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High Availability Guide for DB2
by Chris Eaton and Enzo Cialini

High availability is crucial to virtually every enterprise and e-business application. In the just-published High Availability Guide for DB2, IBM's Eaton and Cialini review options related to the database engine and the underlying platform. The book covers the entire lifecycle, from planning and architecture through day-to-day administration. Topics covered include:

• Fundamental concepts, real-world challenges, and tradeoffs
• Choosing among high availability alternatives
• Configuring highly available databases
• Disk-based availability, including split mirror copies and disk-based remote mirroring
• Multi-partition issues, including instance takeover and tuning parameters
• Clustering and failover: HACMP, Sun Cluster, HP Service Guard, MSCS, and
• Linux Steeleye
• Monitoring and tuning databases to maximize availability
• Backup and recovery in highly available environments
• DB2's advanced availability features: standby servers, shared disk configurations, and no-data-loss recovery.

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