Disaster recovery feature support across Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.2 products

Disaster recovery solutions and use cases are based on the shared availability and disaster recovery features of Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions products. Clustering and disaster recovery features are available separately through Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) as well as through the SFHA Solutions products which include VCS as a component.

Table: High availability and disaster recovery feature support in SFHA Solutions products lists high availability and disaster recovery features available in SFHA Solutions products.

Table: High availability and disaster recovery feature support in SFHA Solutions products

High availability and disaster recovery features

VCS

VCS

HA/DR

SF Std. HA

SF Ent. HA

SFCFS HA

SFRAC

SF Syb CE

Clustering for high availability (HA)

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Database and application/ISV agents

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Advanced failover logic

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Data integrity protection with I/O fencing

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Advanced virtual machines support

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Virtual Business Services

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Replication agents for VVR

N

Y

O

O

O

O

O

Replication agents for third-party array-based replication

N

Y

O

O

O

O

N

Replicated Data Cluster

N

Y

O

O

O

N

N

Campus or stretch cluster

N

Y

O

O

O

O

N

Global clustering using VVR

N

Y

O

O

O

O

O

Global clustering using third-party array-based replication

N

Y

O

O

O

O

N

Fire Drill

N

Y

O

O

O

O

N

The following SFHA Solutions products support multiple third-party replication options:

Symantec Storage Foundation for Sybase CE supports VVR replication only at this time.

For current information on third-party replication support:

See: https://sort.symantec.com/agents and select Replication Agents under Agent type.

Table: Replication support for databases across SFHA Solutions 6.2 products

Database replication support

VCS

VCS

HA/DR

SF Std. HA

SF Ent. HA

SFCFS HA

SFRAC

SF Syb CE

DB2

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

N

Single instance Oracle

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Oracle RAC

N

N

N

N

N

Y

N

Sybase

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

N

Syabase ASE CE

N

N

N

N

N

N

Y

Single instance Oracle and Oracle RAC replication support includes Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools replication support.