Evaluating HACMP/6000: a clustering solution for high availability distributed systems

Author

Ahrens, George ; Chandra, Arun ; Kanthanathan, Mano ; Cox, Daniel P.

Author_Institution

IBM Corp., Austin, TX, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

12-14 Jun 1994

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

9

Abstract

The requirements for highly available computer systems have evolved over time. In a commercial environment end-users and consumers do not tolerate systems that are unavailable when needed. This paper describes and evaluates the High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP/6000) product. HACMP/6000 is a clustering solution for high availability distributed systems. Our approach in showing the effectiveness of HACMP/6000 is both qualitative and quantitative. We use availability analysis as a means of our quantitative analysis. Availability analysis is undertaken using a state-of-the-art availability analysis tool-System Availability Estimator (SAVE). Results obtained from the analysis are used for comparison with a non-HACMP/6000 system

Keywords

distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; multiprocessing systems; performance evaluation; reduced instruction set computing; HACMP/6000 evaluation; High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing product; System Availability Estimator; clustering solution; high availability distributed systems; quantitative analysis; Application software; Availability; Computer architecture; Costs; Disk drives; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Reduced instruction set computing; Transaction databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1994., Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

College Station, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6807-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTPDS.1994.494467

Filename

494467