Have a look at the Red Paper on High Availability for zVM and Linux: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/9445fa5b416f6e32852569ae006bb65f/76a57335bb29155385256bd4006dcf48?OpenDocument
(or go to the IBM Redbook site and search for 'high availability') On Friday 17 October 2003 08:24, you wrote: > I have just been asked by a group of developers and business owners > if we move their application to the Mainframe (zLinux), can we > provide a HA environment? This would be application HA such as > available with Veritas Cluster on x86 Linux systems or Solaris and > Veritas etc. . . > > So clearly my question to the group is does such software (solutions) > exist for the Z/VM Linux platform? Is anyone doing this today? And > if not how can we make this happen? Regardless of how reliable the > zSeries Platform is and how reliable Z/VM is we still can not > guarantee application, DB, network, HD availability. That is > generally where a solution such as Veritas Cluster or Sun Cluster > comes in. > > Thanks! > Eric Sammons > (804)697-3925 > FRIT - Infrastructure Engineering