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<h1 class="topictitle1">Benefits of clusters</h1>
<div><p>Clusters provide a solution if your business demands operational
systems 24 hours a day, seven days a week.</p>
<p><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />By using clustering, you can greatly reduce
the number and duration of unplanned outages and the duration of planned outages,
thereby ensuring that your systems, data, and applications are continuously
available.<img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></p>
<p>The major benefits that clusters can offer your business are:</p>
<dl><dt class="dlterm">Continuous availability</dt>
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remain continuously available. </dd>
<dt class="dlterm">Simplified administration</dt>
<dd><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />You can manage a group of systems as a single system or
single database, without having to sign on to individual systems. You can
use a cluster administrative domain to more easily manage resources that are
shared within a cluster. <img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></dd>
<dt class="dlterm">Increased scalability</dt>
<dd>Seamlessly add new components as your business growth requires.</dd>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzaigconcepts.htm" title="Get a complete understanding of how clusters work. Read about the benefits of clusters and how they can be important to you, as well as information on important clustering concepts and how they fit together.">Cluster concepts</a></div>
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<div><a href="rzaigconceptsfailover.htm" title="Failover occurs when a server in a cluster automatically switches over to one or more backup servers in the event of a system failure.">Failover</a></div>
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