About

InfiniBox Active-Active replication provides zero-RPO and zero-RTO, enabling mission critical business-services to keep operating even through a complete site failure:

• Symmetric synchronous replication solution, applications can be geographically clustered
• Fully integrated into InfiniBox, allows simple management of application spread across data centers.
  
  

Further information about Active-Active replication is available on: Active-Active replication

Terminology

• Active-Active volume: a volume that is undergoing Active-Active replication.
  • Peers: a pair of volumes that are undergoing Active-Active replication relationship, are also referred as "peers".
• Active-Active datastore: a datastore that resides on an Active-Active volume.
• Active-Active virtual machine: a virtual machine that is housed on a datastore which resides on an Active-Active volume. 
• ALUA: asymmetric logical unit access. 

Supported Configurations for vSphere with InfiniBox Active-Active Replication

In order use vSphere with InfiniBox Active-Active Replication, a proper and validated configuration is required.

For further information see the following guide: "VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster with INFINIDAT InfiniBox Active-Active Replication".

Supported Versions 

• PowerTools for VMware: Active-Active volumes are supported with Host PowerTools for VMware v5 and above.
• Host PowerTools for VMware is not supported on hosts that have an Active-Active volume mapped as LUN 0.
• InfiniBox: Active-Active replication is supported with InfiniBox version 5 and above.
  • For additional information about the supported configuration, please refer to: Active-Active replication
• vSphere: For the supported vSphere version see: Infinidat products compatibility with VMware software

Host PowerTools for VMware and Active-Active volumes

Host PowerTools allows to manage Active-Active volumes and provides end-to-end relationships between Active-Active volumes and local host. 

Creating Active-Active volumes is available via the InfiniBox management consoles (Web GUI or InfiniShell).

• Currently not available through Host PowerTools.

ESXi hosts and Active-Active Volumes Relationships

ESXi hosts identify both peers as the same multipath device. 

• InfiniBox Active-Active volumes are supported by ESXi native multipath software.

Host Access

ESXi Hosts can access Active-Active datastores in one of two ways.

Uniform access

Hosts can access both peers. (both systems)

Non-unifrom

Each host can access only one of the peers. (one of the systems only)