recovery simulator (ibm presentation)
DESCRIPTION
Recovery Simulator is a recovery assurance solution that allows users of Cristie’s TBMR software to test whether a system can be successfully recovered from TSM backups following a failure. This allows users to automate vital disaster recovery testing at minimal cost, giving confidence that system backups will recover reliably. Key FeaturesTRANSCRIPT
Cristie Software Established 2007. Offices in UK, US and South-East Asia. Leading software provider in data protection, machine
recovery, migration and availability. Cristie Software’s BMR products are sold worldwide by
IBM, EMC, and a global network of leading resellers. More than 2,000 end users, including Albert Einstein, Peer
1 and Frost Bank, in over 70 countries including many of the world’s largest healthcare, retail, manufacturing, public sector and financial organizations.
Over 100 of the Global Fortune 500 companies use Cristie. All major OS platforms supported.
Recovery Simulator Overview
“Test for recovery and test again. It’s all about the recovery…”
12 Ways to disaster-proof your critical business data, CIO.com
Recovery Simulator is a recovery assurance solution that allows users of Cristie’s BMR software to automate disaster recovery testing to provide confidence that system backups will recover reliably.
The Recovery Console leverages native backups carried out by IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
It is an easy-to-use, automated solution that tests whether a system can be successfully recovered from stored backups following a drive failure, system crash or total site loss.
Recovery Simulator Benefits An easy-to-use and automated add-on for BMR Recovery simulation can be carried out on multiple servers
and can be scheduled in advance on site or from a remote management machine.
Helps users test their backups for test and compliance such as HIPPA regulations that came in this year
Creates a sandbox environment to test whether a machine can be successfully recovered from TSM or TSM for VE backups
Automatically creates a VM to test the recovery process. This can be released after each test to avoid extra storage requirements
Success and failure reporting automatically emailed to nominated personnel to provide reassurance that machines are recoverable from their backups.
“Recover Now”
Recover Now is a valuable feature of Recovery Simulator allowing users of TBMR (Bare Machine Recovery for TSM) to run a quick recovery to hypervisors on demand.
Users can immediately validate the reliability of their backups giving them much needed recovery assurance.
Recover Now is free of charge wherever a TBMR license is installed.
Scheduled recoveries are not available under the Recover Now feature.
Recover now is not available for TSM for VE.
Recovery Simulator for TSM for VE
Recovery Simulator is available as a standalone solution for users of IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager for Virtual Environments (TSM for VE).
This provides a low-cost mechanism for testing scheduled recoveries of machines that have been backed up by TSM for VE.
The recovered machines are created as VMs within a protected TSM for VE managed environment.
NB: The ‘Recover Now’ feature is not available for TSM for VE users.
Recovery Simulator in operation
VM
TempVM
Source Servers TSM
Server
Scheduled or manual testing on a temporary VM to verify recoverability
Recovery Simulator in operation
How to purchase Recovery Simulator
Recovery Simulator is available free of charge for users of TBMR.
The licensing for recovery simulation is token-based. One token is required for each recovery simulation.
You can purchase TBMR and Recovery Simulator tokens from IBM and its leading partners.
Please email us at [email protected] for more information, including details of your nearest reseller.
