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Clustering and IASPs for Higher Availability on the IBM eServer iSeries Server.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : I B M, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (330 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780738422350
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Clustering and IASPs for Higher Availability on the IBM eServer iSeries ServerLOC classification:
  • QA76.9.C55 -- C58 2002eb
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Contents:
Front cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Special notices -- IBM trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Notice -- Comments welcome -- Summary of changes -- April 2002, Second Edition -- Part 1 iSeries high availability fundamentals -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 A brief overview about clustering -- 1.2 Defining availability -- 1.2.1 Factors impacting availability -- Chapter 2. Downtime -- 2.1 Scheduled and unscheduled downtime -- 2.2 Example: Impact analysis of an outage -- 2.3 Application architecture and downtime -- Chapter 3. Availability technology -- 3.1 iSeries server hardware availability features -- 3.2 OS/400 and system software availability features -- 3.2.1 Clusters for high availability -- 3.3 Cluster with replication technology -- 3.4 Cluster with switched disk -- 3.5 Shared disk -- 3.6 Separate server -- 3.7 iSeries cluster middleware -- Part 2 iSeries clusters and higher availability -- Chapter 4. iSeries clusters explained -- 4.1 Cluster basics and definitions -- 4.2 iSeries clustering -- 4.3 Why you want clustering -- 4.3.1 Hidden benefits of iSeries clusters -- 4.4 OS/400 V5R1 clustering enhancements -- 4.5 Prerequisites for iSeries clustering -- 4.6 Cluster Resource Services -- 4.6.1 OS/400 integrated cluster services -- 4.6.2 Cluster Resource Services structure -- 4.7 Cluster components -- 4.7.1 Cluster nodes -- 4.7.2 Cluster Resource Groups (CRG) -- 4.7.3 Recovery domains -- 4.7.4 Device domains -- 4.7.5 Exit programs -- 4.8 Cluster implementation example -- 4.8.1 Simple two-node cluster example -- 4.8.2 Four-node mutual takeover cluster example -- 4.9 Resiliency -- 4.9.1 Data resiliency in a simple two-node cluster example -- 4.9.2 Application resiliency and IP address takeover example -- 4.9.3 Managing application resiliency -- 4.9.4 ClusterProven applications.
4.10 iSeries cluster solution components -- 4.11 iSeries clusters: Cluster architecture versus data replication -- Chapter 5. Implementing and managing clusters with IBM solutions -- 5.1 Using the Operations Navigator GUI or commands, APIs to implement, manage iSeries clusters -- 5.2 Using the Operations Navigator GUI to implement and manage iSeries clusters -- 5.2.1 Clustering configuration tasks -- 5.2.2 Using the Simple Cluster Management GUI to create the cluster -- 5.3 Using QUSRTOOL CL commands and OS/400 APIs to implement an iSeries cluster -- 5.3.1 Using OS/400 cluster management APIs to implement a cluster -- 5.3.2 Definitions revisited -- 5.3.3 Cluster versions -- Chapter 6. Independent ASPs explained -- 6.1 What independent ASPs are -- 6.2 Uses for IASPs -- 6.3 OS/400 IASP support and terminology -- 6.3.1 OS/400 software options -- 6.3.2 High Speed Link OptiConnect -- 6.3.3 Configuration source and the IASP -- 6.4 Considerations of switched disk and IASP use -- 6.4.1 Advantages of using IASPs -- 6.4.2 Disadvantages of using IASP -- 6.5 Objects defining an IASP configuration -- 6.5.1 Relationship of IASP configuration objects -- 6.5.2 Device domain object -- 6.5.3 Device CRG object -- 6.5.4 IASPs, device domains, and device CRGs -- 6.6 IASP configuration examples -- 6.7 IASP application examples -- 6.7.1 Domino and independent ASPs -- 6.7.2 Integrated xSeries Server and independent ASPs -- 6.8 Configuring and managing IASPs -- 6.8.1 Creating a new disk pool -- 6.8.2 Numbering new pools -- 6.8.3 Selecting the disk units to add to a pool -- 6.8.4 ASP unit numbering -- 6.8.5 Selecting All Disk Units to add to a pool -- 6.9 IASP and security -- 6.9.1 User profiles and IASPs -- 6.9.2 Accounting for space owned -- 6.9.3 IASP and authorization lists -- 6.10 System operations with IASPs -- 6.10.1 IASP overflow.
6.10.2 Switching IASPs between nodes -- 6.10.3 Reclaim Storage and IASPs -- 6.11 Positioning cluster middleware solutions with IASPs -- 6.12 iSeries IASP and other platform solutions -- 6.13 Reference material -- Chapter 7. Operations Navigator independent ASP GUI -- 7.1 Prerequisite steps to create an IASP -- 7.1.1 Configuring the Service Tools adapter on the iSeries server -- 7.1.2 Setting up Management Central -- 7.2 The independent auxiliary storage pool GUI -- 7.2.1 Creating a standalone independent auxiliary storage pool -- 7.2.2 Creating a switchable independent auxiliary storage pool -- Chapter 8. ClusterProven for iSeries applications -- 8.1 ClusterProven components -- 8.1.1 OS/400 Cluster Resource Services -- 8.1.2 Data resiliency -- 8.1.3 Cluster management -- 8.1.4 Application resiliency -- 8.2 ClusterProven defined -- 8.2.1 The Advanced ClusterProven for iSeries Program -- 8.3 Obtaining the ClusterProven trademark -- 8.4 ClusterProven Domino for iSeries -- 8.4.1 ClusterProven Domino customer benefits -- 8.4.2 Comparing traditional Domino clustering support -- Chapter 9. Making applications continuously available -- 9.1 Defining critical objects -- 9.1.1 Non-ClusterProven applications -- 9.1.2 ClusterProven applications -- 9.2 Cluster Resource Group exit program -- 9.2.1 Cluster Resource Group interface -- 9.2.2 Input data area -- 9.2.3 Output data area -- 9.2.4 Returning from the exit program -- 9.2.5 Using the exit program to establish the environment -- 9.2.6 Managing the environment -- 9.2.7 Rejoining or restarting the application -- Chapter 10. Sample cluster environment and applications -- 10.1 Example cluster configuration -- 10.1.1 Creating the sample clustering environment -- 10.1.2 Sample setup of journaling -- 10.1.3 Journal environment to allow reverse remote backup -- 10.2 Sample RPG order entry application.
10.2.1 Original RPG application -- 10.2.2 Stage 1: Cluster application to use remote journals -- 10.2.3 Stage 2: Cluster application to support a highly available environment -- Chapter 11. Considerations when planning for iSeries clusters and recoverable applications -- 11.1 Planning for iSeries clustering -- 11.1.1 Measuring the impact of an outage to the business -- 11.1.2 Determining the desired level of availability -- 11.1.3 Understanding the required configuration of a cluster -- 11.2 Making applications recoverable -- 11.2.1 Application object inventory -- 11.2.2 Resilient data -- 11.2.3 Resilient applications -- 11.2.4 Switchover -- 11.2.5 Failover -- 11.2.6 Job restart -- 11.2.7 Application maintenance -- 11.2.8 Database performance -- 11.3 Systems management -- 11.3.1 Service level agreements -- 11.3.2 Operations management -- 11.3.3 Problem and change management -- 11.3.4 Capacity planning -- 11.3.5 Performance planning -- 11.3.6 Security and password considerations -- 11.4 Hardware considerations -- 11.4.1 Network planning -- 11.5 Testing clusters -- 11.5.1 System management tests -- 11.5.2 Cluster management tests -- 11.6 Roles and responsibilities when implementing clustering -- 11.6.1 The role of IBM and OS/400 -- 11.6.2 The role of a cluster middleware provider -- 11.6.3 The role of an application developer -- Chapter 12. Problem determination for iSeries clustering -- 12.1 Monitoring for problems -- 12.2 Problems with the status of a cluster -- 12.2.1 Is my cluster up and running? -- 12.2.2 Why won't my cluster start? -- 12.2.3 Why is my CRG hung up? -- 12.2.4 I cannot use the IBM Cluster Management GUI -- 12.2.5 I cannot use any new release functions -- 12.2.6 How do I recover from a Cluster Resource Group job failure? -- 12.2.7 Why do I have two clusters after fixing my cluster partition?.
12.3 Recovering from a cluster partition state -- 12.3.1 Cluster partition error example -- 12.3.2 Cluster partition tips -- 12.3.3 Merging a cluster partition -- Part 3 Cluster middleware business partners -- Chapter 13. DataMirror iCluster -- 13.1 Introduction to iCluster -- 13.2 Getting started with iCluster -- 13.3 Creating a cluster -- 13.3.1 Adding a node to the cluster -- 13.4 Creating and using Cluster Resource Groups -- 13.4.1 Creating data CRGs -- 13.4.2 Selecting objects for a data CRG for high availability -- 13.4.3 Creating application CRGs -- 13.4.4 Creating device CRGs -- 13.4.5 Changing a CRG recovery domain -- 13.4.6 Activating or starting a data CRG -- 13.4.7 De-activating or ending a data CRG -- 13.4.8 Switching over a data CRG -- 13.4.9 Problem solving -- 13.5 DataMirror ClusterProven applications -- 13.5.1 Setting up a resilient application -- 13.5.2 Selecting objects to a resilient application -- 13.5.3 Changing or updating a resilient application -- 13.5.4 Changing a resilient application's recovery domain -- 13.5.5 Activating or starting a resilient application -- 13.5.6 De-activating or ending a resilient application -- 13.5.7 Switching over a resilient application -- 13.6 Removing the cluster and its components -- 13.6.1 Removing a resilient application -- 13.6.2 Removing a data CRG -- 13.6.3 Removing a node from the cluster -- 13.6.4 Removing the entire cluster -- 13.7 Using iCluster commands to access Cluster Services operations -- 13.8 For more information -- Chapter 14. Lakeview Technology MIMIX -- 14.1 MIMIX Cluster Server -- 14.1.1 Implementing clustering with the MIMIX Cluster Server -- 14.1.2 Technical support -- 14.2 MIMIX FastPath -- 14.2.1 Resilient objects for clustering -- 14.2.2 MIMIX FastPath services -- 14.2.3 MIMIX FastPath support -- 14.2.4 MIMIX FastPath Professional Services.
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Front cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Special notices -- IBM trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Notice -- Comments welcome -- Summary of changes -- April 2002, Second Edition -- Part 1 iSeries high availability fundamentals -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 A brief overview about clustering -- 1.2 Defining availability -- 1.2.1 Factors impacting availability -- Chapter 2. Downtime -- 2.1 Scheduled and unscheduled downtime -- 2.2 Example: Impact analysis of an outage -- 2.3 Application architecture and downtime -- Chapter 3. Availability technology -- 3.1 iSeries server hardware availability features -- 3.2 OS/400 and system software availability features -- 3.2.1 Clusters for high availability -- 3.3 Cluster with replication technology -- 3.4 Cluster with switched disk -- 3.5 Shared disk -- 3.6 Separate server -- 3.7 iSeries cluster middleware -- Part 2 iSeries clusters and higher availability -- Chapter 4. iSeries clusters explained -- 4.1 Cluster basics and definitions -- 4.2 iSeries clustering -- 4.3 Why you want clustering -- 4.3.1 Hidden benefits of iSeries clusters -- 4.4 OS/400 V5R1 clustering enhancements -- 4.5 Prerequisites for iSeries clustering -- 4.6 Cluster Resource Services -- 4.6.1 OS/400 integrated cluster services -- 4.6.2 Cluster Resource Services structure -- 4.7 Cluster components -- 4.7.1 Cluster nodes -- 4.7.2 Cluster Resource Groups (CRG) -- 4.7.3 Recovery domains -- 4.7.4 Device domains -- 4.7.5 Exit programs -- 4.8 Cluster implementation example -- 4.8.1 Simple two-node cluster example -- 4.8.2 Four-node mutual takeover cluster example -- 4.9 Resiliency -- 4.9.1 Data resiliency in a simple two-node cluster example -- 4.9.2 Application resiliency and IP address takeover example -- 4.9.3 Managing application resiliency -- 4.9.4 ClusterProven applications.

4.10 iSeries cluster solution components -- 4.11 iSeries clusters: Cluster architecture versus data replication -- Chapter 5. Implementing and managing clusters with IBM solutions -- 5.1 Using the Operations Navigator GUI or commands, APIs to implement, manage iSeries clusters -- 5.2 Using the Operations Navigator GUI to implement and manage iSeries clusters -- 5.2.1 Clustering configuration tasks -- 5.2.2 Using the Simple Cluster Management GUI to create the cluster -- 5.3 Using QUSRTOOL CL commands and OS/400 APIs to implement an iSeries cluster -- 5.3.1 Using OS/400 cluster management APIs to implement a cluster -- 5.3.2 Definitions revisited -- 5.3.3 Cluster versions -- Chapter 6. Independent ASPs explained -- 6.1 What independent ASPs are -- 6.2 Uses for IASPs -- 6.3 OS/400 IASP support and terminology -- 6.3.1 OS/400 software options -- 6.3.2 High Speed Link OptiConnect -- 6.3.3 Configuration source and the IASP -- 6.4 Considerations of switched disk and IASP use -- 6.4.1 Advantages of using IASPs -- 6.4.2 Disadvantages of using IASP -- 6.5 Objects defining an IASP configuration -- 6.5.1 Relationship of IASP configuration objects -- 6.5.2 Device domain object -- 6.5.3 Device CRG object -- 6.5.4 IASPs, device domains, and device CRGs -- 6.6 IASP configuration examples -- 6.7 IASP application examples -- 6.7.1 Domino and independent ASPs -- 6.7.2 Integrated xSeries Server and independent ASPs -- 6.8 Configuring and managing IASPs -- 6.8.1 Creating a new disk pool -- 6.8.2 Numbering new pools -- 6.8.3 Selecting the disk units to add to a pool -- 6.8.4 ASP unit numbering -- 6.8.5 Selecting All Disk Units to add to a pool -- 6.9 IASP and security -- 6.9.1 User profiles and IASPs -- 6.9.2 Accounting for space owned -- 6.9.3 IASP and authorization lists -- 6.10 System operations with IASPs -- 6.10.1 IASP overflow.

6.10.2 Switching IASPs between nodes -- 6.10.3 Reclaim Storage and IASPs -- 6.11 Positioning cluster middleware solutions with IASPs -- 6.12 iSeries IASP and other platform solutions -- 6.13 Reference material -- Chapter 7. Operations Navigator independent ASP GUI -- 7.1 Prerequisite steps to create an IASP -- 7.1.1 Configuring the Service Tools adapter on the iSeries server -- 7.1.2 Setting up Management Central -- 7.2 The independent auxiliary storage pool GUI -- 7.2.1 Creating a standalone independent auxiliary storage pool -- 7.2.2 Creating a switchable independent auxiliary storage pool -- Chapter 8. ClusterProven for iSeries applications -- 8.1 ClusterProven components -- 8.1.1 OS/400 Cluster Resource Services -- 8.1.2 Data resiliency -- 8.1.3 Cluster management -- 8.1.4 Application resiliency -- 8.2 ClusterProven defined -- 8.2.1 The Advanced ClusterProven for iSeries Program -- 8.3 Obtaining the ClusterProven trademark -- 8.4 ClusterProven Domino for iSeries -- 8.4.1 ClusterProven Domino customer benefits -- 8.4.2 Comparing traditional Domino clustering support -- Chapter 9. Making applications continuously available -- 9.1 Defining critical objects -- 9.1.1 Non-ClusterProven applications -- 9.1.2 ClusterProven applications -- 9.2 Cluster Resource Group exit program -- 9.2.1 Cluster Resource Group interface -- 9.2.2 Input data area -- 9.2.3 Output data area -- 9.2.4 Returning from the exit program -- 9.2.5 Using the exit program to establish the environment -- 9.2.6 Managing the environment -- 9.2.7 Rejoining or restarting the application -- Chapter 10. Sample cluster environment and applications -- 10.1 Example cluster configuration -- 10.1.1 Creating the sample clustering environment -- 10.1.2 Sample setup of journaling -- 10.1.3 Journal environment to allow reverse remote backup -- 10.2 Sample RPG order entry application.

10.2.1 Original RPG application -- 10.2.2 Stage 1: Cluster application to use remote journals -- 10.2.3 Stage 2: Cluster application to support a highly available environment -- Chapter 11. Considerations when planning for iSeries clusters and recoverable applications -- 11.1 Planning for iSeries clustering -- 11.1.1 Measuring the impact of an outage to the business -- 11.1.2 Determining the desired level of availability -- 11.1.3 Understanding the required configuration of a cluster -- 11.2 Making applications recoverable -- 11.2.1 Application object inventory -- 11.2.2 Resilient data -- 11.2.3 Resilient applications -- 11.2.4 Switchover -- 11.2.5 Failover -- 11.2.6 Job restart -- 11.2.7 Application maintenance -- 11.2.8 Database performance -- 11.3 Systems management -- 11.3.1 Service level agreements -- 11.3.2 Operations management -- 11.3.3 Problem and change management -- 11.3.4 Capacity planning -- 11.3.5 Performance planning -- 11.3.6 Security and password considerations -- 11.4 Hardware considerations -- 11.4.1 Network planning -- 11.5 Testing clusters -- 11.5.1 System management tests -- 11.5.2 Cluster management tests -- 11.6 Roles and responsibilities when implementing clustering -- 11.6.1 The role of IBM and OS/400 -- 11.6.2 The role of a cluster middleware provider -- 11.6.3 The role of an application developer -- Chapter 12. Problem determination for iSeries clustering -- 12.1 Monitoring for problems -- 12.2 Problems with the status of a cluster -- 12.2.1 Is my cluster up and running? -- 12.2.2 Why won't my cluster start? -- 12.2.3 Why is my CRG hung up? -- 12.2.4 I cannot use the IBM Cluster Management GUI -- 12.2.5 I cannot use any new release functions -- 12.2.6 How do I recover from a Cluster Resource Group job failure? -- 12.2.7 Why do I have two clusters after fixing my cluster partition?.

12.3 Recovering from a cluster partition state -- 12.3.1 Cluster partition error example -- 12.3.2 Cluster partition tips -- 12.3.3 Merging a cluster partition -- Part 3 Cluster middleware business partners -- Chapter 13. DataMirror iCluster -- 13.1 Introduction to iCluster -- 13.2 Getting started with iCluster -- 13.3 Creating a cluster -- 13.3.1 Adding a node to the cluster -- 13.4 Creating and using Cluster Resource Groups -- 13.4.1 Creating data CRGs -- 13.4.2 Selecting objects for a data CRG for high availability -- 13.4.3 Creating application CRGs -- 13.4.4 Creating device CRGs -- 13.4.5 Changing a CRG recovery domain -- 13.4.6 Activating or starting a data CRG -- 13.4.7 De-activating or ending a data CRG -- 13.4.8 Switching over a data CRG -- 13.4.9 Problem solving -- 13.5 DataMirror ClusterProven applications -- 13.5.1 Setting up a resilient application -- 13.5.2 Selecting objects to a resilient application -- 13.5.3 Changing or updating a resilient application -- 13.5.4 Changing a resilient application's recovery domain -- 13.5.5 Activating or starting a resilient application -- 13.5.6 De-activating or ending a resilient application -- 13.5.7 Switching over a resilient application -- 13.6 Removing the cluster and its components -- 13.6.1 Removing a resilient application -- 13.6.2 Removing a data CRG -- 13.6.3 Removing a node from the cluster -- 13.6.4 Removing the entire cluster -- 13.7 Using iCluster commands to access Cluster Services operations -- 13.8 For more information -- Chapter 14. Lakeview Technology MIMIX -- 14.1 MIMIX Cluster Server -- 14.1.1 Implementing clustering with the MIMIX Cluster Server -- 14.1.2 Technical support -- 14.2 MIMIX FastPath -- 14.2.1 Resilient objects for clustering -- 14.2.2 MIMIX FastPath services -- 14.2.3 MIMIX FastPath support -- 14.2.4 MIMIX FastPath Professional Services.

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