{"id":375,"date":"2022-01-17T18:29:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T17:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m81-2022.m81.eu\/?p=375"},"modified":"2022-09-28T20:06:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:06:51","slug":"flash-for-i-new-version-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m81.eu\/fr\/flash-for-i-new-version-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash for i nouvelle version 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

M81 a annonc\u00e9 la version 4 de son produit ‘amiral’: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFLASH for i\u201d !<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

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Find below <\/strong>the description of ‘Flash for i’ product …
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This new version 4 has been presented <\/span>during many webinars, beginning of March<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/span><\/span> .>>>>>>> in English <\/span><\/span>> Tuesday Mar 09, 2:30 PM > Thursday, Mar 11, 2:30 PM <\/span><\/p>\n

>>>>>>> auf Deutsch <\/span>> Dienstag, der 2. M\u00e4rz, 14:30 Uhr . <\/span>> Donnerstag, der 4. M\u00e4rz, 14:30 Uhr <\/span><\/p>\n

.>>>>>>> en Fran\u00e7ais <\/span><\/span>> Mardi, 9 mars \u00e0 16h00 > Jeudi, 11 mars \u00e0 16h00 <\/span><\/p>\n

View the recorded videos of the webinars [<\/em><\/strong>here<\/a><\/em><\/span>]<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

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Detail of the version 4 of the well-known \u201cFlash for i\u201d product: to enhance the usage of External Storage <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available for 5 years, installed in more than 200 LPARs in 12 countries, you certainly already know the \u2018Flash for i\u2019 product.<\/p>\n

It brings to the IBM i the extremely powerful SnapShot\/FlashCopy function (= instant copy<\/strong>) of the external storage units.<\/p>\n

Mainly the usages of such a product<\/strong> were to completely automate the creation of a clone of your IBM i partition, and on this clone partition to do:<\/p>\n

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  1. a daily Save almost without interruption of Users and Jobs (with or without BRMS)
    \nNote: some users are now making daily Save21 instead of doing classic backups. Cloning all the disks of the system ASP (and\/or the independent ASP\u2019s) takes generally less than 2 minutes, so here is no reason not to make a full system backup from the cloned partition as there are no time constraints on this cloned partition\u2026<\/li>\n
  2. off-line data extraction, for example to feed a DataWarehouse.<\/li>\n
  3. many copies (clones) every day to be able to recover in case of a Database corruption (= degradation caused by a program bug, damaged files, deletion of tables by clumsiness or by constructive malice, malware \u2026).
    \nNote: IBM\u2019s external storage OS (called \u2018IBM Spectrum Virtualize software\u2019) offers another extremely powerful function called \u201cReverse FlashCopy\u201d. That means, that using some specific commands you can ask to the storage to reverse the Production disks to the Cloned disks\u2026 This \u201cswap\u201d is instantaneous, and your Clone partition can immediately become the Production partition, while in the background the storage copies a large amount of real data from Prod to Cloned disks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n