Find products tested and qualified by IBM for use in GDPS environment and Server Time Protocol (STP).
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View results of qualification testing of the following IBM products:
R8.5 qualifications (PDF 887 KB)
R9.0 qualifications (PDF 127 KB)
R9.2 qualifications (PDF 318 KB)
R9.3 qualifications (PDF 182 KB)
View results of qualification testing of the following Hitachi VSP products:
VSP G1500/F1500 & 5000 Series Qualification Test Paper (PDF 5.5 MB)
VSP G1500 Dual Leg qualifications (PDF 402 KB)
VSP 5000 qualifications (PDF 796 KB)
VSP 5000 basic qualification (PDF 130 KB)
VSP G1500 qualifications (PDF 458 KB)
View results of qualification testing of Dell EMC PowerMax 8000 product (PDF 149 KB).
New capabilities include a GDPS Enterprise Portal to view multiple GDPS environments, logical corruption protection enhancements and dynamic management of PPRC links.
New features included improved logical corruption protection capabilities, plus GDPS RESTful API and dynamic capacity management extensions.
General availability: March 2020
End of service: March 2023
General availability: March 2021
End of service: March 2024
General availability: March 2020
End of service: March 2023
General availability: March 2022
End of service: March 2025
General availability: March 2023
End of service: March 2026
Explore available courses (link resides outside of IBM.com) from IBM and LearnQuest to develop your GDPS skills. You can also earn a GDPS Fundamentals badge by completing the fundamentals course which provides foundational knowledge that is needed for on-the-job expertise.
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Learn about IBM GDPS active-active offering and the role it plays in achieving resiliency.
Learn about disaster recovery and high availability for Linux on IBM Z using GDPS and IBM® Z System Automation.
Designed for continuous availability and rapid disaster recovery, IBM zSystems (with GDPS) provides industry-leading resiliency to protect your business from downtime.
GDPS LCP Manager is a core component of the IBM Z Cyber Vault solution, integrated into the backbone of your zSystems infrastructure.
Learn how remote copy function with automation drive IBM’s multi-site application availability solution.
Learn IT infrastructure resilience strategies to solve business continuity challenges, based on a banking use case.
Learn how to integrate Linux on IBM Z under z/VM in a GDPS environment to provide continuous availability and disaster recovery.
Footnotes
Installation services include: Synchronous Metro Mirror, Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC), Asynchronous Extended Remote Copy (XRC), Asynchronous Global Mirror (GM) disk data mirroring and software-based replication via IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for z/OS (for Db2®, IMS and VSAM data using the GDPS Continuous Availability solution).
Disk replication protocols: GDPS is designed to work with Metro Mirror (PPRC), z/OS Global Mirror (XRC) or Global Mirror disk replication protocols supported by the DS8000 family and made available to vendors. Some disk features require specific commands to be sent to the disk subsystem.