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Clusters create the concept of highly available resources. In the event of a failure, resources on other nodes can run the workloads from the failed node, thus minimizing downtime. Clustering IBM System x™ and BladeCenter® servers can help simplify IT management and reduce costs by increasing availability, optimizing performance, and enabling remote maintenance with an intelligent system design that includes multiple layers of redundancy combined with advanced availability tools. Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise, IBM System x, BladeCenter and IBM System Storage™ combined with IBM and IBM Business Partner offerings can help provide a resilient IT infrastructure, ensuring that your valuable data and applications are continuously available.
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- IBM designs BladeCenter blades with redundant connections and its chassis with a redundant-path midplane for end-to-end high availability.
- Memory ProteXion on System x enterprise servers is advanced memory technology designed to avoid memory loss at a lower cost than memory mirroring.
- Drop-down, front-access light path diagnostics panel helps maximize uptime by quickly and easily identifying component failures.
- Predictive Failure Analysis® technology provides up to 48 hours warning that a component may need maintenance.
- IBM Director software helps simplify manageability with a single, open tool that controls different IBM server platforms and compatible non-IBM systems.
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Double-Take® Software
Double-Take software goes beyond periodic backup to provide continuous data protection in order to help ensure minimal data loss and immediate recovery for applications such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
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Marathon everRun™ FT
everRun FT software helps eliminate server downtime by creating a single Windows operating environment using two physical servers. If a component or even an entire server fails, the Windows application continues to operate uninterrupted.
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IBM Tivoli System Automation for Mulitplatforms
IBM Tivoli System Automation for Mulitplatforms provides plug-and-play policies allowing for out-of-the-box availability solutions for today's most important enterprise applications and middleware.
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Oracle® Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Oracle RAC supports the deployment of a single database across a cluster of servers to help provide high levels of availability for popular products such as Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft and more.
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SteelEye® LifeKeeper
SteelEye LifeKeeper products help provide high availability clustering, data replication and disaster recovery solutions to ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications, servers and data.
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VERITAS Cluster Server
VERITAS Cluster Server provides a clustering solution ideal for reducing planned and unplanned downtime, facilitating server consolidation, and effectively managing a wide range of applications.
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Ferdinand Gross meets just-in-time demands with high-availability solution from IBM — Working with messpo GmbH, an IBM Business Partner, Ferdinand Gross implemented four Intel®–based IBM System x servers–a combination of two– and four–socket machines–running database and application servers and a domain controller under SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The System x machines are clustered using LifeKeeper Cluster for Linux,
third-party software product from SteelEye, that aims to provide continuous availability of applications by maintaining system uptime. The company also implemented a second data center to improve its disaster recovery capabilities.
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For more information about high availability and clustering solutions, please contact your local System x and BladeCenter Sales Representatives.
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