Re: Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z (Was: Redbook)

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Mason
for Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z, happens to be so cack-handed in its description of dynamic VIPA (DVIPA) that the VIPARANGE flavour of DVIPA gets overlooked - in favour of the VIPABACKUP[2] flavour which is next to useless unless a component of the VIPADISTRIBUTE (Sysplex

Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z (Was: Redbook)

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Mason
capability. /suggestion - Chris Mason On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:36:41 -0600, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: The weekly redbooks announcement includes this book: Considerations for Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs

Re: Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z (Was: Redbook)

2011-10-10 Thread Steve Comstock
, 10 Oct 2011 07:36:41 -0600, Steve Comstockst...@trainersfriend.com wrote: The weekly redbooks announcement includes this book: Considerations for Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247824.pdf which, on a quick perusal, seems

Re: Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z

2011-10-10 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
we had started ha/6000 in the 80s ... and then I coined the marketing term HA/CMP to also capture the work on cluster scaleup (work for both commercial and numerical intensive) ... more recently renamed PowerHA http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/availability/aix/index.html under my