4 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager in a Clustered Environment
1.1 High availability
In today’s complex environments, providing continuous service for applications is
a key component of a successful IT implementation. High availability is one of
the components that contributes to providing continuous service for the
application clients, by masking or eliminating both planned and unplanned
systems and application downtime. This is achieved through the elimination of
hardware and software single points of failure (SPOFs).
A high availability solution will ensure that the failure of any component of the
solution, either hardware, software, or system management, will not cause the
application and its data to be unavailable to the user.
High availability ...