The Informix Zone - mach11

Informix MACH11 RedBook

Spokey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:30:20 +0200

IBM has recently released a new RedBook, called "Informix Dynamic Server 11: Extending Availability and Replication"

It looks to be a comprehensive review, covering:

Messing around with MACH11

Obnoxio The Clown — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:13:18 +0200

Messing around with MACH11

I recently had the pleasure of playing around with MACH11 in a demo environment. In much the same way as onbar is trivial to set up once you have a storage manager going, once you've got all the background hoo-hah of building instances done, it's amazingly simple to build a MACH11 cluster!

You need to tell the primary that it's the primary for each kind of replication you're going to use (with onmode -d commands. In my case it was HDR, SDS and RSS -- going for broke.

You need to set up some non-shared disk for SDS.

ZIFF Davis: Securing Your Data - Choosing the Right Platform

eherber — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:59:55 +0100

ZIFF Davis presents: Securing Your Data - Choosing the Right Platform

Date: Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008
Time: 09:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Eastern, 17:00 London, 18:00 Paris, 18:00 Berlin
Speaker: Jonathan Leffler, Senior Technical Staff Member IBM IM
Registration URL: Click here to register for the webcast...

Abstract:

MACH 11 - Setup a SDS Node in 5 Minutes

eherber — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:34:45 +0100

MACH 11 - Setup a SDS Node in 5 Minutes

If you didn't had the time to play with the SDS (Shared Disk Secondary) functionality which is part of the MACH 11 technology introduced in IDS 11, here is a short summary how to setup a SDS node on the same machine. It will take you only about 5 minutes to get the SDS node up and running.

I assume that you already have an IDS 11 instance running on your machine. If not, download the cost-free IDS Developer Edition:

ZIFF Davis: 99.999% - How available is your business

eherber — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:44:48 +0200

ZIFF Davis presents: 99.999% - How available is your business

Date: Wednesday, 09/26/2007
Time: 12:30 PM ET (New York), 17:30 London, 18:30 Paris, 18:30 Berlin
Speakers: Kevin Brown, Madison Pruet, Michael Krieger
Registration URL: Click here to register for the webcast...

Abstract:

MACH 11 - IBM Whitepaper published

eherber — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:12:44 +0200

MACH 11 - IBM Whitepaper published

You want to know more about MACH 11 ?

Then download and read the new IBM whitepaper below which talks about this outstanding new Informix clustering technology:

Availability Solutions with IDS 11

MACH 11 - Tell me more about it

eherber — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:59:53 +0200

I got several requests to translate my german article which is a roundup on the MACH 11 functionality available with IDS Cheetah. So here is a translation of the article:

MACH 11 stands for Multinode Active Cluster for High Availability.

It is an extremly flexible High Availability Technology which is fully integrated in the Informix DBMS Kernel and builds upon the efficient and nearly linear scalable multithreaded architecture.