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.
What's new
Support for Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
Product Key Selling Points
Powerfully Simple Disaster Recovery
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.
Near instantaneous data replication: Performs read/write enabling of remotely mirrored storage, using HP StorageWorks 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.
Comprehensive and Reliable
Extensive condition checking: Monitors and recovers disk pair synchronization on an application level.
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.
Supports Multiple Environments
Universal support: Universally supports HP StorageWorks XP24000/20000 Disk Array, HP StorageWorks XP12000/10000Disk Array and legacy HP StorageWorks XP1024/128 and XP512/48 Disk Arrays.
Reliable data transfer: IAssures highest standards in data integrity by maximizing the advantages of XP Continuous Access Software.
Broad OS support: Integrates with HP Serviceguard 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.
