Hitachi Business Continuity Manager Software
Hitachi Business Continuity Manager software for IBM® z/OS® offers centralized, enterprise-wide replication management for IBM z/OS mainframe environments. Through a single consistent, interface based on familiar TSO/ISPF full-screen panels, Business Continuity Manager software automates Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi ShadowImage™ In-System Replication, and Hitachi TrueCopy™ Remote Replication software operations. Access to critical system performance metrics and thresholds allows proactive problem avoidance and optimum performance to ensure that service-level objectives are met or exceeded. The Business Continuity Manager software auto-discovery capability eliminates hours of tedious input and costly human error when configuring and protecting complex, mission-critical applications and data.
Features
- Defines copy groups that contain multiple replication objects with similar attributes that can be managed with a single command.
- Eliminates errors and streamlines management with auto-discovery for all replication objects.
- Views the status of all enterprise-wide replication objects in real time.
- Accesses key replication metrics with built-in performance monitoring.
- Provides automatic notification of key events completion, such as pair state transitions, timeout thresholds, and other system events.
- Enables multisite remote replication management for wide-area disaster protection with minimal data loss.
- Delivers nondisruptive, periodic, point-in-time remote data copies across any number of storage systems and over any distance.
Benefits
- Automates complex disaster recovery and planned outage functions, dramatically reducing recovery times.
- Delivers auto-discovery of enterprise-wide storage configuration and replication objects, thereby eliminating tedious, error-prone data entry that can cause outages.
- Eases the development of additional automation with built-in automation and extensibility features, using the familiar REXX language to protect more data with less effort.
- Provides centralized management of Universal Replicator, TrueCopy, and ShadowImage software solutions, wherever they reside.
- Accelerates deployment of Universal Replicator, TrueCopy, and ShadowImage software solutions through a single, consistent user interface based on the familiar TSO/ISPF full-screen panels.
