IBM GDPS Active/Active Overview and Planning

An IBM Redbooks publication

Published 07 April 2015, updated 15 December 2015

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ISBN-10: 0738440620
ISBN-13: 9780738440620
IBM Form #: SG24-8241-00
(120 pages)

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Authors: Lydia Parziale, Juliet Candee, Jiong Fan, Paulo Shimizu, Sidney Varoni Jr, Shu Xie

Abstract

IBM® Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex™ (GDPS®) is a collection of several offerings, each addressing a different set of IT resiliency goals. It can be tailored to meet the recovery point objective (RPO), which is how much data can you are willing to lose or recreate, and the recovery time objective (RTO), which identifies how long can you afford to be without your systems for your business from the initial outage to having your critical business processes available to users.

Each offering uses a combination of server and storage hardware or software-based replication, and automation and clustering software technologies.

This IBM Redbooks® publication presents an overview of the IBM GDPS active/active (GDPS/AA) offering and the role it plays in delivering a business IT resilience solution.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Architectural overview
Chapter 3. GDPS and data replication
Chapter 4. Workload distribution and balancing
Chapter 5. Controlling and monitoring
Chapter 6. Planning considerations
Chapter 7. Other Considerations
Appendix A. IBM Global Technology Services and GDPS service offering

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