Recovery Simulator and CloneManager from Cristie Software now orderable through Passport Advantage
IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Software Announcement ZP14-0483October 7, 2014
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| At a glance |
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Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software V3.1.0 products:
- Provide organizations with peace of mind by giving them the ability to test that their data can be recovered reliably in the event of a potential disaster.
CloneManager from Cristie Software V2.1.0:
- Provides ability to do server migrations to and from physical, virtual and cloud environments.
- Includes the optional CloneManager Sync from Cristie Software product to synchronize source and target servers without having to do a full clone.
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| Overview |
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Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software V3.1.0 products provide an easy-to-use, automated software solution that tests whether a system can be successfully recovered from backups stored in IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager following a drive failure, system crash, or total site loss. This allows users to automate vital disaster recovery testing throughout the year, at minimal cost, as well as providing confidence that their system backups will recover reliably.
- Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for Bare Machine Recovery for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, an automated add-on for Cristie Bare Machine Recovery for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, tests whether a machine can be successfully recovered from the backups created by IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
- Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtualized Environments provides similar capability for backups created by Tivoli Storage Manager in virtualized environments.
These recovery simulation products allow users to automate disaster recovery testing throughout the year at minimal cost, and give them more reliable system backup recoveries.
CloneManager from Cristie Software V2.1.0 enhances the IBM portfolio in the areas of cloud and data mobility through its server migration capabilities.
- CloneManager enables the migration of servers in real-time (live) environments to physical, virtual, or cloud platforms with either similar or dissimilar physical hardware.
- CloneManager can help cloud and managed service providers migrate their customer's machines from their existing data centers.
- CloneManager is also well suited for enterprise customers who require server refreshes, migrations, data center moves, and data center consolidation.
- CloneManager Sync from Cristie Software is an optional component, which can periodically synchronize both target and source machine to create a standby at another location.
Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software and CloneManager from Cristie Software can now be ordered through Passport Advantage®.
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| Key prerequisites |
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Bare Machine Recovery for Tivoli Storage Manager is a prerequisite for Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for Bare Machine Recovery for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments is a prerequisite for Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtualized Environments.
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| Planned availability date |
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October 10, 2014: General availability
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| Description |
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Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software V3.1.0 products test whether a system can be successfully recovered from backups stored in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager after a drive failure, system crash, or total site loss.
Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for Bare Machine Recovery for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager:
- Provides demonstrable evidence of data and application recoverability for recovery compliance purposes.
Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtualized Environments enables users to perform a variety of testing, mining, and analytics actions on their data, virtual machines, and applications.
Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software V3.1.0 products also provide:
- An easy-to-use and automated add-on to Tivoli Storage Manager and Cristie Bare Machine Recovery for Tivoli Storage Manager products.
- Ability to test whether a machine can be successfully recovered from Tivoli Storage Manager and Cristie Bare Machine Recovery for Tivoli Storage Manager backups.
- Automatic creation of a virtual machine to test the recovery process.
- Success and failure reporting that is automatically emailed to nominated personnel.
- Confirmation that your system backups will recover reliably.
- Simulations on multiple servers.
- Token-based usage pricing metric (one-time use per token)
CloneManager from Cristie Software V2.1.0, which includes the optional CloneManager Sync from Cristie Software, enhances your portfolio in the areas of cloud and data mobility through its server migration capabilities.
- CloneManager from Cristie Software live environment allows users to remotely create and mount identical snapshots of live systems to be recreated on target machines.
- CloneManager console's interface with drag and drop functionality helps provide a streamlined and user-friendly way to clone or migrate businesses servers.
- CloneManager creates copies of running machines.
- CloneManager source and target machines can be physical, virtual, or cloud; cloud platforms currently supported include VMware vSphere, VMware vCLOUD, and Microsoft™ Hyper-V.
- CloneManager is an optimized transport mechanism for copying machines.
- CloneManager features:
- Agentless option so that no software needs to be installed on the source machine.
- CloneManager Sync from Cristie Software feature allows for live periodic synchronizations between the target and source machines without having to repeat a full migration process. Only data that has changed since the original cloning process is copied.
- Quicker transfers of data from source to target machines, even for those with large amounts of data or a low bandwidth connection.
- Scheduling automates how frequently machines are cloned.
- Real-time clones are created from live running machines.
- Disk selection users select only the relevant disks and volumes to be cloned.
- The configurations include-a range of options, such as the host name and IP address, that can be specified or changed on the target machine during the migration process.
- Discovery and tailoring helps correctly size the target machine based on an analysis of the source machine.
- Reporting and migration auditing event notifications are emailed to the user.
- Batch clones multiple concurrent migrations can be managed simultaneously.
CloneManager Sync from Cristie Software is an optional component of CloneManager, which can periodically synchronize both target and source machine to create a backup at another location and without having to repeat a full clone process. CloneManager Sync is for CloneManager users and has a unique part number and price from CloneManager from Cristie Software.
Accessibility by people with disabilities
A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) containing details on accessibility compliance can be requested at
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| Program number |
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Program Program number VRM name 5725-S25 3.1.0 Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software 5725-S26 2.1.0 CloneManager from Cristie Software
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information website
Also, visit the Passport Advantage website
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| Publications |
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No publications are shipped with these programs.
For Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software, refer to
For CloneManager from Cristie Software, refer to
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| Services |
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Global Technology Services®
Contact your IBM representative for the list of selected services available in your country, either as standard or customized offerings for the efficient installation, implementation, or integration of this product.
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| Technical information |
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
For Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software, refer to
For CloneManager from Cristie Software, refer to
Software requirements
Cristie Bare Machine Recovery for Tivoli Storage Manager is a prerequisite for Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for Bare Machine Recovery for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments is a prerequisite for Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtualized Environments.
For other requirements for the Recovery Simulator products from Cristie Software, refer to
For requirements for CloneManager from Cristie Software, refer to
The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a readme file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter. Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language.
Planning information
Packaging
These offerings are delivered through the Internet. There is no physical media. This program, when downloaded from a website, contains the applicable Cristie Software license agreement and License Information, if appropriate, and will be presented for acceptance at the time of installation of the program. For future reference, the license and License Information will be stored in a directory such as LICENSE.TXT.
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| Ordering information |
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
These products may only be sold directly by IBM or by authorized IBM Business Partners for Software Value Plus.
For more information about IBM Software Value Plus, visit
To locate IBM Business Partners for Software Value Plus in your geography for a specific Software Value Plus portfolio, visit
Product group: IBM Storage Management
Product category: Bare Machine Recovery
PID
Product Identifier Description number
Recovery Simulator from 5725-S25
Cristie Software
CloneManager from Cristie 5725-S26
Software
For ordering information, consult your IBM representative or authorized IBM Business Partner, or visit
Passport Advantage
Part
Program name/Description number
Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software (5725-S25)
Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for
Bare Machine Recovery for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
per token (50 pack) 3rd party offering D1A96LL
Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtualized Environments
per token (100 pack) 3rd party offering D1A97LL
CloneManager from Cristie Software (5725-S26)
CloneManager from Cristie Software
per token (10 pack) 3rd party offering D1A98LL
CloneManager Sync from Cristie Software
per token (100 pack) 3rd party offering D1A99LL
Charge metric
Part number or
Program name PID number Charge metric
Recovery 5725-S25 Tokens (sold in packs)
Simulator
from Cristie
Software
CloneManager 5725-S26 Tokens (sold in packs)
from Cristie
Software
Pricing definitions
- Token means the electronic signature collected from the Token Manager, which provides authorization for a single Recovery Simulator, CloneManager, or CloneManager Sync operation to run.
- Token Manager means the service that is installed on a machine to which Software License Keys are applied to increase the number of available tokens and from which Recovery Simulator, CloneManager, and CloneManager Sync tokens are consumed by source machines.
- Software License Key means the mechanism that enables the customer to install and use the software subject to the restrictions set out in the Cristie End User License Agreement and may be a digital key, a file or any other mechanism used by Cristie for license activation purposes. The Software License Key specifies the number of Recovery Simulator, CloneManager, and CloneManager Sync tokens purchased.
- Clone means to move or copy an operating system from one machine to another.
- CloneSync means to update a previously cloned target machine to a more recent image of the source machine.
- Source Machine means the machine that contains the operating system and applications that the customer desires to move or copy onto another machine.
- Target Machine means the machine that receives the operating system and applications, whether in the form of a physical machine without an operating system or a physical machine, which is running a virtual operating environment.
Pricing examples
Scenario 1
A customer wishes to acquire Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for Bare Machine Recovery for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for their environment, which has 14 physical source machines. The customer wants Cristie Recovery Simulator for semi-annual tests of their disaster recovery solution and must purchase 1 pack of 50 one-time use tokens to cover their estimated annual usage of 28 tokens (14 machines x 2 semi-annual tests) = 28 tokens with 50 per pack = 0.56 packs, rounds up to 1 pack of 50).
- Note: Tokens never expire, so in this scenario, the remaining tokens could be used in the subsequent year.
Scenario 2
A customer wishes to acquire Recovery Simulator from Cristie Software for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtualized Environments for their environment, which has 25 virtual machines. The customer wants Cristie Recovery Simulator for semi-monthly tests of their disaster recovery solution. The customer must purchase 1 pack of 100 one-time use tokens to cover their estimated annual usage of 50 tokens (25 machines x 2 semi-annual tests = 50 tokens with 100 tokens per pack = .5 packs, rounds up to 1 pack of 100).
- Note: Tokens never expire, so in this scenario, the remaining tokens could be used in the subsequent year.
Scenario 3
A customer wishes to acquire CloneManager from Cristie Software for their move to a new data center, which involves 10 physical machines and 20 virtual machines. The customer must purchase 3 packs of 10 one-time use tokens (10 physical machines + 20 virtual machines = 30 total machines with 10 tokens per pack = 3 packs of 10).
Scenario 4
A current CloneManager from Cristie Software customer wishes to acquire CloneManager Sync feature for CloneManager from Cristie Software to do monthly live synchronizations of their 15 servers that have been migrated through CloneManager from Cristie Software. The customer must purchase 8 packs of 100 one-time use tokens (15 cloud servers x 52 weeks = 780 tokens with 100 tokens per pack = 7.8 packs, rounds up to 8 packs of 100).
- Note: Tokens never expire, so in this scenario, the remaining tokens could be used in the subsequent year.
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| Terms and conditions |
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The information provided in this announcement letter is for reference and convenience purposes only. The terms and conditions that govern any transaction with IBM are contained in the applicable contract documents such as the IBM International Program License Agreement, IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement, and the IBM Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance.
This product is only available via Passport Advantage.
Licensing
Supplier's license terms apply.
Limited warranty
Not warranted by IBM. Warranty, if any, provided by supplier.
Volume orders
Not applicable
Educational allowance
No. Special education prices are available through Passport Advantage.
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| IBM Electronic Services |
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Electronic Service Agent™ and the IBM Electronic Support web portal are dedicated to providing fast, exceptional support to IBM Systems customers. The IBM Electronic Service Agent tool is a no-additional-charge tool that proactively monitors and reports hardware events, such as system errors, performance issues, and inventory. The Electronic Service Agent tool can help you stay focused on your company's strategic business initiatives, save time, and spend less effort managing day-to-day IT maintenance issues. Servers enabled with this tool can be monitored remotely around the clock by IBM Support, all at no additional cost to you.
Now integrated into the base operating system of AIX® V5.3, AIX V6.1, and AIX V7.1, Electronic Service Agent is designed to automatically and electronically report system failures and utilization issues to IBM, which can result in faster problem resolution and increased availability. System configuration and inventory information collected by the Electronic Service Agent tool also can be viewed on the secure Electronic Support web portal, and used to improve problem determination and resolution by you and the IBM support team. To access the tool main menu, simply type smitty esa_main, and select Configure Electronic Service Agent. In addition, ESA now includes a powerful web user interface, giving the administrator easy access to status, tool settings, problem information, and filters. For more information and documentation on how to configure and use Electronic Service Agent, refer to
The IBM Electronic Support portal is a single Internet entry point that replaces the multiple entry points traditionally used to access IBM Internet services and support. This portal enables you to gain easier access to IBM resources for assistance in resolving technical problems. The My Systems and Premium Search functions make it even easier for Electronic Service Agent tool-enabled customers to track system inventory and find pertinent fixes.
Benefits
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