Continuous
Processing® features
Like other members of the industry-standard
ftServer line, the ftServer 6200 system comes complete with
Stratus Continuous Processing features that eliminate operational
complexity and high costs inherent in high-availability approaches
such as clusters. Your enterprise gains superior uptime protection
without having to modify applications — and without
the need for failover scripting, repeated test procedures,
or extra effort to make your applications cluster-aware.
Lockstep technology
Replicated, fault-tolerant hardware components process the
same instructions at the same time. In the event of a component
malfunction, the partner component is an active spare that
continues normal operation. There is no system downtime and
no data loss.
Failsafe software
Our failsafe software works in concert with lockstep technology
to prevent many software errors from escalating into outages.
Other software issues are captured, analyzed, and reported
to Stratus. This allows support personnel to take a proactive
approach to correcting software problems before they recur.
Even in-memory data is constantly protected and maintained.
Stratus’ hardened device drivers add yet another level
of reliability to the operating system environment on ftServer
systems.
ActiveService™ architecture
ftServer systems constantly monitor their own operation. Remote
support capabilities — made possible by the global Stratus
ActiveService Network — enable our service engineers
to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve problems online as
if they were on-site. If needed, the ftServer 6200 system
automatically orders its own customer or fieldreplaceable
parts.

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