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Provides the highest level of data and applications availability in the Windows Operating System environment through clustering to provide No-Single-Points-Of-Failure and Disaster Tolerance and Recovery. |
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Customer Requirements
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Product
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What is the difference between the ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN and the old ProLiant Cluster F500 for MA8000/EMA12000/EMA16000 and the ProLiant Cluster F500 for Enterprise Virtual Array kits? |
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The ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise actually combines the all of the features of the older kits adds new features with one new part number at a lower price. |
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| Q2. |
Which part numbers are will be replaced with the new kit? |
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The ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN, Part number 364024-B21 will replace the following cluster kits:
- 254623-B24 HA / F500 for EVA Enh. Kit
- 306791-B22 HA / F500 for EVA DT Kit
- 379937-B27 HA / F500 for MA8000/EMA12000/16000 Enh. Kit
- 164227-B25 HA / F500 for MA8000/EMA12000/16000 DT Kit
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| Q3. |
What is in the new kit? |
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Getting Started Card, Kit Content Card, F500 Installation Checklist for Windows 2000 (MA8000/EMA12000/EMA16000 Enhanced), F500 Installation Checklist for Windows Server 2003 (MA8000/EMA12000/EMA16000 Enhanced). F500 Installation Checklist for Windows 2000 (EVA), F500 Installation Checklist for Windows Server 2003 (EVA), F500 Admin Guide (CD only, MA8000/EMA12000/ EMA16000), F500 DT Supplement (CD only, MA8000/EMA12000/EMA16000), F500 Admin Guide (CD only EVA), F500 DT Supplement (CD only, EVA), Secure Path v4.0c SP1 for Windows (2 licenses), Crossover cable and warranty information. |
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Customer Requirements
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Who is the target customer for the ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN? |
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The ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN is targeted at ProLiant server customers requiring a method to move storage from a direct attached server environment to a consolidated storage environment (Storage Area Network) and ProLiant cluster customers requiring high performance, expandable fibre channel storage.
The ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN is ideal for accounts in a Fibre Channel SAN environment requiring high performance, high capacity and tools such as virtually capacity-free snapshots. |
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| Q2. |
What applications will run on the ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN? |
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Generic applications that may be considered business critical and are prime candidates for the ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN cluster are:
- Email
- Microsoft Exchange
- Lotus Notes
- File/Print
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- SAP
- Web Servers
- Microsoft IIS
- Netscape Commerce Server
- Databases/DSS
- Oracle
- Sybase
- Informix
- IBM DB2
- Microsoft SQL Server
Most windows based applications can run in a cluster environment, and any application that can be restarted from a script can be made to run in clusters. Many applications are 'cluster aware', which means they have been developed to be cluster friendly, and can fail over and fail back and restart in this environment. |
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How do I order the ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN? |
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Refer to the HP Active/Answers product configuration tool on http://www.HP.com/activeanswers or http://www.hp/solutions/enterprise/highavailability/microsoft/index.html. This web-based tool can be used to build a cluster configuration, including rack builder functionality. This tool indicates that the ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN is a cluster made up of major components that have to be ordered separately. These include servers, storage, fibre channel hubs, switches, and cables, ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN kit, Microsoft NT/E Enterprise Edition, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows Server 2003. |
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Is this product available through the HP Channel? |
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Yes. All of the components necessary to build a F500 cluster are orderable and available through the HP Channels. The Cluster Kit can also be purchased through DirectPlus. |
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Technical
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Explain the new Disaster Tolerant features of the ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN solution? |
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The ProLiant Cluster F500 for the Enterprise SAN solution will support two-node clusters based on Microsoft NT4 EE, two-node clusters based on Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server and two to eight-node clusters based on Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Server , ProLiant Servers, StorageWorks eva3000, eva5000, MA8000,EMA12000, EMA16000 storage subsystem, StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA or DRM software, and StorageWorks Secure Path software. This solution combines the fail over functionality of MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Server) with the remote data mirroring functionality of StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA or DRM software, and allows for a distance of up to 100 km between the server nodes and up to 100 km between a primary (local) external storage system, and a mirrored (remote) external storage system. The server to storage interconnect is based on fibre channel switch, short and long wave fibre interconnect, and the server to server communication is over Ethernet and/or FDDI connections. |
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How does Disaster Recovery Over Extended Distances work with eva3000 and eva5000? |
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The ProLiant Server nodes in the cluster are "stretched" over a distance of up to 100 km. At one site, there is up to two StorageWorks eva3000 or eva5000 fibre channel based storage systems. These act as "Initiator" sites for the StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA software, and services disk subsystem requests for both nodes in the cluster. The StorageWorks eva3000 or eva5000 storage subsystems are connected to both of the server nodes via redundant fibre channel connections, managed by StorageWorks Secure Path software. Additionally, the Initiator eva3000 or eva5000 storage subsystems are also connected via redundant long wave fibre connections to the other site (the "Target" site). As with existing standard Windows based ProLiant Clusters, Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS), which is part of the Microsoft Windows operating systems, manages fail over at the server and application levels. |
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What are the main features of StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array v3.0 CA? |
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The StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array v3.0 CA features include: synchronous replication, 18ms one-way latencies, 36ms one-way latencies (P1), support bi-directional data replication on the same storage subsystem, single user interface used to manage both source and destination subsystems, "single-button" failover/failback of DR group, virtual disks size in a copyset can range from 1GB to 2TB, I/O based replication, maximum of 64 copysets in up to 64 DRM groups, and a maximum of 8 copysets per DRM group. Continuous Access EVA supports: fiber, fiber with Long Distance GBICs and SFPs, WDM and IP configurations. |
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