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.

NetWare 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.

With NetWare, 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 NetWare features:

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

See the following in the NW 6.5 SP8: NSS File System Administration Guide

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

Managing NSS Software RAID Devices in the NW 6.5 SP8: NSS File System Administration Guide

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

Managing NSS Pool Snapshots in the NW 6.5 SP8: NSS File System Administration Guide

Data backup and restore features

NW 6.5 SP8: Storage Management Services Administration Guide

Highly available data solutions

NW6.5 SP8: Novell Cluster Services 1.8.5 Administration Guide

OES 2 SP2: Novell Cluster Services 1.8.7 for Linux Administration Guide

NW 6.5 SP8: iSCSI 1.1.3 Administration Guide

Mission-critical data solutions

All of the above references.