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Description

IBM PowerHA SystemMirror is an advanced high availability solution designed to keep critical applications running smoothly by minimizing downtime through intelligent failure detection, automatic failover, and disaster recovery capabilities. This integrated technology supports both IBM AIX and IBM i platforms and offers flexible deployment options including multisite configurations for robust disaster recovery assurance. Users benefit from a simplified management interface that centralizes cluster operations and leverages smart assists to streamline setup and maintenance. PowerHA supports host-based replication techniques such as geographic mirroring and GLVM, enabling failover to private or public cloud environments. The solution tightly integrates IBM SAN storage systems, including DS8000 and Flash Systems, ensuring data integrity and performance. Licensing is based on processor cores with a one-time fee plus a first-year maintenance package, providing cost efficiency. Its highly autonomous design reduces administrative overhead, while continuous monitoring tools keep system health and performance transparent. IBM’s investment in PowerHA reflects its commitment to delivering resilient and scalable IT infrastructure solutions.

Description

In the event of an emergency or disaster, quickly switch to your on-premise or cloud backup server, allowing your business operations to resume in just a matter of minutes. Utilize your secondary system to handle nightly backups, execute queries, and carry out planned maintenance tasks without disrupting your primary production setup. You have the flexibility to replicate either your entire production environment or just specific libraries and programs, ensuring that your data is accessible on the target server almost immediately. With the use of remote journaling combined with a high-speed apply routine, Robot HA is capable of replicating an astounding 188 million journal transactions per hour, regardless of the distance—whether physical or virtual—and applies the data instantaneously upon receipt, ensuring that your hot backup remains a real-time reflection of your production environment. This system provides you with the reassurance that you can initiate a role swap whenever necessary. You have the option to manually trigger an audit for the role swap whenever you deem it necessary or schedule it to occur at regular intervals. Additionally, the audit can be customized to focus on the objects that are most critical to your data center, thereby enhancing the overall reliability of your backup strategy and ensuring your business's resilience.

API Access

Has API No 

API Access

Has API No 

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Integrations

IBM i No 

Integrations

IBM i Yes 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial Yes 
Free Version No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours Yes 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars Yes 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

IBM

Founded

1911

Country

United States

Website

www.ibm.com/products/powerha

Vendor Details

Company Name

Fortra

Country

United States

Website

www.fortra.com/products/high-availability-software-ibm-i

Product Features

Business Continuity

Backup Log No 
Backup Scheduling No 
Compression No 
Continuous Backup No 
Encryption No 
Incremental Backup No 
Local Server Options No 
Multiple System Support No 
Remote Server Options No 
Secure Data Storage No 
Web Access / Restoration No 

Disaster Recovery

Administration Policies No 
Bare-Metal Recovery No 
Encryption No 
Failover Testing No 
Flexible Data Capture No 
Multi-Platform Support No 
Multiple Data Type Support No 
Offline Storage No 

Product Features

Business Continuity

Backup Log No 
Backup Scheduling No 
Compression No 
Continuous Backup No 
Encryption No 
Incremental Backup No 
Local Server Options No 
Multiple System Support No 
Remote Server Options No 
Secure Data Storage No 
Web Access / Restoration No 

Data Replication

Asynchronous Data Replication No 
Automated Data Retention No 
Continuous Replication No 
Cross-Platform Replication No 
Dashboard No 
Instant Failover No 
Orchestration No 
Remote Database Replication No 
Reporting / Analytics No 
Simulation / Testing No 
Synchronous Data Replication No 

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