Single instance configurations will not cover all your requirements for high availability and redundancy, as is the case in traditional IT environments as well. Defining a valid architecture to support your requirements is a vital element in making sure that your configuration will be able to perform according to the service level agreements you need to support. The developerWorks article High availability apps in the IBM Cloud details how to protect a cloud-enabled, production-grade application against single points of failure and, like this book does, takes you through some examples as well. Find the article at www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-highavailabilitycloud.
Additionally, IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise offers specific features such as the ability to configure multiple IP addresses, private VLANs, and anti-collocation of virtual machine instances, in case we are building more sophisticated configurations than just a single virtual machine instance, such...