IBM Total Storage

Virtual SAN Extension over Distance with Inter-Fabric Routing

FICON CTC Connectivity

Global Mirror Over Distance WithStorwize V7000

z10 / z196 – FICON Express4 Interoperability

Layer 2 Extension

OASIS Monitoring System for IBM BC&RS solutions

PowerHA System Mirror for iSeries

Three (3) Site XRC Replication over 1.000Km

xSeries DiskCopy FAStT-600 (DS-4300)

iSeries Remote Tape Backup LTO

XRC for ESS-800

XRC in Multi-system environment (ESS-800, DS-8300, HDS)

xSeries Remote Tape Backup LTO

zSeries DiskCopy for DS-8300 over MAN/WAN

zSeries DiskCopy in Multi-system environment over WAN
with LightSand FICON extension gateways

Solution Description:
The i-7100F FICON extension gateways utilized to extend FICON channel over MAN/WAN. The solution is exercised in customer production environment in cooperation with IBM BCRS, Portugal. The DiskCopy is used to replicate customer's data from STK storage arrays at customer location to ESS-800 on the IBM BCRS recovery site.

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Remote SAN Fabrics Integration / FC Router

Solution Description:
Autonomous Regions-Domain Address Translation (AR/DAT) enables connectivity and management of dissimilar local or remote SAN fabrics with improved security and scalability.

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Storage Virtualization with SVC for Extended SAN Topologies

Solution Description:
The solution provides for the virtualization of remotely located storage for both local and remote hosts access.

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SAN Isolation and Internetworking of Heterogeneous SAN Fabrics

PtP VTS (Virtual Tape)

Metro/Global Copy (Asynchronous Cascading PPRC/PPRC-XD)
with LightSand SAN extension gateways

Solution Description:
LightSand i-8100B FC extension gateways used to extend FC channel over the MAN/WAN. IBM equipment included: IBM zSeries z/990 servers, ESS-800 and DS8300 storage subsystems. The effective extension distance is 44km.

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Ready for IBM Tivoli software

Solution Description:
LightSand iSeries is validated as Ready for IBM Tivoli software with the IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator.

LightSands iSeries Automation package for TIO and more details are available here.

Product Solutions

XRC FICON over Distance with LightSand's Storage Gateways

Solution Description:
LightSand's S-series and i-Series gateways provide long distance extension for IBM's latest z/OS and OS/390 disk mirroring solution with XRC (eXtended Remote Copy) FICON over Wide Area Networks.

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i-8100B - Eight port FCIP Switching Gateway for Remote SAN Apps

Solution Description:
Allows remote SAN connectivity over routed IP networks with optimized performance.

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