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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 centres.
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 centres can be located, Continentalclusters provides flexibility for customers in terms of 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.
- 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 centres allows a Metrocluster to fail over to Continentalclusters.
- Support for Serviceguard Storage Management Suite. Continentalclusters now supports cluster file system.
- 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 centres
- Data centres are located hundreds or thousands of kilometres/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
