April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
8h 6m
English
I’ll jump to the conclusion: Synchronous replication is expensive, so use it only when the situation warrants. Do not use synchronous replication for everything.
The most basic form of synchronous replication is disk mirroring, in which a RAID controller writes every bit twice. The server waits for a response from the RAID controller that the write is complete (the writes to the primary drive(s) and the mirrored drive(s) are complete). Take that example and expand it to be between servers or between storage arrays. Every write to the primary storage is also written to the secondary (target), and the system waits on both “write complete” messages before signaling ...
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