9636: GDPS Overview and Recent Enhancements (Release 3.7 and 3.8)

Wednesday, August 10, 2011: 9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Oceanic 2 (Walt Disney World Dolphin )
Speaker: Alan G. McClure (IBM Corporation)
Handouts
  • GDPS Overview and Recent Enhancements (Release 3.7 and 3.8) (675.5 kB)

    • With over 10 years in the market and over 550 customer implementations in
    40 countries, Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) is the
    industry's leading automated, end-to-end High Availability / Disaster
    Recovery solution for enterprises that use System z servers.


    After a short overview of the different GDPS offerings, get a technical
    update on recent functional enhancements made available in releases 3.7 and
    3.8. Learn about improved availability functions (reduced impact of false
    freezes, enhanced Server Time Protocol (STP) and Sysplex Timer support);
    improvements in cross-platform capabilities (support of Fixed Block (FB)
    disks); simplified systems management functions (Freeze and Swap policy
    enhancements); scalability improvements (GDPS/XRC no UCB FlashCopy); and
    more. A discussion of new and improved GDPS tools will also be included.

    Tracks: Storage Administration
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