IBM PureFlex Solution for Cloud Backup and Recovery: Private Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategies

Redpaper
IBM PureFlex Solution for Cloud Backup
and Recovery: Private Cloud Disaster
Recovery Strategies
Introduction
Many organizations consider the possibility to transform their data center infrastructures in to
a cloud-enabled environment by deploying private clouds. Cloud computing offers attractive
opportunities to reduce costs, accelerate development, and increase the flexibility of the IT
infrastructure, applications, and services. Cloud computing is the next evolutionary step that
enhances traditional virtualized environments by combining server, storage, and networking
resources into a single shared converged pool, and adding intellectual workload management
and usage metering capabilities to the IT infrastructure.
IBM® PureFlex™ System, an expert integrated system, offers a cloud-enabled integrated
server, storage, and networking platform that delivers intelligent workload deployment and
scalable IT resource pools. PureFlex System increases security and resiliency to promote
maximum uptime, and integrated and easy-to-use systems management reduces setup time
and complexity, providing a quicker path to return on investment (ROI). Although PureFlex
System provides highly resilient and flexible cloud infrastructure that supports 24x7 local
operational environments, one of the key organizational business requirements is the ability
to recover IT applications and data that support critical business processes quickly in case
of disaster.
This IBM Redpaper™ describes disaster recovery strategies in the PureFlex System private
cloud environment that is built with IBM SmartCloud® Entry running on IBM x86 and IBM
POWER® compute nodes. This paper describes two-site disaster recovery approaches that
use the storage replication capabilities of the IBM Flex System™ V7000 Storage Node, IBM
Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switches and FC adapters, IBM System Storage
SAN06B-R multiprotocol routers, IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager backup and recovery
technologies, and automated platform-specific disaster recovery solutions, such as VMware
Site Recovery Manager or IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® Enterprise Edition. This paper is
for IT professionals who are interested in learning about common strategies for achieving
disaster recovery objectives in the PureFlex System-based private cloud environment.
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IBM PureFlex System private cloud solution components
In the cloud-computing arena, the private cloud plays a fundamental role. It combines the
major advantages of the public cloud, such as strong standardization, self-service
automation, scalability, and metering, with the advantages of on-premise data centers.
On-premise data centers provide several advantages, such as strong security, increased
customization capabilities, and increased control over quality of service (QoS).
The IBM PureFlex System private cloud solution consists of the following components:
PureFlex System with integrated server, storage, and networking resources
Virtualized environment with a choice of hypervisors:
– IBM PowerVM®
– VMware vSphere
– Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
– Microsoft Hyper-V
IBM SmartCloud Entry cloud management stack

IBM PureFlex System
To meet today’s complex and changing business demands, you need a solid foundation of
server, storage, networking, and software resources. Furthermore, it must be simple to
deploy, and able to quickly and automatically adapt to changing conditions. You must also
have access to, and the ability to take advantage of, broad expertise and proven guidelines in
systems management, applications, hardware maintenance, and more.
IBM PureFlex System is a comprehensive infrastructure system that provides an expert
integrated computing system. It combines servers, enterprise storage, networking,
virtualization, and management into a single structure. Its built-in expertise enables
organizations to manage and flexibly deploy integrated patterns of virtual and hardware
resources through unified management. These systems are ideally suited for customers who
want a system that delivers the simplicity of an integrated solution, while still able to tune
middleware and the runtime environment.

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IBM PureFlex Solution for Cloud Backup and Recovery: Private Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategies

Figure 1 shows IBM PureFlex System.

Figure 1 IBM PureFlex System

IBM PureFlex System uses workload placement that is based on virtual machine (VM)
compatibility and resource availability. By using built-in virtualization across servers, storage,
and networking, the infrastructure system enables automated scaling of resources and true
workload mobility.
IBM PureFlex System went through significant testing and experimentation so that it can
mitigate IT complexity without compromising the flexibility to tune systems to the tasks that
businesses demand. By offering both flexibility and simplicity, IBM PureFlex System can
provide extraordinary levels of IT control, efficiency, and operating agility. With this
combination, businesses can rapidly deploy IT services at a reduced cost. Moreover, the
system is built on decades of expertise. This expertise enables deep integration and central
management of a comprehensive and open-choice infrastructure system. It also dramatically
reduces the skills and training that are required for managing and deploying the system.
The PureFlex System offers many advantages:
Configurations that ease acquisition experience and match your needs
Optimized to align with targeted workloads and environments
Designed for cloud with SmartCloud Entry included on Standard and Enterprise
Choice of architecture, operating system, and virtualization engine


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Designed for simplicity with integrated and single-system management across physical
and virtual resources
Simplified ordering that accelerates deployment in to your environments
Sent as a single integrated entity directly to you
Includes factory integration and lab services optimization
IBM PureFlex System combines advanced IBM hardware and software, and patterns of
expertise. It integrates them into three optimized configurations that are simple to acquire and
deploy so you get fast time-to-value.
The IBM PureFlex System is offered in the following configurations:
Express, which is the infrastructure system for small-sized and mid-sized businesses, and
the most cost-effective entry point.
Standard, which is the infrastructure system for application servers with supporting
storage and networking.
Enterprise, which is the infrastructure system that is optimized for scalable cloud
deployments. Enterprise has built-in redundancy for highly reliable and resilient operation
to support critical applications and cloud services.
A PureFlex System configuration has these main components:
A preinstalled and configured IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis
Compute nodes with either IBM POWER or Intel Xeon processors
IBM Flex System Manager, preinstalled with management software and licenses for
software activation
IBM Storwize® V7000 external storage unit or IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node
All hardware components that are preinstalled in an IBM PureFlex System 42U rack
Choice of the following items:
– Operating system: IBM AIX®, IBM i, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
– Virtualization software: IBM PowerVM, Linux KVM, VMware vSphere, or Microsoft
Hyper-V
– IBM SmartCloud Entry
Complete preintegrated software and hardware
Onsite services that are included to get the system up and running quickly

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These configurations are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1 IBM PureFlex System configurations
Component

IBM PureFlex System
Express

IBM PureFlex System
Standard

IBM PureFlex System
Enterprise

IBM PureFlex System 42U
Rack

1

1

1

IBM Flex System Enterprise
Chassis

1

1

1

IBM Flex System Fabric
EN4093R 10Gb Scalable
Switch

1

1

2 (with both port-count
upgrades)

IBM Flex System FC5022
24-port 16Gb ESB SAN
Scalable Switch

1

2

2

IBM Flex System Manager
Node

1

1

1

software license

(with one-year service and
support)

Advanced (with three-year
service and support)

Flex System Manager
Advanced (with three-year
service and support)

Chassis Management Module

2

2

2

Chassis power supplies
(standard/maximum)

2/6

4/6

6/6

Chassis 80 mm fan modules
(standard/maximum)

4/8

6/8

8/8

IBM Storwize V7000 Disk
System or IBM Flex System
V7000 Compute Node

Yes (redundant controller)



IBM Storwize V7000 Software

Base with one-year
software maintenance
agreement

Base with three-year
agreement

Base with three-year
agreement

The fundamental building blocks of IBM PureFlex System solutions are the IBM Flex System
Enterprise Chassis with compute nodes, networking, and storage.

IBM Flex System
IBM Flex System is built from reliable IBM technology that supports open standards and is
designed for multiple generations of technology. This enables clients to support existing
workloads while being ready for the future demands of their business. Starting with an
innovative chassis design for new levels of simplicity, reliability, and upgradability, IBM Flex
System helps clients go beyond blade servers. With a broad range of x86 and IBM POWER
compute nodes, the Flex System V7000 storage node, enhanced networking capabilities, and
sophisticated system management capabilities, clients can upgrade their existing blade
server infrastructure to make IT simpler, more flexible, more open, and more efficient.


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IBM Flex System is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 IBM Flex System

Management
IBM Flex System Manager is designed to optimize the physical and virtual resources of the
IBM Flex System infrastructure while simplifying and automating repetitive tasks. It provides
easy system setup procedures with wizards and built-in expertise, and consolidated
monitoring for all of your resources, including compute, storage, networking, virtualization,
and energy. IBM Flex System Manager provides core management functionality along with
automation. It is an ideal solution that allows you to reduce administrative expense and focus
your efforts on business innovation.
A single user interface controls the following features:
Intelligent automation
Resource pooling
Improved resource utilization
Complete management integration
Simplified setup

Compute nodes
The compute nodes take advantage of the full capabilities of IBM POWER7® and Intel Xeon
processors. This configuration offers the performance that you need for your
critical applications.
With support for a range of hypervisors, operating systems, and virtualization environments,
the compute nodes provide the foundation for the following environments:
Virtualization solutions
Database applications
Infrastructure support
Line-of-business applications

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Storage
The storage capabilities of IBM Flex System V7000 storage node give you advanced
functionality with storage nodes in your system, and take advantage of your existing storage
infrastructure through advanced virtualization.
IBM Flex System V7000 storage node simplifies storage administration with a single user
interface for all your storage. The management console is integrated with the comprehensive
management system. These management and storage capabilities allow you to virtualize
third-party storage with nondisruptive migration of your current storage infrastructure. You
can also take advantage of intelligent tiering so you can balance performance and cost for
your storage needs. The solution also supports local and remote replication, and snapshots
for flexible business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.

Networking
The range of available adapters and switches to support key network protocols allow you to
configure IBM Flex System to fit in your infrastructure. However, you can do so without
sacrificing being ready for the future. The networking resources in IBM Flex System are
standards-based, flexible, and fully integrated into the system. This combination gives you
no-compromise networking for your solution. Network resources are virtualized and managed
by workload. These capabilities are automated and optimized to make your network more
reliable and simpler to manage.
IBM Flex System gives you the following key networking capabilities:
Supports the networking infrastructure that you have today, including Ethernet, Fibre
Channel, and InfiniBand.
Offers industry-leading performance with 1 Gb and 10 Gb Ethernet, 8 Gb and 16 Gb Fibre
Channel, and FDR InfiniBand.
Provides pay-as-you-grow scalability so you can add ports and bandwidth when needed.

Enterprise Chassis
The IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis is the foundation of the offering, supporting
intelligent workload deployment and management for maximum business agility. The
14-node, 10U chassis delivers high-performance connectivity for your integrated compute,
storage, networking, and management resources. The chassis is designed to support
multiple generations of technology, and offers independently scalable resource pools for
higher utilization and lower cost per workload.

PureFlex System and Flex System as a cloud platform
Fast deployment, simple to manage, easily scalable as workload grows, lower total cost of
ownership, security, and resiliency are the key attributes that make the IBM PureFlex System
a great choice for cloud deployments. IBM Flex System, as a building block of IBM PureFlex
System, offers highly customizable and flexible component selection to meet specific
company needs.


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Table 2 summarizes the attributes of IBM PureFlex System and IBM Flex System.
Table 2 IBM PureFlex System and IBM Flex Systems attributes
Attribute

IBM PureFlex System

IBM Flex System

Flexibility

Predefined subset of the
solution components.

The entire set of components is
available for selection.

Customization

Only selected components are
configurable.

The entire set of solution
components can be configured.

Deployment

Rack-level preintegrated and
factory build; IBM installation
services are included to help
with the onsite deployment.

Chassis-level and compute
node-level factory integration;
onsite assembly by the client or
IBM Business Partner.

Management

Has centralized management with unified tools.

Scalability

Scales elastically to meet workload demands.

Availability and resiliency

Is designed for continuous business operations.

Security

Maintains integrity and privacy.

Energy efficiency

Has shared architecture with energy efficient components.

IBM PureFlex System and IBM Flex System based cloud solutions can provide a
cost-efficient, secure, and scalable platform for diverse workloads, which can offer the
following benefits:
Accelerate time-to-value: Accelerate deployment, speed response to changing business
needs, and improve productivity with a range of pre-integrated/configured and optimized
infrastructure solutions.
Maximize IT availability: Improve overall customer service and satisfaction with a cloud
infrastructure that is designed for continuous operation.
Scale elastically with better provisioning of resources: Enhance service quality and
delivery with innovative technologies and scalable offerings, which enable highly dynamic
and fluid, just-in-time and online resource configuration to optimize cloud delivery for a
wider-range of workloads.
Ensure security: Deliver a comprehensive security solution to mitigate risk by maintaining
integrity and privacy of sensitive services and data in a cloud across the entire stack.
Reduce IT costs: Reduce overall costs and improve the ROI of IT for cloud delivery with
integrated solutions that enable consolidation, better usage, and better and easier
management of capital assets.

IBM SmartCloud Entry
IBM SmartCloud is a family of integrated enterprise-class cloud-computing technologies and
services for securely building and using private, public, and hybrid clouds. Built upon open
standards that are combined with IBM expertise and best practices, SmartCloud is designed
for complex high-performance computing environments. SmartCloud goes beyond securely
delivering new cloud efficiencies and cost savings to drive fundamental innovation for lasting
marketplace advantage.
For more information about IBM SmartCloud, go to the following website:
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IBM SmartCloud Entry is robust software that simplifies the management of your virtualized
environment. Users can request and provision an environment quickly through an
easy-to-use web-based interface. IT managers can monitor and manage this environment for
improved efficiency and utilization of the data center. IBM SmartCloud Entry includes
heterogeneous server architecture support from a single SmartCloud Entry user interface.
This support enables greater flexibility, as customers can manage their environment across
IBM System x®, BladeCenter®, Flex System, and PureFlex System platforms with a single,
consolidated image of SmartCloud Entry software.
By using IBM SmartCloud Entry, you can maintain control over the allocation of resources
with a web-based application. You can perform the following common public or private
cloud operations:
Provisioning and de-provisioning virtual servers
Drafting and cloning workloads
Capturing workloads
Starting and stopping virtual servers as part of a workload
Resizing existing virtual servers
Creating projects to give team-specific access to workloads
Providing network configurations that set unique network properties to different workloads
Billing, accounting, and metering support
Providing request and approval workflow support
An IBM SmartCloud Entry environment consists of a virtual machine installation that
integrates with the virtualization management software and manage virtualized IBM x86 and
IBM Power compute nodes:
IBM x86 compute nodes: VMware vSphere hypervisors (ESXi) that are managed
by vCenter.
IBM Power compute nodes: PowerVM hypervisor, VIOS, and IBM Flex System
Manager™ with activated VMControl Enterprise Edition.

IBM PureFlex System disaster recovery concepts
Disaster recovery (DR) is the ability to restore IT operations of a data center at a different
location on different hardware if the primary location experiences a catastrophic failure and
becomes inoperable. Disaster recovery procedures are documented in the disaster recovery
plan, and they are periodically tested to ensure that everything is working as designed. A
disaster recovery plan is part of an organization’s overall business continuity strategy.
The goal of any disaster recovery solution is to protect the most business critical processes
and data from outages, and minimize unplanned downtime. All planning for any type of DR
solution is always subject to balancing the solution’s downtime goals with its costs. The
following sections define terms and a structure for DR solutions to describe and quantify
their characteristics.
In a disaster situation, users are normally aware that an outage occurred. Two of the
dominating properties of a proposed DR solution are based on the user visible duration of the
computing services impact. The properties are as follows:
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) represents the extent of data loss you are willing to
accept because of a disaster. It is measured as the duration of time before the disaster event
for which you must rerun your work (or accept its loss) after your system is recovered.

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The RPO is a requirement for the currency of data that is available for recovery. For example,
a business that believes it could acceptably afford to re-create or lose the data that was
processed in the last five minutes preceding a disaster event has an RPO of five minutes. A
business that relies on daily backups has to plan for a 24 hour RPO for a site disaster.
The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the duration of time that follows a disaster for which
you are willing to accept the loss of computing services. The period starts from the moment of
the disaster until the moment when the systems are recovered. You can consider the RTO as
a measure of how long a business can afford to have systems and applications down after a
disaster. For example, a business that believes that it could afford to be without systems for
eight hours has an RTO of eight hours.
For this paper, we focus on RPO and RTO that can be achieved by using the PureFlex
System integrated replication capabilities that are available in IBM Flex System V7000
Storage Node, which are combined with a disaster recovery-capable software, such as Tivoli
Storage Manager or VMware Site Recovery Manager.

IBM Flex System V7000 replication family services
The term Replication Family Services refers to the various copy services that are available on
the IBM Flex System V7000. These copy services include the following ones:
IBM FlashCopy®
IBM Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
IBM Global Mirror with Change Volumes

FlashCopy
FlashCopy is a function that allows you to create a point-in-time copy of one of your Flex
System V7000 disks. This function might be helpful when you perform backups or application
testing. These copies may be cascaded upon one another, read from, written to, and
even reversed.
These copies can conserve storage, if needed, by being space-efficient copies that only
record items that changed from the originals instead of full copies.

Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
Metro Mirror and Global Mirror are technologies that enable you to keep a real-time copy of a
disk at a remote site that contains another Flex System V7000 system.

Metro Mirror is designed for metropolitan distances with a zero RPO, that is, zero data loss.
This is achieved with a synchronous copy of volumes; writes are not acknowledged until they
are committed to both storage systems. By definition, synchronous replication makes the host
wait for write I/Os to complete at both the local and remote storage systems and includes
round-trip network latencies. Metro Mirror has the following characteristics:
Zero RPO
Synchronous
Production application performance that is impacted by round-trip latency

Global Mirror is designed to minimize application performance impact by replicating
asynchronously, that is, writes are acknowledged as soon as they can be committed to the
local storage system, sequence-tagged, and passed on to the replication network. This
allows Global Mirror to be used over longer distances. By definition, asynchronous replication
results in an RPO greater than zero. However, in the case of Global Mirror, the RPO is small,
typically anywhere from several milliseconds to a few seconds.

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Although Global Mirror is asynchronous, the RPO is still small and thus the network and the
remote storage system must both still be able to cope with peaks in traffic. Global Mirror has
the following characteristics:
Near-zero RPO
Asynchronous
Production application performance that is impacted by I/O sequencing preparation time

Global Mirror with Change Volumes
This function (also known as Cycle-Mode Global Mirror) can best be described as
“Continuous Remote FlashCopy.” If you use this feature, the Flex System V7000 essentially
takes periodic FlashCopy snapshots of a disk and writes them to your remote destination.

Global Mirror with Change Volumes provides an option to replicate point-in-time copies of
volumes. This generally requires lower bandwidth because it is the average rather than the
peak throughput that must be accommodated. The RPO for Global Mirror with Change
Volumes is higher than traditional Global Mirror. Global Mirror with Change Volumes has the
following characteristics:
Larger RPO
Point-in-time copies
Asynchronous
Possible system performance impact because point-in-time copies are created locally

IBM PureFlex System disaster recovery topologies
Remote replication services require an underlying network infrastructure that can provide the
required bandwidth and latency to meet target RPO. In general, there are two types of
connectivity that can be established between primary and recovery sites:
Dark fiber/Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM)
Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) tunneling

Dark fiber/WDM
Dark fiber/WDM provides high-bandwidth low-latency connectivity that is suitable for
synchronous replication to ensure that the application response times are not affected.
However, the cost that is associated with the maintenance of these lines is typically high, and
the distances between sites are limited to a few hundred kilometers.
With WDM, both local and remote sites have a common Fibre Channel fabric, and the storage
devices that are attached to this fabric are accessible from both sites.


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Figure 3 shows a typical WDM-based inter-site connectivity architecture.

Dark fiber/WDM

Compute nodes

Compute nodes

Volume 1

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume N

Volume 2
…

…
Flex System
FC5022 ESB

Flex System
FC5022 ESB

Volume N
Mirrored volumes

Mirrored volumes
Synchronous replication
(Metro Mirror)
Flex System V7000

Data Center A

Flex System V7000

Data Center B

Figure 3 Dark fiber/WDM inter-site connectivity architecture

The key component of the PureFlex System data center that is used for WDM-based
connectivity is IBM Flex System FC5022 24-port 16Gb ESB Scalable Switch.
The 24-port Enterprise Services Bundle (ESB) model is a fully enabled switch with a
complete set of licensed features that maximizes performance, ensures availability, and
simplifies management for the most demanding applications and expanding virtualization
environments. The factory-installed licenses include the following items:
ISL Trunking: Consolidates ISLs into fault-tolerant and load-balanced trunks with
bandwidth of up to 128 Gbps for greater performance and simplified management.
Adaptive Networking: Ensures high-priority connections that obtain the bandwidth that is
necessary for optimum performance.
Advanced Performance Monitoring: Provides end-to-end visibility into fabric performance
to maximize performance tuning and the utilization of fabric resources.
Fabric Watch: Monitors and creates alerts that are based on the health of switch and
fabric elements.
Extended Fabrics: Extends Fibre Channel SANs beyond traditional distance limitations for
replication and backup at full bandwidth.
Server Application Optimization: Allows virtual machine quality of service, authentication,
and monitoring from SAN through an adapter to virtual machine and associated virtualized
application.
An Extended Fabrics license allows these switches to interact over the long distances
(typically up to 300 km) to support metropolitan area disaster recovery configurations.
The ISL Trunking feature can also be used in a WDM scenario to increase the available
bandwidth between sites to satisfy the requirements of the most demanding workloads
being replicated.
FC5022 Scalable Switch also supports ClearLink diagnostic tests on ISL links. ClearLink
ensures signal integrity between the sites, and it also allows you to test the latency of the link
and the full line rate capability based on a predefined traffic pattern.

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Inter-site communication security and bandwidth usage questions can be addressed by using
in-flight encryption and compression at line rate speeds that are supported by
F5022 switches.

FCIP
FCIP provides alternative, lower-cost method of connecting two sites for disaster recovery
purposes, at the expense of lower bandwidth and higher latency. FCIP also supports
extended distances, potentially over few thousands kilometers, and it is most commonly used
with asynchronous replication.
Figure 4 shows a typical FCIP-based inter-site connectivity.
FCIP
SAN06B-R

SAN06B-R
IP network

Compute nodes

Compute nodes

Volume 1

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume N

Flex System
FC5022

Flex System
FC5022

Volume N
Mirrored volumes

Mirrored volumes

Flex System V7000

Volume 2
…

…

Synchronous or asynchronous replication
(Metro Mirror/Global Mirror)

Data Center A

Flex System V7000

Data Center B

Figure 4 FCIP inter-site connectivity architecture

A local PureFlex System SAN fabric is built with the FC5022 switches (ESB models are not
required), and the multiprotocol routers, such as IBM System Storage® SAN06B-R.
The multiprotocol router provides Fibre Channel FC-FC Routing Service, which allows the
interconnection of multiple SAN islands without requiring that the separate fabrics be merged
into a single large SAN. It can help create a tiered or extended enterprise SAN infrastructure
without redesigning or reconfiguring the entire environment.
The IBM System Storage SAN06B-R multiprotocol router provides Fibre Channel over IP and
FCIP Tunneling Service for distance extension, which can enable cost-effective and
manageable metro and global business continuity solutions. This extended distance
connectivity can help create consolidated remote tape vaulting data protection plus Metro
Mirror and Global Mirror disk-based, disaster-tolerant solutions.


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The IBM SAN06B-R multiprotocol router has the following features:
Designed for high performance with 8 Gigabit per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC) ports
and hardware-assisted traffic processing for line-rate performance across Ethernet
IP ports.
Uses existing Internet IP-based Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) or wide area network
(WAN) infrastructures for metro and global SAN extension for business
continuity solutions.
Enables consolidation of storage area network (SAN) islands for infrastructure
simplification without compromising security.
Hardware-based compression, large window sizes, and selective acknowledgement of IP
packets optimize the performance of SAN extension over IP networks.
IPSec security protects all TCP traffic over an FCIP tunnel to establish secure
communications between the sites.
Eight virtual FCIP tunnels per IP port are enabled by the High-Performance Extension
feature to help maximize scalability and utilization of MAN/WAN resources.
Integrated IBM System Storage SAN b-type switch management helps simplify installation
and administration and helps provide fabric investment protection.
IBM Flex System FC5022 switches (non-ESB) come standard with the following
software features:
Full Fabric mode: Enables high performance 16 Gb or 8 Gb fabric switching.
Access Gateway mode: Uses NPIV to connect to any fabric without adding switch
domains to reduce management complexity.
Dynamic Path Selection: Enables exchange-based load balancing across multiple
Inter-Switch Links for superior performance
Advanced Zoning: Segments a SAN into virtual private SANs to increase security
and availability.
Enhanced Group Management: Enables centralized and simplified management of SAN
fabrics through IBM Network Advisor.
Optional ISL Trunking and Fabric Watch features can be activated on FC5022 switches to
increase inter-switch link (ISL) bandwidth and to provide advanced monitoring capabilities in
the fabric.
Table 3 summarizes the characteristics of WDM and FCIP-based inter-site connectivity.
Table 3 WDM and FCIP comparison
Feature

WDM

FCIP

Distance

Up to 300 km

Up to 1000’s km

Replication type

Synchronous

Asynchronous or synchronous

Networking hardware

SAN switch with Extended Fabrics license

SAN switch and SAN multiprotocol router

Disaster recovery type

Highly automated business continuity
solutions (RTO units of measure: minutes)

Relative technology cost

High

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Asynchronous replication: Backup/rapid
restore (RTO units of measure: hours)
Synchronous replication: Highly
automated business continuity solutions
(RTO units of measure: minutes)
Low


IBM PureFlex System disaster recovery solutions
In general, there are three types of business continuity and disaster recovery approaches:
Core storage technologies
Core technologies include advanced copy services that enable reliability, redundancy, and
business continuity, at the solution and system operations level (rather than at the
component level).
Core technologies can be in server operating systems, storage systems, storage software,
file systems, and other components. They also include management software and
services for enterprise-wide policy-based management of backup copies and
administration of the storage replication services.
Platform-specific integration
Each operating system platform and virtualized environment has its own requirements for
how to access and use the data, volume copies, and replication recovery copies. This
layer provides operating system- or environment-specific tasks and integration that are
needed to use the copied data.
Application-specific integration
Applications need to have specific integration into the previous layers to take full
advantage of the underlying functions. This takes the form of integrated application
commands, familiar to the application users, that can transparently use advanced server
or storage capabilities. This functionality often includes coordinating core technology
operations across many multiple LUNs, data sets, and objects, disk systems, and servers
that might make up an application system.
This paper describes three disaster recovery solutions that use two disaster
recovery approaches:
Disaster recovery with Tivoli Storage Manager (core storage technologies)
Disaster recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager (platform-specific integration)
Disaster recovery with IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Enterprise Edition
(platform-specific integration)

Disaster recovery with Tivoli Storage Manager
One of the common methods for achieving disaster recovery objectives is an automated
backup solution with rapid recovery. A PureFlex System private cloud is a virtualized
environment, and backups in virtualized environments can be separated into in-guest backup
and off-host backup types.
The backup types that are used in virtual environments include the following ones:
In-guest backups are started in the virtual machine and provide the following features:
– The backup agent is installed on the guest operating system.
– A file-level backup or a block-level image backup can be created and recovered.
– The backup model is similar to backups on physical hosts.
– For Tivoli Storage Manager backups, the Backup-Archive client, the data protection
clients, or IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack® is used.
– Protection is provided for databases and applications.


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Off-host backups are started on a dedicated backup server and provide the
following features:
– The backup agent can be installed on the backup server (such as vStorage Backup
Server in VMware environments).
– File-level and guest-level image backups can be created and recovered.
– Centralized management of backup data is provided.
– Backups are offloaded from the host to another host to free the production
server resources.
– File system consistent backups can be created by using snapshots.
IBM offers IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, a suite of backup and recovery software tools that
can be used for backup and disaster recovery purposes in a PureFlex System
cloud environment.
Tivoli Storage Manager is a storage management application that is built for the enterprise.
Tivoli Storage Manager provides an enterprise solution for data protection, disaster recovery,
space management, and record retention. Tivoli Storage Manager facilitates flexible and
scalable storage management policies to support complicated business needs for storage
management and disaster recovery. Most importantly, Tivoli Storage Manager automates
storage management tasks by eliminating labor and cost intensive manual procedures for
backup, archive, and recovery.
Tivoli Storage Manager includes many components that are targeted to perform specific
backup and recovery functions for different applications and data, and for virtualized
environments. For complex environments, IBM offers IBm Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for
Unified Recovery, a pre-packaged suite of Tivoli Storage Manager software products with
simplified ordering and licensing.

Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery
Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery is a bundle of ten proven data protection
and recovery software products (see Figure 5 on page 18). This bundle helps organizations
meet a wide range of data management challenges for complex, distributed infrastructures.
You can deploy the advanced management tools that you need for each of your individual
data protection requirements without having to worry about individual product licenses.
Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery offers the following features:
Provides extensive data protection for a wide range of systems, including VMs, file
servers, email, databases, mainframes, and even desktops. This bundled solution allows
you to use the correct data protection tool for each of your requirements.
Reduces costs and simplifies procurement and deployment with per-terabyte capacity
licensing. You can deploy any of 10 separate solution components, in any location and
quantity, with a simplified license that measures only the amount of data that is managed.
Scales to meet the recovery needs of any size organization by managing up to four billion
data objects on a single server. This solution supports more than 50 operating system
versions and hundreds of server and storage devices.
Manages the entire suite of products from a single user console. You can configure,
manage, upgrade, report, and monitor all ten products from a single
administration interface.

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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery is packaged to address the
following challenges:
Various technologies are needed to protect various types of systems, applications, and
data in various locations, to help meet the service level requirements of the business.
Procurement and management of multiple data recovery point solutions from separate
vendors, or even multiple add-on products from the same vendor, can cause stress
among your IT staff and introduce additional risk of human error.
Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery provides a full suite of products with a
licensing model that is easy to measure:
Centralized and simplified management: One user interface (UI) provides access to
control and monitor a wide range of data backup and recovery processes across
the enterprise.
Simplified procurement: One part number provides access to unlimited usage of 10
separate solution components
Easier and more straightforward budget control: Predicting future requirements can
be easier.
Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery includes 10 proven data protection and
recovery software products. Each component can be deployed as needed in any quantity to
meet specific service-level requirements with no per-product licensing charges.
This advanced and highly scalable suite helps increase the efficiency of your IT operations
and helps cut costs that are related to storage management. These improved efficiencies and
cost-cuts are done by providing a wide range of data protection, recovery management, and
monitoring capabilities by using policy-based automation, including the following items:
Backup and recovery, and archive and retrieval
Snapshots for online database and application protection
Disaster recovery planning and replication
Bare machine recovery
Data deduplication and space management


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Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition
Highly scalable enterprise-class backup/restore, archive, and disaster recovery

Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases
Oracle and Microsoft SQL

Tivoli Storage Manager for
Virtual Environments
Advanced VMware Support

Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail
Domino® and Exchange

Tivoli Storage Manager for SAN
LAN-Free Backup and Restore

Tivoli Storage Manager for ERP
SAP R/3 Integration

Tivoli Storage Manager for
Space Management
Data Lifecycle Management

Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack
Advanced snapshot and near-instant recovery for Windows/Linux servers
Tivoli Storage Manager
FastBack for Exchange
Granular E-mail Recovery

Tivoli Storage Manager
FastBack for BMR
Restore O/S volume in an hour

Central Administration
Configure, manage, upgrade, report, and monitor

The components of the suite are shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5 Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery

The individual products that are included in this comprehensive package are as follows:
Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition
Provides core backup and restore operations for a wide range of operating systems, broad
support for tiers of storage, network data management protocol (NDMP), IBM DB2® and
IBM Informix® support, source and target deduplication, and advanced disaster recovery
planning and replication.
Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases
Performs online, consistent, and centralized backups for Oracle and SQL to avoid
downtime, protect vital enterprise data infrastructures, and minimize operation costs.
Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning
Performs online, consistent, and centralized backups for SAP environments.
Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail
Protects data on email servers that are running IBM Lotus® Domino® or Microsoft
Exchange, with granular restoring of Exchange email objects.
Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments
Automatically discovers and protects VMware virtual machines, offloads backup
workloads to a centralized server, and enables flexible, near-instant recovery.
Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management
Provides hierarchical storage management (HSM) to automatically migrate rarely
accessed files to alternative storage, without disrupting the most frequently used files in
local storage. Migrated files are automatically and transparently recalled to primary
storage when required by applications or users.

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Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks
Provides high-performance backup and restore operations by removing data transfer from
the local area network (LAN).
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack
Provides efficient block-level incremental backup and near-instant restore operations for
critical Microsoft Windows and Linux servers and applications, both in the data center and
in remote offices.
Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Microsoft Exchange
Enables the recovery of individual Microsoft Exchange objects such as email, calendar
entries, attachments, contacts, and tasks.
Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery
Provides operating system volume recovery following a disaster or catastrophic server
failure, fully restoring Windows and Linux systems within an hour.
Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery delivers centralized administration and
intelligent data move-and-store techniques to help ease storage management. The product
scales from small to large installations, managing up to four billion data objects in a single
server. It supports more than 50 operating system versions and hundreds of server and
storage devices. It also facilitates a multitude of connections, including Internet, wide area
networks (WANs), LANs, and storage area networks (SANs).
Optionally, IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can be used for performing and managing
frequent, near-instant, nondisruptive, and application-aware backups and restores that use
advanced FlashCopy snapshot technologies in IBM storage systems, including Flex
System V7000.

Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
As the amount of data that needs protecting continues to grow exponentially and the need to
keep the downtime that is associated with backup to an absolute minimum, Tivoli Storage
FlashCopy Manager can help minimize the impact that is caused by backups and provide
near instant restore capabilities with support for data volume snapshot technologies, such as
FlashCopy or Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS).
Although many storage systems are now equipped with volume snapshot tools, these
hardware-based snapshot technologies provide only “crash consistent” copies of data. Many
business critical applications, including those that rely on a relational database, need an
additional snapshot process to ensure that all parts of a data transaction are flushed from
memory and committed to disk before the snapshot to ensure that you have a usable and
consistent copy of the data.
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager helps deliver the highest levels of protection for
mission-critical IBM DB2, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SQL Server
applications through integrated and application-aware snapshot backup and restore
capabilities. This is achieved through the exploitation of advanced IBM storage hardware
snapshot technology to create a high performance and low impact application data
protection solution.
The snapshots that are captured by Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can be retained as
backups on local disk, and with optional integration with Tivoli Storage Manager, customers
can use the full range of advanced data protection and data reduction capabilities, such as
data deduplication, progressive incremental backup, hierarchical storage management, and
centrally managed policy-based administration.


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Because a snapshot operation typically takes much less time than the time for a tape backup,
the window during which the application must be aware of a backup can be reduced. This
facilitates more frequent backups, which can reduce the time that is spent performing forward
recovery through transaction logs, increases the flexibility of backup scheduling, and
eases administration.
Application availability is also improved because of the reduction of the load on the
production servers. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager uses storage snapshot capabilities to
provide high speed, low impact, and application-integrated backup and restore functionality
for the supported application and storage environments. Automated policy-based
management of multiple snapshot backup versions, together with a simple and guided
installation and configuration process, provide an easy to use and quick to deploy data
protection solution that enables the most stringent database recovery time requirements to
be met.
For more information about IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager, go to the
following website:
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Disaster recovery topology
Figure 6 shows a typical PureFlex System cloud disaster recovery architecture with Tivoli
Storage Manager and replication services.
SAN06B-R

SAN06B-R
IP network

VM VM VM

SCE

TSM

Hypervisor

VM VM VM

VM VM VM

Hypervisor

TSM standby

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

Compute nodes

VM data

TSM log

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

Compute nodes

TSM DB

App data

Storage pools

Data
volumes

TSM log

Mirrored volumes

Flex System
FC5022

Flex System
FC5022

TSM DB

Storage pools
Mirrored volumes

Asynchronous replication
(Global Mirror)
Flex System V7000

Active Data Center

Flex System V7000

Standby Data Center

Figure 6 Disaster recovery architecture with Tivoli Storage Manager and replication services

Two PureFlex System-based data centers are located at two different sites. The data centers
operate in active/standby mode, where the active data center supports the production
environment, and the standby data center maintains the data that is required to successfully
restore IT operations in case of a catastrophic failure at the active data center. Storage
replication connectivity is based on FCIP topology (see “FCIP” on page 13).

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The PureFlex System Tivoli Storage Manager disaster recovery architecture includes the
following functional elements:
Active Tivoli Storage Manager server
An Active Tivoli Storage Manager server operates in the active data center, and it
performs scheduled policy-based backup operations of virtual machines, applications,
and data.
Tivoli Storage Manager databases and logs
Tivoli Storage Manager uses databases and logs to store metadata, to track its
backup/recovery operations, and to recover Tivoli Storage Manager operations in case of
a Tivoli Storage Manager server failure. Tivoli Storage Manager database and logs are
asynchronously replicated to the standby site through Global Mirror.
Tivoli Storage Manager storage pools
Tivoli Storage Manager disk-based storage pools are used to store backups of VMs,
applications, and data. Storage pools are replicated to the standby site, and they are used
to restore VMs, applications, and data from backup. SmartCloud Entry virtual machine is
also backed up by Tivoli Storage Manager.
Standby Tivoli Storage Manager server
A Standby Tivoli Storage Manager server is located at the standby data center, and it
does not perform any operations. It is used only in case of a disaster at the primary
location to restore normal Tivoli Storage Manager operations at the standby site by using
replicated Tivoli Storage Manager databases and log files.
Backup operations are almost always automated by using Tivoli Storage Manager scheduling
facilities, but recovery operations almost always occur ad hoc and are manually initiated by
either the user or administrator initiated commands. For DR of enterprise data, recovery
priorities and the sequence of data recovery events must be defined in the DR plan.
In the described example, the following steps can be performed to restore IT operations at the
standby site:
Make all mirrored volumes usable by breaking mirroring pairs.
Restore Tivoli Storage Manager server at the standby site by using replicated Tivoli
Storage Manager database and log volumes.
Restore critical workloads by using Tivoli Storage Manager recovery from mirrored
storage pools.
Restore other workloads by using Tivoli Storage Manager recovery from mirrored
storage pools.
Restore SmartCloud Entry management functions.

Disaster recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager
VMware offers Site Recovery Manager (SRM) as an optional element of VMware
Infrastructure (VI) to enable automated disaster recovery for virtual environments. Protection
can extend from individual replicated data stores to an entire virtual site. The VMware
virtualization of the data center offers advantages that can be applied to business continuity
and disaster recovery.
The entire state of a virtual machine (memory, disk images, I/O, and device state) is
encapsulated. Encapsulation enables the state of a virtual machine to be saved to a file.
Saving the state of a virtual machine to a file allows the transfer of an entire virtual machine to
another host.

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vCenter Site Recovery Manager uses array-based replication between a primary site and
recovery site, such as the Metro Mirror functionality. The workflow that is built into SRM
automatically discovers which data stores are set up for replication between the protected
and recovery sites. SRM can be configured to support bidirectional protection between
two sites.
vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides protection for the operating systems and
applications that are encapsulated by the virtual machines that are running on VMware
vSphere ESX Servers.
SRM uses the IBM SAN Volume Controller Storage Resource Adapter (SRA) to enable the
management of advanced copy services on Flex System V7000, such as Metro Mirror and
Global Mirror, and is based on the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
SMI-S interface.
The benefit of adding the SRA to SRM is that it enables VMware to manage the storage’s
remote copy functions as well as the ESX hosts and guest VMs. It aids in the following tasks:
Setting up the recovery infrastructure
Creation of recovery plans
Testing recovery plans
Automating failover
Figure 7 shows a high-level overview of the relationships between vCenter, SRM, the ESX
hosts and VMs, and the storage at the local and remote sites.
vCenter/SRM
communications

IP network
VM VM VM

SCE

SRM

ESXi

VM VM VM

vCenter

ESXi

SRM

ESXi

ESXi

ESXi

VM failover

ESXi

vCenter

Dark fiber/WDM

ESXi

ESXi

x240 compute nodes

x240 compute nodes

VMFS Volume 1
…

VMFS Volume 1
…

VMFS Volume N

Flex System
FC5022 ESB

Flex System
FC5022 ESB

VMFS Volume N
Mirrored volumes

Mirrored volumes
(Metro Mirror)
Flex System V7000

Protected site

Flex System V7000

Recovery site

Figure 7 VMware Site Recovery Manager topology

In the example that is shown in Figure 7, vCenter and SRM servers are set up on both
protected and recovery sites, and the Metro Mirror synchronous replication over the WDM is
used for mirroring VMFS partitions.
In case of a disaster at the protected site, SRM assists in performing VM failover to the
recovery site by restarting virtual machines and services that are based on
predefined policies.
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Disaster recovery with PowerHA SystemMirror Enterprise Edition
The IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.1.2 Enterprise Edition helps you automate node failures
and application events and provide high availability. It also helps you automate recovery
actions on storage failures, controlling storage replication between sites and enabling
recoveries for entire site failures, thus ensuring that copies are in a consistent state to make
the failover. This enables you to build a disaster recovery solution.
The IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.1.2 Enterprise Edition solution can reliably orchestrate
the acquisition and release of cluster resources from one site to another site. It can also
provide quick failover in the event of an outage or natural disaster. PowerHA Enterprise
Edition is considered a top tier disaster recovery solution because of its highly automated
application failover capabilities with zero data loss and fast recovery time.
For two-site failover, there are two PowerHA inter-site cluster types, depending on the
distance between the sites:
Stretched clusters: Metropolitan area clusters that have a common SAN fabric, which
allows you to share access to the storage devices from both sites.
Linked clusters: Geographically dispersed, extended distance clusters that do not have a
common SAN fabric, and the sites are connected through a WAN.
Stretched clusters typically use disk-based Metro Mirror. Being inherently synchronous, these
solutions experience minimal to zero data loss, which is similar to the situation in a local
cluster sharing LUNs from the same storage subsystem. Even asynchronous replication such
as Global Mirror technologies can be used in this kind of stretched SAN structure if
performance with synchronous replication is too slow for business requirements. But data
replication cannot be ensured between sites because the I/O is completed to the application
before the replication is complete.
Typically, PowerHA stretched cluster-based disaster recovery configurations for PureFlex
System use WDM inter-site connectivity. Figure 8 shows the solution.

IP network
VM VM VM

SCE

VM

PowerVM

PowerVM

VM VM VM

VM VM VM

PowerVM

PowerVM

PowerVM

Dark fiber/WDM

PowerVM

PowerVM

VM failover

PowerVM

p260 compute nodes

p260 compute nodes

Master Volume 1
…

Auxiliary Volume 1
…

Master Volume N

Flex System
FC5022 ESB

Flex System
FC5022 ESB

Auxiliary Volume N
Mirrored volumes

Mirrored volumes
(Metro Mirror)
Flex System V7000

Primary site

Flex System V7000

Backup site

Figure 8 PowerHA SystemMirror stretched cluster


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Linked clusters typically use asynchronous disk-based mirroring (Global Mirror) with FCIP
inter-site connectivity, as shown in Figure 9.
FCIP
SAN06B-R

SAN06B-R
IP network

VM VM VM

SCE

VM

PowerVM

PowerVM

VM VM VM

VM VM VM

PowerVM

PowerVM

PowerVM

PowerVM

PowerVM

VM failover

PowerVM

p260 compute nodes

p260 compute nodes

Master Volume 1
…

Auxiliary Volume 1
…

Master Volume N

Flex System
FC5022

Flex System
FC5022

Flex System V7000

Auxiliary Volume N
Mirrored volumes

Mirrored volumes
Synchronous or asynchronous replication
(Metro Mirror/Global Mirror)

Primary site

Flex System V7000

Backup site

Figure 9 PowerHA SystemMirror linked cluster

In case of a disaster at the primary site, PowerHA SystemMirror performs the automated
failover of applications to the backup site.

Conclusion
IBM PureFlex System, an expert integrated system, offers a highly resilient and
cloud-enabled integrated server, storage, and networking platform that supports 24x7 local
operational environments, with the ability to quickly recover IT applications and data in case
of disaster when combined with the Flex System V7000 replication capabilities.
The Replication Family Services of Flex System V7000 Storage Node, combined with the
Extended Distance and ISL Trunking features of the Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN
switches, provide an efficient, flexible, and secure way to create remote copies of data for
backup and disaster recovery purposes.
For metropolitan area distances, the usage of Metro Mirror over dark fiber/WDM or FCIP
provides synchronous mirroring capabilities to support highly automated business continuity
solutions with near zero RTO. For greater distances, Global Mirror provides asynchronous
mirroring over FCIP to support backup/rapid restore type of disaster recovery.
Core storage management offerings, such as Tivoli Storage Manager software, can help
automate backup and disaster recovery procedures for the PureFlex System cloud
infrastructure. Platform-specific integration offerings, such as VMware Site Recovery
Manager or PowerHA SystemMirror Enterprise Edition, can help automate site-to-site
application failover in advanced disaster recovery and business continuity scenarios.
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Related publications
The publications that are listed in this section are considered suitable for a more detailed
discussion of the topics that are covered in this paper.
Disaster Recovery Strategies with Tivoli Storage Management, SG24-6844
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246844.html
IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switches, TIPS0870
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0870.html
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1.2 Enterprise Edition for AIX, SG24-8106
IBM PureFlex System and IBM Flex System Products and Technology, SG24-7984
IBM SAN Volume Controller and Brocade Disaster Recovery Solutions for VMware,
REDP-4626
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4626.html
IBM System Storage Business Continuity Solutions Overview, REDP-4516
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4516.html
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 Replication Family
Services, SG24-7574
Implementing SmartCloud Entry on IBM PureFlex System, SG24-8102

Acknowledgments
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Kevin Barnes, Tamikia Barrow, Mary Comianos, Shari Deiana, Cheryl Gera, Linda Robinson,
Wade Wallace, David Watts
International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center
Timothy Alpers, Bruce Corregan, Ajay Dholakia, Marco Rengan, Johann Weiss
IBM
Brian Larsen, Bill Stelling, Tim Werts
Brocade


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