FASUG Application Development Day

Track E Session 1

High Availability for the Real World
Russ Popeil


High Availability for the Real World
The iSeries is one of the most stable computing platforms on the market today, with an average uptime of 99.94%...in theory! In the real world however, your iSeries is a Web server with users accessing your site from all over the world 99.94% is no longer enough! Your usual 2-hour nightly backup is also not going to survive the real world of increasing uptime requirements for your end users. This session will cover High Availability (HA) in the real world. How do I justify to management the need to protect a box that never dies? How much will HA cost, how much will downtime cost? What options should I consider if I want to implement HA? Can I roll my own? What about LPAR, SAN, Clustering? All of these questions and more will be answered. Attend this session and learn what HA means in the real world!
By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:

  1. Cost justify an HA solution.
  2. Determine what options are right for their shop.
  3. Know what is involved in implementing HA.

Russ Popeil   is a Senior Product Specialist for DataMirror, an IBM business partner specializing in High Availability Software. He has over 20 years experience on the IBM midrange platform. He is Past-President of the Long Island Systems Users Group and a frequent speaker at COMMON, and other local user groups.
He is the author of the book "RPG Error Handling technique, bulletproofing your applications". He has also written many articles for iSeries and Midrange Computer Magazines. He is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert, an IBM Certified RPGIV Developer, and a member of IBM's certification test writing team. He is also on the IBM Toronto language labs RPG advisory council.


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