Understand how to go about creating a cluster.
IBM® and IBM cluster middleware IBM Business Partners have teamed together to provide state-of-the-art cluster resource services functions along with a graphical user interface (GUI) for cluster management. i5/OS™ cluster resource services provides a set of integrated services that maintain cluster topology, perform heartbeating, and allow creation and administration of cluster configuration and cluster resource groups. Cluster resource services also provides reliable messaging functions that keep track of each node in the cluster and ensures that all nodes have consistent information about the state of cluster resources. In addition, cluster resource services provides a set of control language (CL) commands and application program interfaces (APIs) and facilities that can be used by iSeries™ application providers or customers to enhance their application availability. Cluster resource services functions can also be accessed via graphical user interface solutions provided by iSeries Navigator cluster management and cluster middleware IBM Business Partner products.
Getting started
Follow these steps to configure a cluster: