The Assure MIMIX for AIX User Guide describes how to install, configure, maintain and administer data replication software.
A combination of High Availability clustering and data replication ensures an effective and efficient disaster recovery solution. Assure MIMIX for AIX is the clustering component that automates the detection and recovery of applications and their dependent resources from various system and human failures. Assure MIMIX DR for AIX, is the replication component that provides Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and a high level of data protection from both disasters and data corruption. Assure MIMIX HA for AIX and Assure MIMIX DR for AIX, working together, comprise the Assure MIMIX for AIX solution.
The Assure MIMIX for AIX data replication solution:
- Provides Support for non-root user ownership and permissions for protected Logical Volumes.
- Provides Support for data encryption in Assure MIMIX DR for AIX. Provides asynchronous data replication Includes rapid data rollback with Any Point-in-Time virtualization
- Provides Read/Write data snapshots for off-host processing
- Provides functionality with little or no production application impact
- Minimizes application Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) within an Optimized Recovery Window (ORW)
- Is resilient to network, storage, and system failures and outages
- Optimizes for rapid recovery to Any Point-in-Time
- Allows for administrative double-check before change of production data
- Supports both block and file based applications
- Maintains application write-order fidelity
- Has no proprietary hardware dependencies
- Always looks to supplement, not replace, existing enterprise processes for logical storage management, backup, and high availability