VFI for OS/390 & z/OS

Bringing Intelligence to backup and Recovery

The VFI Product Family, the only truly automated, intelligent enterprise solution for backup and recovery management. In use by major corporations all over the world. VFI is not another backup program, but a higher-level system that enhances the capabilities of utilities and technology you already own, leveraging popular enterprise backup systems, mirroring or replication and virtual tape systems. VFI automatically monitors and analyzes file activity in real-time, identifying critical files for easy backup and recovery and applies this knowledge by directing your backup utilities to copy just the files needed for recovery. The result is a streamlined backup process that saves you time and money and yet provides the best data protection available.

VFI for OS/390 & z/OS automates the recovery process on IBM S/390 OS/390 & z/OS processing platforms and has proven to be a valuable tool for data center consolidation moves. Identification and backup of critical data for testing is easily accomplished at an application level.

Overview

VFI is an integrated software product that enables Data Center personnel to identify, backup, and recover vital tape and disk files. Output from VFI is a combination of reports, JCL, and other control information that automates much of the backup and recovery of your vital files.

VFI enables you to automatically Identify, Backup, and Recover files vital to Your Mission-Critical Applications.

VFI for OS/390 & z/OS automates:

› Critical File Identification and Reporting
› Verification of Existing Backup JCL
› Creation of Backup JCL
› Backup Process Verification
› Off-Site Location Auditing and Reporting
› Restore Capability

Features

› DR/VFI automates key components of the Disaster Recovery Plan:

› On-going identification and inventory of critical application files

› Provision of an appropriate backup and recovery method for critical files

› Verification that the Recovery method is in-place and valid at the Recovery Site

› Re-cataloging and Restoration of Critical Files at the Recovery Site

› Auditing of critical applications to identify changes to the current Recovery process

› DR/VFI SMF Extractor provides real-time collection of SMF data

› Enhanced ABARS Integration

› DB2 Support

› Easily Coded User Exits

› Simple Installation

Benifits

The many benefits of DR/VFI include:

Faster Recovery Time which enables you to get back online immediately by restoring only the applications that are absolutely critical to your business.

Time and Storage Savings by backing up only mission-critical files on a daily basis rather than all application files. Files are either backed up by utilizing existing backup tools or added through a scanner process.

Centralized Tracking of backup data provides a repository of information necessary for recovery.

Enhanced ABARS capability through verification, monitoring and selective recovery of backups. Aggregates are verified and corrected before being submitted to DFHSM.

SMF Extractor which provides real-time SMF data collection. Use of this incremental process provides a mechanism for SMF data collection in single, multiple, or sysplex environments.

DB2 Support which provides verification of tablespace backups and off-site rotation.

Critical Tape Support with a tape copy process that copies critical tapes to tape volumes that are rotated off-site and is transparent to the user. It makes tapes available without respooling tapes or modifying production JCL.