RE: High Availability

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 02:59 PM 1/29/01 -0800, you wrote:

IMHO, MIMIX is the ticket here.

Al


>WE have and are currently going through this whole process.  We have two 
>740 12way located in different spots in California using LPAR and MIMIX to 
>a secondary partition on the same machine and then back to a backup 
>partition on the secondary machine.  Please feel free to contact me 
>off-line for all of the particulars.
>
>Laurin Bruck
>Technical Infrastructure
>pmi Mortgage Insurance
>415-291-5329
>415-393-6412(fax)
>
> >>> koziol@chaney.net 2:37:14 PM 1/29/01 >>>
>I've professionally evaluated Vison Solution, Lakeview Technologies and
>DataMirror.  My choice is DataMirror...  and is based on Easu of use,
>functionality performance and internals design.
>
>Ed
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: DanDaFourOOMan [mailto:danda400man@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 4:05 PM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: High Availability
>
>
>I am needing to consider high availability options for our new
>AS/400s, which I am responsible for configuring.  A recent
>thread discussed RAID vs. mirroring.  Another thread mentioned a
>product named Mimix, which I've seen advertised.
>
>The new AS/400s are replacing old ones and we have one in each
>of our five plants spread across the U.S., one in Mexico, and
>one in England.  Needless to say, I need to be able to manage
>these systems and diagnose and solve problems from our corporate
>office.  Management appears to be opening the wallet to ensure
>HA.  Some critical considerations: Unplanned outages of 8 or
>more hours would hurt us.  Greater than 24 hours and I'll be
>passing out resumes.
>
>Where can I go to read up on the issues I need to consider for
>HA?
>
>Any advice on which way to go on RAID vs. mirroring?
>
>Any other advice?
>
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