- Virtually eliminate downtime – along the business costs and consequences it creates.
- Scale high availability benefits across even the largest, most demanding environments.
- Protect data accuracy with multi-layered integrity checking and correcting.
ORION HA for i5/OS is an exceptionally flexible and scalable high availability solution
designed for the transaction-heavy, multi-system and clustered
i5/OS environments that are typical in large and global organizations.
The high-throughput architecture of ORION HA is optimized for multi-CPU servers
and supports millions of transactions
per minute. It provides peace of mind by helping
to assure business continuity regardless of the size of your organization or the
complexity of your IT infrastructure.
Available in two versions, ORION
Professional replicates data and objects using
either remote or
local journaling to provide an industrial-strength, full-featured
high availability solution for medium size businesses. ORION Enterprise delivers
application and data protection for the most complex enterprises, with support for
advanced technologies such as MQ Series, three-tiered applications and clustering.
It also enables flexible replication topologies, such as one-to-many, many-to-one
or many-to-many.
 This
paper presents an overview of iSeries high availability to companies that are beginning
to explore this powerful business continuity technology. The critical components
of high availability solutions are detailed in this paper, including data replication
engines, system monitors, role swap capabilities, and the importance of autonomic
processes. Also provided is information on the cost of planned and unplanned downtime,
and a brief overview of disaster recovery strategies.
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