disk mirroring


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disk mirroring

(hardware, storage)
Use of one or more mirrors of a hard disk.
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Disk mirroring is defined and commonly referred to as RAID 1.
For SCO OpenServer 6 customers who only need a software mirroring solution to enhance the availability of disk storage systems without the need for RAID features, SCO offers Disk Mirroring for OpenServer 6.
Remote disk mirroring--Two types of remote disk mirroring exist: synchronous and asynchronous.
Disk mirroring, for example, provides a mirror image on a secondary hard disk of the data on your primary hard disk.
Business-continuance applications--such as synchronous mad asynchronous remote disk mirroring, remote tape/disk backup, and server geoclustering--keep data safe and businesses running during events like earthquakes and power outages.
Business continuance applications, such as remote disk mirroring, remote tape/disk backup, and server geo-clustering, keep data safe and businesses running during events like earthquakes and power outages.
CNT and StorageTek's joint solutions now include 9840 tape extension, extension of VSM systems, Remote Clustered VTSS, and PowerPPRC remote disk mirroring with the Shared Virtual Array (SVA).
If you are running Windows NT Server, Windows 2000 Server or Novell NetWare, your computer is capable of handling disk mirroring and striping.
INRANGE Technologies (Nasdaq: INRG), a provider of scalable storage networking solutions, has unveiled the IN-VSN Virtual Link/9000 Fibre Channel Extender "distance technology" that lets Storage Area Network (SAN) managers extend fibre channel traffic across wide area networks to support disk mirroring, storage sharing, centralized backup, and other key business applications.
To begin, the original Digital Equipment computers were replaced with two HP 9000 D370 computers with disk mirroring capabilities.

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