HPE Serviceguard Continentalclusters software provides the highest levels of disaster tolerance by eliminating the cluster itself as a single point of failure. It uses data replication technologies to provide application recovery across multiple widely separated HPE-UX or Linux Serviceguard clusters.

Continentalclusters provides the ability to monitor a Serviceguard cluster and recover mission-critical applications to a remote Serviceguard cluster, should the monitored cluster become unavailable or if there is a disaster at the cluster site. Continentalclusters allows for a semi-automatic push button type of recovery. When a cluster failure or a site disaster is detected, Continentalclusters generates a notification. An operator, upon receipt of a notification, can start the recovery of applications at a recovery cluster using a single Continentalclusters command that automates the recovery procedure. Continentalclusters supports mutual recovery across two clusters. In a mutual recovery pair, each cluster is configured to recover the mission-critical applications running in the other cluster.

Applications can be configured in Continentalclusters for disaster tolerance using HPE XP7 Storage and HPE XP7 Continuous Access data replication technology.