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Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 7: Truck based synchronisation

Tuesday, April 1. 2008

Andrew S. Tannenbaum said "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tapes hurling down the highway". This sounds counterintuitive at the first moment, but when you start to think about it, it´s really obvious.

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Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 5: Replication Groups

Monday, March 31. 2008

A new scenario: Okay, the filesystem gets replicated now. Let´s assume that we use /dev/rdsk/c1d0s1 for a database. The filesystem and the database partition are used from the same application and it´s important, that the metadata in the database an the binary objects are in sync even when you switched over to the remote site, albeit it´s acceptable to lose the last few transactions, as both sites are 1000km away from each other and synchronous replication is not an option.

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Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 4: Testing the replication.

Sunday, March 30. 2008

One of the most essential tasks when configuring disaster recovery mechanism is training the procedure. Thus let´s test the switch into our remote datacenter. We will simulate a failure now. This will show that the data really get´s replicated to a different system

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Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 3: Setting up a synchronous mirror with AVS

Sunday, March 30. 2008

After this short introduction in the theory of AVS Remote mirror, we will set up such an replication between two hosts.

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Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 2: The fundamentals of Remote mirroring with AVS

Sunday, March 30. 2008

Some words about Sun StorageTek Availability Suite at first: We´ve opensourced the product quite a while ago. While it´s a commercial product for Solaris, we´ve integrated it into Solaris Express Community Edition and Developer Edition.

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Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 1: Introduction

Sunday, March 30. 2008

Solaris was designed with commercial customers in mind. Thus this operating environment has some capabilities that are somewhat useless for the soho user, but absolutly essential for enterprise users. One of this capabilities is remote replication of disk volumes. Imagine the following situation. You have a database and a filesystem for a central application of your company. The filesystem stores binary objects (for example images or something like that). The application is so important for your company, that you plan to build a replicated site. And now your problems start.

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