Announcing MPE/iX High Availability Cluster/iX

General Information

The manual cluster product will be orderable in November 2000 with first customer shipments scheduled for December 2000. The solution will work for the SureStore E Disk Array XP family of disk products and will also support other dual-ported arrays currently supported on HP e3000 platform, such as the 12H and Model-20 disk arrays.

Once Cluster/iX patches and utilities are installed, the system administrator can create a cluster volume set that can be configured onto two different computers. When an outage on the primary system occurs, the system administrator will confirm (manual intervention) that the primary computer is down and issue commands on the secondary system to take ownership of the cluster volume set and notify users to relogon to the secondary machine.

The cluster solution addresses machine outages caused by:

Who Should Use Cluster/iX

Users who require a non-complex high availability solution that allows users to move business critical data to a secondary computer within seconds of an outage.

Required Hardware and Software

Required Hardware:

And one or more of the following:

Required Software:

Documentation

Refer to the manual, MPE/iX High Availability Cluster/iX User's Manual, (Part No. B9480-90001), included with the release, for more information.