5 Best Practices for Ensuring Your IBM i High Availability Solution is Switch-Ready

Read this eBook, 5 Best Practices for Ensuring IBM i High Availability is Switch-Ready, to discover:

• Best practices in HA management that ensure smooth planned and unplanned switches
• Why determining the data & applications you need to protect is critical, before installing HA
• The simplicity of regular monitoring and optimization of your HA solution
• How HA audits can prove invaluable in helping to spot potential issues before a switch
• The importance of ensuring your IT staff has the necessary training in monitoring and managing your HA solution

Introduction

High Availability (HA) is a significant and important IT investment for many companies with IBM i, which can pay off in spades in the event a significant hardware failure or site disaster occurs. But what’s critical to ensuring an HA payoff is having confidence in being able to efficiently and successfully switch your business applications and other critical processes from your production server to a fully synchronized backup. Being able to execute smooth switchovers and failovers (and thus minimizing downtime and data loss) depends on following a number of best practices, which are outlined in this e-book.

Simply installing HA software doesn’t mean you have a complete solution!

High Availability software is a critical piece of a complete availability solution, but simply buying and installing the software doesn’t mean the solution is complete. Despite the fact that our advanced HA solutions include many automation and selfhealing features, it’s still critical to perform regular monitoring, optimizing, and testing of the solution.