Eliminating Single Points of Failure
Most problems that result in service outages are single-level failures.
High-availability lets you quickly detect and handle these failures and minimize
downtime. Examples of single-level failures include:
High-Availability Options in Command View NAS
You can manage high-availability options on the following tabs of the Command
View NAS:
HP StorageWorks NAS 8000 User's Guide
NIC failures
NFS failure
SMB failure
Operating system failure
Power failure
Configuration tab: Create a HA configuration, edit an existing configuration,
start or stop clustering services, start or stop cluster nodes.
Storage tab: Add, edit, delete, start, and stop failover packages. You can also
manually fail over or fail back a failover package.
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