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Clustering Solutions Overview: Parallel Sysplex and Other Platforms

Overview This paper provides an informed comparison of Parallel Sysplex against clustering implementations on other platforms. Paper starts by describing the basic components of Parallel Sysplex data sharing, using DB2 as a sample implementation of the capabilities provided by Parallel Sysplex. Using this as a base, paper then describes how each of the components is implemented on other platforms. This paper concentrates on clustering solutions suitable for commercial online transaction processing that require good scalability and high or continuous availability. All of the implementation examples are of clustered database solutions because these present the greatest challenge for a cluster implementation.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes

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