Legacy Supported Configuration for
Legato RepliStor (Octopus) for NT via Fibre Channel

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Servers can be up to 10KM apart with proper installation of Fibre Channel Storage Area Network.

Net useable Disk Space in RAID Subsystem does not need to be partitioned. Single LUN is used as follows:
LUN (Partition) Mapped to Storing
0 Server 1 like an external disk drive Server 1's Data
1 Server 2 like an external disk drive Server 2's Mirrored Copy of Server 1's Data

 

Tape Backup via Fibre Channel centralized onto Shared DLT Tape Library. SCSI Based DLT Tape Libraries requires Fibre-SCSI Bridge.
Servers can be dis-similar servers
Active-Active No. Uni-Directional Active-Passive Failover
Servers require Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter and 2nd Ethernet Adapter for Peer-Peer Heartbeat Link