Disaster Tolerance and Recovery in a Serviceguard Cluster
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1 Disaster Tolerance and
Recovery in a Serviceguard
Cluster
This chapter introduces a variety of Hewlett-Packard high availability
cluster technologies that provide disaster tolerance for your
mission-critical applications. It is assumed that you are already familiar
with Serviceguard high availability concepts and configurations.
This chapter covers the following topics:
• “Evaluating the Need for Disaster Tolerance” on page 14
• “What is a Disaster Tolerant Architecture?” on page 16
• “Understanding Types of Disaster Tolerant Clusters” on page 18
• “Disaster Tolerant Architecture Guidelines” on page 37
• “Managing a Disaster Tolerant Environment” on page 48
• “Additional Disaster Tolerant Solutions Information” on page 50