Introduction:
Hybrid cloud deployments give you excellent flexibility and agility towards helping you achieve your business objectives. Look no further, IBM cloud/ IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) is your go-to cloud that is enterprise ready, secure and your trusted platform.
IBM® Power® Virtual Server is an IBM Power server offering to deploy virtual servers, also known as a logical partitions (LPAR), in a matter of minutes. This platform provides flexible, secure, and scalable compute capacity for Power enterprise workloads.
Use cases:
In this blog, we introduce you to a process guide that leverages the FalconStor StorSafe VTL for the below use cases:
- Cost effective cold-site disaster recovery: Replicate your on-prem backups to Power VS and commission your VMs with the recovery time that suits your business needs. Achieve affordable DR in IBM Power Virtual Server – Provision minimal resources or tailor the environment to suit your recovery needs.
- Alternative solution to off-site physical tape vaulting: Replicate your on-premises backups to create a secondary copy (remote copy of backups) on a continuous basis to any IBM Power Virtual Server zone of your choice in IBM cloud giving you peace of mind for recovery scenarios.
- Native high-performance backup/restore solution for IBM Power Virtual Server resident workloads (IBM i, AIX or Linux).
Backups are an essential part of data management and recovery strategy. It helps render data protection should a recovery need arise – such as Server/Storage failure, other types of data loss or corruption. While there are various destinations to where backups can be written to or stored safely, such as to physical tape, to disk, to object Storage or to a virtual tape library (VTL), the choice often depends on the respective benefits and the broader IT recovery strategy of the organization.
As computing has evolved during the last decade, there have been more ways to extend the use of backups to achieve various objectives. VTL has emerged as the leading technology for organizations when it comes to modernizing backup and data management.
Solution:
IBM Power Virtual Server is your go-to platform for seamlessly moving and managing your workloads across both cloud and on-premises environments. In this blog we run you through how you can leverage the Power Virtual Server environment using FalconStor StorSafe VTL to host your disaster recovery workloads in a cost-effective manner. This method can also be used as an alternative to off-site physical tape vaulting.
IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) resources are located in IBM data centers around the world, including in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. When creating a PowerVS workspace, you can choose an off-premises location by selecting an IBM Cloud region that’s your preferred location. For information on Power Virtual server locations, refer to:
https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/power-iaas?topic=power-iaas-ibm-cloud-reg
It’s noteworthy to mention that clients hosting IBM i virtual server instances in IBM Power Virtual Server, have gained tremendous value by leveraging FalconStor StorSafe VTL. In addition to being able to modernize from legacy physical tape backup solution, adopting the FalconStor StorSafe VTL solution provides high deduplication rate, capabilities to replicate backups to the cloud and many more benefits.
Process guide:
The attached process guide will walk you steps from sizing, deploying the solution and typical recovery options using a FalconStor StorSafe VTL. For enquiries, scheduling a consultation or for clarifications, contact FalconStor.
