Software offers geographic backup and disaster recovery.

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Suited for pSeries® servers, HACMP(TM)/XD Extended Distance, Geographic Logical Volume Manager helps users maintain business continuity via unlimited distance, real-time data mirroring and automated failover/failback. It provides near instantaneous disaster recovery for mission-critical applications, and can manage replication, synchronization, and recovery of new or existing AIX 5L logical volumes.



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IBM HACMP/XD Expands its Business Continuity Solution with Improved, Simpler Geographic-distance Data Mirroring and Disaster Recovery



At a glance
HACMP/XD (Extended Distance) Geographic Logical Volume Manager (GLVM) delivers enhanced business continuity support via:

Simple, easier-to-use mirroring and resynchronization of your mission-critical data

Unlimited-distance real-time data mirroring for AIX 5L logical volumes

Automated disaster recovery

Automated failover, recovery, and re-synchronization of application data to production resources

Simple, easy-to-use interface

Strategic replacement for HACMP/XD "HAGEO" IP mirroring

Overview
HACMP(TM)/XD GLVM is a new, software-based technology for mirroring mission-critical data over standard TCP/IP networks. HACMP/XD GLVM, IBM's solution for geographic backup and disaster recovery for IBM pSeries® servers, supports AIX® 5L logical volumes to help keep your business running. HACMP/XD GLVM is simpler and easier to use than the existing HACMP/XD HAGEO software-based technology and is better suited to the application workloads that typically run on today's pSeries servers.

HACMP/XD GLVM helps you maintain business continuity via real-time data mirroring and automated failover/failback. That means near-instantaneous disaster recovery and availability for your mission-critical applications.

HACMP/XD GLVM exploits IP to enable one or two copies of an AIX 5L logical volume to be located at a remote site separated by unlimited distance, thus allowing for automated failover to that remote site with minimal risk of loss of any data. HACMP/XD GLVM can manage replication, synchronization, and recovery of new or existing AIX 5L logical volumes. With the new, easier-to-use interface, the complexities of managing HAGEO mirror copy synchronization are replaced by the existing LVM functions of AIX 5L.

HACMP V5 provides an excellent high availability solution for pSeries servers, providing automated failover and failback within a local site. HACMP/XD takes the business-critical function provided by HACMP V5 and extends it by adding remote data mirroring and supporting failover and failback to sites at unlimited distances.

When you include HACMP/XD, nothing can stop your business.

Key prerequisites
HACMP V5.2 on AIX 5L V5.3

Planned availability dates
April 15, 2005: With requisite AIX 5L V5.3 PTFs
May 6, 2005: For integrated AIX 5.3 and pre-install images

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