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

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Mason
ook, "Considerations 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

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 earlie

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

2011-10-10 Thread Steve Comstock
to be a routing node (ROUTEALL). This is in contrast to the limited design choices imposed prior to the availability of the "virtual MAC" capability. - Chris Mason On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:36:41 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: The weekly redbooks announcement includes this book: C

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

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Mason
nation node (ROUTELCL) or also to be a routing node (ROUTEALL). This is in contrast to the limited design choices imposed prior to the availability of the "virtual MAC" capability. - Chris Mason On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:36:41 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: >The weekly redbooks announce