As demand rises for usable clones, database administrators are tasked with managing an increased amount of application environments. Traditional methods for creating these environments require downtime and are lengthy, resource-intensive, manual processes.
The Rocket solution uses storage-based fast-replication to copy the volumes that contain your IMS subsystem data and database data. Fast-replication allows all data to be replicated nearly instantaneously, reducing copy time to a sub-second window thus maximizing the availability of the source IMS subsystem. Using storage-based fast-replication also lowers the cost of cloning by offloading the host resources normally used to copy the data to the storage processor, saving host CPU and I/O resources.
Customers who cloned their entire production system have gone from a several-day process to an average of 30 minutes to complete the entire cloning process.