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It sometimes helps to have one area where you can go to locate pointers to other resources. That is one objective I have with this website. I do a lot of research to help determine how to solve issues with OpenVMS storage. This blog can be a pointer to other resources.

For example, most you already saw the HP Disaster Proof video. It is exciting to see how well OpenVMS did at the detection and recovery from the disaster. But everyone who works with OpenVMS is not surprised. Of course, as you can imagine many people without that experience thought the test was rigged. It was not.

If you have not seen it, you may find the HP Disaster Proof video quite interesting:

While it’s fun to see, this presents an example of how I will share lessons learned through this podcast. In particular, an OpenVMS Disaster Tolerant Cluster can use an Extended SAN.

Every company must grapple with disasters that have become more frequent and more encompassing. Of course with OpenVMS we have the best possible approach to Disaster Tolerant Clustering. For numerous years, many of you have heard Keith Parris extol the power of OpenVMS to protect business data. However, as the disasters become more encompassing, more and more companies wish to separate their data centers farther and farther apart. Though this helps reduce the impact of any one disaster, the increased distance adds additional problems. That will be the focus of an upcoming set of four blog entries.

You might think a great deal of work went into tuning the OpenVMS environment. While Keith Parris and HP OpenVMS engineering did perform some tuning, it was not as much as you might expect. HP OpenVMS provides native features which allow it to provide Disaster Tolerant Clustering. You can explore this further at the HP Disaster Proof pages. If you want to learn more about these technologies, you may want to click on the “Learn More” tab to the top right of the screen. There you will find a Free ESG Disaster Proof e-seminar.

Below (and under the “references” page) you will find a page that provides additional web references. This points to other websites and articles that might be helpful as you explore this topic further. If this topic led me to believe we should also have some, you would also find a pointer in the “links” section of this post to the appropriate “best practices” page.

Eventually, I will try to provide some automation to make it easier to explore the links to various articles and sites. Until then, I hope you will find these additional references helpful.

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