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PowerCenter High Availability - Informatica
PowerCenter High Availability - Informatica
PowerCenter High Availability - Informatica
Informatica GCS
Resilience. Highly available systems can tolerate temporary connection failures until
a timeout period expires or the failure is resolved. The system tries to reconnect for a
specified period of time. If the failure is resolved, there is no interruption in end user
activity.
Reducecostsandrisksassociatedwithdatadowntime
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PowerCenter HA Capabilities
Servicefailoverfromprimarytobackupservicesandnodes.
Automaticallyensuresserviceavailabilityonprimaryorbackupserversshould
theprimaryserverfail.
Sessionandworkflowrecoveryfromcheckpoints.
Automaticorconfigurablerecoveryforsessionsaffectedbyservicefailures.
Resiliencytonetworkandexternalfailures.
Automaticreconnectwithinresiliencetimeoutconstraintshandlestransient
networkerrorsandconnectionfailures.
Centralizedwebbasedconfigurationandadministration
Abilitytocreate,manageandmonitorahighavailabilityconfigurationofall
PowerCenterservicesthroughawebbasedadministrationconsole.
EnableAdministratorstovisuallyidentifysinglepointoffailureswithinthe
Informaticaenvironment.
Automatic
Failover
Restart
Recovery
Component
Failure
(HW/SW)
Data
Integration
Services
Backup
Services
Config
Repository
Services
IntegrationServicealsosupportsActiveActivemode.
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Achieving PowerCenter HA
Achieving PowerCenter HA
KeyunderlyingcomponentstoachieveaPowerCenterHighAvailability
solutionare:
HighlyAvailableDatabase
RedundantNetwork
HighlyAvailableSharedFileSystem
General Recommendations:
Network 1 GB >
HA CFS w/ Heartbeat and Failover
Redundant Network
Actual config depend on environment and SLA reqs.
DR with PowerCenter
IncorporatingPowerCenterintoDisaster
RecoverySolutions:
Active
Active
PrimaryDataCentershouldbeconfigured
withPowerCenterHAincludingunderlying
HAinfrastructure.
Active
BackupInformatica Nodes&Services
configuredpassive(coldstandby)mode.
Active
ExternalSystemsareactivelyreplicated
acrossDataCentersbyrespective
vendors.
Active
Passive
Active
Passive
DR with PowerCenter
IncorporatingPowerCenterintoDisaster
RecoverySolutions:
PrimaryDataCentershouldbeconfigured
withPowerCenterHAincludingunderlying
HAinfrastructure.
BackupInformatica Nodes&Services
configuredpassive(coldstandby)mode.
ExternalSystemsareactivelyreplicated
acrossDataCentersbyrespective
vendors.
BackupInformatica Nodes&Services
becomeactiveonlywhenPrimaryData
Centergoesdownandreplicationof
requireddatahasbeencompleted.
Requiresscripting/integration
with3rdpartyoperation
managementtools.
Recover, Re-initialize
Active
Active
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Domain DB
Repository DB
Source DB
Target DB
Typical single
node setup where
most jobs
complete within a
specific window
of time.
Unexpected
failures require
sessions to be
restarted losing
precious time.
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Domain DB
Repository DB
Source DB
Target DB
Typical single
node setup where
most jobs
complete within a
specific window
of time.
Unexpected
failures require
sessions to be
restarted losing
precious time.
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SourceDB
TargetDB
HADatabase
RepositoryDB
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SourceDB
TargetDB
HADatabase
RepositoryDB
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SourceDB
TargetDB
HADatabase
RepositoryDB
SourceDB
Node 1 is
running on a
machine that
encounters an
unexpected
failure.
TargetDB
HADatabase
RepositoryDB
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SourceDB
TargetDB
Node 1 is
running on a
machine that
encounters an
unexpected
failure.
Integration
Service fails-over
to Node 2
HADatabase
RepositoryDB
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SourceDB
TargetDB
HADatabase
Node 1 is
running on a
machine that
encounters an
unexpected
failure.
Integration
Service fails-over
to Node 2.
Workflow and
session restart
with recovery
and continue
from last
checkpoint.
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Recovery
Architectural recovery
Procedural recovery
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