IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Family

Improve time to value, improve continuous availability of open systems servers, and reduce downtime of critical applications with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication. Manage the advanced copy services provided by the IBM System Storage® DS8000, DS6000™ series, the IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) Model 800 and the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

Highlights

The IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center (TPC) for Replication V4.2 includes new capabilities and enhancements:

• OpenSwap for Open systems; improves system availability
• Enhanced Peer to Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) Path Management; ensuring redundant port combinations
• Disaster Recovery Planner; integrates storage and replication functions
• DS8000 Multiple Global Mirror Support; improved performance enabling multiple GM sessions
• Softcopy removal of copy sets: improved support for migration of sessions/copy services
• Incremental FlashCopy Support for IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller (SVC)

The IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) for Replication family helps to manage the advanced copy services provided by the IBM Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS) Model 800, IBM System Storage DS8000®, IBM DS6000™ and IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC).

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication V4.2

The basic functions of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) for Replication are designed to provide management of the advanced copy services—IBM FlashCopy®, Metro Mirror and Global Mirror capabilities—for the IBM System Storage DS8000, IBM ESS Model 800 and the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC).

TPC for Replication family includes:

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Basic Edition for System z is a product designed to provide a low-cost, single-site, high-availability disk solution that switches to the target volume when there is a fault with the production volume without application impact.

The TPC for Replication Family can help simplify the management of advanced copy services by:

• Automating administration and configuration of these services with wizard-based session and copy set definitions
• Providing simple operational control of copy services tasks, including starting, suspending and resuming in the same direction or opposite directions
• Offering tools for monitoring and managing copy sessions

• IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Two Site BC

  TPC for Replication Two Site BC (Business Continuity) supports disaster recovery management through planned and unplanned failover and failback automation for the IBM ESS Model 800, IBM DS8000 and IBM SAN Volume Controller.

  TPC for Replication Two Site BC helps you manage replication to a remote backup site through Metro Mirror or Global Mirror. The software is designed to allow you to monitor the progress of the copy services so you can verify the amount of replication that has been completed, as well as the amount of time needed to complete the remaining portion.

  Automated failover is designed to help keep your critical data online and available to your users even if your primary site fails. When the primary site comes back on, the software manages failback to the default configuration as well.

• IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Three Site BC

  TPC for Replication Three Site BC (Business Continuity) helps provide disaster recovery management through planned and unplanned failover and failback automation for the IBM DS8000 using its Metro Global Mirror (MGM) feature. It features a synchronous copy between two sites combined with an asynchronous copy link to a distant site (perhaps outside the regional power grid). The three-site feature is designed to support fast failover and failback, fast reestablishment of three-site mirroring, data currency at the remote site with minimal lag behind the local site, and quick resynchronization of mirrored sites using incremental changes only.

• IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for System z

  IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for System z offers the same capabilities and support as the distributed product version, but for the System z environment. It is packaged to run on System z using a mixture of FICON® and TCP/IP communications to provide replication management of DS8000, DS6000, ESS 800 and SVC regardless of type of data on them (ECKD or FBA)

  Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for System z supports:

  • FlashCopy
  • Metro Mirror
  • Global Mirror
  • IBM System Storage DS8000 Metro Global Mirror