8.8. High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP)

HACMP for AIX is an application solution that can link up to eight RS/6000 servers or SP nodes into highly available clusters. With the enhanced scalability feature, up to 16 SP nodes can be linked. Clustering servers or nodes enables parallel access to their data, which can help provide the redundancy and fault resilience required for business critical applications. HACMP includes graphical user interface-based tools to help install, configure, and manage your clusters in a highly productive manner.

HACMP is flexible in configuration and use. Uniprocessors, symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) and SP nodes can all participate in highly available clusters. Micro Channel and PCI-based systems ...

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