Sunday, 12 October 2014

What is Mirroring? - Storage Basics-7

Mirroring is the process to provide redundancy. Data will be mirrored from one disk to another so that it can provide the fault tolerance in case of disk failure:-

There are two types of mirroring as mentioned below:-

1. Instant Copying: - It mirrors the data locally to the different hard disk in the same enclosure. It can provide redundancy but to a limited extend as it cannot prevent data lose at the time of complete enclosure failure.
2. Remote Mirror: - In remote mirroring, the data will be copied to the hard disk on the different enclosure which may be located on different data center.

·       Synchronous Remote Mirroring: - In synchronous mirroring, server sent the data to the disk-1 and then it mirror the data to Disk-2.  Disk- will only send the acknowledgement to server only after complete mirroring of data.


·       Asynchronous Remote Mirroring:- In asynchronous mirroring, Disk-1 will send the acknowledgement to server once all the data is written on it and simultaneously it will mirror the data to Disk-2. Disk-1 will not wait for the acknowledgement from disk-2 and will send the acknowledgement to server.

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