HP Continentalclusters is HP’s disaster-tolerant solution for unlimited distances. It is built upon HP’s foundation clustering software, HP Serviceguard, providing the highest levels of availability and business continuity for enterprise data centers.
Continentalclusters supports a wide range of data replication offerings, giving customers several choices in how they want to design their solution. Since there are no distance limitations on how far apart the data centers can be located, Continentalclusters provide flexibility for customers in where to locate their computing resources.
With the latest version of Continentalclusters, support for Oracle 10g RAC is now offered. This new feature enables Oracle 10g RAC instances to fail over in the event of a disaster.
Key Features
- Manual and bi-directional failover of business-critical data and applications over unlimited distance
- Integrated with any of the following data replication products: Continuous Access EVA, Continuous Access XP, EMC SRDF, the host-based Oracle Standby Database, or the customer’s own data replication mechanism
- Access to on-demand capacity and the policy-based HP-UX Workload Manager
- Fast failover and failback times
- Disaster tolerance across 3 data centers allows a Metrocluster to fail over to Continentalclusters.
- Support for Serviceguard Storage Management Suite. Continentalclusters now support cluster file system.
Benefits
- Complete control over when to initiate failover
- Rapid application recovery time on the secondary site
- Planned downtime is reduced through rolling upgrades
- Easy to implement on top of existing Serviceguard clusters
- Flexibility in the location of the primary and secondary data centers
When Continentalclusters is appropriate
- Data centers are located hundreds or thousands of kilometers/miles apart
- Full control of the failover (operator-initiated) is required in the event of a disaster
- Multiple clusters need to be managed and protected
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