Using SNAplus2 in a High Availability Environment

What is High Availability?

What is High Availability?

High availability is a term used to describe an environment in which mission critical applications are protected from severe impact of various failures . These failures might include entire computer system failures, network failures, software failures, power failures, disk drive failures, and I/O interface failures. If the result of any one failure is the complete loss of the mission critical application, then a single point of failure exists. The main goal of high availability is to achieve maximum uptime. High availability networks should have sufficient redundancy of software and hardware components so that a single point of failure will not disrupt service.

To see what types of failures are considered important, look at the following example of a typical SNAplus2 client/server network that is not designed for high availability.

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