MIMIX Availability Software, Business Continuity for IBM i

Protect your data. Keep your business running 24/7.

MIMIX^® Availability^™ leads the industry in IBM i high availability and disaster recovery. Thousands of companies worldwide – from small businesses to global enterprises – depend on MIMIX Availability to keep their data safe and their operations running smoothly. Proven in the market for more than 20 years, MIMIX Availability virtually eliminates downtime and data loss.

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MIMIX Availability - The Definitive Leader in IBM i High Availability

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MIMIX 8.1 – Leading the way in innovative HA/DR for IBM i

Watch this 10 minute tour of the new features in MIMIX 8.1 that deliver even-easier management, stronger confidence in your HA/DR readiness, and increased replication performance.

What’s New in MIMIX 8.1?

A new automated virtual switch procedure allows you to test applications on the backup server without impacting production operations. A virtual switch activity window in VSP allows you to monitor changes made to the backup server and the eventual return to normal replication.
Continuous autofix technology detects and intelligently repairs exceptions found during replication and audits. This can significantly reduce day-to-day management requirements, while also enhancing performance. Full visibility into all objects requiring repair is provided through VSP.
Replication performance has been enhanced to keep pace with growing transaction volumes. High throughput environments benefit from enhancements to the way changes are applied to the backup server, while performance is improved for highly constrained environments through more flexible constraint handling.
Greater control of audit statuses allows administrators to tune audit results for their environment, reducing the number of reported exceptions and easing the audit management workload.
A new customizable, automated procedure for point-in-time operations enables tape-based backups or other custom processes to be performed on data from a user-defined point in time.
Faster, easier problem analysis and resolution is facilitated by default actions that guide administrators through the best approach for resolving synchronization issues. Objects on the production and backup servers can also now be compared side-by-side on the same screen with differences highlighted.
Additional information is provided in MIMIX Data Protection Reports to support the creation of optimal replication configurations.

Seven reasons to choose MIMIX Availability

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Business challenges

Today’s business environment demands continuous availability, no matter what. There is no time for downtime and no tolerance for data loss. Industry regulations and service level agreements stipulate increasingly strict performance requirements that carry penalties for non-compliance. Customers and partners demand continuous availability. Your business needs a strong defense to protect it from the threat of disaster, server or storage failure, user error, and even downtime for routine maintenance. MIMIX Availability is designed to keep your business running without interruption – no matter what.

Key benefits

Protects your business from the high cost of downtime
Delivers worry-free protection from data loss
Simplifies HA/DR management and monitoring
Supports replication between physical, virtual, and cloud environments, empowering infrastructure choice and flexibility
Optimizes the health of your IBM i servers
Provides a rapid return on your investment

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“I’d say very plainly, if you are looking for an overall business resiliency solution, you can’t do better than MIMIX.”

Jon Weigens,
Senior Consultant, Systems Engineering/Ops,
Staples

“The biggest benefit of MIMIX is that if there is a problem, we can be up and running again within five minutes.”

George Gallant,
Project Manager,
The All England Lawn Tennis Club

“What impresses me the most is the depth of Vision’s commitment to treating us as a partner, listening to us, and working with us. I would put Vision Solution’s customer service and technical support at the highest echelon of any vendor I’ve worked with.”

John Trotter,
Director of Information Services,
Strategic Fulfillment Group

Whitepaper

MIMIX Availability:
The easy way to protect the availability of even the most complex IBM i environments

This Executive Overview offers details on how MIMIX Availability has evolved into an advanced solution that offers faster recovery, stronger data protection, and a smarter way to manage high availability for IBM i. When evaluating any availability solution, there are a handful of critical functions that must be considered. This paper offers an overview of seven of the most essential availability functions and how each is addressed by MIMIX Availability.

How it works

MIMIX Availability transparently replicates critical data and applications in real time from a production server to a recovery server. Leveraging the IBM i operating system’s remote journaling functionality, along with other change, capture, and replication mechanisms, MIMIX Availability ensures that the recovery server is always a complete, ready-to-run replica.

MIMIX Availability monitors for issues related to replication and switch readiness, reporting any problems in its browser-based status display and through email notification. Any information necessary to diagnose the problem and rapidly switch to the recovery server, which can be located anywhere in the world, is also provided. It is also easy to switch operations to the recovery server to eliminate downtime during production server maintenance.

When the production server is available again, MIMIX Availability resynchronizes the two servers by replicating any changes made on the recovery server back to the original server. Then, when you are ready, it is easy to switch users back to the production server.

Your recovery system is always “switch-ready” and available to assume responsibility for running your critical operations at a moment’s notice.