High Availability

• Enhancing all four key elements of availability: reliability, recoverability, serviceability, and manageability
• Understanding how your users define availability
• Planning achievable service-level agreements-and delivering on them
• Strategies for multiple platforms, from the mainframe to the desktop
• Lowering administrative costs through standardization and other techniques
• Redundancy, backup, fault tolerance, partitioning, automation, and other high availability solutions
• Leveraging availability features built into your existing hardware and operating systems

Discover how to create systems that will be easier to maintain. Learn how to anticipate and prevent problems and define ongoing availability strategies that account for business change. Whatever your IT role, whatever your IT architecture, this book can help you deliver the breakthrough availability levels your organization needs right now.

Contents

• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Today's Computing Environment
• Chapter 2: Achieving Higher Availability
• Chapter 3: Planning for System Availability
• Chapter 4: Preparing for Systems Management
• Chapter 5: Implementing Service-Level Management
• Chapter 6: From Centralized to Distributed Computing Environments
• Chapter 7: Techniques That Address Multiple Availability Requirements
• Chapter 8: Special Techniques for System Reliability
• Chapter 9: Special Techniques for System Recoverability
• Chapter 10: Special Techniques for System Serviceability
• Chapter 11: Special Techniques for System Manageability
• Chapter 12: All Together Now
• Appendix: Availability Features of Selected Products
• Index