File sharing is a business-critical activity; providing users with immediate and consistent access to shared files is crucial. In today's business environment, developing a disaster-tolerant file sharing infrastructure is essential.

To ensure shared data is always available, even in the case of disaster, the HP StorageWorks XP Business Copy and HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access families of high-availability data and disaster recovery tools enable real-time data mirroring between XP disk arrays and protect you from catastrophic failures.

This white paper reviews proof points and best practices for file sharing disaster recovery. Download now to learn how to configure an HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway when XP Continuous Access is utilized in the solution. This paper also describes the process to fail over from a Primary XP to a Secondary XP in this same solution environment.