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Defining Availability and Disaster Recovery
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High Availability (HA) refers to eliminatingthe business impact & downtime due toa hardware failure –RAID-DP –Active-Active controllers
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Continuous Availability extends HA byproviding protection from external eventssuch as power, cooling and networkfailures, eliminating planned andunplanned downtime and data loss –NetApp MetroCluster
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Disaster Recovery provides site resiliencyprotecting against failures that affect anentire datacenter –NetApp SnapMirror