering technologies
      1. Shared nothing clusters
      2. Common shared cluster
      3. Shared nothing application cluster
      4. Geographically dispersed clusters
      5. Backup and recovery considerations for databases (1/2)
      6. Backup and recovery considerations for databases (2/2)
  13. Chapter 8: Business Continuity for small and medium sized business
    1. 8.1: Small and medium sized business overview
      1. SMB company profiles and business continuity needs
      2. SMB company IT needs as compared to large enterprises
      3. SMB IT data center and staff issues
    2. 8.2: Business Continuity for SMB companies
      1. Major SMB business continuity design components
      2. Business Continuity impacts on SMB business
    3. 8.3: Successful SMB Business Continuity planning and implementation
      1. SMB business continuity implementation steps
      2. SMB Business Continuity affordability
    4. 8.4: SMB Business Continuity solution components
      1. Typical SMB BC solutions: performance and downtime
    5. 8.5: Summary
  14. Appendix A: Tiers of Business Continuity
    1. Further definition of the tiers of Business Continuity
      1. BC Tier 0: No off-site data
      2. BC Tier 1: Data backup with no hot site
      3. BC Tier 2: Data backup with a hot site
      4. BC Tier 3: Electronic vaulting
      5. BC Tier 4: Point-in-time copies
      6. BC Tier 5: Transaction integrity
      7. BC Tier 6: Zero or little data loss
      8. BC Tier 7: Highly automated, business integrated solution
  15. Appendix B: IBM System Storage Components and Copy Services
    1. IBM System Storage DS Family
      1. IBM System Storage DS8000 series
      2. IBM System Storage DS6000
      3. The IBM TotalStorage ESS
      4. Advanced Copy Services for DS6000 and DS8000
      5. IBM System Storage DS4000 Family
      6. Advanced Copy Services for DS4000
    2. IBM System Storage N series
      1. Advanced Copy Services for N series
    3. IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
      1. Advanced Copy Services for SVC
    4. IBM System Storage Virtualization Engine TS7500 and TS7700 (1/2)
    5. IBM System Storage Virtualization Engine TS7500 and TS7700 (2/2)
  16. Appendix C: Tivoli Storage Manager family overview
    1. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
      1. Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM)
    2. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases
    3. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail
    4. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning
    5. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services
    6. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Advanced Copy Services
    7. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery
  17. Appendix D: Services and planning
    1. Services and services providers
    2. IBM Global Services services families and life cycle
    3. On Demand services
    4. IBM Global Services solutions for resilient infrastructures
    5. Network Consulting and Integration services
      1. Optical/Storage Networking
      2. Network Deployment
      3. Network Management
      4. Network Cabling
  18. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. How to get IBM Redbooks
    3. Help from IBM
  19. Index (1/2)
  20. Index (2/2)
  21. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: IBM System Storage Business Continuity Solutions Overview
  • Author(s): Charlotte Brooks, Clem Leung, Aslam Mirza, Curtis Neal, Yin Lei Qiu, John Sing, Francis TH Wong, Ian R Wright
  • Release date: February 2007
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None