The demand for resilient IT systems continues to accelerate.  Today’s IBM i customers increasingly understand the need for a high availability solution to keep these critical business systems available and prevent data loss.  An important driver for customers choosing an HA solution is the ease-of-use and automation.  As these IBM i customers evaluate how to leverage new technologies and deployments options, like running their HA in a cloud environment, IT resources are challenged to find new approaches to increasing efficiency and productivity.  In short, they need an HA solution that requires a minimum of configuration effort and ever-increasing automation. Assure MIMIX, the leader in IBM i high availability and disaster recovery, has new several capabilities that can dramatically simplify configuration tasks, make monitoring easy and assist customers moving to the cloud.  We can help these customers keep their mission-critical business applications running continuously, even while migrating to the cloud.  During the webinar, we will show a demo of the highly automated Journal-Driven Configuration that takes the complexity out of setting up Assure MIMIX replication.  In addition to the demo, join us on this webinar to learn about: - Initial synchronization improvements - Streamlining migration to a new system with replication - Support for IBM’s new Virtual Serial Number

1. How Automation
And Intelligence Can
Simplify Your High
Availability
Bill Hammond | Director, Product Marketing
Dan Simms | Senior Product Manager

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3. Today’s Topics
• Cloud is driving innovation
• Licensing for a Virtual World
• Object synchronization
• Automated configuration
• Demo
• Seamless failover
• Continuous auditing
• Q & A
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4. Scalable, Flexible,
Real-Time Replication
Comprehensive
Data Integrity for
Confident Switching
Automated
Configuration,
Monitoring and
Management
Top 3 Drivers for IBM i High Availability
1 2 3
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5. IBM i and Cloud Computing
• Differing statistics on existing Cloud usage - ~20%
growing*
• Cloud deployments – combination of exclusive and
hybrid
• Most popular workloads include:
• Test and development
• Backup/High Availability/Disaster Recovery
• Core business applications
* 2021 IBM I Marketplace Survey Results – Help Systems
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6. Why move to
the Cloud
Reduce
Costs
Streamline
Efficiency
Ensure
Availability
Improve
Agility
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7. Cloud Options
• Public Clouds
• IBM
• Amazon AWS
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud
• Private Clouds
• Managed Service Providers
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8. Licensing for a Virtual World

9. CPW-based Licensing for a Virtual World
• Designed to provide the customer with a license to IBM i
HA software based on the virtualization and capacity that
they need
• The fundamental licensing metric is CPW (“Commercial
Processing Workload”), which is a standard IBM i metric
• Works across on-premise, hosted, cloud, and hybrid
environments
• Licensed capacity can move around to different hardware,
different locations, to the cloud and hosting centers. When
Live Partition Mobility events occur, Assure MIMIX will
continue to protect the business. (available in later Assure
MIMIX 10 service pack)
SYS 1
PRIMARY BACKUP
LPAR C
LPAR A
SYS 2
LPAR B
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10. Virtual Server
Serial Number
Support
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11. Logical Replication and
Virtual Server Serial Number Support
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• A Virtual Server Serial Number (VSSN) enables a
globally unique serial number for a virtual LPAR.
• This LPAR can move across multiple physical serial
numbers.
• VSSN allows software licensing to be tied to a serial number
that is mobile, such as in a cloud or multi-tenant computing
environment
• Replicate to/from Virtual Servers with Virtual Serial Number for
HA and DR!
• Virtual Server with Virtual Serial number

12. Logical Replication and
Virtual Server Serial Number Support
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• LPARs can move across multiple physical serial
numbers.
Hardware SN = AAA111 Hardware SN = BBB222
V0-1111
Site 1
Hardware SN = CCC111 Hardware SN = DDD222
V1-2222
V1-1111
Site 2
Logical Replication
PRIMARY BACKUP
V0-2222

13. Object Synchronization designed
for the Cloud

14. More intelligent and efficient object
synchronization
Assure MIMIX 10 now provides a
synchronization processing queue and
manager
• More orderly and complete synchronization
actions
• Minimal user interaction all while limiting the
impact to the production system
• Synchronization actions will use intelligence to
evaluate the state of the object on the backup
and choose the most efficient method available
• Enables Assure MIMIX users to efficiently
synchronize an LPAR wherever they need it
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15. Automated Configuration

16. Journal-driven Configuration
Automated protection keeps pace with your business
• Data Groups will simply replicate journaled objects (*LIB, *FILE, *DTAARA,
*DTAQ, *IFS)
• New Data Groups automatically configured and replication started whenever
new journals are created
• Accelerates and simplifies configuration management – especially when
complex journaling scenarios exist
• No delays in protection for application-generated journals and schemas
• More flexible selection rules simplify overall configuration definition and
management
LIBRARY 1
Journal 1
Journal 2
Protected
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17. System Audit Journal
(QAUDJRN)
Example: Automated support for new journals
DG1
1. Data Group 1 is a monitoring QAUDJRN for new journals and schemas
2. A new SQL Schema is created, which includes a new journal
3. Data Group 2 is automatically created for the new QSQJRN journal and the schema is replicated
Create SCHEMA
SCHEMA 1
QSQJRN
SCHEMA 1
QSQJRN
DG2
4. When Schema is dropped, DG2 is removed from the configuration
Drop SCHEMA
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18. Demo

19. Ironstream for HA Update

20. MIMIX Monitoring
IBM i
MIMIX Instance
Replication
Status
File
Errors
Object
Errors
Journal
Ironstream
Hub
Destinations
Incidents, CIs, CMDB,
Service Indicators
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21. Example Assure HA Monitor in Splunk*
*example only, subject to change
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22. Seamless Failover

23. Automation for Confident Switching
Automated, customizable switch procedures
• Integrated procedures eliminate worry and ensure best practice
• Enables common HA operations to be done at the push of a button
• Steps done parallel wherever possible
• Able to be run at the application level
• Customizable to meet the needs of your environment
Built-in procedures include
• Planned switch and unplanned switch
• Virtual switch for HA testing without business impact
• Switch pre-check to validate readiness
• End and start replication for application group
Full visibility into procedure performance
• View of step-level details for each procedure
• History of switch procedures available to show trends
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24. Continuous Auditing for
Switch-ready Confidence

25. Confident Switch-readiness
Data protection reports
• Scheduledoron-demandreportsshowprotectionstatusforlibraries,directoriesandfolders
• ExportableinPDForExcelformatsforreportingandreviewwithstakeholders
Replicated data integrity
• Scheduledandon-demandauditswithoptionto skipunchangeddata
• Comprehensive,multi-pass,object-levelauditsdoneviahighly-parallelCRC comparisons
• Out-of-syncobjectscorrectedautomatically
• Targetdataiscontinuouslymonitoredandrepaired(withusersmakingchangesidentified)
• ObjectcorrectionactivitywindowprovidesvisibilityintoallMIMIXcorrections
RPO/RTO view
• CurrentRPOandRTOmetricsprovidevisibilityintoabilityto meetSLAs
• Resultsofpastswitcheshelpidentifytrendsinswitchtime
Non-disruptive switch testing
• Built-invirtualswitchprocedure
• Enablesswitchtestingonthetargetwithoutdisruptionto theproductionserver
Audits ensure data integrity
and provide switch confidence
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26. Assure MIMIX Advantages
More Ease of Use • More Performance • More Confidence • More Flexibility
 Browser-based, intuitive
graphical interface
 Mobile-friendly, color-coded
summary dashboard
 Lights out monitoring with
email & SNMP notification
 Wizard-based basic
installation & configuration
 Customizable, automated
procedures for common
tasks
 Industry-leading RPO with
remote journal-based
replication
 Built-in performance tuning
features
 Multi-threaded apply that
scales to the most
demanding largest
workloads
 Virtually zero apply lag and
active-active configurations
for
aggressive RTO
 Easily supports
configurations with local and
remote HA/DR nodes for
maximum protection
 Optimal RTO with always-
on, switch-ready backup
system
 Automated switch
procedures for error-free
switching with parallel
operations
 Virtual switch for HA/DR
testing without business
impact
 RPO/RTO view to verify
ability to meet SLAs
 Data protection reports
identify libraries, folders &
directories not protected
 Scheduled audits and target
monitoring ensure data
integrity
 Support for replication
between internal and external
storage types
 Support for replication
between IBM i OS versions
 Access to replicated data for
IT and business ops
 Easily expands to multiple
HA/DR and data distribution
servers with
 Flexible licensing for DR as a
Service through managed
service providers
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27. Precisely HA Services

28. Upgrade Services
Availability Update
• Upgrade planning
• Deployment of the latest release
• Configuration and tuning
• Skills transfer on new features
Benefits
• Accurate, up-to-date HA environment
• Improved HA readiness
• Better understanding of Assure MIMIX
Availability Tune-Up
• Audit of your current HA/DR plan
• Upgrade planning
• Deployment of the latest release
• Identification of configuration issues
• Configuration and tuning
• Skills transfer on new features
Benefits
• Expert evaluation of your HA protection
• Up-to-date, optimized HA environment
• Refreshed understanding of Assure MIMIX
Availability Test
• Audit of your current HA/DR plan
• Upgrade planning
• Deployment of the latest release
• Identification of configuration issues
• Configuration and tuning
• Pre-switch audit
• Full of virtual switch test
• Updated runbook and Skills transfer
Benefits
• Confidence that you are switch-ready
• Better understanding of HA components
• More complete audit and compliance
reporting
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29. 29
Managed HA/DR Services
from Precisely
Day-to-day management of your Assure HA product for IBM i
• Assure MIMIX
• Assure QuickEDD
• Assure iTERA
Multiple levels of service to meet your needs
• 4 levels of packaged offerings
• A la carte options that provide a wider
variety of solutions
• Customizable to meet your specific
requirements

30. Q & A

32. June 21–22, 2022