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The Windows
2000 operating system gives you further
assurance of reliability and high availability at the heart of
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your HP Netserver system. Microsoft
has built reliability
improvements into every major component of the operating
system—providing tools and features that help you eliminate
reboots, increase system uptime, avoid memory leaks, and run
mission-critical applications—to maximize the availability of
your organization’s critical information and services.
For companies that need even higher levels of availability,
HP Netservers support clustering technologies such as
Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS), which is included in Microsoft
Windows NT
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Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition and Windows 2000
Advanced Server. HP Netservers also are certified for Novell’s
NetWare Cluster Services for NetWare 5 and work with high
availability solutions from Giganet NSI Software and Legato.
To meet the requirements of businesses that cannot tolerate
interruptions of service to end users or to other systems,
HP offers the HP Netserver AA Solutions using the Marathon
Technologies Endurance products for Microsoft Windows NT
environments. These industry-leading assured availability
solutions accelerate system uptime to the maximum—offering
nonstop processing, continuous data access, uninterrupted
connectivity, uninterrupted backup, and constant performance
for mission-critical services.
These additional features and options also contribute to the
industry-leading availability of our HP Netservers:
• Hot-swappable redundant fans and power supplies available
on all L-series products
• Hot-swappable drives available on all L-series products
• Embedded network interface cards that support redundancy
• Intelligent I/O (I
O) technology that improves input/output
2
speeds for faster and more reliable performance
• Disk array controllers that support redundancy, available with
multiple channels
• High availability, high-density mass storage with racked
systems such as the efficient HP Netserver Rack Storage/12
and the high-performance, Fibre Channel–based
HP Netserver Rack Storage/12FC, or the new ds2100
• Intelligent management solutions that provide key
information to alert you to potential problems before they
cause downtime
• A pre-failure warranty on hard disk drives, memory, and
power supplies to alert you to potential problems before they
cause downtime
• HP Services and Support options, ranging from Web-based
support to mission critical support for hardware and software
• HP One-Button Disaster Recovery, available with optional
HP Surestore DAT drives, restores the operating system,
configurations, applications, drivers, and files to their
exact state at the time of last backup for fast, error-free
data recovery
• HP’s High Availability Observatory, a suite of tools that
enables HP to deliver the industry’s most advanced support
for mission-critical environments