Emerging trends for High Availability

3/27/2001


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Table of Contents

01. Emerging trends for High Availability
02. Module 1: Concepts…
03. What is Downtime?
04. What is Downtime?
05. Causes of Downtime!
06. What is Availability?
07. What is Availability?
08. Availability Equation (A closer look)
09. Availability Equation (A closer look)
10. Increasing Availability
11. The Rule of 9’s
12. Why do you need Availability?
13. Levels of Availability
14. Twenty Key System Design Principles
15. End-to-end Availability Measurement
16. Modeling Availability
17. State Diagram
18. What Does It Mean to Us?
19. Trinity of TTs
20. Module 2: Storage Area Networks…
21. Why Storage Area Networks?
22. Why Fibre Channel?
23. SAN Components
24. HBA
25. Channel
26. Topologies
27. Topologies
28. Topologies
29. Switches/Hubs/Bridges
30. NAS Vs SAN
31. The Final Conflict
32. Third level of High Availability
33. Business Continuance Volumes
34. BCV
35. Sharing Tape Libraries
36. Module 3: High Availability trends for SAN…
37. SPOF; Switch/Switch components
38. SPOF; Switch/Switch components
39. SPOF;
40. SPOF; Tape Drives
41. Module 4: Design Issues for Clustering…
42. Design Issues
43. Design Suggestions
44. Know and Document ALL Single Points of Failure
45. A Typical Layout
46. SPOF:Hosts
47. SPOF:Disks
48. SPOF:Heartbeat
49. SPOF:Storage/SAN
50. SPOF:Tape
51. SPOF:Network Switching
52. SPOF:Network Switching
53. SPOF:Network Switching
54. SPOF:Network Routing
55. SPOF:Network Support Services
56. Avoid failover if possible
57. Avoid dependencies on any outside resource!
58. Application Considerations
59. Module 5: A Ride thru VCS
60. Heart Beats (HB)
61. main.cf & types.cf
62. Service Group and Resources
63. Service Group and Resources
64. PPT Slide
65. VCS vs Sun Clustering
66. Conclusion

Document Information

Author: Asim Zuberi Email: asim@colltech.com
Author: Ayaz Mudarris Email: ayaz@colltech.com
Date: 27-Mar-2001

Presented at the local Chicago Uniforum Chapter
on 27-March-2001

Abstract: http://uniforum.chi.il.us/meetings.html

URL: http://uniforum.chi.il.us

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