Rocket iCluster: A logical replication HA solution for IBM i
Highlights
- Mirror critical data and objects in real-time from a primary system to one or more secondary systems
- High-speed operational switching and access between geographically distant locations during planned and unplanned downtime
- Automatic monitoring and notification of status of the HA system
- Automatic synchronization checking and journal management
Rocket iCluster provides a high availability and disaster recovery solution for IBM i application environments. It is a logical replication solution for the IBM i operating system.
Rocket iCluster is the ideal solution for a variety of clients
- Small to medium businesses that need an easy-to-use, software based, high-availability solution
- Large enterprises with multiple mission-critical applications to protect
- Financial institutions that want an aggressive recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) through a combined software- and IBM PowerHA based solution that can scale up to over two billion transactions per hour
Rocket iCluster delivers both an enterprise and a small to medium business solution as well as advanced features, such as iBalance, which enables workload balancing and HA Assist which complements the capabilities of a switched disk or geographical mirroring solution such as IBM PowerHA SystemMirror.
Rocket iCluster offers the following functions and benefits
- Role swapping (fully or partially automated); synchronization checking of file attributes, file contents, IFS attributes, object existence, data area contents, and output queues; monitoring through either green screen or easy-to-understand GUI; automatic resynchronization of out-of-sync objects; and alarms and alerts including e-mail notifications and user-defined thresholds.
- Very high speed replication capabilities that can scale to handle the size of your business and transactional volumes. Replication minimizes the time required for a switch and enables resynchronizations after network outages.
- Fully bidirectional high availability replication through iBalance, including conflict detection and resolution. This type of replication enables you to perform workload balancing by splitting users for an application between two systems if you use CBU Edition and applications with uniquely keyed physical files.
