Vision Solutions last week announced that it's supporting the new High Availability Solutions Manager (HASM) that IBM will include with the forthcoming release of i5/OS V6R1. With HASM support in Cluster1, the largest System i shops will have a single solution for managing their entire high availability environments, from logical replication all the way through hardware-based clustering solutions such as HASM.

HASM combines the so-called hardware-based clustering capabilities, Global Mirroring and Metro Mirroring, which IBM has made available for users of its high-end external DS8000 storage area network (SAN) arrays, with the new cross-site mirroring (XSM) "under the covers" object- and data-replication technology that IBM has built into recent releases of i5/OS.