Marketing description

HPE Serviceguard Continentalclusters offers push button failover across unlimited distances. Continentalclusters uses multiple clusters to provide application recovery. Applications run in the active/standby mode with application data replicated between data centers by either storage array-based data replication products or software based data replication.

Key selling points

• Cluster to cluster failover with mutual recovery
• Push button recovery – initiates a failover when you deem fit and automates the steps to recover applications
• Fully integrated with HPE Serviceguard Solution for Linux portfolio
• Supports HPE P9000/XP Continuous Access, HPE P6000/EVA Continuous Access and HPE 3PAR Remote Copy, EMC Symmetrix
• Remote Data Facility (SRDF) when used with HPE Serviceguard for Linux Enterprise edition

Product features

• Preserves data integrity
  It provides data protection with advanced cluster arbitration mechanisms that prevent data corruption.
• Increases availability
  HPE Serviceguard provides a higher level of availability by protecting your applications from a wide range of hardware, software, network, and storage errors.
• Easy to install and configure
  With predefined and informative cluster- and package-configuration templates, you'll get HPE Serviceguard up and running quickly.
• Fast and easy to replicate cluster configurations
  Editable ASCII configuration files enable simple customization and replication.
• Solid investment protection
  By supporting HPE 9000 servers, HPE Integrity servers, and HPE ProLiant servers, HPE Serviceguard gives you the ability to leverage your existing hardware, support your consolidation efforts, and ease the migration to newer platforms.
• Tested and certified toolkits
  Predefined scripts for databases and applications make it quick and easy for you to deploy complex high-availability configurations.
• Developers toolbox
  A range of tools included in HPE Serviceguard helps you expedite the process of developing scripts for your custom applications.
• No distance limitation
  Disaster tolerance and data replication are possible across partitions, nodes, and data centers. Furthermore, because there are no geographic limitations, your data centers can communicate across continents.
• Cluster file system support
  Application installation and ongoing management are simplified - especially for Oracle Real Application Cluster databases - plus you will experience significant I/O performance improvements.
• Synchronized configuration
  A set of tools is available to provide you with policy-based configuration management for Serviceguard clusters.
• Consolidated logging tools
  Serviceguard comes with centralized logging and advanced log-filtering features along with additional support so you can create a highly available log-consolidation server.