Installing the extended disaster recovery (xDR) feature

Today, businesses and companies depend on disaster recovery solutions to recover critical data. To solve this issue, System Automation for Multiplatforms supports GDPS/PPRC Multiplatform Resiliency on System z® (xDR).

Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex® (GDPS®) is an application availability and disaster recovery solution, which is highly customized to work with your z/OS® environment. It provides disaster and failure recovery from a single point of control and ensures data consistency. For more information about GDPS, see the IBM® Redbooks® publication GDPS Family - An Introduction to Concepts and Capabilities, which can be downloaded at IBM Redbooks.

System Automation for Multiplatforms extends GDPS/PPRC for Linux® systems that are running on System z. It provides a coordinated disaster recovery solution for systems that are running on

zSeries, including z/OS
Linux on System z under z/VM®
Linux on System z running native in the LPAR