NADITA 2020 IBM i BACKUP AND SAN OPTIONS 1

NADITA 2020 IBM i BACKUP AND SAN OPTIONS 1

IBM i - Rules to Live By . SET GOALS RPO/RTO Backup EVERYTHING Periodically or Continuously Review Your Need for Journaling Create Multiple Layers of Backup Test Test Test 2

IBM i Backup Options Tape Software Replication – Assure Mimix / iTERA Virtual Tape (VTL) – VTL with Replication and Deduplication Backup Tools/Agents – BRMS – IBM Cloud Storage – IBM Spectrum Protect – eVault Flash Copy Toolkit Full System Replication 3

Tape LTO Standards New Tape Library TS4300 – Modular Design – LTO Ultrium Cartridges 40/280 Slots – Drives 1/21 WORM Media Logical Library Support 4

Tape Current LTO Standards 5

Tape Future LTO Standards 6

Software Replication Assure - Mimix / iTERA – Journaling Local Remote – Communication Objects – Application of Journals 2 Fully Running Systems 7

Virtual Tape Library (VTL) FalconStor / LaserVault / Cybernetics VTL Replication 1 to Many Many to 1 VTL to Physical Tape with no Host Deduplication of Data Logical Library Support Cloud Storage of VTL Images 8

Software Backup Agents Backup Agents – BRMS – IBM Cloud Storage – IBM Spectrum Protect – eVault Bare Metal Restore Network Boot Network Bandwidth 9

IBM FlashCopy Toolkit IBM BRMS IBM SAN Storage Shared Tape Library/VTL FlashCopy Controller Partition Complete System Backups with No Downtime* Complete System Backups with Little Downtime * Reviewed during PreSales 10

IBM FlashCopy Toolkit FC Controller Production Partition IBM SAN Shared Tape/VTL 11 FC Production Partition

IBM Full System Replication - FSR IBM SAN Storage Redundant FSR Controller Partitions Can be Used with Full System FlashCopy Toolkit Everything 12

IBM Full System Replication 13 FSR Controller FSR Controller Production Partition DR Production Partition IBM SAN IBM SAN

In The Real World 2 Completely Separate Environments Multiple Virtual Machines for Intel and Power All SAN Based Storage Regular Backups in Little or NO Downtime Data and VTL Images Replicated to Remote Site Annual Full Testing Applications Communications Branches 14

“Get The Servers You Deserve” 15

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An established and proven IT provider Hundreds of customers in small, medium and large-scale enterprisewide implementations Clients include regional businesses and international companies Clients from coast to coast Headquarters is in Jefferson City, Missouri Hubs in Springfield, Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis, Missouri 17

A selection of industry-leading partners We carefully select vendors who align with our core values and core traits, and we use those relationships to create excellent end solutions for our clients. IBM, Premier Business Partner since 1986 – Serve as a consistent interface to IBM – IBM Business Partner Innovation Centers in North America Cisco, Premier Certified Cisco Partner Microsoft, Gold Certified Partner VMware for virtualization Syncsort Partner for high availability, disaster recovery and data replication 18

A team of skilled technology experts Our technology team has over 200 IT Sales and Technical Certifications to deliver the best customer support in the business. System Engineers – Power I System Engineers – Power AIX System Engineers – Storage System Engineers – Intel System Engineers – Network Engineers Certified Project Managers (PMP) 19 Program Developers – Java – RPG – PHP – SQL – Lotus Notes – DB2 – Windows – Linux – Application & Web Development 6