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Release Notes

Version 7.3 SP2

IBM Resiliency Orchestration Release Notes 7.3 SP2

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CONTENTS

Introduction....................................................................................................................... 4

Acronyms........................................................................................................................... 4

What’s New in IBM Resiliency Orchestration Release 7.3 SP2 ............................................ 5 Solutions ................................................................................................................................. 5

Other Enhancements ......................................................................................................... 6 Customer Tickets ..................................................................................................................... 6 Compatibility Information ........................................................................................................ 7

Supported Platforms .................................................................................................................... 7 Supported Browsers ..................................................................................................................... 8

New Installation IBM Resiliency Orchestration ......................................................................... 8 Upgrade of IBM Resiliency Orchestration .................................................................................. 8 Known Limitations ................................................................................................................... 8

Previous Releases .............................................................................................................. 9

Version 7.3 P2 .......................................................................................................................... 9 Version 7.3 .............................................................................................................................. 9

Features ....................................................................................................................................... 9 Solutions..................................................................................................................................... 11 Enhancements ............................................................................................................................ 11 Platform Upgrades ..................................................................................................................... 11 Customer Tickets ........................................................................................................................ 11



Introduction

This document captures information on the new product features, DR solutions supported,

enhancements, and known limitations of IBM Resiliency Orchestration Release 7.3, 7.3 P2, 7.3

SP2.

Acronyms

Acronym Definition

ADC Application Defined Continuity

AG Application Group

API Application Programming Interface

CLI Command Line Interface

CSM Copy Service Manager

DR Disaster Recovery

DRaaS Disaster Recovery as a Service

FO Failover

FOTE Failover Test Exercise

RAL Recovery Automation Library

RG Recovery Group

RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux

RPO Recovery Point Objective

RTO Recovery Time Objective

SB Switchback

SO Switchover

SP Service Pack, Spectrum Protect

SR System Replicator

SRS Sybase Replication Server

UI User Interface

VPG Virtual Private Group

COS Cloud Object Storage

CR Cyber Resiliency

CIR Cyber Incident Recovery

SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

PIT Point in Time

LPAR Logical Partition



What’s New in IBM Resiliency Orchestration Release

7.3 SP2

Solutions IBM Resiliency Orchestration support for IBM Spectrum Protect

The IBM Resiliency Orchestration software adds DR management capability for the IBM

Spectrum Protect solution with node replication capability.

The IBM Spectrum Protect™ software provides automated, centrally scheduled, policy-

managed backup and restore for Application Subsystems/File systems and Microsoft SQL

Databases through client operation tasks. This backup software helps customers to protect

vital enterprise data, restore from backup during any disaster which minimizes the data loss

and operational cost. For additional data protection and data recovery, the Spectrum Protect

server can be setup with the node replication capability.

In this release, the IBM Resiliency Orchestration software provides the DR management

capabilities such as monitoring of Backup SLAs, Failover, Failover Test Exercise and recovery for MS SQL Databases and Application Subsystems with point in time.

Highlights

• Extending Orchestration and Automation for Spectrum Protect Backup based Data

Protection/Recovery/DR solution.

• The new version of the software supports the following Application Subsystems and

Databases

o Supported Database: MS SQL

o Supported File-systems: AIX - JFS, RHEL, SUSE - EXT Windows: NTFS

o IBM Spectrum Protect server 8.1.x. Supported OS - AIX7.2 and Windows 2016

o Supported Backup clients Operating System: Windows 2016, AIX 7.2, SUSE

12.0, RHEL 7.3.

• The new release of the IBM Resiliency Orchestration software discovers Spectrum

protect Backup configuration, Inventory information and other related information.

• The Resiliency Orchestration software discovers the protected backup client nodes,

for Spectrum protect backup/restore activities.

• IBM Resiliency Orchestration software discovers the Node Replication to monitor

status for configured Backup client nodes and generates notification for any state

change.

• Bulk Upload Utility: For the IBM Spectrum Protect solution, Bulk Upload utility is provided to create multiple recovery groups, application groups for MSSQL and Application Subsystem solutions in a single command.

• The new release of the IBM Resiliency Orchestration software provides following

monitoring and notification features for the protected nodes and discovered

components

o Spectrum protect server management component and Backup client protect

node state monitoring



o Replication Monitoring - The orchestrator engine runs Business process

workflow to monitor discovered Backup client node for the replication and

provides details.

▪ It monitors the Node Replication status for the backup client and

computes real time RPO with defined backup schedule and

replication schedule setup.

▪ Datalag for the protected backup node between primary and target

Spectrum protect server.

▪ Replication Status, Backup information, Defined backup and

replication schedule status.

▪ If there is any deviation or breach to SLA, it generates events for the

action.

• Generate reports on various continuity management and monitoring metrics that

includes RPO, RTO, and continuity operations.

• The new release of the IBM Resiliency Orchestration software provides the DR Drill

and recovery workflow engine with set of pre- checks for Failover Test for DR Testing

and recovery purpose.

System Z Mainframe (zLPAR) Protection with IBM CSM (Sysplex)

A Sysplex or system complex is a collection of z/OS systems (LPARs) that cooperate, using certain hardware and software products, to process work. It is a clustering technology that can provide near-continuous availability.

As data is shared across Sysplex, the recovery process is complex. IBM Resiliency Orchestrator is providing DR recovery and drill workflows with capabilities to bring down the primary systems cleanly by stopping all services, recover the data from primary to recovery site using global mirroring. Recovery Automation Library to define the coupling facility policies and bring up the recovery site as primary.

Other Enhancements • The IBM Resiliency orchestrator added the Dryrun capabilities for the existing SAP

HANA Drills.

• Custom Replicator framework is extended to build monitor replication page in web

format also along with text format.

Customer Tickets The following customer tickets have been addressed and are included in the release:

Ticket No Description

TS001171730 Validation Manager Issue for SQL AlwaysOn Solution: We have created RG with Always-On solution, while executing the default validation rules, it is executing but come out with no errors/outputs.

TS001160069 Unable to display relationship details: DB showing in degraded. mode and unable to display relationship details.

TT3818 SFR service is going down Immediately due to sfr db corrupted: SFR DB is corrupted



TS000958830 Facing issue in SFR configuration fine tuning: When SFR db corrupted our sfr service will not start. Step to reproduce the issue: In general lab scenario, we will not see this kind of issue as we are not replicating with huge data. Will give the customer a corrupted db file so that QA can test

TS001374429 SAP HANA - Low touch wizard - looping during Primary database discovery : Previous we used to set sudo setting on SAPHANA machines to do the discovery of SAPHANA and activities. Currently logic to work with out enabling sudo on SAPHANA, for that need to add the following properties : Add the below properties in PanacesAgentGenric.cfg file under /opt/panaces/remote/<Remote_IP>/installconfig folder (for both PR and DR machine IPs): Property 1: HDBLCM_COMMAND_PATH=<locate hdblcm and give that command path here as a value> Example for Property 1: HDBLCM_COMMAND_PATH=/usr/sap/HDB/hdblcm/ (In PR/DR machine go to the hdblcm folder and run 'hdblcm -a client -L’ command and check whether it is executing or not and then replace that path in PanacesAgentGenric.cfg file). Property 2: SAPHANA_PROFILE_PATH=<profile path of the user used for component credentials> Example for Property 2: SAPHANA_PROFILE_PATH=/usr/sap/RF2/home/.profile

TS001083491 DRM event notification, SUBJECT need to be changed to integrate in customer auto-ticket-logging system

TS001291734 Data Lag not Getting Published: Data RPO is not showing in the GUI.

TS001083491 DRM event notification, SUBJECT need to be changed to integrate in customer auto-ticket-logging system

Compatibility Information

Supported Platforms

IBM Resiliency Orchestration Server is available for installation on the following platform:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1: Tested with MariaDB 10.1.17

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, 7.3,7.4: Tested with MariaDB 10.1.19

IBM Resiliency Orchestration Agents are available for installation on the following platforms:

• RHEL version 5.6, 6.0/6.3/6.4/6.5/6.8, 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3/7.4

• AIX v6.1 ML-03, v6.1 TL7, v7.1 TL3, v7.2

• Solaris 10, Solaris 11 on both SPARC as well as on x86

• HPUX version 11.31



• CentOS 6.5

• Windows 2012 Enterprise Edition

• Windows 2012 Data-center

• Windows 2016 Standard Edition

• JAVA Platform JRE 1.8.0.171 – HPUX, AIX, SUSE, Solaris, WIN 2016.

• JAVA Platform JRE 1.8.0.181 – WIN 2012 and RHEL 6.x and 7.x

Supported Browsers

IBM Resiliency Orchestration is compatible with the following browsers:

• Firefox 52 and above

• Chrome 55 and above

New Installation of IBM Resiliency Orchestration

Refer to IBM Resiliency Orchestration 7.3 SP2 Installation Guide for prerequisites, system

requirements, and installation steps to install IBM Resiliency Orchestration Software and its

components.

Upgrade of IBM Resiliency Orchestration

Refer to IBM Resiliency Orchestration 7.3 SP2 Upgrade Guide for prerequisites, system

requirements, and steps to upgrade to IBM Resiliency Orchestration Software.

Known Limitations

• Application Groups created using IBM Spectrum Protect bulk upload feature can be deleted from GUI; however, the entries related to the Application Group is not deleted from the DB. The user will not have an option to delete Recovery Group.

• IBM Spectrum Protect Replication Info Workflow Execution Time: The replication info workflow with Remote Agent on Windows platform for MSSQL and Application Subsystem solutions for IBM Spectrum Protect may take more time than the configured RAL execution time.

• IBM Spectrum Protect related RALs execution fails with “Unable to get response in

configured time” then retry by increasing timeout for the RAL execution.

• IBM Spectrum Protect Validation rule fails when Spectrum Protect Server and Client are deployed on AIX platform.

• IBM Spectrum Protect Bulkupload Component Reuse: Bulkupload utility cannot

create group for an existing component.

• Application subsystem and MSSQL Dataset edit option is not available for editing.



Previous Releases

Version 7.3 P2 The IBM Resiliency Orchestration 7.3 P2 version is a patch release following a major 7.3 release. In this patch, some of the limitations observed in 7.3 version have been addressed. It is recommended to use this patch for upgrade from 7.3. The following limitations are addressed:

• Post IBM Resiliency Orchestration Upgrade from 7.2 SP5 to 7.3 Major or Minor release, the

(7.2 SP5) local agents do not connect to upgraded Resiliency Orchestration server.

• Cyber DR NetApp with Actifio solution: BackupHealthCheck Business process workflow

lists in the Recovery Group's Drills page.

• Cyber DR NetApp with Actifio solution: Confirm snapshot message is not proper for

Cyber DR Test workflow.

• Configuration (CR platform) Scan workflow is not triggering as per schedule after Panaces

restart.

• Cyber DR NetApp with Actifio solution: Events are not raised when replication status is

in inactive state.

• IBM Cloud object storage support for Cyber Platform Solution on Windows platform

• The Airgap solution for Cyber Platform and Cyber Data

• The snapshot health validation workflow scheduler frequency for Cyber Data

• Actifio credential edit in protection scheme page has limitation

• Fetch log feature has limitations in some specific scenarios

• Dataset cloning for Oracle dataset has limitation under certain scenario

Version 7.3 The IBM Resiliency 7.3 release version is one of the milestone releases of IBM Resiliency Orchestration Platform. This release highlights the product vision and how IBM Resiliency Orchestration is being shaped for future. The 7.3 release introduces Cyber Resiliency solution into IBM Resiliency Orchestration to provide resiliency in event of cyber-attacks along with strengthening the existing multi-cloud portfolio.

Features

Cyber Resiliency

Cyber Resiliency is the ability of an organization to continue to function with the least amount of disruption in the face of cyber-attacks. IBM Resiliency Orchestration 7.3 release includes the following new features to address the growing need for rapid recovery in the face of a Cyber Attack.

Cyber Incident Recovery for Applications/Data

This solution provides recovery against cyber-attacks that corrupt the data/application. The solution replicates the data from servers and storage using the Actifio copy data management to a virtually air-gaped IBM immutable storage located at the Cyber Data site of the customer and maintains multiple read-only snapshot copies.



In event of a Cyber outage, it provides the user the ability to select the right copy (unaffected/ validated) to be rapidly restored to the Cyber Data compute infrastructure and Cyber Data storage infrastructure.

The highlights of this feature are:

• Component Discovery: Low touch discovery and configuration of application

• Point in Time Replication: User can take the snapshot of data/application leveraging Actifio Backup Custom solution for point in time recovery

• Air-gapped Immutable Storage: User can take the back up of snapshot into virtually air-gapped IBM COS immutable storage for Cyber resilient data solution

• Real-time monitoring: User can monitor the CR RPO, CR RTO, Replication information, Pending snapshot status

• Snapshot Validation: User can provide inputs on cyber recovery health status of data/application snapshots copy

• Drills: User can perform on demand drill (FOTE) to validate the recovery readiness

• Efficient Point in time recovery: User can perform instant recovery of healthy snapshot on event of any cyber threat

• Events: User can manage the Cyber Data site through different monitoring events

• Reports and Dashboard: Intuitive dashboard and reports to provide a complete overview

of the Cyber Data state of application based on user selection

Cyber Incident Recovery for Platform Configuration

The Cyber Incident Recovery for Platform Configuration is a complete, affordable cyber

recovery solution for components such as operating systems, storage arrays and network

switches which are running in the environment. The solution copies the configuration data of

these devices and servers into IBM immutable storage located in IBM clouds or IBM Resiliency

Data Center and alerts the user when there is a suspicious change in the configuration and

rapidly restores the original configuration on to the impacted devices or servers based on

policies.

The highlights of this feature are as follows:

• OS/Device Discovery: This functionality helps in discovering different endpoints such as

OS and Devices

• Create Profile Component: User can reuse pre-canned or create user-defined critical/non-

critical configuration monitoring profile to monitor attached endpoints

• Managing Configuration: User can maintain the golden copy of platform configuration in

an air-gapped immutable IBM COS storage.

• Configuration Alerts: User can perform pre-scheduled and on-demand platform

configuration change alerts monitoring

• Exposure Management: User can perform recover/revert operation on platform change

exposure alerts by validating the change

• Reports and Dashboard: Intuitive dashboard and reports to provide a complete snapshot

of platform configuration changes based on user selections



Solutions

The following solution is added in this release of IBM Resiliency Orchestration:

VM Protection with Zerto

IBM Resiliency Orchestration on top of Zerto replicator is one of the signature solution to support multi-cloud VM instant recovery. The “VM Protection with Zerto” solution was developed as a custom solution in previous release. The scope of this release includes enhancing the existing feature and productized the custom solution as part of standard solution. The highlights of the feature include.

• Low touch discovery of already configured VMs & VPGs and group creation through wizard

• Monitoring of RPO, RTO, Replication status at application group and recovery group

• Drills (Switchover, Switchback, FOTE) to validate the recovery readiness

• Value add enhancements like Expansion recovery host to recovery application at alternate site apart from DR site

• Recovery of application at the group level and at the site level

• Dry run and Pre-checks of Zerto VM RALs

• Events to monitor configured VPG, VM and ZVM

• Reports and Dashboard for monitoring and regulatory compliance

Enhancements

• The sizing and scalability of Site Controller server has been optimized for agentless endpoint

• IBM Resiliency Orchestration is integrated with IBM License metric tool that will monitor the number of active servers managed through IBM RO used customer premises

• UI scalability enhancements: Improved performance in page loading of database subsystem creation

Platform Upgrades

• Tomcat version upgraded from 7.0.55 to 7.0.90

• Java version for IBM Resiliency Orchestration Server is upgraded from 1.8.0.131 to 1.8.0.181. With this, all security vulnerabilities associated with older Java version are addressed.

Customer Tickets

The following addressed customer tickets/enhancements are added into the release:

Ticket Number Description

TT5054 Unable to send email from Notification

TS000983276 Email validations are blocking the emails with multiple dots at report

page.

TS000993654 Unable to send the email status report from reports page.



TS000868313 Email validations are not allowing emails with multiple dots while

configuring Notification email configuration

TS000868340 Stop / resumed - master slave replication, which is not sending any

event alert in email.

TT4430 The protection schemes and replication status show inactive status with

db2 with HADR solution.

TS000879651 Maker-Checker functionality in IBMRO for workflow execution

approvals for Operator

TS000150428 vmwareExecuteGuestOS command RAL is failing with the error

"Unable to access C://command_<number>.bat file"

TT4950 Discovery issue for Oracle full database with HUR as the Advanced

Configuration showing internal error in popup window.

TS000169359 Currently, product support oracle with TCP configuration, so as per the

requirement extend the support to TCPS (ONLY LOCAL)

TS000942726 Email Template for Integrating with MAXIMO

TS000983256 Custom Reports for Test Summary Report for All the RGs that the DR

drill conducted

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