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FC DualPath
FC DualPath Duplexing Software
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FC DualPath®
FC DualPath Duplexing Software
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FC DualPath provides duplexing for Windows NT 4 servers.
Dual host adapter configurations are becoming more
commonplace and are essential in high availability No
Single Point of Failure configurations. Duplexing with
end-to-end Fibre Channel allows two data paths from the
server to the hard drives. FC DualPath presents the host
operating system with a single image of the RAID storage
volumes allowing fast transparent failover as well as
striping for increased performance.
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No Single Point of Failure (NSPF)
SAN anchored by a FibreArray AA.
FC DualPath enables transparent
failover and recovery as well as load
balancing
between host adapters in
Windows 2000 and NT servers. Failover
allows Windows
2000 and NT to
participate in NSPF SANs.
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Key features include:
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Microsoft Support – Available for Windows NT 4 servers in homogeneous or heterogeneous environments.
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Duplexing – Transparently allows two host adapters to appear as a single host adapter to Disk
Administrator and other system software. SCSI layer interface is maintained for compatibility.
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Host Adapter Striping – Increases performance in multiple RAID volume configurations.
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Transparent Auto-failover and Recovery – Allows failure and recovery from host adapter through
o hard drives for high availability No Single Point of Failure configurations.
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Compatibility – FC DualPath works with and enhances a broad variety of SAN software and applications
including FC Access Storage Virtualization, Clustering, LAN Free and Serveless back-up, Storage
Resource Management, Disaster Management, Data Warehousing, On-line Transaction Processing,
Reservation Systems and Call Centers.
FC DualPath provides Microsoft Windows NT 4 systems the transparent failover and recovery capability essential
for No Single Point of Failure environments.
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