High Availability Clustering
High availability (HA) is the term that is used to describe systems that run and are available to customers more or less all the time.
Failover protection can be achieved by keeping a copy of your database on another machine that is perpetually rolling the log files forward. Log shipping is the process of copying whole log files to a standby machine, either from an archive device or through a user exit program running against the primary database. With this approach, the primary database is restored to the standby machine, using either the DB2 restore utility or the split mirror function. You can use the new suspended I/O support to initialize the new database quickly. The secondary database on the standby machine ...
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