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HIGH AVAILABILITY
CLUSTERING
High Availability and Scalable Cluster Solutions
New xSeries 230 cluster solution starts up quick and smart with secure operation of business-critical applications. IBM gives you an easy transition with this
complete, test-proven, high availability (HA) hardware and software configuration.
These tower solutions leverage the latest xSeries 230 server platform with choices of Windows® network operating system software and preloaded cluster
middleware. Features include the following:
• Prepackaged for single part number ordering and customer cost savings
• Scaled for business growth
• Ready-to-run with cluster middleware and either Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows NT 4.0 EE operating systems preloaded
• Test-proven high availability hardware and software for business-critical applications
• Flexibility to handle unique computing environments
• Fully redundant with failover protection and RAID-protected internal and external storage
North America order numbers: x230 HA Cluster - NT (P/N 25P1821), x230 HA Cluster - Windows 2000 (P/N 25P1822)
xSeries 230 High Availability Cluster
xSeries 230
Ethernet
Adapter
ServeRAID
4M Adapter
Ethernet
Adapter
ServeRAID
4M Adapter
xSeries 230
Cluster Interconnect
E54 color monitor
4-port console
connector switch
EXP300
1
shared storage
(with rack-to-tower
conversion kit)
1. Configured as a single independent twintail SCSI bus for high availability.