FDRPAS

 

User Comments

Since FDRPAS swaps to an offline volume, it saved us the time and inconvenience of pre-initialising with ICKDSF the new volumes. Your product FDRPAS is a wonderful product. It was easy to install and worked as advertised. This product has saved literally hours of system downtime and weekend work for me by being able to move from one set of DASD to another. I was able to move massive amounts of production data from our older RAMAC disk drives to our new ESS (SHARK) in a fraction of the time it would have taken without FDRPAS. I would just like to let you know that we have completed our initial move of DASD volumes. In all we moved approximately 3,400 volumes from 11 RVAs to 9 RVAs. We are now planning to use FDRPAS to help us reconfigure our existing DASD pools to better accommodate our growth and the use of SnapShot.

Non-Disruptive Movement of Disk Volumes

- Swap disk volumes from their current locations to new disk hardware  - Move disk volumes within the installation for load balancing  - Do this volume movement without interrupting any system activity  - Do this volume movement during normal system operations  - Swap shared DASD on all sharing systems simultaneously

FDRPAS runs in a non-disruptive manner in that the operating system, application jobs, online systems and users will be unaware that FDRPAS is swapping disk volumes to new disk devices. At the completion of a swap, the disk volume resides completely on the new device and the original device is no longer required. Once all the volumes from the old disk subsystem have been moved, the old disk subsystem can be powered off and removed. For an installation operating in a 24x7 environment there's no window for major re-configurations and hardware changes. OS/390 hardware and software allows you to attach new disk subsystems (hardware) to your system and dynamically activate an updated I/O configuration to make them available. Complementing  this capability FDRPAS allows you to move the data from the existing volumes to the new hardware while the volumes are still in use. For installations having the luxury of a maintenance window, there's often not the time available to move the huge number of terabytes residing in larger sites. FDRPAS allows you to swap large number of volumes during normal business hours. FDRPAS offers the versatility of being able to swap volumes in use on a single system image as well as those attached to multiple systems of LPARS in a shared-DASD complex or sysplex, whether locally or remotely attached. Multiple volumes can be swapped concurrently. In the situation where the I/O load in one or more disk subsystems is excessive while other subsystems are under utilised, FDRPAS can be used to dynamically rearrange your disk volumes to equitably distribute the I/O load and improve performance. FDRPAS follows in the tradition of all other Innovation products in being simple to install, easy to use and offering a high level of performance. Data integrity is paramount and this is achieved through  Innovation's unique technology of being able to perform I/O to offline volumes. FDRPAS swaps from an online source volume to an offline target volume and upon completion of the swap the new target volume is non-disruptively brought online and the original source volume is taken offline and disabled from any further use.

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Last modified: 05-Sep-2005