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HP XP P9000 Storage Family - Model XP P9500 and HP XP
P9000 Software
Business Continuity Solutions
HP XP P9000 Cluster Extension Software
Overview
HP XP P9000 Cluster Extension Software offers protection against system downtime to critical
applications for enterprise customers using the HP XP P9000 Storage family. It allows for hands-free
failover/failback of server-storage system. It detects failures and automatically manages recovery
without human intervention, offering comprehensive disaster tolerance against application downtime
from fault, failure, or site disaster. HP XP P9000 Cluster Extension Software resurrects your critical
applications at a remote site within seconds/minutes after a failover event over both metropolitan and
global distances. XP P9000 Cluster Extension works seamlessly with your open-system clustering
software, HP XP P9000 Continuous Access Software and your XP P9500 Storage system to provide a
highly available IT system.
NOTE: Similar functionality exists for HP-UX servers with HP Metrocluster software.
Models
Support
HP XP P9000 Cluster Extension Software Windows LTU
TB534A
HP XP P9000 Cluster Extension Software Linux LTU
TB535A
Automatic failover/failback recovery solution for native clusters on Red Hat and SUSE Linux,
Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) for Windows
Seamless integration of remote mirroring with server clusters
Fully scripted turnkey solution for disaster recovery on Linux and Widows
See Service & Support section
Prerequisites
Software
Product Highlights
Licensing
XP P9000 Continuous Access Synchronous (required for synchronous copy mode-integrated
solution)
XP P9000 Continuous Access Journal (required for asynchronous copy mode-integrated solution)
XP P9000 RAID Manager (required for host agent integration)
License-to-use on a per server basis. One License required for each server running XP P9000 Cluster
Extension Software.
HP XP P9000 External Storage Access Manager Software
Overview
Models
Product Highlights
Prerequisites
Licensing
HP XP P9000 External Storage Access Manager (ESAM) ensures extreme high availability of host
applications used in XP P9500 storage. XP P9000 External Storage Access Manager provides protection
against the loss of application availability when input and output (I/O) failures occur in the primary XP
P9500 storage by automatically switching host applications from the primary XP P9500 storage to the
secondary XP P9500 storage
XP P9000 External Storage Access Manager is supported on XP P9500 storage
HP XP P9000 Ext Storage Access Mgr SW LTU
TB519A
Transparent array failover from primary XP P9500 to secondary XP P9500 storage
Host application is not affected in case of I/O failure on primary XP P9500
Movement of the storage in case of failure, not the host
HP XP P9000 Continuous Access Synchronous
Hitachi HDLM - One copy for each server
HP XP P9000 External Storage software - 1TB
License-to-use for unlimited storage capacity on one XP P9500 Storage
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