About replication technologies used in disaster recovery of applications

For a successful disaster recovery operation of applications, you need to ensure that the data is synchronized between the primary and the secondary data centers. This is achieved using data replication.

The following tables list the supported configurations based on array replication and clustering:

Table: Supported configurations using EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) and RecoverPoint replication

Operating System

Type of host

Clustering

Supported

Windows

Hyper-V virtual machine

Microsoft Failover Custering (MS FoC)

No

Windows

VMware virtual machine

MS FoC

No

Windows

Physical systems

MS FoC

Yes

Windows

Hyper-V virtual machine

Non - MS FoC

Yes

Windows

VMware virtual machine

Non - MS FoC

Yes

Windows

Physical systems

Non - MS FoC

Yes

Linux

Hyper-V virtual machine

NA

No

Linux

VMware virtual machine

NA

Yes

Linux

Physical systems

NA

Yes

Table: Supported configurations using NetApp SnapMirror replication

Operating System

Type of host

Supported

Linux

Hyper-V virtual machine

No

Linux

VMware virtual machine

Yes

Linux

Physical systems

Yes