Designing Disaster Tolerant High Availability Clusters, 10th Edition, March 2003 (B7660-90013)

Disaster Tolerance and Recovery in an MC/ServiceGuard Cluster
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1 Disaster Tolerance and
Recovery in an
MC/ServiceGuard Cluster
This guide shows how to use a variety of Hewlett-Packard high
availability cluster technologies to provide disaster tolerance for your
mission-critical applications. It is assumed that you are already familiar
with MC/ServiceGuard high availability concepts and configurations.
This chapter introduces the basic concepts of disaster tolerance and
disaster recovery within the context of an MC/ServiceGuard cluster. It
covers:
• Evaluating the Need for Disaster Tolerance
• What is a Disaster Tolerant Architecture?
• Types of Disaster Tolerant Clusters
• Disaster Tolerant Architecture Guidelines
• Managing a Disaster Tolerant Environment
• Using this Guide with Your Disaster Tolerant Cluster Products