Data and Database Management Software
Software protects against critical application failures.
Press Release Summary:
High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing for AIX® 5L, v5.2 (HACMP v5.2) monitors pSeries® servers and performs application failover. With Web-based configuration and control facility, HACMP Extended Distance feature provides real-time data mirroring and disaster recovery for critical business needs, while HACMP Smart Assist for WebSphere® feature promotes availability within end-user application environments.
Original Press Release:
IBM HACMP V5.2: Simpler, Faster, Goes the Distance
Overview
Better protect your critical business applications from failures with the world-spanning capabilities of IBM High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing for AIX® 5L, V5.2 (HACMP V5.2).
For over a decade, IBM HACMP has provided reliable high availability services, monitoring customers' pSeries® servers and dependably performing application failover to backup servers. The HACMP Extended Distance (HACMP/XD) feature provides real-time data mirroring and disaster recovery for critical business needs. The HACMP Smart Assist for WebSphere® feature brings additional high availability to end-user application environments.
Now you have a single, world-class source of protection for your mission-critical applications.
HACMP V5.2 offers streamlined, simplified, and automated features to better support your on demand business.
HACMP V5.2: Simpler. Faster. Goes the distance.
Simpler to configure and more flexible to maintain
· Two-node configuration wizard for common installations
· Cluster Test Tool
· Enhanced security mechanisms
· Web-based configuration and control facility for cluster management
· Optional feature HACMP Smart Assist for WebSphere Faster event processing to speed application recovery
· Improved policy-based cluster manager provides streamlined resource movement and faster failover.
· Up to 40% improvement in basic cluster failover time helps minimize application downtime.
· Ability to define resource group interdependencies facilitates efficient failovers.
Goes the distance to provide availability across multiple sites
· AIX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) split mirroring for disaster recovery in SAN environments.
· Optional HACMP/XD feature that supports unlimited-distance geographic clustering and data mirroring options to enhance disaster recovery.
· New support for Enterprise Remote Copy Management Facility (eRCMF) with HACMP/XD for Enterprise Storage Subsystem (ESS) PPRC expands HACMP/XD's capabilities.
Software withdrawal and service discontinuance: IBM HACMP V5.1 Effective March 31, 2005, IBM will withdraw from marketing the HACMP V5.1 program licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement. Effective September 1, 2006, IBM will discontinue service.
Key prerequisites
· AIX 5L V5.1 or V5.2, or later
· pSeries servers with adequate slots for your disk and network adapters in a no-single-point-of-failure configuration
Planned availability date
July 16, 2004
At a glance
HACMP(TM) 5.2 offers robust high availability and disaster recovery, with streamlined configuration, improved ease-of-use, reduced cost of administration, greater flexibility of event handling, faster failover, and a new Web-based configuration and control facility for pSeries customers with mission-critical applications.
· Streamlined cluster configuration:
- Two-node configuration wizard
- Additional security features
· Reduced cost and improved ease of administration:
- Cluster Test Tool
- Show "Cluster Applications" Utility
· Greater flexibility of event handling
- Internal policy-based cluster resource manager
- Multiple application monitors
- Customized control of resource behavior
· Web-based configuration and control facility
· AIX LVM split mirroring and ESS eRCMF support
The optional features HACMP Extended Distance (HACMP/XD) and HACMP Smart Assist for WebSphere provide complete high availability disaster recovery solutions for your business.
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL Reference: RE001
