Speed, simplify, and secure migrations while minimizing disruption
With BMC AMI Storage Migration solutions, you can:
- Employ dataset allocations that maximize performance and resource utilization, while minimizing disruption and administrative effort.
- Address migration requirements, while meeting stringent service level agreements.
- Consolidate datasets onto higher-capacity disk volumes, so teams can maximize resource and administrative efficiency.
- Consistently and efficiently address data erasure requirements with confidence.
- Streamline migration and erasure efforts to help minimize errors and risk.
Key capabilities
FDRPAS: Fast and safe non-disruptive DASD migration
- Reduces the disruption and application downtime associated with moving whole DASD volumes to new devices
- Migrates DASD volumes within a single system or attached to multiple systems or LPARS in a shared-DASD sysplex environment
- Multiple volumes, up to 8,000 or more, can be swapped concurrently and non-disruptively with operating systems, applications, and online systems
- Supports major hardware providers including IBM®, EMC, Hitachi, and Sun StorageTek
- Swapping can occur between disks of the same type and vendor, or between disks of different vendors
FDRPASVM: Non-disruptive migration of z/VM and Linux
- Reduces disruption and application downtime associated with moving whole DASD volumes to new devices for z/VM and Linux® on Z volumes
- Can be used to swap multiple volumes concurrently and non-disruptively for z/VM users while tracking all updates made by z/VM and virtual machine guests
- Supports non-disruptive migration of volumes containing z/VM mini-disks, full pack mini-disks, volumes dedicated to CMS users, Linux on Z, and other guests’ file systems
FDRERASE: Quick and secure data erasure
- Quickly and securely erases z/OS® DASD data from disk volumes
- Use at the end of a disaster recovery exercise when decommissioning a disk control unit; after re-assigning disk volumes; or when necessary to erase residual data to meet auditing requirements
- Has earned multiple industry certifications including the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS) evaluation and Common Criteria EAL2 Augmented validation for disk erasure
- Complies with U.S. Government guidelines for erasing computer disks prior to disposal
FDRMOVE: High-speed dataset move and volume consolidation
- Provides high-performance, non-disruptive or minimally-disruptive movement of z/OS data sets
- Can move data sets between disk volumes in the same disk subsystem, or between disk volumes in different subsystems and between different hardware manufacturers
- Ideal for volume consolidation (e.g. consolidating data from three 3390-3’s to a single 3390-9) and to free up UCBs where the number is restrained by operating system limits
- Use for load balancing to reduce I/O contention within a single DASD subsystem
FATSCOPY: Tape conversion and stacking
- z/OS tape copy, consolidation, migration, and conversion solution that automates the process of copying and re-cataloging tape-based datasets from one tape media to another including Virtual Tape, Vtape, and VTS systems
- Supports copying individual files or the entire contents of one or more tape volumes
- Automatically stacks and consolidates files onto output tapes and re-catalogs copied files to new tapes
- Supports all physical and virtual z/OS tape devices including IBM TS7700, Oracle VTS, Dell EMC DLm, Bus-Tech MDL, Fujitsu Centricstor, and Hitachi VTF
- Supports the following tape management systems: BMC Control-M/Tape, IBM RMM, CA 1, CA TLMS, and ASG Zara
FATS/FATAR: Tape media utilities
- Secure data erasure for full or partial tape, tape mapping, tape error recovery, tape labeling, tape media certification and verification of legacy, historical, and archive tapes
- Erases some or all data on a physical z/OS tape, including the residual data that lies beyond the current “end-of-tape” marker
- Examines the labels and data on a tape volume
- Copies a tape with the option of renaming or reblocking copied data sets
- Copies a tape with user-specified modifications to alter or drop blocks causing I/O errors