Hot spare support for integrated servers

If your integrated server hardware fails, you can quickly configure your integrated server to use replacement hardware with your existing virtual storage.

Server integration and storage virtualization provide innovative options that can enhance the reliability and recoverability of the integrated server environment. Hot spare hardware provides a way to quickly recover from certain types of hardware failures. This can reduce the server downtime from hours or days to minutes.

• If the integrated server hardware fails, you can quickly and easily switch the server configuration to hot spare System x or BladeCenter hardware without restarting IBM® i. Hot spare support also adds flexibility by enabling one spare server to be used to protect multiple production servers. This may reduce the overall number of servers needed to provide increased availability.
• If the IBM i iSCSI target adapters that the System x or blade system is using has a hardware failure, you can quickly switch the hosted system to use a spare iSCSI target adapter and restart the hosted system.