3. Standard Features
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Chapter 1 General Description
Advantages of Express5800/ft series
Highly fault-tolerant processing and I/O subsystems
Express5800/ft series use redundant hardware and software to assure server operation even if one module
suffers trouble with its processor, memory, I/O (including trouble related to the I/O controller), disk drive, or
network adapter.
Continuous network connection
Express5800/ft series maintains continuous network connection by detecting any trouble with the network
adapter, connection, etc. If trouble occurs, the standby network connection will take over all network traffic
processing and thus securely maintain the network system connection of Express5800/ft series without
losing network traffic or client connection.
Support of multiple network connections
Since Express5800/ft series can support multiple network connections, you can add network redundant
control or network traffic control.
No need to modify applications
You can run Windows/VMware-compliant applications on Express5800/ft series. Thus, unlike other highly
fault-tolerant products, special API or scripts are not necessary.
Automatic
mirroring
Express5800/ft series automatically maintains data as the current data.
Transparent
migration
Express5800/ft series constantly monitors events. If trouble occurs on Express5800/ft series server module,
it will transparently use a redundant module of the failed module. This feature maintains data and user
access without losing application service.
Automatic
reconfiguration
When the failed module restarts after the trouble is corrected, Express5800/ft series will perform
reconfiguration automatically, and if necessary, resynchronize the affected modules. Reconfiguration can
include CPU processing (e.g., CPU memory), server's operating system (and related applications), and
system data stored on the hard disk drives. In most cases, Express5800/ft series automatically restores
redundancy of the server modules after recovery.
Event notification function for Windows
When trouble or other events are detected on Express5800/ft series, they will be notified to Windows Event
Log and saved. Therefore, you can view the log items locally or remotely by a usual Windows procedure.
Since an Express5800/ft series events use unique IDs, they are easy to distinguish.
Event notification function for VMware
When trouble or other events are detected on Express5800/ft series, they will be notified to syslog and
saved. Therefore, you can view the log items locally or remotely by a usual VMware procedure. Since an
Express5800/ft series events use unique IDs, they are easy to distinguish.
In-service
repairing
You can repair or replace a failed module even if Express5800/ft series is operating.