Do you want to extend the availability of your Serviceguard environment to multiple locations across distances?

Increase your workload availability with the ability to cluster two of your data centers up to 100km apart with HP Serviceguard Extended Distance Cluster. This product is complementary with the license of HP Serviceguard, providing you with a disaster recovery failover solution to protect your business at no extra cost.

• Protect your data centers from local disasters and outages by clustering two data centers up to 100km apart
• Choose automatic or manual failovers to best fit your data center needs
• Secure the integrity of your data with synchronous data replication
• Experience flexibility in your storage choices with the simplicity of host based replication

• Increase data availability through connecting to all storage in both data centers
• Reduce disaster recovery cost up to 25% via integration with HP Global Instant Capacity
• Optimize resource utilization via integration with Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX
• Tailor it to work for Oracle® RAC environments with EBS and RAC integration capabilities

Could your business stay alive and profitable with lengthy interruptions to your IT?

Distance poses no threat; protect your business from downtime with HP Serviceguard Metrocluster, failing over data centers as far as 300km apart. With this Serviceguard solution you can reduce business downtime from hours to minutes in the event of a fault, failure or disaster. In addition to functioning as a business continuity tool, HP Serviceguard Metrocluster features can help reduce your planned day to day downtime by migrating workloads during maintenance.

What’s New

• Speed up deployment of your Metrocluster 3PAR Disaster Recovery Solution through Serviceguard Manager with new Easy Deployment
• Protect your clusters with Metrocluster 3PAR storage even after making changes to your workloads

• Automatically failover to any data center in your Serviceguard cluster within 300km with host independent array replication
• Choose the failover that makes sense for you, Metrocluster supports both synchronous and asynchronous data replication modes
• Ensure your business operations are not compromised with continual verification of the currency and the integrity of your data

• Experience reduced downtime during maintenance and upgrades by utilizing failover capabilities move your workloads
• Reduce time spent managing and monitoring your servers and prioritize your important workflows with automatic workload control and static load balancing
• Eliminate performance impacts caused by distance up to 300km

• Remote Copy for HP 3PAR storage systems
• Continuous Access HP XP
• Continuous Access HP EVA
• EMC SRDF

Do you need to ensure that your business keeps running even in the event of a natural disaster?

Experience utmost disaster tolerance for your data centers regardless of distance with HP Serviceguard Continentalclusters. By continuously monitoring the health of your server systems, Continentalclusters can protect from small failures within a cluster or failover a full cluster in the case of a disaster. Failovers happen at the push of a button to keep your business running just the way you need it.

• Experience back-up and failover capabilities across unlimited distances
• Protect your entire workload with whole cluster failover, instead of select workloads
• Run mission-critical services in both of your Continentalclusters clusters with the ability to recover one to the other with mutual recovery
• Decide exactly when you want to failover with push-button failover

• Choose between flexible storage management options using Oracle
• Benefit from Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
• Utilize HP Virtual Machines as failover packages or nodes with HP 3PAR, HP XP P9000 or P6000 EVA storage arrays