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Design Guide

Introduction to DR Design with Superna​

Superna Disaster Recovery Edition (DR Edition) is a designed to ensure data integrity and business continuity for PowerScale OneFS, VAST, and Qumulo environments. It automates critical processes like configuration replication and failover, offering real-time monitoring and validation for disaster recovery readiness. This guide serves as an entry point to the available documentation, helping you design and implement a disaster recovery strategy tailored to your organization's needs.

Key Considerations for DR Design​

  • Environment Compatibility: Ensure Superna DR supports your infrastructure.
  • Recovery Objectives: Define your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
  • Continuous Monitoring: Know how you can use Superna's real-time validation tools to ensure your design achieves DR Readiness.
  • Support and Service Offerings: Understand how the Superna team is ready to help with DR Design.

Step-by-Step: Preparing Your DR Solution​

Designing your DR solution involves the following steps:

  1. Assess Your Needs: Understand your failover requirements and infrastructure dependencies.
  2. Plan Your Configuration: Map out replication policies, failover criteria, and recovery workflows.
  3. Implement the Solution: Follow the setup guides to configure Superna DR Edition.
  4. Test and Validate: Conduct regular failover testing to ensure your solution is ready for real-world scenarios.

Failover: Planning and Execution​

The following guides are available to help you understand, plan for, and implement the Superna DR solution.

Failover Types​

These articles are available to explain the types of failover involved in a DR solution.

Failover Types

Explore the different failover types used in disaster recovery solutions and understand their role in ensuring business continuity.

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Failover Configuration​

Use the documents below to learn about configuration steps for the different types of Failover.

Failover Configuration

Get step-by-step guidance on how to configure failover settings.

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Failover Operations​

Here you can find information about testing failover, assessing readiness, executing failover, and post-failover steps.

Failover Operations

Learn about the steps involved in preparing, testing, and executing failover processes to maintain operational readiness.

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