This IBM® Redbooks® publication addresses topics to help answer customers’ complex high availability requirements to help maximize systems availability and resources, and provide documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to the worldwide sales and support teams.

This publication helps strengthen the position of the IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® solution with a well-defined and documented deployment models within an IBM Power Systems™ virtualized environment, providing customers a planned foundation for business resilient infrastructure solutions.

This book describes documentation, and other resources available to help the technical teams provide business resilience solutions and support with the IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Standard and Enterprise Editions on IBM Power Systems.

This publication targets technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) responsible for providing high availability solutions and support with IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Standard and Enterprise Editions on IBM Power Systems.

This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world, working at the International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center.

Dino Quintero is a Complex Solutions Project Leader and an IBM Level 3 Certified Senior IT Specialist with the Technical Content Services in Poughkeepsie, New York. His areas of knowledge include enterprise continuous availability, enterprise systems management, system virtualization, technical computing, and clustering solutions. He is an Open Group Distinguished IT Specialist. Dino holds a Master of Computing Information Systems degree and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Marist College.

Sergio Baeta is a System Analyst at Banco do Brasil in Brazil. He has 10 years of experience with UNIX operating systems, including IBM AIX®, Solaris, and Linux. He holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from the Catholic University of Brasília (UCB). His areas of expertise include implementation, support, and performance analysis of IBM PowerVM®, IBM AIX, IBM PowerHA SystemMirror, and IBM Spectrum™ Scale.

Shawn Bodily is an IBM Champion for Power Systems known online as “PowerHAguy” and is a Senior IT Consultant for Clear Technologies in Dallas, Texas. He has 24 years of AIX experience and the last 20 years, specializing in high availability and disaster recovery solutions that are primarily focused around PowerHA. He is double AIX Advanced Technical Expert, and is certified in IBM POWER® Systems and IBM Storage. He has written and presented extensively about high availability and storage at technical conferences, webinars, and onsite to customers. He is an IBM Redbooks platinum author who has co-authored nine IBM Redbooks publications and three IBM Redpaper™ publications.

Bernhard Buehler is an IT Specialist for availability solutions on IBM Power Systems in Germany. He works for IBM Systems Lab Services in Nice, France. He has worked at IBM for 34 years and has 25 years of experience in AIX and the availability field. His areas of expertise include AIX, Linux, IBM PowerHA, HA architecture, shell script programming, and AIX security. He is a co-author of several IBM Redbooks publications and of several courses in the IBM AIX curriculum.

Primitivo Cervantes is a certified I/T Specialist with a focus on high-availability and disaster recovery. He has been working in the I/T industry for over 28 years, starting in mid-range computer systems and workstations. For the last 23 years, he has focused on high-availability and disaster recovery solutions in the AIX platforms. He is now also focusing on Linux business continuity. He is a techie-nerd so, in his spare time, he also reads anything related to technology, from rockets to radios.

Bing He is a Consulting I/T Specialist of the IBM Advanced Technical Skills (ATS) team in China. He has 16 years of experience with IBM Power Systems. He has worked at IBM for over seven years. His areas of expertise include PowerHA, PowerVM, and performance tuning on AIX.

Mihai Huica is an IT Specialist who currently works for UTI Group in Bucharest, Romania. He has 12 years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting IT&C solutions. He is an IBM Certified Systems Expert for Enterprise Technical Support for AIX and Linux, with 5 years of experience in IBM Power Systems. He holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering from Polytechnical Institute of Bucharest and a Master degree in Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications from Technical Military Academy in Bucharest. His areas of expertise include UNIX-like operating systems (AIX, Solaris, and Linux), and virtualization and HA technologies (IBM PowerVM, IBM PowerHA, VMware).

Howard Knight is a Software Advisory Specialist with the IBM GTS team in the United Kingdom. Howard provides technical support to customers with PowerHA related issues on IBM Power Systems clusters.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:

Richard Conway, David Bennin
International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center

Minh Pham, Alex Mcleod, Tom Weaver, and Teresa Pham, Michael Coffey, Paul Moyer, Ravi Shankar, PI Ganesh, Gary Lowther, Gary Domrow, Esdras E Cruz-Aguilar, Gilles Quillard
IBM US

Maria-Katharina Esser
IBM Germany

Fabio Martins
IBM Brazil

Octavian Lascu
IBM Romania

Jes Kiran, Srikanth Thanneeru, Madhusudhanan Duraisamy, Prabhanjan Gururaj
IBM India

Victoria Cervantes
California, US

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