In the world of enterprise IT, downtime is measured in the cost per second. For organizations running mission-critical workloads on IBM i (formerly AS/400, iSeries, System i), the difference between a minor interruption and a catastrophic business failure often comes down to one acronym: GDPS (Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex). However, with the introduction of tighter coupling between operating system releases and storage replication, the threshold known as 2.1 GDPS has become the new gold standard for near-zero Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
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Myth 1: It works with any storage.
False. 2.1 GDPS requires DS8880 or DS8900 series. It will not work with IBM FlashSystem (unless using SVC-based Metro Mirror, which is a different, non-2.1 architecture) or third-party arrays like Dell EMC or NetApp. Beyond High Availability: A Deep Dive into IBM i’s 2
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