Re: Traveler on i and HADR options

Chad, I'm using PowerHA for some of our traditional DB2 database. I
haven't moved the Traveler DB2 databases into the IASP in order to mirror
them as of yet...too much to do and too few of us in the office to spare
the time. When I finally do it I'll share my experience with the group.
PowerHA is a fairly elegant solution compared to others I've worked with.





From: Chris Whisonant <chris.whisonant@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Lotus Domino on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"
<domino400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 27/08/2013 01:29 PM
Subject: Re: Traveler on i and HADR options
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"It is a real shame that IBM/Lotus didn't make this part of the
functionality actually work WITHIN the Domino infrastructure..."

I was once in this mindset too, but there are a couple of reasons for
this,
which I'm not sure I can fully dive into since I expressed my concerns
with
this to IBM during the beta periods and via one-on-one discussions at
Lotusphere. I'm not sure at which point some of my discussions were NDA,
but suffice it to say that I believe that where IBM has taken Traveler HA
is great and is working for them.

With regards to the single point of failure on the DB side, yes that can
be
a pain point. However, IBM DOES support utilizing the DB vendor's HADR
facilities with the stipulation that the HA replica of the DB is in the
same physical datacenter. This way you don't still have that single point
of failure. I know how that could play out with DB2 using HADR, but I'm
not
sure how that would translate into IBM i DB2 HA...

I'm also curious as to what you'll be doing to frontend your Traveler
servers in HA? What HTTP load balancing mechanism will you be using?


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Chris
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:43 AM, <ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It is a real shame that IBM/Lotus didn't make this part of the
functionality actually work WITHIN the Domino infrastructure...



From: ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: "Lotus Domino on the IBM i \(AS/400 and iSeries\)"
<domino400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/27/2013 11:40 AM
Subject: Traveler on i and HADR options
Sent by: domino400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx




We've had great results with Domino 9 so far the week that we've been on
it.


I'm now testing Traveler on i (we have always run it on a Windows server
that was leftover from a phased out Blackberry BES oriented Domino

Server).

The Traveler functions seem to work great with our test devices so far,

but

i'm finding that setting it up to be highly available is going to be a

bit

of a mess...


We have 2 clustered Domino servers that support mail users and have no
problem getting the external URL that the Traveler mobile devices access

to

switch between whichever mail server we want to 'answer' at any given

time.

The challenge is that the Traveler portion of the data (when configured

for

HADR) is moved to a DB2 database... it's an easy conversion and works

well,

but the data needed by the Traveler server and devices is in ONE

location.

If that location is down, effectively so is Traveler functionality.

BOTH of the Traveler servers (when converted to HADR) can be pointed to

the

backend DB2 database with no trouble, but the single point of failure
remains.


All of the documentation I can find mentions that the backend DB2

database

can be made highly available between servers, but so far I have not

found

an easy way to do this on the IBM i. What sort of replication would

keep

this backend DB2 database in synch so that either Traveler server could

use

it from either location of the DB2 backend?

Has anyone tackled this type of setup yet?
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