Disaster Tolerance and Recovery in a Serviceguard Cluster

Understanding Types of Disaster Tolerant Clusters

Table 1-1

Comparison of Disaster Tolerant Cluster Solutions (Continued)

 

 

 

 

 

Attributes

Extended Distance

 

CLX

Continentalclusters

Cluster

 

(HP-UX only)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maximum

100 Kilometers

Shortest of the distances

No distance

Distance

 

between:

restrictions.

 

 

Cluster network

 

 

 

 

latency (not to

 

 

 

 

exceed 200 ms).

 

 

 

Data Replication

 

 

 

 

Max Distance.

 

 

 

DWDM provider

 

 

 

 

max distance.

 

 

 

 

 

Data

Host-based, through

Array-based, through

You have a choice of

Replication

MD. Replication can

Continuous Access XP or

either selecting their

mechanism

affect performance

Continuous Access EVA.

own SG-supported

 

(writes are

Replication and

storage and data

 

synchronous).

replication

 

resynchronization

 

Resynchronization can

mechanism, or

 

performed by the storage

 

impact performance.

implementing one of

 

subsystem, so the host

 

(Complete

HP’s pre-integrated

 

does not experience a

 

resynchronization is

solutions (including

 

performance hit.

 

required in many

Continuous Access XP,

 

Incremental

 

scenarios that have

Continuous Access

 

resynchronizations are

 

multiple failures.)

EVA, and EMC SRDF

 

done, based on bitmap,

 

 

for array-based, or

 

 

minimizing the need for

 

 

Oracle 8i Standby for

 

 

full re-syncs.

 

 

host based.) Also, you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

may choose Oracle 9i

 

 

 

 

Data Guard as a

 

 

 

 

host-based solution.

 

 

 

 

Contributed (that is,

 

 

 

 

unsupported)

 

 

 

 

integration templates

 

 

 

 

for Oracle 9i.

 

 

 

 

 

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