NetWorker Client for Linux on the Mainframe

IBM zSeries and S/390

NetWorker Client for Linux on the Mainframe (NCLM) provides automated, robust backup and recovery of business-critical Linux data on the IBM zSeries and S/390 mainframes. NCLM delivers the manageability, scalability, and enterprise-class performance of NetWorker to ensure fast, reliable, "lights out" protection for tens to thousands of Linux Virtual Machines (VM) on a single mainframe in DAS or SAN environments. NCLM is a part of Unylogix total information protection solution for data centers to minimize downtime costs, reduce management overhead, and maximize ROI of storage resources.

NCLM integrates with a NetWorker Server and/or NetWorker Storage Node to backup data over the LAN to disk or tape. A central NetWorker administrator GUI serves as the single point of control for all NetWorker activity, including protection of additional Unix, Windows, NetWare and Linux servers in the data center. Automated full, incremental or differential backups of the Linux clients are easily configured using intuitive client resource templates for IBM mainframe that guide setup. Further setup is handled using calendar-based scheduling and advanced media management features standard in NetWorker. Users and administrators can easily browse backup indexes and recover files or entire volumes as required.


Features & Benefits

    Automatically and reliably protect thousands of Linux images residing on a single IBM zSeries or S/390 mainframe to minimize downtime, reduce administrative overhead, and maximize ROI of storage resources

    Standardize on one application in the data center to protect Unix, Linux, Windows, Novell servers - and Linux on the IBM Mainframe!

    Deliver manageability, scalability and performance of NetWorker into mainframe environment (and new revenue opportunity!)

      Robust, scalable client-server architecture

      Parallelism (up to 512 simultaneous streams), multiplexing, data compression

      Backup and staging to disk

      Advanced Media Management, Library and Dynamic Drive Sharing, Silo support

      Fully leverage LAN, SAN and WAN connectivity

    Securely protect 31-bit SuSE and RedHat Linux applications running among three common alternatives on IBM S/390 and zSeries:

      Native

      Logical Partitions (LPARS)

      Virtual Machine (VM) Guest

    Full, incremental or differential backups of the Linux clients are easily configured using intuitive client resource templates for IBM mainframe that guide setup

    Backup data to any supported media devices or on disk, via NetWorker Server or Storage Nodes.


NetWorker Client for Linux on the Mainframe is available for the following IBM mainframe hardware:

    IBM zSeries

    z800

    z900

    IBM S/390 Series

    MP3000 Systems

    9672 Systems (G5/G6)