IBM® PowerHA™ SystemMirror for i is the IBM high-availability disk-based clustering solution for the IBM i 7.1 operating system.

When combined with IBM i clustering technology, PowerHA for i delivers a complete high-availability and disaster-recovery solution for your business applications running in the IBM System i® environment. PowerHA for i enables you to support high-availability capabilities with either native disk storage or IBM DS8000® or DS6000™ storage servers or IBM Storwize V7000 and SAN Volume Controllers.

The latest release of IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i delivers a brand-new web-based PowerHA graphical user interface that effectively combines the solution-based and task-based activities for your HA environment, all in a single user interface.

This IBM Redbooks® publication provides a broad understanding of PowerHA for i.

This book is intended for all IBM i professionals who are planning on implementing a PowerHA solution on IBM i.

Part 1. Introduction and background

Chapter 1. Introduction to PowerHA SystemMirror for i

Chapter 2. Implementing an independent auxiliary storage pool

Chapter 3. IBM i clustering

Chapter 4. PowerHA architecture

Part 2. Concepts and planning

Chapter 5. Geographic Mirroring

Chapter 6. DS8000 Copy Services

Chapter 7. Storwize V7000 and SAN Volume Controller Copy Services

Chapter 8. Planning for PowerHA

Chapter 9. PowerHA user interfaces

Chapter 10. Advanced Copy Services for PowerHA

Part 3. Implementation examples and best practices

Chapter 11. Creating a PowerHA base environment

Chapter 12. Configuring and managing Geographic Mirroring

Chapter 13. Configuring and managing DS8000 Copy Services

Chapter 14. Configuring and managing CSVC/V7000 Copy Services

Chapter 15. Best practices

Appendix A. IBM i data resilience options