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Disaster Recovery With General Parallel File System

Overview The ability to detect and quickly recover from a massive-scale hardware failure is of paramount importance to businesses that make use of real-time data processing systems. General Parallel File System (GPFS) provides a number of features that facilitate the implementation of highly-available GPFS environments capable of withstanding catastrophic hardware failures. This paper presents an overview of the disaster recovery features available in the 2.2 release of GPFS and provides detailed hands-on guidance on implementing the various types of disaster-tolerant configurations supported in this release.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2004	Downloads	59
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, Network Disaster Recovery

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