Failure management with Db2 cluster services

This section contains an overview of Db2 cluster services and detailed information about how it deals with specific types of host, cluster caching facility, and member failure.

Db2 cluster services is software that provides automatic heartbeat failure detection and automatically initiates the necessary recovery operations after a failure is detected. It also provides the cluster file system that gives each host in a Db2 pureScale® instance access to a common file system. Db2 cluster services includes technology from IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (Tivoli SA MP) software, IBM® Reliable Scalable Clustering Technology (RSCT) software, and IBM Spectrum Scale software. This technology is packaged as an integral part of the Db2 pureScale Feature.