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DIGITAL Server Cluster Kits for Windows NT Configuration Guide
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• A shared disk pool to farm out disk space as virtual disks. This technology is based on a proven
shared-disk technology. To date, there are over 500,000 OpenVMS “shared everything” clustered
systems.
• Mirrored cluster support to provide disaster-tolerance.
• Support for more than two servers in a cluster, appearing as if they’re the same disk.
• SnapShot Services to back up a system’s metadata before upgrading to a new release. If the customer
has problems with the upgrade, SnapShot allows the system administrator to roll back to the captured
configuration.
Enterprise Cluster Software for Windows NT will provide functionality that won’t be available on MSCS
for at least 18 months!
Worldwide Service and Support
Compaq’s Customs Systems offers Ready-to-Go clusters, providing custom configured Intel or Alpha-
based DIGITAL Servers with storage in a rackmount configuration. All components are preinstalled,
preconfigured, and pretested to the customer’s specifications, getting the customer up and running fast.
These systems can be configured before they leave the factory or at the customer’s site.
Compaq endorses a 99.5% uptime guarantee for business critical systems. To back up this guarantee,
Compaq has built a worldwide support infrastructure with over 1,700 Microsoft Solution Providers and
over 5,000 support certified professionals on Microsoft products. In fact, Compaq has more Microsoft-
certified professionals than Microsoft and Dell combined!
Compaq provides next-day service warranty for three years, which can be upgraded to same day response.
Compaq also provides total lifecycle support with a single point of accountability for multi-vendor
support. Services include design, implementation, installation, and startup.
Highlights
Compaq Cluster Solutions:
• Offer a proven, low-cost, high-availability solution for PC client/server LANs using Windows NT
systems.
• Minimize user downtime by automatically and transparently failing over to a second server,
maximizing productivity by making both servers available for user and application workloads at all
times.
• Provide broadest, most scalable range of servers and storage for Windows NT, enabling businesses to
grow their processing, storage and I/O capacity, maximizing their investment protection.
• Combine prepackaged tools and applications to help you build and administer clusters, including OS
Dependent Module (OSD) for Oracle Parallel Server on Windows NT.
• Provide ServerWORKS Manager, which enables system administrators to monitor cluster resources
and generate alarms in the event of a failover.
• Provide turnkey cluster solutions that are preinstalled, pretested, and preconfigured per customer
specifications for fast startup.
• Offer a worldwide infrastructure of support and services with the largest number of Microsoft
Solution Providers.