IBM z/OS Global Mirror Planning, Operations, and Best Practices

IBM z/OS Global Mirror Planning, Operations, and Best Practices

Author: Bertrand Dufrasne

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2013-10-20

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 0738453501

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IBM® z/OS® Global Mirror (zGM), also known as Extended Remote Copy (XRC), is a combined hardware and software solution that offers the highest levels of continuous data availability in a disaster recovery (DR) and workload movement environment. Available for the IBM DS8000® Storage System, zGM provides an asynchronous remote copy solution. This IBM RedpaperTM publication takes you through best practices for planning, tuning, operating, and monitoring a zGM installation. This publication is intended for clients and storage administrators who need to understand and maintain a zGM environment.


DS8000 Global Mirror Best Practices

DS8000 Global Mirror Best Practices

Author: Nick Clayton

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2019-01-11

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 0738456012

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This IBM® RedpaperTM publication reviews the architecture and operations of the IBM DS8000® Global Mirror function. The document looks at different aspects of the solution in terms of performance, infrastructure requirements, data integrity, business continuity, and impact on production. Hints and tips are provided on how to best configure the overall Global Mirror environment, in terms of connectivity, storage configuration, and specific parameters tuning. The guidelines that are provided are in general related to performance, which ultimately ensures a better recovery point objective (RPO). Therefore, we encourage you to follow those guidelines.


IBM DS8900F Performance Best Practices and Monitoring

IBM DS8900F Performance Best Practices and Monitoring

Author: Peter Kimmel

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2021-12-17

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0738460192

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication is intended for individuals who want to maximize the performance of their DS8900 storage systems and investigate the planning and monitoring tools that are available.


DS8000 Global Mirror Best Practices

DS8000 Global Mirror Best Practices

Author: Nick Clayton

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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This IBM® RedpaperTM publication reviews the architecture and operations of the IBM DS8000® Global Mirror function. The document looks at different aspects of the solution in terms of performance, infrastructure requirements, data integrity, business continuity, and impact on production. Hints and tips are provided on how to best configure the overall Global Mirror environment, in terms of connectivity, storage configuration, and specific parameters tuning. The guidelines that are provided are in general related to performance, which ultimately ensures a better recovery point objective (RPO). Therefore, we encourage you to follow those guidelines.


IBM DS8900F and IBM Z Synergy DS8900F: Release 9.3 and z/OS 2.5

IBM DS8900F and IBM Z Synergy DS8900F: Release 9.3 and z/OS 2.5

Author: Peterl Kimmel

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2022-07-04

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0738460656

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IBM Z® has a close and unique relationship to its storage. Over the years, improvements to the IBM zSystems® processors and storage software, the disk storage systems, and their communication architecture consistently reinforced this synergy. This IBM® RedpaperTM publication summarizes and highlights the various aspects, advanced functions, and technologies that are often pioneered by IBM and make IBM Z and IBM DS8000® products an ideal combination. This paper is intended for users who have some familiarity with IBM Z and the IBM DS8000 series and want a condensed but comprehensive overview of the synergy items up to the IBM z16 server with IBM z/OS® V2.5 and the IBM DS8900 Release 9.3 firmware.


System z End-to-End Extended Distance Guide

System z End-to-End Extended Distance Guide

Author: Frank Kyne

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0738439045

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication will help you design and manage an end-to-end, extended distance connectivity architecture for IBM System z®. This solution addresses your requirements now, and positions you to make effective use of new technologies in the future. Many enterprises implement extended distance connectivity in a silo manner. However, effective extended distance solutions require the involvement of different teams within an organization. Typically there is a network group, a storage group, a systems group, and possibly other teams. The intent of this publication is to help you design and manage a solution that will provide for all of your System z extended distance needs in the most effective and flexible way possible. This book introduces an approach to help plan, optimize, and maintain all of the moving parts of the solution together.


Best Practices for DS8000 and z/OS HyperSwap with Copy Services Manager

Best Practices for DS8000 and z/OS HyperSwap with Copy Services Manager

Author: Thomas Luther

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2019-06-21

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0738457612

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Many IBM® z/OS® customers require their applications to be available 24x7. Whether the business requirements are high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), or business continuity, IBM HyperSwap® technology can provide an adequate solution. HyperSwap is the industry standard and is provided as several different implementation options to meet the various business needs of the IBM System z® and z/OS customer base. IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) enables you to manage z/OS HyperSwap and helps you manage planned and unplanned actions in an z/OS environment from an open systems environment. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides best practices for the planning, implementing, integrating, and managing z/OS HyperSwap with CSM.


Getting Started with z/OS Data Set Encryption

Getting Started with z/OS Data Set Encryption

Author: Bill White

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2021-12-10

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0738460222

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This IBM® Redpaper Redbooks® publication provides a broad explanation of data protection through encryption and IBM Z® pervasive encryption with a focus on IBM z/OS® data set encryption. It describes how the various hardware and software components interact in a z/OS data set encryption environment. In addition, this book concentrates on the planning and preparing of the environment and offers implementation, configuration, and operational examples that can be used in z/OS data set encryption environments. This publication is intended for IT architects, system programmer, and security administrators who plan for, deploy, and manage security on the Z platform. The reader is expected to have a basic understanding of IBM Z security concepts.