An Introduction to High Availability for Power Systems Running IBM i

This white paper provides an introduction to High Availability for Power Systems running IBM i. It is for companies that want to understand the technologies involved and evaluate whether such a solution can become a cost-justifiable component of their backup and recovery strategy. 

Getting started with High Availability for IBM i.

Every company faces critical hours when system downtime is unwelcome—whether it’s planned or unplanned. One company’s important hours might only be from 9-to-5, while for another it’s 24×7. Increasingly, shops that were able to accommodate some periods of downtime for backups and system maintenance are finding that this window is quickly shrinking, or has disappeared altogether, because of increased demand for access to applications and data around the clock.

Because of the need to keep systems available for increasing amounts of time, companies are realizing that a system failure or a site disaster would create enormous disruption and expense, especially if it went on for longer than a few hours. For many companies, exposure to this amount of potential downtime has become unacceptable. Shops that thought they weren’t candidates for a high availability (HA) solution are now realizing an urgent need to start looking at their options.