HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA

HP offers a range of solutions that protect your valuable information against the threat of downtime making your operations resilient regardless of external or internal events. HP business continuity software solutions provide disaster tolerance to keep your corporate information accessible, and available through adverse events. Any amount of system downtime can mean lost productivity, lost revenue, lost customers, and lost opportunities; HP provides proven technologies strategies, and services to reduce your exposure and vulnerability. Defend your mission-critical operations and secure your company's future with HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension.

Cluster Extension EVA (CLX EVA) offers protection against application downtime from fault, failure, or site disaster by extending a local cluster between data centers over metropolitan distance. CLX EVA reinstates critical applications at a remote site within minutes after an adverse event and integrates with your open-system clustering software (MS Cluster Service in Windows environments and HP Serviceguard for Linux in Linux environments), HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA to automate failover and failback between sites. This dual integration enables the cluster service to verify the status of the storage as well as the server cluster; thus allowing the correct failover and failback decisions to be made which minimize downtime, and accelerates recovery - without human intervention.

What's New

HP delivers another industry first! Failsafe operations in the midrange for Linux users.

• Cluster Extension EVA Linux delivers hands-free Disaster Tolerance for Linux
  
• Supports Linux: RedHat EL 4 & SuSe SLES 9
  
• Integrates with HP Serviceguard for Linux as the cluster service

• Accelerated application recovery with minimal transaction loss
  
• Disaster tolerant solutions to ensure business continuance and company survival
  
• Creation of disaster tolerant copies of your "critical business data"
  

For more information regarding Serviceguard clusters in Linux environments please visit hp.com at: http://www.hp.com/go/sglx

Cluster Extension EVA Software Support

CLX Version

Windows 2003, Enterprise Edition (32/64-bit, x64)

Windows 2003, Datacenter Edition (IA64-bit)

Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition Release 2 (32/64-bit)

Microsoft Cluster Service 5.2

NOTE: The MS Majority Node Set (MNS) Quorum with FileShare Witness is now supported for qualifying configurations

Continuous Access EVA v2.1

MPIO Full Featured Failover DSM v1.00.00

RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 U1 2.69-11.EL

Continuous Access EVA v2.1

XCS 5.100, 5.110

Serviceguard for Linux 11.16.05

Continuous Access EVA v2.1

CV 5.0.3

XCS 5.100, 5.110

• Hardware
  
• Minimum two StorageWorks EVA arrays
  
• Minimum two FC switches (per site)
  
• Dual inter-site links - FC, WDM, FC-IP as appropriate
  
  • NOTE: CLX EVA supports a maximum cable length distance between data centers of 500km with a maximum of up to 20 ms roundtrip delay on the inter-site links.
    
• Minimum two management appliances (one per site, recommend two per site)
  
  • SMA or a management server
    
• Minimum two FC adapters per cluster node or one dual channel FC adapter per cluster node
  
• Minimum two node cluster (one node per site)
  
• One additional cluster server node to serve as an arbitrator for the MNS quorum or arbitrator node. (Two arbitrator nodes recommended for the highest level of availability)
  
  • This server should be located in a third location (a separate room, in a separate fire zone with separate power connections)
    
• Static IP address for all network interfaces on each cluster node
  

HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension is licensed per single server. One license is required for each node of the cluster that will contain CLX resources*, intended for failover and failback in the event of failure. A license is not required for the Quorum server (assuming that the CLX Resource is not installed on the Quorum server) and cluster nodes that do not have the CLX resource installed.

NOTE:* A resource is defined as the smallest unit in an application service. It describes the necessary parts to build an application service. The implementation of such resources in cluster software is vendor-specific. Some vendors do not allow accessing the chains between dependent resources. Vendor equivalent terms: HACMP: resource group; Microsoft Cluster Service: resource group; SG-LX (Serviceguard): package; VCS: service group.

The following products are related to the proper operation of the EVA array. Please see product-specific QuickSpecs (attainable via the links indicated) regarding configuration and ordering information.

EVA Models are modular, scalable, no-single-point-of-failure storage solutions with disaster tolerance and business continuance support for storage consolidation on heterogeneous SANs. Ideal for enterprise-wide deployment and mission-critical applications, these solutions are the most extensible, resilient, and controllable storage solutions available. They offer maximum scalability, industry-leading performance, a fully integrated suite of centralized management tools, and unmatched data protection and disaster tolerant features.

Visit the following URL for product configuration and ordering information for the new HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 Enterprise Virtual Arrays: http://www.hp.com/go/eva

or http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/arraysystems.html for general storage array product configuration and ordering information.

HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA is a configuration prerequisite for HP Cluster Extension implementation. Continuous Access EVA is a controller-based application that performs real-time replication between HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays and provides customers with the highest level of storage data protection capabilities to meet their business continuity implementation goals. Customers can achieve a competitive advantage by combining disaster-tolerant solutions and disaster-tolerant managed services into their planning and daily routines, ensuring the data's security, availability and integrity. Continuous Access EVA is sold by utilized capacity.

Please see the product URL for ordering information and part numbers: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/software.html

CLX EVA Linux uses HP Serviceguard for Linux, specialized software for protecting mission-critical applications from a wide variety of hardware and software failures. With Serviceguard, multiple servers (nodes) and/or server partitions are organized in to an enterprise cluster that delivers highly available application services to LAN-attached clients. HP Serviceguard monitors the health of each node and rapidly responds to failures in a way that minimizes or eliminates application downtime.

For more information regarding Serviceguard clusters in Linux environments please visit hp.com at: http://www.hp.com/go/sglx or
http://h18026.www1.hp.com/solutions/enterprise/highavailability/linux/serviceguard/documentation.html

HP Services professionals work closely with your staff to analyze your storage system, understand your requirements, and design and deploy the optimal Data Replication solution for your business. Choose from three service levels:

• Level 1 offers installation and startup services for Continuous Access or Business Copy replication software or the Continuous Access Storage Appliance, including configuration checks, installation and basic configuration, and installation testing and customer orientation.
• Level 2 provides additional services such as Project Management, solution design, basic integration into your management environment, functional testing, and knowledge transfer.
• Level 3 provides all level 1 and 2 services, plus integration of your Data Replication solution into additional business applications.

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HP Disaster Tolerant Management service helps you implement effective recovery solutions based on the HP StorageWorks Continuous Access Enterprise Virtual Array (CA EVA), a controller-based application that performs real-time Data Replication between HP StorageWorks EVAs. This complete package of tightly integrated services provides proven, low-risk disaster-tolerant solutions for even the most demanding and complex environments, with minimal disruption to your business.

HP Disaster Tolerant Management service is expressly tailored to your IT and business requirements. At the outset, HP Services professionals work closely with you to understand your requirements and assess how your solution would interact with your existing infrastructure and business processes. Following solution delivery, knowledge transfer to your IT management and staff helps ensure that your team can manage issues that are specific to your business.

Disaster Tolerant Services Package deliverables include:

• Pre-installation planning and business needs review - to help ensure a timely, effective implementation
• Configuration and deployment of customized Disaster Tolerant management stations - to provide enhanced failover and continuous management and monitoring
• System manager and operator training - to familiarize your staff with key management issues; includes extensive training on recovery from failure conditions
• Review of your technical recovery plan - to help ensure alignment with your disaster-tolerant infrastructure
• Disaster recovery test suite design - to tailor tests for your newly integrated environment
• Disaster recovery rehearsal execution - to verify that your solution performs to your expectations

• Standard software support (HP Care Pack or annual support contract) 24 x 7 is available 24 hours per day, Monday through Sunday, including holidays, and access rights to new versions, software product and documentation updates.
  
• Installation and Startup Service (software installation, configuration, startup testing and knowledge transfer).
  
• Tailored support contracts based on personalized statement of work: contact your local support center via http://www.hp.com/support/.
  

• Installation and startup services
  
• DR Solutions Service
  
• DT Managed Service
  
• Extended services beyond 1 year