This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps strengthen the position of the IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® for Linux solution with well-defined and documented deployment models within an IBM Power Systems™ environment, which provides customers a planned foundation for business resilience and disaster recovery (DR) for their IBM Power Systems infrastructure solutions.

This book addresses topics to help answer customers' complex high availability (HA) and DR requirements for IBM AIX® and Linux on IBM Power Systems servers to help maximize system availability and resources and provide technical documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to users and support teams.

This publication is targeted at technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists) who are responsible for providing HA and DR solutions and support for IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX and Linux Standard and Enterprise Editions on IBM Power Systems servers.

Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM AIX

Chapter 2. New features

Chapter 3. Planning considerations

Chapter 4. Migration

Chapter 5. PowerHA SystemMirror User Interface

Chapter 6. Resource Optimized High Availability

Chapter 7. Geographical Logical Volume Manager configuration assistant

Chapter 8. Automation adaptation for Live Partition Mobility

Chapter 9. Cluster partition management update

Chapter 10. PowerHA SystemMirror special features

Chapter 11. PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.2 for Linux

Chapter 12. Infrastructure management with IBM PowerVC

Appendix A. Storage migrations

Appendix B. Migrating the cluster repository disk