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The Dell Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) family of products offers a range of array-based disaster recovery, parallel processing, and data migration solutions for Dell storage systems, including PowerMaxOS for PowerMax 2500 and PowerMax 8500.
SRDF disaster recovery solutions use “active, remote” mirroring and dependent-write logic to create consistent copies of data. Dependent-write consistency ensures transactional consistency when the applications are restarted at the remote location. You can tailor your SRDF solution to meet various Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives.
Using SRDF, you can create complete solutions to:
You can integrate SRDF with other Dell products to create complete solutions to:
PowerMaxOS provides facilities for the online expansion of devices in an SRDF configuration.