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Vendor: IBM
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Complete, Scalable HA/DR Protection for IBM i

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Valuable Features

  • "The initial setup is straightforward. It's very easy to implement the solution. Deployment took about one hour. You only need one person for deployment and maintenance, so long as that person has a good background of administration and operation."

Room for Improvement

  • "The solution could use better dashboards for new users. They can look complicated until you get used to using the solution."
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What's New in MIMIX Availability 8.0?Today’s business environment demands continuous availability no matter what. Thousands of companies worldwide – from small businesses to global enterprises – count on MIMIX Availability to keep their data safe and their operations running smoothly. MIMIX Availability is the trusted industry leader in IBM i high availability and disaster recovery, protecting businesses from catastrophic events, server or storage failure, human error and even downtime normally associated with routine maintenance, queries, reports or backups.

MIMIX [EOL] was previously known as Vision Solutions MIMIX.

MIMIX [EOL] customers

ACG Automotive, Autoliv, Takataês Manufacturing, AMPORTS, Faurecia, Unipres, Wheeler Machinery Company, PennEngineering, Parsons Corporation, Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Ltd. India, Amway India

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IT Administrator at a museum or institution with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of MIMIX [EOL]
Mar 20, 2014
Data replication to a High Availability system is valuable but replication of files on the IFS system can be improved

What is most valuable?

Data replication to a High Availability system

How has it helped my organization?

We do a "switchover" to our backup system 3 times a year. This lets us know that everything is still OK (or we fix the issue before anyone signs on the system) and that we can run the business on the backup system. In case we have an emergency or a sudden issue on the production system, we can put our point of sale terminals in local mode for 1 hour, switch over to the backup system, verify that all is running OK. Then the POS systems can reconnect, and our users can sign on again and continue working.
*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Technical Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of MIMIX [EOL]
Jan 19, 2016
Product version discussed: 7.1.27
We use it for its high availability and data distribution, but while installation is easy, setup and configuration can be complicated.

What is most valuable?

I like its flexibility. I have been told that we have one of the most complex installations that Vision has ever had deployed. We replicate our environment outside of the normal parameters.

How has it helped my organization?

We use MIMIX in two forms – high availability and data distribution. High availability is used to replicate files from our production environment to our Colo. Data distribution is used to replicate data from one system to another and keeping the data synchronized automatically.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Application Manager with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of MIMIX [EOL]
Sep 25, 2017
Product version discussed: Enterprise 8.1
Enables custom machine real-time replication process with verification of destination

What is most valuable?

Complete/custom machine real-time replication process (including apply and verification of destination).

How has it helped my organization?

Used it just as DR solution, but can be used in other scenarios as well (like a 24x7 solution).

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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AS400 (iSeries) Senior System Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of MIMIX [EOL]
Aug 24, 2017
Product version discussed: 8.0.08
Most data discrepancies are solved automatically, but they need to fine tune the monitoring criteria to reduce false alarms.

What is most valuable?

The major advantages are:

  • Intuitive interface
  • Self-healing properties
  • Logical data structure and application philosophy
  • Low maintenance
  • Excellent support

How has it helped my organization?

It allowed us to have a stable, low maintenance, worry free disaster recovery solution that we can present to our management and our clients.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Server Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of MIMIX [EOL]
Jul 29, 2015
Product version discussed: 8.0
The product allows you to replicate critical data and system objects to a target server to be used for backups and failover, but the monitoring tools could be improved.

What is most valuable?

Replication Protection and Switching Capabilities. The product allows you to replicate critical data and system objects to a target server to be used for backups and failover.

How has it helped my organization?

We can perform system maintenance such as OS upgrades on the production system after switching the business to the target system.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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IT & Comm Infrastructure Operations at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Verified user of MIMIX [EOL]
Jul 20, 2015
Product version discussed: 8
In addition to high availability and disaster recovery, we can pre-stage sources for data warehousing. But, it needs faster remote journal entry reads in "fire mode".

What is most valuable?

We use all the features of the product. From our perspective, I think the most valuable are:

  • Complete planned/unplanned switch framework
  • Full stack of comparison reports (so called audit reports)
  • 95% integration with all new IBM i features that appears, including independent ASP

How has it helped my organization?

Apart from the fact that we are assured high availability and disaster recovery, we use this product for different purposes as well. This include remote site backups, pre-staging sources for data warehousing (integration with DoubleTake Share from same vendor), and to offload production for some critical reports.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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iSeries System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Verified user of MIMIX [EOL]
Aug 24, 2017
Product version discussed: 7.0
We were able to replicate from the live box to the backup machine in minutes without the need to use tapes, however the dashboard information is difficult to dissect to untrained users.

What is most valuable?

Replication speed - while CPU intensive with the right settings, even during peak I/O times, specifically End of Day processing, the replication was very quick, and only a matter of minutes in most cases.

How has it helped my organization?

For data replication purposes, we would migrate users from the live box to the backup machine in a matter of minutes. This was much quicker for the end user and required no restore from tapes.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Principal at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Verified user of MIMIX [EOL]
    Feb 20, 2014
    There is no true HA solution that allows you to take a machine out of your network and continue processing

    All of the vendors provide replication from a primary machine to a backup machine. The last real hands on experience and testing I did took 45 minutes to synch up a MIMIX based machine after cutting over to the backup machine.

    Sadly, unlike Linux or Unix you do not have real-time replication or load balanced system sharing that actually run parallel systems instead of primary & backup. This has been a huge shortcoming of OS/400 and IBM i forever. There may have been some improvement, but I've not seen them.

    There are some good data replication products for IBM, I like Mimix which I used. The key to my comments are the fact that this has been an area of weakness since the AS/400 was first shipped. While Mimix and other products can provide data replication between machines there is no true HA solution that allows you to take a machine out of your network and continue processing as you can with other platforms and OS's.

    For many IBM i customers data and object replication can be sufficient if you thoroughly review your program change management, security administration, network administration, etc. and make sure that:

    1. You do not lose in flight data or that you know what you lose when you cut over.
    2. Any programs that have been updated or changed on your primary machine are replicated to your back up machine.
    3. Any other resources besides data or programs are replicated and synchronized.
    4. User profiles and other security settings are synchronized, and
    5. You have a network configuration that allows you to switch users to your backup machine.

    This is not trivial and this really sets the vendors apart from each other. But keep in mind. Unlike modern could based scenarios you CANNOT balance your work load across multiple IBM i based systems and simply take one offline and keep on processing. You can do this on other platforms including Unix, Linux, and Windows.

    *Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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