Simple, scalable business continuity in the cloud and on-premises
Maintain Business Continuity
When an emergency or disaster strikes, role swap to your on-premise or cloud backup server so your business can continue within minutes. Our expert-led support services will ensure that your disaster recovery will work when you need it the most.
Maximize Uptime
Use your secondary system to perform nightly backups, queries, and planned maintenance activities without impacting your production system.
Refine Data Replication
Replicate all of production or only select libraries and programs. Your data is available on your target server instantly.
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Key High Availability Software Features
Protect data with instant replication
Using remote journaling and a high-speed apply routine, Robot HA can replicate 188 million journal transactions per hour across any distance—physical or virtual—and apply the data the moment it is received, which means that your hot backup is always a real-time copy of production.
Audit role swap readiness
Get peace of mind by confirming that you are ready to role swap at any moment. Manually trigger a role swap audit as needed or set it up to run at regular intervals. You can configure the audit to examine the objects that are most important to your data center. Robot HA can even help you automatically recover some of the issues the audit may reveal. After the audit runs, you can see at a glance if your system passed or escalate the results via email or by using Robot Alert.
You can see this information displayed graphically in our web interface dashboard below.
Simplify role swaps
Robot HA makes it easy for you to test using different role swap scenarios to verify that replication is done correctly. Even test while users are still using production to minimize business disruption. The process of switching to your on-premise or cloud backup system is automated, so you can achieve your mandated recovery time objective (RTO) when disaster strikes.
Monitor your high availability environment
Robot HA automatically monitors all aspects of replication—including replication tasks in error, excessive transport or apply lags, user-defined conditions, and more—and sends notification for any issues that need attention, so you can quickly confirm that your hot backup system is ready for a role swap.
You can see this information displayed graphically in our web interface dashboard below.
Robot Console, Robot Monitor, and Halcyon can also be used to monitor Robot HA.
Automatically resync production and backup data
Robot HA is self-healing. It continuously audits and repairs objects and integrated file system (IFS) directories to ensure they match production. This synchronization process ensures that your data is up to date on the hot backup system and frees up your operators to focus on more important tasks.
Implement with ease
With Robot HA’s Robot GUIDE, you can have Robot HA up and running in a matter of minutes. All you have to do is enter the license code to initiate deployment and identify the backup source system in order to secure business continuity for your organization. The appropriate journals, subsystems, and transport layer are created automatically, minimizing the manual efforts involved in implementation. Additionally, this IBM i high availability solution can be adjusted from the default settings, allowing you to refine the way it runs in your environment.
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Leverage Our IBM i HA/DR Expertise
To ensure sustained success with Robot HA, customers can leverage the unparalleled experience of Fortra’s very own Robot HA team. Our service tiers include:
Robot HA Care Basic
- Meet quarterly
- Complete a Role Swap Readiness Checklist
- Deliver Certificate of Role Swap Readiness
- Perform a Role Swap While Active during business hours
- Perform a Full Role Swap off-hours
Robot HA Care
- Includes Robot HA Care Basic
- Fortra provides weekly status reports, analysis, and metrics to customers.
Robot HA Care Plus
- Includes Robot HA Care
- Fortra monitors customer systems daily (business days)
- Fortra provides hands-on remediation when necessary
With Robot HA support services, customers can sleep well knowing their HA/DR processes have received the stamp of approval from our experts.
Data Replication Done Your Way
IBM i high availability doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Whether it’s all your user data and applications or just a few libraries, with Robot HA you decide what to replicate. Go granular or get it all, either way you are maximizing production uptime by replicating your irreplaceable business data to your on-premise or cloud backup site.
Pairs Well with IBM PowerHA
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i is robust, but it may not cover all your bases on IBM i. And by bases, we mean SYSBAS. Not every application utility can run in an independent auxiliary storage pool (IASP). Watch this video to learn how a software-based solution like Robot HA can close the gaps by adding flexibility and providing replication for data and applications in SYSBAS—and even replicate data out of your IASP to another server or partition.
Proven Business Continuity in the Cloud and On-Premises
Hundreds of organizations rely on this technology for business continuity on IBM i. Robot HA delivers the ease-of-use you need to establish high availability at your organization plus advanced features—including trigger programs, physical file constraints, library rename capabilities, and bi-directional synchronization—to accommodate even the most complex environments.
Robot HA supports your IBM i cloud initiative by replicating data in real time to both local and cloud servers. Don’t have a DR site? Our disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering helps you get to hybrid cloud faster. You can replicate to our cloud server, perform cloud backups, and even do cloud recovery all on a subscription basis.
If you're thinking about migrating your IBM i data and applications to a new server, to a new data center, or to the cloud, Robot HA can help! You can use Robot HA to replicate your data to the target server and keep it in sync with your source system until you're ready to make the switch—all with near-zero downtime.
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24/7 business demands 24/7 system and application availability. When you’re ready to avoid downtime—be it planned or unplanned—Robot HA is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to establish high availability at your organization.