MIGRATE WHILE ACTIVE

The Problem
The downtime caused by moving business-critical applications from one iSeries or System i to another can vary from many hours to several days. To compensate, your business either shuts down or users are forced to record transactions manually until the upgrade or migration is complete.

Of course, if unforeseen issues arise during the upgrade or migration process, downtime can balloon out of control causing a painful and expensive situation.

The Solution
Dramatically reduce the disruptive and potentially damaging consequences of downtime from system migrations with Vision Solution’s unique and affordable Upgrade/Migrate While Active™ solution. Using our award-winning High Availability technology, Vision technical consultants work with your IT Staff to populate business-critical data to your new System i and keep it synchronized with your production system in real time—all without downtime. Once your new System i is tested to your satisfaction, users and processes are moved to the new machine, typically causing only minutes of downtime.

Upgrade/Migrate While Active™ reduces downtime from system migrations
to minutes instead of days.

Take Your Time—Without Downtime
By having fully synchronized systems during upgrades migration, users continue to conduct their normal work on the production system while giving IT administrators time to run tests, audits, and day-end processes to verify objects on the new system prior to making the switch. If a problem is discovered, Upgrade/Migrate While Active™ continues to capture and track all changes made to the production system. Once issues with the new system are resolved, interim changes are automatically sent to the new machine bringing it quickly back into synchronization. All the while, your users continue to work without disruption.

When your new machine is ready to take over operations, Vision personnel work closely with your IT staff ensuring a smooth, fast transition to the new system.

Features of Upgrade/Migrate While Active™

Run parallel
All changes to the production system are automatically applied to your new system in real time. This lets you test your new system in its entirety—including interfaces—
on live production data before making the switch. It also lets users work
without interruption.

Mirror all system-critical objects
Upgrade/Migrate While Active™ mirrors data, user profiles, authorities, data areas, data queues, IFS, programs, spool files, and all other objects needed for a successful upgrade or migration.

Minimal downtime
A typical 24-hour system migration requires only minutes of downtime with Upgrade/Migrate While Active™.

Turn-key solution
From start to finish, Vision personnel work closely with your IT staff to install and configure the software, enable and monitor synchronization, and perform the final switch to your new machine.

Eliminate working nights and weekends during migrations
Save time and money by starting your upgrade or migration on a weekday and going live on a weekday.

Consolidate multiple iSeries/i5
Upgrade/Migrate While Active™ works easily and smoothly, whether migrating one machine to another or consolidating multiple machines to a central system.

Migrate While Active - Reduce downtime from system migrations