- Automatic, robust failover solution
- Single HA/DR solution for Oracle® RAC databases, as well as
other applications
- Effective asset utilization
- Easy deployment and implementation using Serviceguard
Managers GUI interface
- Disaster recovery at up to 25% lower costs via integration
with
HP Global Instant Capacity
- Optimal resource utilization via integration with
Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX
- Fully integrated and supported by HP, Oracle and Symantec
- Utilize disk space as necessary with HP 3PAR Remote Copy
Thin Provision Virtual Volumes
- Storage and network flexibility
- No performance drop due to distances
- Static load balancing between sites
- Dynamic load balancing within a site
- Enables vertical and horizontal scaling
- Easy deployment of multiple stacked RAC databases
Similar to
HP Serviceguard Extended Distance Cluster, an HP Serviceguard Metrocluster is a normal Serviceguard cluster that has clustered nodes and storage devices located in different data centers separated by some distance. However-unlike HP Serviceguard Extended Distance Cluster, which has a maximum range of 100 km-HP Serviceguard Metrocluster operates at distances of up to 300 km and also verifies the currency and integrity of your data. Both data centers can be active, protected, and capable of providing application failover for each other. HP Serviceguard Metrocluster can act as a single disaster recovery solution for databases as well as other applications. The distinct characteristic of Metrocluster is its integration with array-based data replication.
HP Serviceguard Metrocluster not only increases the level of protection from disasters, but also turns the business continuity infrastructure into a productive asset that can be used for day-to-day operations. This means that your business continuity infrastructure can also be used for planned downtime activities, such as upgrading applications.
HP Serviceguard Metrocluster includes functionality called Site Aware Disaster Tolerant Architecture (SADTA) which provides automated bi-directional failover throughout two sites. In this architecture, all active instances reside at a single site, and are continuously replicated to a remote standby site using physical data replication. In the event of a disaster, the active site will automatically fail-over to the passive standby site without any impact on performance.
The same Site Aware Disaster Tolerant Architecture is employed by
HP Serviceguard Metrocluster for RAC and
HP Serviceguard Metrocluster for Complex Workloads.
HP Serviceguard Metrocluster for RAC is an automated disaster recovery solution
for Oracle® RAC databases. Supported by HP and Oracle, it supports a database-stacking environment, is able to perform static and dynamic load balancing, and provides disaster recovery as well as high availability. Since it is based on the HP Serviceguard Solutions portfolio of products, it enables disaster recovery for other applications also in addition to Oracle® RAC, thereby providing a single clustering platform for your entire HP-UX environment.
Serviceguard Metrocluster for Complex Workloads provides the same advantages of HP Serviceguard Metrocluster for RAC to other applications such as SAP, cluster file systems, or web server farms: static load-balancing, protection against site outages, and automatic and automated control of any arbitrary complex workload.
Serviceguard has been integrated into HP 3PAR storage arrays providing additional uptime options for customers using HP-UX and Serviceguard. Serviceguard Metrocluster provides synchronous replication and automated failover for rapid recovery of 3PAR Storage Array data, ultimately providing 3PAR customers with more disaster recovery options. HP's Integrity products use HP-UX operating environments and Serviceguard for highly availability solutions in mission critical environments.
