The objectives of a physical vault are to:

• Geographically isolate the data if a power failure or cyber event occurs
• Analyze data on a remote site with the goal of restoring that data on your production environments
• Selectively copy data into a physical vault at a time deemed appropriate time by the customer
• Preserve data and evidence for analysis and determination

Consider the following Dell solutions for a physical vault implementation:

• PowerMax 8000
• Management software on mainframe: Mainframe Enabler Symmetrix Control Facility (SCF)
• SRDF
• GDDR
• Data Protector for z Systems (zDP)
• DLm

At a high level, the PowerMax 8000 would be your primary storage with DLm serving as your virtual tape processing, archiving, and backup. For your “vault” site, you might mimic the environment configured on your production site. Use Mainframe Enabler and zDP to control the preservation of data on your z/OS environments. SRDF would be your remote replication mechanism between the two sites. The key is that GDDR Cyber Protection Automation (zCPA) controls all the data protection.

zCPA can create copies of data at a cyber recovery vault site that can be used for cyber recovery. 

Figure 5.   Example of a physical vault implementation