What’s New in Assure MIMIX 10
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The webinar introduces Assure Mimix 10, highlighting its enhancements and new features such as simple CPW-based licensing, automated journal-driven configuration, and improved object synchronization designed for cloud environments. It emphasizes the benefits of high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability for IBM i systems, supporting various licensing editions tailored to different business needs. Additional resources and professional services are available to assist businesses in optimizing their high availability strategies.
What’s New in Assure MIMIX 10
- 1. What’s New in Assure MIMIX 10 Bill Hammond | Director, Product Marketing Dan Simms | Senior Product Manager
- 2. Housekeeping Webinar Audio • Today’s webcast audio is streamed through your computer speakers • If you need technical assistance with the web interface or audio, please reach out to us using the Q&A box Questions Welcome • Submit your questions at any time during the presentation using the Q&A box. If we don't get to your question, we will follow-up via email Recording and slides • This webinar is being recorded. You will receive an email following the webinar with a link to the recording and slides
- 3. Today’s Topics • Assure MIMIX Overview • Assure MIMIX 10 Enhancements • Simple, CPW-based Licensing • Automated journal-driven configuration • New 5250 interface for Object Recoveries • Improved Object Synchronization designed for the Cloud • Professional Service offerings for Assure MIMIX 10 • Additional Resources
- 4. Scalable, Flexible, Real-Time Replication Comprehensive Data Integrity for Confident Switching Automated Configuration, Monitoring and Management 3 Reasons Why Assure MIMIX Leads the Industry for IBM i High Availability 1 2 3 4
- 5. Assure MIMIX • Protects businesses from the high cost of downtime • Ensures compliance with data protection and uptime regulations and SLAs • Scales from SMB to demanding enterprise workloads • Enables infrastructure choice and flexibility • Offers powerful replication and switching topologies • Requires minimal resources to monitor and manage • Trusted by thousands of customers and backed by 25 years of experience implementing and supporting customer environments 5
- 6. Introducing Assure MIMIX 10 • Simple, CPW-based Licensing • Automated journal-driven configuration • New 5250 interface for Object Recoveries • Improved Object Synchronization designed for the Cloud • Professional Service offerings for Assure MIMIX 10 6
- 8. CPW-Based Licensing • Assure MIMIX is available in three editions: • “Standard” – Two-node replication for uncompromised HA/DR protection • “Professional” – Multi-node replication for advanced HA/DR options • “Enterprise” – Unlimited nodes for HA/DR and data replication options at-scale with the most complex and demanding business requirements • Single License per Edition simplifies accounting and management • Works seamlessly across on-premise, hosted, cloud, and hybrid environments • Licensed capacity can be moved to different hardware, different locations, to the cloud and to hosting centers 8 Coming Soon: Assure MIMIX license key support for Live Partition Mobility!
- 9. Assure MIMIX 10 9 Editions Standard Professional Enterprise License CPW Limit 64,000 250,000 Unlimited Number of Assure MIMIX Instances on a single LPAR 1 2 Unlimited Number of nodes per instance 2 Unlimited Unlimited All Tiers High Availability Disaster Recovery Target side backups Assure Unified Interface (GUI) 5250 Interface Assure MIMIX or Remote J ournal Database replication – Async/ Sync Assure MIMIX-based Object Replication Replication from or to internal and external storage Copy While Active and Reorganize While Active Restart commands to support cloning (i.e., Flashcopy, Snapshot) J ournal-driven Configuration Scheduled and Priority-based Audits Target Side monitoring Customizable Application Control Switching Support for Planned events Failover Support for Unplanned events Virtual Switch for switch-readiness validation Professional and Enterprise Data Distribution for workload balancing Enterprise Options Read/ Write Active-Active Replication from or to switchable IASP Bidirectional replication of same object Library name mapping Intra-Replication (multiple Assure MIMIX nodes per LPAR ) • All Editions include uncompromised, comprehensive HA/DR protection and ‘must-have’ features • Licensing scaled sensibly to your business • No license changes or restrictions on location of source and target systems • Implement on-premises HA today, move target to a Managed Service provider later for true, professionally supported DR • Move from HA/DR between your physical offices to mixed physical and cloud environments • IBM i hardware and iOS version agnostic: Protect and leverage all your IBM i systems, including older systems running less critical workloads
- 11. Journal-driven Configuration Automated protection keeps pace with your business • New Data Groups automatically configured and replication started whenever new journals are created • Accelerates and simplifies configuration management – especially when complex journaling scenarios exist • Faster, more responsive protection for ever-changing and morphing cloud- based environments • No delays in protection for application-generated journals, libraries and schemas • Data Groups will simply replicate journaled objects (*LIB, *FILE, *DTAARA, *DTAQ, *IFS) • More flexible selection rules simplify overall configuration definition and management LIBRARY 1 Journal 1 Journal 2 Protected 11
- 12. LIBRARY 1 Journal 1 Journal 2 TABLE 1 DG2 LIBRARY 1 Example: Ending and Starting Journaling TABLE 1 DG1 1. Table 1 is replicating via Journal 1 and Data Group 1 2. Journaling is ended on Table 1 by the administrator. Table1 is removed from replication. 3. Journaling is started on Table 1 to Journal 2 by the administrator . Replication automatically starts via Data Group 2 ENDJRNPF STRJRNPF to JOURNAL2 4. Journaling is ended by the administrator, but they forget to restart! MIMIX can detect and resume protection Precisely Sales Enablement PEP Talk - Internal Use Only
- 13. 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 Precisely Sales Enablement PEP Talk - Internal Use Only
- 14. Data Groups Manually Configured Object Entries Journal-Driven Configuration Object Entries DG1 LIB1(QSYS) OBJ1(LIBRARY1) OBJTYPE(*LIB) PRCTYPE(*INCLD) LIB1(LIBRARY1) OBJ1(*ALL) PRCTYPE(*INCLD) LIB1(LIBRARY1) OBJ1(TABLE1) PRCTYPE(*EXCLD) LIB1(LIBRARY1) OBJ1(TABLE2) PRCTYPE(*EXCLD) LIB1(QSYS) OBJ1(LIBRARY1) OBJTYPE(*LIB) PRCTYPE(*INCLD) LIB1(LIBRARY1) OBJ1(*ALL) PRCTYPE(*INCLD) DG2 LIB1(LIBRARY1) OBJ1(TABLE1) PRCTYPE(*INCLD) LIB1(LIBRARY1) OBJ1(TABLE2) PRCTYPE(*INCLD) NONE Example: Simplified selection rules 14 LIBRARY 1 TABLE 1 TABLE 2 Data Areas Data Queues IFS Database Tables Journal 1 DG1 Journal 2 DG2 LF LF LF LF LF LF LF LF LIBRARY 1 TABLE 1 TABLE 2 Data Areas Data Queues IFS Database Tables LF LF LF LF LF LF LF LF
- 15. New 5250 Option for Object Recovery Management
- 16. Green Screen Recovery Management Option • Information about Recoveries is now available using the 5250 (green-screen) interface. • The Work with Recoveries display (WRKRCY command) has a new view that allows users to see in-progress and failed recoveries that were submitted to the replication Manager for processing. • Users now can use Assure Unified Interface (GUI) or Work With Recoveries (5250) to perform recovery operations. 16
- 17. Object Synchronization designed for the Cloud
- 18. Synchronization is a critical function Many reasons for synchronization • Initial sync for migrations and new backup systems • Audit recoveries • Virtual Switch Recoveries • Target Journal Inspection Recoveries • Apply job exception handling 18
- 19. More intelligent and efficient object synchronization • Assure MIMIX 10 intelligently evaluates the state of backup objects to choose the most efficient synchronization method • Enables more frequent, automated updates to backup objects for improved overall data integrity and more aggressive RPOs • Object synchronization at pace with fast-changing cloud computing environments • Lower impact on production system resources and performance • Minimized administration and greater freedom to synchronize on-demand: No longer need to “Keep watching the System” or “Wait until more resources become available” 19
- 20. Today • Asynchronous Recovery Manager, Recovery queue and Recovery jobs • MIMIX Policy controls for Synchronization • Number of active recovery jobs • Number of retries to perform on a failed recovery • New Work with Recovery (WRKRCY) panel allowing visibility and management of Recoveries • Queued Recoveries • Recoveries In Progress • Recoveries Failed but being retried (based on policy) Coming Soon • Automated determination of the optimal object recovery technique • Improved recovery ordering: Physical files before Logical files, etc • Recovery method selection based on object size • Improved multi-member file recovery : If most members are being recovered, then recover the entire file • Greater control over system resources being consumed by recovery processes 20 Assure MIMIX Synchronization Management
- 23. 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 23
- 24. 24 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
- 26. Website Assure MIMIX main product page
- 27. Product and Solution Sheets Product Sheets • Assure MIMIX • Assure MIMIX Active-Active Replication • Assure Multi-Server Replication • Assure MIMIX and Power HA • Assure MIMIX and Db2 Mirror
- 28. Q & A