This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the IBM VM Recovery Manager for Power Systems, and addresses topics to help answer customers' complex high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) requirements for IBM AIX® and Linux on IBM Power Systems servers to help maximize systems' availability and resources, and provide technical documentation to transfer the how-to skills to users and support teams.

The IBM VM Recovery Manager for Power Systems product is an easy to use and economical HA and DR solution. Automation software, installation services, and remote-based software support help you streamline the process of recovery, which raises availability and recovery testing, and maintains a state-of-the-art HA and DR solution. Built-in functions and IBM Support can decrease the need for expert-level skills and shorten your recovery time objective (RTO), improve your recovery point objective (RPO), optimize backups, and better manage growing data volumes.

This book examines the IBM VM Recovery Manager solution, tools, documentation, and other resources that are available to help technical teams develop, implement, and support business resilience solutions in IBM VM Recovery Manager for IBM Power Systems environments.

This publication targets technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who are responsible for providing HA and DR solutions and support for IBM Power Systems.

This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at IBM Redbooks, Austin Center.

Dino Quintero is an IT Management Consultant and an IBM Level 3 Senior Certified IT Specialist with IBM Redbooks in Poughkeepsie, New York. Dino shares his technical computing passion and expertise by leading teams developing technical content in the areas of enterprise continuous availability (CA); enterprise systems management; high-performance computing (HPC); cloud computing; artificial intelligence (AI), which includes machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL); and cognitive solutions. He also is a Certified Open Group Distinguished IT Specialist. Dino holds a Master of Computing Information Systems degree and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Marist.

Jose Martin Abeleira is a Senior Systems and Storage Administrator at DGI Uruguay. He is a former IBMer, a prior IBM Redbooks author, a Certified Consulting IT Specialist, and an IBM Certified Systems Expert Enterprise Technical Support for AIX and Linux in Montevideo, Uruguay. He worked with IBM for 8 years and has 15 years of AIX experience. He holds an Information Systems degree from Universidad Ort Uruguay. His areas of expertise include IBM Power Systems, AIX, UNIX, and Linux; Live Partition Mobility (LPM), IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror®, storage area network (SAN), and Storage on IBM DS line; and V7000, HITACHI HUSVM, and G200/G400.

Adriano Almeida is a Senior Power Systems Consultant from IBM Systems Lab Services in Brazil. He has worked at IBM for 20 years. His areas of expertise include IBM AIX, PowerVM®, IBM Power Virtualization Center (IBM PowerVC), IBM PowerHA SystemMirror, Linux, IBM Cloud™ Private, and SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems. He is an IBM Certified Expert IT Specialist and IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert on IBM Power Systems. He has worked extensively on PowerHA SystemMirror, PowerVM, and Linux and AIX projects, performing health checking, performance analysis and consulting on IBM Power Systems environments, and technical project leadership. He holds a degree in computing technology from the Faculdade de Tecnologia em Processamento de Dados do Litoral (FTPDL). He is a coauthor of Exploiting IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V6.1 for AIX Enterprise Edition, SG24-7841-01 and IBM PowerVM Best Practices, SG24-8062.

Bernhard Buehler is an IT Specialist in Germany. He works for IBM Systems Lab Services in Nice, France. He has worked at IBM for 37 years and has 28 years of experience in AIX and the availability field. His areas of expertise include AIX, Linux, PowerHA SystemMirror, HA architecture, script programming, and AIX security. He is a co-author of several IBM Redbooks publications. He is also a co-author of several courses in the IBM AIX curriculum.

Primitivo Cervantes is a Senior Certified IT Specialist at IBM US and provides HA and DR services to clients on hardware and software components for AIX and Linux. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Long Beach. Primitivo has worked for IBM for over 30 years with most of those years in the HA and DR fields.

Stuart Cunliffe is a senior IBM Systems Consultant with IBM UK. He has worked for
IBM since graduating from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1995, and has held roles in
IBM Demonstration Group, IBM Global Technologies Services (GTS) System Outsourcing, eBusiness hosting, and ITS. He currently works for IBM System Group Lab Services where he specializes in IBM Power Systems, helping customers gain the most out of their Power Systems infrastructure with solutions that offer PowerHA SystemMirror, PowerVM, IBM PowerVC, AIX, Linux, IBM Cloud Private, IBM Cloud Automation Manager, and IBM DevOps.

Jes Kiran is a Development Architect for IBM VM Recovery Manager for HA and DR products. He has worked in the IT industry for the last 18 years, and has experience in the HA, DR, cloud, and virtualization areas. He is an expert in the Power, IBM Storage, and AIX platforms.

Byron Martinez Martinez is an IT Specialist at IBM Colombia who provides services to clients for hardware and software components for UNIX -like systems. He holds a degree in electronics engineering from the National University of Colombia. During the last 4 years, he has worked as deployment professional for IBM Power Systems. His areas of expertise include Power Systems, AIX, PowerLinux, UNIX -based operating systems, PowerVM Virtualization, LPM, IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC), NIM Server, IBM Spectrum® Scale (formerly GPFS), IBM PowerHA SystemMirror, and SAN and Storage on Brocade Communications Systems and IBM Storwize® storage systems.

Antony Steel is a Senior IT Specialist in Singapore. He has had over 25 years of field experience in AIX, performance tuning, clustering, and HA. He worked for IBM for 19 years in Australia and Singapore, and is now CTO for Systemethix in Singapore. He has co-authored many IBM Redbooks publications about Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and PowerHA SystemMirror, and helped prepare certification exams and runbooks for IBM Lab Services.

Oscar Humberto Torres is an IBM Power Systems Consultant at IBM. He has been with IBM since 2009. He has 16 years of experience in Power Systems and UNIX. He holds a degree in systems engineering from Universidad Autonoma de Colombia. During the last 8 years, he worked as a Power Systems Consultant deploying services and training courses. His areas of expertise include Power Systems, SAP HANA on Power Systems, SUSE HA, AIX, LPM,
IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS), UNIX, IBM Cloud IBM PowerVC Manager, and IBM PowerHA SystemMirror.

Stefan Velica is an IT Specialist who currently works for IBM GTS in Romania. He has 10 years of experience with IBM Power Systems. He is a Certified Specialist for IBM System p Administration, HACMP for AIX, high-end and entry/midrange IBM DS Series, and Storage Networking Solutions. His areas of expertise include IBM System Storage™, SAN, PowerVM, AIX, and PowerHA SystemMirror. Stefan holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:

Wade Wallace
IBM Redbooks, Austin Center

P I Ganesh, Denise Genty, Kam Lee, Luis Pizaña, Ravi Shankar, Thomas Weaver,
IBM Austin

Maria-Katharina Esser
IBM Germany

Luis Bolinches
IBM Finland

Javier Bazan Lazcano
IBM Argentina

Kelvin Inegbenuda
IBM West Africa

Ahmed (Mash) Mashhour
IBM Saudi Arabia

Shawn Bodily
Clear Technologies, an IBM Business Partner

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