Cluster middleware IBM Business Partners and available clustering products

You can purchase a product from an IBM^® cluster middleware IBM Business Partner that provides the logical replication functions that are integral to clustering and simplifies cluster creation and management.

IBM cluster middleware IBM Business Partners provide software solutions for dedicated replication and cluster management functions. If you want to purchase a product that provides logical replication functions that are integral to clustering and simplifies cluster creation and management, contact your IBM marketing representative or business partner. They can provide a complete list of clustering enabling products provided by IBM cluster middleware IBM Business Partners.

The cluster middleware IBM Business Partner cluster management product:

• Provides the user interface to define and maintain the cluster configuration
• Provides the user interface to define and manage the device, data, and application cluster resource groups
• Maintains the knowledge through the use of cluster APIs, of what cluster resource groups are defined in the cluster and what relationships are required.
• Creates the device, data, and application cluster resource groups.

The cluster middleware IBM Business Partner replication product:

• Builds the middleware's control structures that identify the data and objects that are required to be resilient.
• Creates the cluster resource group for critical data and associates that object with its control structures.
• Provides the exit program for the data cluster resource group.