2.6 Business Continuance Architectures

Today’s organizations are dispersed across multiple geographies, with increasing demands for flexible user access, application integration, and information backup. Business survival necessitates planning for every type of business disruption, including natural disasters, hardware and communication failures, and internal or external sabotage or acts of terrorism.

OES uniquely supplies the technologies to solve business continuity problems through intelligent consolidation strategies, redundancy, and automated failover. A viable disaster protection solution can be integrated without complexity and without draining scarce IT resources.

You can implement the fault-tolerance, data-protection, and high-availability features to improve the reliability, security, and availability of your storage solution. For information, see the following features:

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Fault tolerance and data integrity features, including multipathing, distributed file services for moving and splitting volumes, and Multiple Server Access Prevention

See the following in the OES 11 SP3: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux:

Data fault tolerance and high performance features such as software RAIDs 0, 1, 5, 10, and 15

Managing NSS Software RAID Devices in the OES 11 SP3: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux

Data protection features including backup/restore applications, pool snapshots, and the file snapshot volume attribute

Managing NSS Pool Snapshots in the OES 11 SP3: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux

Data backup and restore features

OES 11 SP3: Storage Management Services Administration Guide for Linux

Highly available data solutions

OES 11 SP3: Novell Cluster Services for Linux Administration Guide

Mission-critical data solutions

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