PowerCenter High Availability Option

Responding to the Enterprise's Need for “Always On” Data Integration

The High Availability Option provides high availability and seamless failover and recovery of all PowerCenter components. This option minimizes service interruption in the event of a hardware and/or software outage and reduces costs associated with data downtime. A Web-based administration console simplifies set up and management. The SOA framework that's part of the PowerCenter architecture enables this option's functionality.

Key Features

High Availability

• Enables the configuration of multiple backup services across the entire platform to provide reliability and redundancy
• Extends to all platform services, making all services “hot,” meaning they can be used to perform work as well as function as backup

Seamless Failover

• Minimizes service interruptions in the event of a hardware, network and/or software outage by automatically re-routing data integration processing to resources unaffected by outage
• Preserves development work by re-routing save operations when primary repository server unavailable

Guaranteed Flexible Recovery

• Provides various recovery strategies, including automatic recovery of partially completed data integration processing due to unexpected service interruptions
• Leverages workflow and session check-pointing to persist intermediate processing states
• Ensures viability of recovery and restart procedures even when source data changes between session failure and recovery
• Ensures zero data loss during recovery for real-time sources

Connection Resiliency

• Makes all internal and external connection points resilient to changes in computing or network environment
• Extends resiliency to automatic retry for configurable time periods and graceful shutdown

Full Integration Across Entire Data Integration Platform

• Automatically applies all high availability features to all data integration processing available on the PowerCenter platform, including data cleansing, data profiling, unstructured and semi-structured data processing

Benefits

Guards Against Platform Service Outage and Ensures Data Uptime
This option eliminates single points of failure in the PowerCenter environment, providing uninterrupted access to critical data and reducing errors in the data delivery process. PowerCenter’s sophisticated distributed architecture enables monitoring between its components and services.

Reduces Costs and Risks Associated with Data Downtime
With its advanced failover and recovery capabilities, this option mitigates the risk of failure and minimizes the consequences associated with processing outages. By eliminating data downtime, IT organizations can be more productive. They can better control the total cost of enterprise data integration initiatives. The centralized, Web-based administration console allows users to rapidly create and configure reliable and redundant services, as well as dynamically reconfigure services, which simplifies overall system administration.

Enables Mission-Critical Deployment of PowerCenter for Enterprise Data Integration Initiatives
Organizations that rely on PowerCenter as the foundation for all mission-critical enterprise data integration initiatives cannot risk processing downtime. Particularly in the context of an Integration Competency Center, the High Availability Option can underwrite stringent service level agreements. Seamless failover and recovery for all PowerCenter components minimize the consequences of service interruptions. Adaptable recovery strategies can be determined for configurable restart of platform services. Session check-pointing provides faster, easier and more efficient recovery. This option’s powerful capabilities extend PowerCenter’s readiness for mission-critical deployment.

Product Literature

High Availability Option Datasheet
High Availability White Paper
PowerCenter Brochure