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HP MSA 2040 Storage
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home office for the purpose of backing up data from the branches
Single controller to single controller replication
Advanced scheduler provides several options to IT administrators for business continuance
Flexible architecture allows remote replication between MSA 2040 and/or P2000 G3 supported arrays.
Protects existing investments and enhances business continuity planning objectives.
Replication Wizard simplifies the task of setting up and establishing replication pairs from one unified,
easy to use GUI.
Snapshot based replication enables both local and remote recovery depending on the need. Snapshot
replication isolates problems to a specific point in time which can be selected by the administrator.
Additionally snapshot replication supports longer distance replication.
Multiple relationships provide greater storage flexibility and utilization.
Bundled 64 Snapshots and Volume Copy integration provides better efficiencies by combining the
management and array technologies to create local copies.
Fast application recovery with minimal or no transaction loss
Creation of disaster tolerant copies of your critical business data
No-single-point-of-failure solution to increase the availability of your customers data
Customer Benefits
Disaster Recovery
Replication technology has typically been used to address disaster recovery issues. Disaster recovery
is still the driving business case behind replication. Remote replication can be implemented from the
production site to one or more remote sites across a campus, across town, across a state or across
the country. When a disaster strikes the primary location, the applications can be brought up at the
remote site and continue processing against the replicated copies. When the primary site is back
online, the replication can be reversed and when the data is resynchronized, processing can be
switched back to the primary site and business can continue. In the past, if an e-mail system