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HP Serviceguard for Linux and Red Hat GFS provide a tested, proven solution that provides continuous access to applications, services and data, and the ability to scale for performance without creating management complexity.
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Simultaneously read and write to a single shared file system on the SAN to simplify management by eliminating the need for multiple copies of data.
- Install and patch applications once, for the entire cluster
- Reduce the need for redundant copies of data
- Simplify back-up and disaster recovery tasks
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- Winner of the Best Clustering Solution at LinuxWorld 2005, HP Serviceguard for Linux is a high availability solution that leverages the strength of HP's experience in the HA business, bringing the best-in-class mission critical HP -UX technologies to the Linux environment
- Red Hat GFS is the only cluster file system suitable for enterprise workloads that is open source (GPL), native 64-bit Linux cluster file system, and POSIX-compliant, meaning applications don't have to be rewritten to use GFS
- Manage your storage capacity as a whole as opposed to by partition
- Decrease your overall storage needs by reducing data duplication
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- Engineering tested the two products to validate their ability to co-exist on a group of Linux servers, ensuring cluster membership and application packages ensured high availability. The white paper explains the testing, provides modified scripts and documents the configuration supported by both companies that has no single point of failure
- Red Hat GFS is fully integrated with the RHEL platform with no patching required
- Red Hat delivers the same level of support for GFS as selected for Red Hat EL platform
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- Lower cost of implementing application and services availability
- Extend benefits of SAN with clustering & high availability
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