Overview
IBM Storage Protect provides comprehensive data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and a wide range of applications. This service is designed so that you can have a backup and restore solution for PowerVS using Storage Protect on the IBM Cloud. It provides you with rapid deployment of the Storage Protect environment, including associated storage. This also includes the connectivity of Storage Protect agents on PowerVS to the Storage Protect server.
Target Audience
Customers that are moving applications and data to PowerVS on the cloud or already have PowerVS on the cloud and want a backup and restore solution for their PowerVS LPARs.
Why Use This Service?
Are you concerned about the time of a backup solution deployment?
Are you worried about the security and availability of backups?
Do you know what size of a backup solution to deploy and the infrastructure components to support it?
Benefits
Rapid deployment of a Storage Protect Server in a Virtual Private Cloud. This has all of the associated Storage code installed and configured, ready to accept backups.
Deployed with best practices to ensure backup security and availability using Virtual Private Cloud and Erasure Coding.
Activities
Storage Protect deployment for 120TB of managed backed up data and up to 10TB per day from up to four PowerVS Servers.
Qualification of sizing.
Documented design of the Storage Protect Solution.
Transfer of information for the Storage Protect Solution.
Automated deployment of Storage Protect Server and Storage.
Client deployment and scheduling of up to four PowerVS servers
Testing of backups and the backup server’s automated housekeeping.