On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 07:33:55 -0400, Jousma, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What does your EMC Sales Rep say about this? I believe that EMC has >their own "GDPS" offering called GDDR. I know that the EMC disk ss >supposed to be able to do PPRC, but everytime I ask that here, all I get >is that it is "Flakey", and the issue goes no further. If you have >already made the jump into GDPS, you better make sure your contract >people put language in any new contracts with EMC that what they are >selling you will continue to support your GDPS infrustructure or they >pull the DASD out at no cost to you..... > EMC's GDDR is a bit different from GDPS. Right now EMC's product, SRDF, is a DASD controller to DASD controller based operation. The controllers are commanded from EMC's Host software running in an LPAR. You control the DR controller from the host system. People asked for a way to control the DR controller from the DR site. EMC's solution is to have you run a z/OS LPAR at the DR site which runs EMC's Host software component. Then you somehow get access to z/OS in the DR site and do commanding locally. So GDDR gives you the facility to do all this. The advantage of the DASD controller to DASD controller operations is the lack software licensing fees. Running GDDR would mean paying EMC for the remote Host software not to mention IBM for the z/OS software of the LPAR. My question to EMC is could it be z/OSe or its follow-on which I think is eWLC pricing. Then we have the ISV's who will most certainly claim you are running images at the DR site and want you to license all their products because they are installed on the machine and you are running z/OS all the time. Last time I checked all the majors and many minors, they want money. The implication from EMC is GDDR was meant for SRDF. I never asked about PPRC. Jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
