HP StorageWorks XP Cluster Extension Software offers protection against system downtime to critical applications for enterprise customers using the HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array family. It allows for hands-free failover/failback decision-making as it detects failures and automatically manages recovery without human intervention. Offering comprehensive disaster tolerance against application downtime from fault, failure, or site disaster by extending clusters between data centers; it is the most feature rich product in the HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension Software portfolio. HP XP Cluster Extension Software resurrects your critical applications at a remote site within minutes after an event over both metropolitan and global distances. Working seamlessly with your open-system clustering software, HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access Software and your XP Disk Array storage system it automates fail-over and fail-back between sites. Using HP XP Continuous Access Software remote mirroring allows HP XP Cluster Extension Software to verify the status of the storage as well as the status of the server cluster; thus, the correct failover and failback decisions are made automatically which minimize downtime, and accelerates recovery.
HP XP Cluster Extension Software supports the entire HP StorageWorks XP Virtual Array (XP) family of arrays at either the primary or secondary site while protecting your valuable information against the threat of downtime - whether planned or unplanned it provides disaster tolerance to keep your corporate information accessible, and available through adverse events, making your operations resilient, regardless of external or internal events. HP provides proven strategies, services, and technologies to reduce your exposure and vulnerability.
What's new
Support of XP20000/24000 arrays for Windows, AIX and Linux environments
Support for Windows Server 2008 support
Features and Benefits
Comprehensive resource for real time protection: Provides hands-free failover and failback decision-making because it detects failures and automatically manages recovery without human intervention.
Eliminates operational delays: Requires no reboots or LUN presentation/mapping changes during failover between sites.
Highly available near instantaneous data replication: Performs read/write enabling of remotely mirrored storage, using XP Continuous Access Software mirroring for high-performance synchronous and long distance asynchronous solutions.
Scalable: Each XP CLX cluster can support up to 8 nodes over two sites.
Offloads data replication tasks from the host: The disk array controls the replication process, so the server is relieved from writing any I/O requests to the disk more than once.
Reliable data transfer: Assures highest standards in data integrity by maximizing the advantages of XP Continuous Access Software.
Broad OS support: Integrates with HP Service guard for Linux in Linux environments, Microsoft Cluster Service in Windows 2008/2003 environments, VERITAS Cluster Service in Solaris environments and HACMP AIX environments.
Protection from transaction data loss: Data exists ubiquitously at both sites, so there is virtually no difference in the data storage from site A to site B.
