FLEXIBLE SOLUTION OPTIONS THAT FIT ANY REMOTE SITE
DataReplicationistheprocessofcopyings pecified,file‐levelcontentfromone
computer,thesourcecomputer,toanother,thedestinationcomputer.Thisis
achievedthroughaninitialtransferofthespecifieddata,afterwhichthe
replicatedcopyiskeptupdatedinnearlyrealtimewithanychangesthataremade
tothedat
a
onthesourcecomputer.Thisreplicatedcopyonthedestination
computerprovideson‐going,nearly‐real‐timedisasterrecoveryprotectionforthe
sourcecomputer,unlikemostdataprotectionsolutionswhichrequiresignificant
timetoperformacompletedataprotectionoperation.Inaddition,data
replicationprovidesabasisforaddition
alda
taprotectionactivities,suchas
RecoveryPoints(snapshots)andbackupsofRecoveryPoints.
ReplicationScenarios
Severalcommonscenariosfordatareplicationareillustratedbelow,buttheseby
nomeansillustrateallofthewaysinwhichdatareplicationcanbeconfigured.
• ReplicationfromoneSourcecomputertooneDesti
nationcomp
uter
• Fan‐In:ReplicationfrommultipleSourcecomputerstoasingle
Destinationcomputer
• Fan‐Out:ReplicationfromoneSourcecomputertomultipleDestination
computers
One‐to‐OneDataReplication
Thisisthemostfundamentalconfigurationfordatareplication.Asinglecomputer
ontheLANorWANhasitsdatareplicatedtoano
therco
mputer,eitherlocalor
remote.Thisprovidesprotectionofthesourcecomputeragainstcatastrophic
failureofthecomputeritself.
Many‐to‐OneDataReplication
Inthisconfigurationfordatareplication,referredtoas"Fan‐In",multiple
computersontheLANorWANhavetheirdatareplicatedtoasinglecom
puter,
eitherlocalorremote.Thisprovid
esprotectionofallofthesourcecomputers
againstcatastrophicfailure,whilemaximizingtheuseofresourcesbydirectingall
thedatatoasingledestinationcomputer.
One‐to‐ManyDataReplication
Thisconfigurationfordatareplication,referredtoas"Fa
n‐Out"
,addssignificantly
totheprotectionaffordedtothesourcecomputer,becauseoftheredundancy.A
singlecomputerontheLANorWANhasitsdatareplicatedtomultiplecomputers,
anyofwhichcanbeeitherlocalorremote.Thisprovidesprotectionagainst
catastrophicfailureofanentiresite,aswellasthesourcec
omputeritself.
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