MIMIX® AVAILABILITY 7

Includes preview of 7.1 FCS

Technical Overview

Last Updated: January 31st 2012

for Business

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MIMIX AVAILABILITY 7
Ideal for enterprise type environments
MIMIX Dynamic Apply
The industry benchmark for enterprise HA Highest apply workloads in the industry

Professional, Enterprise, Global Licenses – Match your environment

Unlimited Application Groups – Individually switchable applications
Auto Object Registration – automatic configuration of new objects
Advanced Audit & Repair – self correcting / autonomic features
Dynamic Apply – parallel apply jobs maximize performance
Zero Downtime Backup – users are not interrupted to perform tape backups
Automated Switch – flexible switch, predictable RPO/RTO
Vision Solutions Portal (VSP) – portal based graphical monitor
5250 Menus, Screens & Commands – advanced integration and customization
MIMIX For MQ – WebSphere MQ messaging support
MIMIX Director Optimization Utilities – monitor/manage/optimize IBM i system
MIMIX Monitor Jobs – customizable event control
MIMIX Promoter – minimize down time while re-organizing & copying Vision Solutions
MIMIX
Library Name Mapping – allows library renaming & duplicating Portal (VSP)
Optimization Sophisticated multi-node
Bi-Directional (active-active) Flow – advanced workload balancing Extensive optimization graphical HA & DR monitor
utilities for IBM i environments
built-in

Full feature HA & DR

Over 4000 licenses sold to over 2000 customers

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MIMIX AVAILABILITY 7
Product Family

MIMIX PROFESSIONAL 7 MIMIX ENTERPRISE 7

Base product Base product

Suitable for Suitable for

A to B topologies multi-node and hybrid topologies

MIMIX Migrate While Active

Temporary MIMIX license used to help migrate data to new server(s) without down time

MIMIX GLOBAL 7 MIMIX GLOBAL 7 MIMIX GLOBAL 7

BASE Edition
Companion to base product which
allows MIMIX Enterprise or
Professional support clustered-multi-
node MIMIX environments
IASP Edition
Companion to base product*which
allows MIMIX Enterprise to support
clustered-hybrid-node environments
with IBM Power HA For IBM i
Standard Edition
SAN Edition
Companion to base product *which
allows MIMIX Enterprise to support
clustered-hybrid-node environments
with IBM Power HA For IBM i Enterprise
Edition

The Industry Benchmark for Enterprise HA/DR

for Business

*available in stand alone mode (without MIMIX backup node)

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MIMIX and iTERA Positioning
Environment
Type
MIMIX - Medium and Enterprise Business

MIMIX Global
Sophisticated

Transaction volumes over 100MJTPH per journal

Multi node & hybrid cluster support

MIMIX Enterprise Graphical user interface

Library redirection

Programmers interface
MIMIX Professional

Lots of user configurable features

Can be user configured to be autonomic (self managing & self correcting)

Typical

Easy to use

iTERA - Small and Medium Business

Transaction volumes up to 20MJTPH per journal
Virtual Role Swap Test (unique in the industry)
iTERA

Lower Cost than MIMIX Enterprise

Always-on autonomics (self managing & self correcting)
Essential features for most A to B environments
Simple

Very easy to use

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MIMIX Professional and MIMIX Enterprise

MIMIX MIMIX
Professional Enterprise

Library name mapping - 

Intra system topology (A to A ) - 
Compatible with MIMIX Global – IASP Edition - 
Compatible with MIMIX Global – SAN Edition - 
One to many topology (A to B & C) 2 max 
Multiple instances on same system/LPAR 2 max 

Suitable for Suitable for

A to B topologies multi node
and hybrid topologies

If you want clustered multi-node support, add MIMIX Global Base Edition
to either MIMIX Professional or MIMIX Enterprise

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Migrating to MIMIX (or iTERA) From OMS/ODS
OMS/ODS Customers, current on maintenance can migrate to MIMIX
(or iTERA) and get extra functionality for free

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How Does MIMIX Work? Consistent, reliable &
predictable
switch times (minutes)
multi-node graphical
monitor
Multiple dynamic
Production apply jobs
Backup cooperate to
IBM i System IBM i System maximize apply
performance
Dynamic Apply
Extensive
Reader
developments
in autonomic Machine Interface Consistent tape
capabilities backups take place
recently ensure on the backup
very low system with zero
maintenance production
downtime

Maximum hardware Low overhead remote journaling Backup database is

flexibility, servers can captures all data & object always on-line,
be different models, changes in real time below MI consistent and
different storage and interface and provides efficient ready (no vary-on
different OS release. transport over any distance. required)
Multi-node and hybrid Async and Sync modes
HA clusters
*(1) Zero seconds with synchronous RJ and <1 second typical for asynchronous RJ
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Graphical Monitor (Vision Solutions Portal - VSP)
Pages

Portal Container

Included in both
Professional and
Enterprise licenses
Product
Instances

Operator Actions

Portlets

Browser-based Multi-node/instance monitoring and control

Installed in the IFS Fast response times
User defined permissions (incl. view only) Strategic for multiple Vision products
Respects all IBM i node security Built on Apache Jetspeed-2 portal technology
Supports https Supports JSR-168/286 industry standards

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MIMIX 5250 Interface

MIMIX can be controlled with

extensive set of CL commands.

Includes many retrieve and

outfile commands which allow
custom integration with other
applications

Includes completion and

escape messages which can
be monitored

Command defaults can be

changed

Easy to navigate SAA/CUA compliant Menus & Screens

Screens have extensive on-line ‘cursor sensitive’ help text

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MIMIX GLOBAL Base Edition
companion product Local

Remote MIMIX Global Base Edition is a ‘companion

product’ which can be added to MIMIX
Professional or MIMIX Enterprise

Allows customer to extend traditional A to B

topologies to multi-node* clustered topologies

Cluster Having two backup nodes gives you some

Production applications are protected while operational advantages. Eg. Do un-interrupted
maintaining two MIMIX backup systems in tape backups locally while maintaining an hot
normal mode offsite backup.

If you execute a planned switch you still maintain

HA/DR which could be important if you have an
SLA which states that you must never run without
HA/DR.

Cluster
And while in recovery mode applications All MIMIX Global Editions support up to
continue to have full HA/DR 128 nodes in a single cluster

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MIMIX GLOBAL IASP & SAN Editions
companion products
Local
MIMIX Global IASP & SAN Editions are ‘companion
Remote products’ which can be added to MIMIX Enterprise or
used in ‘stand alone mode’

Allows customer to extend traditional A to B

topologies to multi-node hybrid* HA/DR cluster
topologies

Cluster A hybrid HA/DR cluster is one where both MIMIX

Production applications are protected while
maintaining two MIMIX backup systems in
normal mode
and Hardware HA/DR backup nodes co-exist in the
same cluster
Stand-Alone mode is for topologies where there is
no MIMIX backup node

Having two backup nodes gives some operational

advantages. Eg. Do un-interrupted tape backups
locally while maintaining a hot offsite backup

If you execute a planned switch you still maintain full

Cluster
HA/DR (could be important if you have an SLA which
states that you must never run without HA/DR)
And while in recovery mode applications
continue to have full HA/DR
SYSBAS replication is included

SAN Edition supports: Metro Mirror, Global Mirror & LUN Level Switching
IASP Edition supports: Synchronous/Asynchronous Geo Mirror & LUN Level Switching
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MIMIX Dynamic Apply

Cooperative Processing
Allows efficient cooperative processing of apply
workload in mult-processor and multi-core Multiple apply
environments resulting in faster apply rates Tasks (sessions)
work in parallel

Self-Maintaining File Relationships

Intelligently handles relationships between physical
and logical files by assigning them to the same or
appropriate apply sessions each time you start Leverage
replication multi-core
multi-task
Self-Maintaining Data Integrity processors
Automatically maintains data integrity of replicated
objects including operations such as creates,
deletes, moves, and renames

MIMIX 7.1 FCS Achieved over

290 MJTPH* in this environment Power 7 Chips
can run 32 tasks
A new industry record! (quadruple that of Power 6)

9117-MMB (770), Feature #4980, 350GB Memory, DS8800 storage mixed HDD and SSDs, V6R1M1, Multiple MIMIX Data Groups, MIMIX 7.1 FCS,
IBM Montpellier Test Environment, Calls and Billing applications, Oct 2011

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Data Groups & Application Groups

A data group* is a logical grouping of database

files, data areas, objects, IFS objects, DLOs,

Defines a unit of work by which replication

activity is controlled.

A data group may represent an application, a

8=Display status set of one or more libraries, or all of the critical
data on a given system.

Application environments may define a data

group as a specific set of files and objects

Application Groups* allow users to

group and control multiple data groups
as one entity.

There is no limit on how many

Data Groups or Application Groups
can be defined in MIMIX*

*This is true for Professional, Enterprise & Global licenses

*Sometimes called ‘Data Resource Groups’ and ‘Application Resource Groups’

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MIMIX AutoGuard
Data Group name
MIMIX AutoGuard is a set of features which
automatically detect and correct replication issues either
in real time or during automatically scheduled audits

Audits - Audits are predetermined programs that are

used to check for known conditions, preferably at
regularly scheduled intervals

Automatic Recovery - if AutoGuard identifies an

issue which is known to interfere with maintaining
switch readiness, it will automatically start recovery
actions to correct them. For example a record that failed
to update a target file

Complience - MIMIX determines compliance by

verifying whether successfully completed audits or Audits that will
Automatic Recovery
run automatically for
regular switches occur within a time range defined in this Data Group has been enabled
policies for this Data Group

Policies – Allow users to enable/disable/change MIMIX AutoGuard significantly simplifies

AutoGuard actions at a Data Group level the amount of time and effort required to
maintain your MIMIX environment for
Notifications – Alert operation when AutoGuard availability and switch readiness.
activities end in error

Sometimes called ‘Autonomics’

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MIMIX Optimization
Utilities Designed to Help Analyze, Optimize and Manage your IBM i Environment

Current system health

Automatically keep your IBM i environment healthy
iSCORE utility calculates your system health
System health details displayed graphically
System health analyzed automatically
System cleaned up to improve health automatically
System health reports
File re-organizers
Event managers & monitors
Spool management
Archiving
Object level analysis including user generated views

Storage utilization

Gartner Research has identified that the

difference in TCO between an unmanaged
and a well-managed system can be as
much as 36 percent.

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MIMIX Optimization Utilities

Utilities also sold separately as a separate

product called MIMIX Director

ARC Archiving JBT Job Tracking

CAL Calendar & Schedule JOB Active Job Analysis
CEQ Customized Enquiries OBJ Object Enquiries
CFG Configuration OPR Operations
CLN System Clean Up OPT Optimizer
DOM Domains & Change History PER Performance
DSH Health Dashboard PGM Program & Performance
DXR Dynamic Cross Reference RIP RWA - In Place
EVT Event Manager RWM RWA - Mirrored
EXP Exit Point Control SAV Save & Restore
FIL File Enquiries SEC Security
HLR Health Reports SPA Break Down Of Spools
IFS Integrated File System SPL Spool & Management
ISR iSCORE Report*(1) TMP Temporary Storage Monitor
TSK Task Scheduler

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3.3 iOptimize License Consolidation
(Packaging & Documentation)

Feature
DIRECTOR 8.1 DIRECTOR 8.1 Previously there were four license types i.e.
MIMIX 7.1

FCS end August 2011, GA target end March 2012

Utilities Enterprise ‘Director' , ‘Director Enterprise ', 'RWA
Utilities Mirrored' , ‘MIMIX Optimization Feature'
which each offered subsets of functionality.
These have been consolidated now into a
RWA
single license which includes all functionality.
MIMIX
MIRRORED Optimization
Utility Feature
Benefit
Allows v7.1 users to get all functionality at no
extra cost.

iOPTIMIZE
More Functionality
No More Cost

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Application Group Switching – Proc & Step
‘One Button’ Switching Procedures & Steps (Proc & Step Feature)
Predictable RTO & RPO allows users to define procedures which are
user initiated and run automatically against an
User Defined User Defined application group
Procedure Name Application Group Name

Most common uses of Proc & Step are:

Planned Switch Procedure
Unplanned Switch Procedure

Each application group can have its own

user defined switch procedures

Each procedures is made up of multiple user

defined steps, each step identifies a program
to execute.

Procedure starts one job for the application

group and an additional job for each of its data
groups. Jobs run in parallel.

How long the Current

Procedure history is stored so you can see
User defined who run which procedure, when and a detailed
step took status of
step within the
procedure
to run step log of each step that was executed.

Application Groups plus Proc & Step are recommended Best Practices in MIMIX 7

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Library Name Mapping
Allows library renaming & duplicating

Example 1:
Production System 1
Problem: Customer wants to consolidate two environments
Backup System into one backup environment but library names are the same
Backup System
on both production systems

Solution: Library Name Mapping enables both environments

to co-exist on a single backup system or single backup LPAR

Production System 2

Production System

Example 2:

Problem: Customer has a multi-environment business

application which uses a common library and wants to
create separate and complete backup environments

Solution: Library Name Mapping enables the common

library to be selected in more than one Data Group and
renamed on the backup so that there are multiple complete
mirrored backup environments.

Backup System

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Bi-directional (Active-Active) Flow
Advanced workload balancing

MIMIX AVAILABILITY 7 allows users in two locations to update local data and MIMIX will keep this data
synchronized bi-directionaly with a remote system. This is configured at data group level using unique
key replication. MIMIX HA 6.0 also allows automatic collision resolution which is configurable

Users at location A Users at location B

Update Customer Info locally Bi-directional flow Update Customer Info locally
keeps data synchronized

Consideration: When implementing bi-directional

replication there are special considerations which are
environment specific. Bi-directional replication should
therefore only be implemented with assistance from
Vision or Vision partners technically certified in MIMIX.
Advantages
Spread application workload across more than one system
Accelerate role swap time (some environments)

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MIMIX 7.0 New Features 1/2
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Vision Solutions Portal (VSP): New graphical monitor
based on a portal container and portlets. Allows multi-
system monitoring and switching and basic problem
resolution from an all-new strategic GUI

Application Groups: Application groups allow

several data groups to be combined for easier
management and switching

Proc & Step: User defined procedures and steps

allow user defined ‘one button switch’ processing at HA Portlets
application group level

MIMIX Optimization: Collection of 29 utilities (MIMIX

Director) which help analyze and optimize the System
i environment and help keep it healthy. Portlets
integrated in VSP. Included in both Enterprise and
Professional license. Industry First: First HA solution
to have System Optimization included

*(1) MSF still supported in 7 to provide backward compatibility Optimization portlets

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MIMIX 7.0 New Features 2/2
MIMIX Global: Companion product in 3-editions . Allows support of multi-node
MIMIX clusters & hybrid node clusters. Includes management, monitoring,
switching and *SYSBAS replication

OMS/ODS Migration Tools: 3 new tools which can be used to help migrate ORION
1.2 / 6.0 to MIMIX HA 7.0. Step 1: Install MIMIX 7.0, create system and transfer
definitions. Step 2: Run EXPPRDCFG to extract OMS/ODS configuration Step 3:
Run CRTMMXDFN to create MIMIX configuration Step 4: Manually check MIMIX
configuration Step 5: Run STRCVTAG to start convert at application group level

Parallel Access Path Maintenance: Apply performance improvements of 75%-

100% can be achieved in some environments by delaying access path maintenance
on user specific files. Includes maintenance parameters and monitors for easy setup

Database Apply Cache: Apply performance improvements of 35%-45% can be

achieved in some environments by providing user configurable caching feature which
runs on the backup node (similar to IBM option 42) – Enables/disabled at data group
level. Uses commit boundaries to cache updates in memory on the backup.
Audit/Object Level History: History of all auditing now easily accessible
on-screen

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MIMIX 7.1 New Features

1. Performance 4. iOptimize
1.1 Fast Journal Read 4.1 Fast Cross-Reference
1.2 Fast Commit 4.2 User Configurable Cross-Reference
MIMIX 7.1 1.3 Fast Commit Rollback 4.3 Customizable Banners on Health Reports

FCS end August 2011, GA target end March 2012

1.4 Fast QAUDJRN Processing
1.5 Fast IFS Data Group Start
1.6 Fast Lock Allocate/Release
2. Audit & Self-Heal
2.1 Prioritized Object Audit
2.2 Unauthorized Change Notification
3. Packaging & Documentation
5. Monitoring & Tracking
3.1 Director Rebranding to iOptimize
3.2 iOptimize Release Harmonization
3.3 iOptimize License Consolidation
4.4 Graphical IFS Explorer
4.5 User-Class Security
4.6 System Value Defaults Report
4.7 Mass Group Action
4.8 Growth Forecast
4.9 Processing Window
4.10 Expand Object Detail
4.11 Dashboard Refinements
4.12 Job Accounting
5.1 Arrivals & Backlog Graphs
5.2 Replicated Object List

Five Areas Of Focus

Twenty Five* New Features

*.Some of these can be broken down into more sub features

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Arrivals & Backlog Graphs
(Status Monitoring)

Shows Historical
Workloads
& Replication
MIMIX 7.1

FCS end August 2011, GA target end March 2012

Performance
Feature

Data View
New portlet captures statistical information at
regular intervals including 'arrivals on source'
(journal workload), 'replication backlog' (apply
lag) and' RJ backlog' (comms lag). This
information is displayed graphically to show
peaks and valleys of workload plus periods
where lags may have occurred.

The information is also available in the form of

data tables. History is retained for a 2 month
period.

Benefit
Allows for better understanding of the
environment and helps highlight areas for
improvement.
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 Online Banking Topology Features
Zero Local HA/DR system (B1)
MIMIX Global 7.0 – Base Edition downtime Remote HA/DR system (B2)
backup Three node MIMIX Global cluster
(exclusive Fully automatic SYSBAS replication
lock) Vision Solutions Portal (browser based GUI)
Automated Self-Correcting audits
Fast dynamic apply processing
Data Centre 1 Automated switch/switch back operation
Vision Solutions Portal Automated MQ Series support
Production
MIMIX Optimization utilities (Director)
Model 520
Local Backup
2-Core
Model 520 Benefits
V6R1
2-Core Enables true 24 hour business
Custom Cluster
One button fast (1) switch operation
V6R1
Online One button fast (2) switch back operation
Banking + Zero downtime backup (SAVLIB with exclusive lock)
MQ Series Full HA/DR during planned maintenance (B2)
A B1 Full site failure protection (B2)
No IASPs needed
OS release flexibility (V5R4 – V7R1)
100kms Low administration (5 minutes per day)
Low communications bandwidth to remote site
Built on robust industry proven MIMIX technology
MIMIX Low resource utilization (<5% CPU per node)
Data Centre 2 Remote RPO = last transaction
Backup RTO = 30 minutes (1)
Model 520 No IASPs needed
2-Core
V6R1
(1) Switch time (RTO) is predictable for MIMIX and depends mostly
B2 on the application and environment. 30 min – 60 min is typical
(2) Switch back after planned maintenance takes 30 min - 60 min

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MIMIX Support

24X7 Support – telephone, e-mail, on-line

First level MIMIX support from certified local business partners
Second level MIMIX support from support centers:
Rochester MN
Manchester UK
Hong Kong
Third level MIMIX support from development lab in Rochester MN
On-line knowledge base
On-line incident tracking
Regular Service Packs (approx every 2 months)
On-line software upgrades
On-site assistance (extra cost)

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