The overview
Managed recovery for VMware and IBM Power, with dedicated IBM i and AIX services covering replication, recovery planning, and testing.
Managed recovery for VMware and IBM Power environments, with a dedicated IBM i and AIX DRaaS offering. Recovery design and operating scope are specific to each platform.
Workload support
Provider-documented
LightEdge has a dedicated managed IBM Power DRaaS service for IBM i and AIX. Its replication choices include SAN-to-SAN and logical replication, with MIMIX among the named tools. [2]
Its VMware practice includes managed VMware Cloud Foundation 9 services. The CTSI-Global case study documents an IBM i cloud and VMware/Intel environment paired with replicated disaster recovery, providing a concrete mixed-platform example. [4] [5]
IBM operations support includes OS updates and PTFs, batch scheduling, backups, database tuning, and maintained runbooks. Managed IBM services can support workloads in LightEdge’s cloud or on customer premises. [3]
Recovery locations
Provider-documented
The DRaaS page describes replication to an alternate site and recovery into single-tenant or multitenant environments. IBM Power DRaaS connects customer environments to LightEdge data centers. These pages describe recovery models rather than a facility-by-platform availability list. [1] [2]
VMware cloud availability varies with region, architecture, and feature requirements. The recovery destination and reserved capacity belong in the workload-specific design. [4]
Testing scope
Provider-documented
IBM Power DRaaS includes engineer-led recovery design, implementation, and testing, backed by round-the-clock monitoring and support. The service describes proactive failover tests and recovery validation. [2]
LightEdge’s IBM resilience practice describes planned tests of replication, cutover, and application readiness, plus runbooks for failover and failback. The current pages do not specify a universal number of included exercises. [3]
Cost details
Provider-documented
The VMware pricing FAQ ties cost to deployment model, infrastructure size, management scope, region, and additions such as DR and connectivity. It does not publish a standard DRaaS dollar rate. [4]
For IBM Power resilience, LightEdge describes renting recovery capacity in its IBM Power Cloud instead of maintaining separate dedicated hardware. The published overview provides this commercial approach without a unit rate. [3]
Sources & review
Official pages reviewed October 25, 2026. Source links support the details above. Prices and supported configurations vary by service.
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