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Data center failures

• Site power outage

• Site network outage

• Site disaster (fire, flood, terrorist attack, and so forth)

Individual storage system failures

• Power outage

• Network outage

• System disaster

• System failure (backplane, motherboard, RAM, CPU)

Configuring data replication for optimal availability and redundancy

The SAN/iQ software offers six levels of synchronous replication at a volume level. In order to

protect the data across sites, you must choose a data protection level with a number of mirrors that

is at least equal to the number of sites in the configuration. For instance, if the storage cluster spans

three sites, then volumes must be configured as Network RAID–10+1 in order to insure that data

is the same on each site.

NOTE: Network RAID-0, Network RAID-5, and Network RAID-6 will not tolerate site failures.

“Data protection levels and the supported number of sites” (page 5) describes the data replication

levels for the Multi-Site SAN and associated supported configurations.

Table 1 Data protection levels and the supported number of sites

Number of sites supportedData protection level

2Network RAID-10

NOTE: 2 sites are supported, but not considered a best

practice configuration

Network RAID–10+1

NOTE: 3 sites are supported, but are not considered a

best practice configuration

Network RAID–10+2

When to use Network RAID-10+2

Using Network RAID-10+2 offers a level of data protection that enables the Multi-Site SAN to

sustain a complete failure at one site and still maintain replicated data at the other site. For instance,

with Network RAID-10+2 there are four copies of data for the volume on the SAN. In a two-site

configuration, the Multi-Site SAN software puts two of the four copies in one site and the remaining

two in the other. If a site fails, the remaining site still has two copies and remains fault-tolerant.

Designing a Multi-Site SAN 5

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