IBM PowerHA

Power Systems high availability resources 

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:

• Backup and Recovery Media Services (BRMS) installation and optimization
• High Availability Assessments
• Business Impact Analysis
• Disaster Recovery Testing

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.

AIX and Linux on POWER high availability resources 

Publications - Redbooks

• PowerHA for AIX Cookbook

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) (286KB)
• AIX Info Center (PowerHA technical documentation)

Additional information

• Cluster Info Center
• Business Partner Application Showcase

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IBM i high availability resources 

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 (286KB)

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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