In June 2007, to showcase the company’s investment in disaster tolerance for all its enterprise solutions, HP debuted “Disaster Proof,” an exciting video documentary that shows an HP multi-platform backup datacenter quickly taking over full functionality lost in a catastrophic explosion. In this video, HP NonStop Remote Database Facility (RDF) software drove the rapid recovery of a typical high volume financial application, with no lost transactions.
Now HP is proud to announce continuing improvements to RDF with a new release, update 8. This release features overall performance improvements and conversion of selected object code to native mode for HP Integrity NonStop Servers, starting mid-September 2007. ANSI names are also now available in event messages, as well as flexibility in naming sub volumes. Baseline work and testing to support interoperability with RDF 1.7 (ABO) SPR series release for G Series NOS on HP NonStop servers is another valuable addition.
Enhanced performance – going native
With RDF 1.8, designed only for HP Integrity NonStop servers, many of RDF’s code objects have been converted to native mode, enabling much faster processing. Also, RDF’s extractor/receiver processes now support 56k buffers, and the updaters have new infrastructure to support 56k Disk Process transfers.
Better manageability – sub volume naming, ANSI names, interoperability
By following specific guidelines to avoid file name collisions, different RDF sub volume names can now be specified in each updater via a map file, which can also be shared by other updaters. This feature works with master and auxiliary audit trail configurations, as well as with physical and SMF disks. In addition, for easier manageability with SQL MX, friendlier ANSI names in event messages are now supported. Most importantly, RDF 1.8 has been tested for better operability with G-series (primary) to H-series (target) replication when using the new RDF 1.7 (ABO) SPR.
More information
Update 8 is available upon request for systems licensed for any version of HSA44V1 and HSA88V1 software, at no additional charge. This update will be shipped for new RDF orders on HP NonStop Integrity servers. Note that the previous version of RDF for HP NonStop Integrity servers is now mature. New features will only be added to RDF 1.8 and later versions. RDF 1.7 is the latest and final version of RDF targeted for HP NonStop S-Series servers.
For more details on RDF 1.8, see the included documentation, the most recent manual set on the NonStop Technical Library, or ask your local account team. For more on business continuity products, see www.hp.com/go/nonstopcontinuity
This news is published on NonStop Computing websites. September 2007.
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