IBM GDPS

Automate mainframe tasks and disaster recovery to achieve resiliency goals

Continuous availability and rapid recovery

IBM® GDPS® is a family of disaster recovery and resiliency solutions built on IBM Parallel Sysplex® technology. It automates storage management, remote copy configuration, and failover across dispersed sites. With clustering, automation, and storage replication, GDPS ensures continuous availability, minimizes downtime, and enables rapid recovery from outages or cyber threats.

 Summary of features for GDPS 4.8
Continuous availability and automated failover

Ensures seamless operations by automatically switching workloads to alternate sites, minimizing downtime.
Multi-site resilience and disaster recovery

Supports synchronous and asynchronous replication for data integrity, rapid recovery, and business continuity.
Cyber resilience and data protection

Isolate and recover from cyberattacks or corruption using secured, tamper-proof backups.
Intelligent automation and compliance

Reduces manual intervention with orchestration, real-time monitoring, and support for regulatory requirements.

Solutions

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Provides automation, synchronous replication (Metro Mirror), and HyperSwap.

Orchestrates the recovery of systems that are using asynchronous replication (Global Mirror).

Combines the local near-continuous availability of GDPS Metro with the unlimited distance recovery options provided by GDPS Global.

Near real-time replication to update data to a second instance of a workload and to manage the distribution of work across both.

Resources

This automated, customized solution manages storage, remote copy, and Parallel Sysplex operations for seamless failure recovery.

Find products tested and qualified by IBM for use in GDPS environment and Server Time Protocol (STP).

Learn why you need to protect your business with IBM Z Cyber Vault to help you identify and rapidly recover from a cyber-attack if one affects your business.

Learn how to provide disaster recovery and high availability for Linux® on IBM Z using GDPS and IBM Tivoli® System Automation.

Explore courses and earn a GDPS Fundamentals badge by completing the course that provides foundational knowledge needed for on-the-job expertise.

Features of release 4.7 include the addition of Dual Control mode for LCP Manager, enhancements to Role-Based Security and GDPS Link Management.

Features of release 4.6 include the GDPS Reconfiguration Wizard, enhanced support for Role-Based Security and significant updates to LCP Manager.

Features of release 4.5 include a GDPS Enterprise Portal to view multiple GDPS environments, logical corruption protection enhancements and dynamic management of PPRC links.

Qualification reports IBM products

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 Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform™

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 EMC

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End of service GDPS 4.6

General availability: March 2023

End of service: March 2026

 GDPS 4.7

General availability: March 2024

End of service: March 2027

 GDPS 4.8

General availability: March 2025

End of service: March 2028
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