MIMIX Managed Availability Solutions for i5 and iSeries systems from Lakeview
Technology
Lakeview Technology, founded in 1990, is a pioneer in the availability
management marketplace and the established industry leader in solutions
for application and data availability. For more than a decade, its MIMIX
products have been the most recommended and deployed solutions for high
availability, disaster recovery, and continuous operations on the IBM
iSeries.
Through a highly qualified, certified partner network, Lakeview's solutions
are delivered to major business centres in over 70 countries around the
globe. All Lakeview partners are highly skilled in availability management
solutions and provide services and support in almost any language.
As well as being a reseller for MIMIX, Syan has a proven track record
of using and monitoring MIMIX Managed Availability implementations in
a production environment, both on Syan's internal production systems and
on systems for Syan's Outsourcing customers. This puts Syan in the unique
position of being both a partner and a customer of Lakeview Technology
and affords Syan the range of expertise to handle both scenarios.
Syan’s experience of developing and supporting automated operations
solutions (AOS) for i5 / iSeries systems has been used to develop a series
of health checking monitors to supplement those incorporated in MIMIX.
Click here for more information about AOS for MIMIX.
High Availability - If your business demands a Recovery
Time Objective (RTO) of two hours or less and a Recovery Point Objective
(RPO) approaching zero, then MIMIX ha1 and ha Lite are what you are looking
for.
Syan has a proven track record of implementing and managing MIMIX solutions,
which provide leading edge solutions for high availability, disaster recovery
and continuous operations on IBM and Windows systems. MIMIX solutions
are the de-facto industry standard, delivering performance, flexibility
and ease of operations for a wide range of availability requirements.
MIMIX High Availability for i5 / iSeries
High availability solutions ensure accurate, comprehensive, real-time
replication of your information systems. The key to achieving high availability
is real-time server redundancy. You must keep an exact duplicate copy
of all information in your servers - including data, applications and
system information.
With MIMIX, you can achieve this mandate with confidence, knowing that
your backup servers can take over the production processing whenever planned
or unplanned downtime makes your primary servers unavailable.
MIMIX ha Lite
MIMIX ha Lite is the High Availability solution that is tailored to the
needs of small and medium sized businesses.
It uses IBM’s high performance Remote Journaling capabilities to
replicate changes from your production iSeries server to your backup server,
in real time. Virtually all of the processing is done on the backup server,
reducing processing overhead on the production server.
MIMIX ha Lite takes care of everything for you, including day-to-day
journal receiver changes, automatic restart of any Remote Journal link
that fails and automatic failover to secondary communication paths if
the primary link cannot be recovered.
MIMIX ha Lite simplifies managing your entire HA solution. MIMIX Browser,
with its intuitive user interface, gives you color-keyed status icons
and clear, uncomplicated messages. Just point and click to review all
replication activities and status. MIMIX Browser's Availability Co-pilot
provides instant confirmation that you are “Ready to Switch”
and easy click-to-fix control over any issues or events that could compromise
backup server readiness.
Always “Ready to Switch” with confidence, MIMIX ha Lite automates
switching too. It ensures controlled, coordinated failover to your backup
server whenever the viability of your primary server is threatened.
MIMIX ha1
MIMIX ha1 offers the most flexible, scalable and proven high availability
solution for real-time, zero data loss and uninterrupted business on the
IBM eServer i5/iSeries platform.
Designed by HA experts, MIMIX ha1 protects the entire information enterprise,
manages availability across the business, assures successful business
continuity, and fits precisely into your unique network topology. Most
important: it delivers a return on your investment within the first year.
MIMIX ha1 replicates files and objects using flexible configuration and
filtering options, automatically ensuring peak application performance.
MIMIX ha1 protects complex, mission-critical applications, like ERP and
inter-application messaging systems, while data and applications on the
backup server stay up-to-date in real-time, ready to take over transparently.
Truly autonomic support monitors and controls all replication, communications
and server operations without user intervention. If something goes wrong,
business rules determine how and when MIMIX ha1 self-heals the situation.
Routine administrative tasks happen automatically, saving valuable time
and allowing staff to concentrate on more important issues.
The Availability Co-pilot manages all files, objects and business rules
to ensure that your servers are always in synch and ready to switch. Instant
visibility into issues or events, auto alerts, as well as action buttons
and pull-down menus mean fast, effective resolution of any situation.
MIMIX ha1 lets you switch quickly, confidently, and transparently with
one worry-free step. A single command initiates action, while constant
monitoring assures backup server integrity for seamless continuity. Multiple
options give you complete, hands-free control of fail-over contingencies.
MIMIX ha1 even checks for potential security problems that may impact
operations on the backup server so it’s never compromised.
MIMIX ha1 has been proven in more than 3,000 installed customers of all
sizes and across every industry. Every MIMIX solution comes with tailored
support, training, and implementation services to ensure the success of
your total solution.
AOS for MIMIX
AOS, Syan’s powerful suite of tools for automating the operations
of IBM iSeries systems, provides a number of facilities for monitoring
any aspect of iSeries operations that could affect the smooth running
of a MIMIX implementation
MIMIX, the world-leading solution for system availability, is renowned
for being a very stable and reliable solution. However, not everything
on iSeries systems is controlled by MIMIX and it is important to know
that all aspects of an iSeries infrastructure are running normally.
For example:
- Is there a backlog of transactions waiting to be applied to the backup
system?
- Is there a backlog of transactions waiting to be sent to the backup
system?
- Are any objects being held in the ‘delayed objects’ queue
for too long?
- Are there any file/object errors, e.g. objects not journalled?
- Has the MIMIX library grown too large?
- Are the communications lines active?
- Are the MIMIX sub-systems active?
All of these things can be monitored using the standard MIMIX and OS/400
tools but that relies on pro-active operator action. With AOS you can
rest assured that all essential elements of your system are being monitored
all of the time and that you will be alerted immediately if a problem
arises.
AOS Health Checks
AOS System Manager incorporates a series of health checking functions
that can provide early warning of potential system problems. When a ‘health
checker’ detects a potential problem it can automatically trigger
a series of pre-defined actions such as:
- Send a message to a user
- Call a program
- Execute a command
By linking AOS System Manager with AOS Pager Manager, you can also be
alerted wherever you are by SMS text message, by email or by pager.
The specific MIMIX Health Check function allows you to set thresholds
on the send and apply queues in terms of both the number of transactions
in the queues and the time transactions have been waiting in the queues.
Peace of Mind
The price for peace of mind starts from only £1,600 per system.
AOS System Manager is available for iSeries systems running OS/400 release
V4R5 and above.
Contact Syan to receive more information about AOS for MIMIX.
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