Vision Solutions Provides Continuous Availability For Foodservice Provider Running IBM System i (iSeries)

A long-time user of IBM hardware, Nicholas & Company decided to upgrade its servers, move to the V5R4 release of the i5/OS operating system, and install iTERA HA for i5/OS from Vision Solutions.

The installation of iTERA HA was completed by Erickson, based on his experience with the Vision Solutions product. "It went very well, and there were no problems," he said. "I had used iTERA HA for about five years at another company, and I've been very impressed with the product itself and the support staff behind it," he added.

The company replaced its IBM System i Model 820 server with a new Model 525 and bought a 525 CBU edition as a backup server. Erickson used iTera HA for i5/OS to move to the new hardware via role-swap, and was pleased with the speed of this switchover. "It was very easy to do the migration. There were no problems, and we were covered the whole time," said Erickson.