IBM Multi-Site Workload Lifeline

Overview

Multi-site Workload Lifeline enables intelligent load balancing of TCP/IP workloads across two sites at unlimited distances to provide nearly continuous availability.

Utilizes server application health, availability, and system image capacity; in combination with two tiers of load balancing; to allow distribution of an enterprises workloads across applications on a system, systems within a sites sysplex, or even across sites. Intelligent load balancing offers:

• Increased performance: Response time is reduced by ensuring new connections for a workload are distributed to the applications and systems most capable of handling them
• Increased availability: New connections for a workload can be routed to available servers even in the event of server, sysplex, system, or site outages
• Increased scalability: Server instances can be added on demand
• Analytic capability: Network Management Interface (NMI) provides access to workload, site, and server status information
• Reduction of Recovery Time Objective from hours to minutes
• Workload migration: Ability to move workloads from one site to the other with minimal disruption

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• IBM Multi-site Workload Lifeline V1.1 User's Guide