IBM PowerHA

IBM and IBM Business Partners offer a broad range of services and education that complement and enhance your availability solutions, from planning through implementation and ongoing support. Offerings include:

The IBM High Availability Center of Competency (HACoC) is can help you design and deploy the highly available, end-to-end IT infrastructures you need to make on demand, always on business possible.

IBM GTS services go well beyond traditional disaster relief. We help companies build resilience into every layer of their business by anticipating the potential impact of a wide range of threats. IBM's business continuity experts have identified three categories of threats that must be addressed in a continuity program. Our comprehensive portfolio addresses all three categories: business-driven, data-driven and event-driven.

IBM Systems & Technology Group Lab Services has the knowledge and deep skills to support you through the entire information technology life cycle. Focused on the delivery of new technologies and special-purpose offerings, STG Lab Services collaborates with IBM Global Services and IBM Business Partners to provide complementary services designed to help keep your business running at top speed.

Publications - White papers

Optimizing mirroring performance using PowerHA XD for AIX for Geographic LVM

Using the Geographic LVM in AIX 5L

High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing Best Practices

Publications - Magazine articles

Open Systems magazine - PowerHA's New Long-Distance Data Replication and Failover Technology

Open Systems magazine - New Ease-of-Management Tools for PowerHA

Documentation

PowerHA (includes PowerHA XD for AIX and PowerHA Smart Assists)

Geographic Remote Mirror (GeoRM)

Additional information

HAGEO for AIX and GeoRM for AIX on IBM eServer pSeries

Cluster Info Center

Business Partner Application Showcase

With the happenings of Hurrican Katrina, IBMer Rob McNelly explores some of the important IT questions that have been asked following a natural disaster

Jaqui Lynch offers up some pointers to consider before implementing a disaster recovery solution

Education - Business Resiliency & External Storage

AS541 - IBM Power HA for i (HASM), Clustering, and Independent Disk Pools Implementation

AS930 - IBM System Storage Solutions for System i

SS71 - IBM System Storage Solutions for System i for the Storage Professional

AS240 - System Operator Workshop for System i

AS530 - Logical Partitioning (LPAR) on System i

AS280 - Backup and Recovery Media Services (BRMS) for System i

AS420 - System i Technical Solutions Workshop Implementation

OL510 - System i Recovery & Availability Management

OL450 - DB2 UDB for System i Fundamentals

Flash presentation

PowerHA for i flash presentation

Publications - Redbooks

Availability Management: Planning and Implementing Cross-Site Mirroring on IBM System i

Publications - Whitepapers

High Availability Automation for iSCSI Integrated Server and AIX 5L with Virtual Storage on System i

Publications - Magazine articles

Strategic Moves: With V6R1, IBM delivers the high-availability solutions customers requested

Announcing IBM High Availability: Customers reap the benefits of the end-to-end HASM solution

Fast Growth: A look at System i high-availability trends and directions

The steps are in place: Enabling applications for Independent Auxiliary Storage Pools (IASPs)

A Remedy for What Ails You: IBM can prescribe an array of high-availability solutions

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