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Technical briefs

For your reference, Technical Briefs provide additional information about a technical topic, such as recommended best practices, background information on a component or feature, or additional detailed information for how a feature, component, or specific technology in the ThinkAgile CP platform works.

  • Backup and Disaster Recovery
    Unlike many cloud platforms, ThinkAgile CP includes built-in, application-consistent backups for local data protection and disaster recovery without the need for guest agents or third-party backup software. We see built-in backups as a key component of any cloud infrastructure as they cut administrative time and complexity while boosting resilience, all with no additional cost. This document describes the key backup and disaster recovery features and benefits within the ThinkAgile CP platform.
  • Clone and attach a vDisk
    The clone and attach vDisk feature in ThinkAgile CP enables IT administrators to support data protection and availability use cases directly within ThinkAgile CP, all from a single golden copy of your production data.
  • ThinkAgile CP High Availability Architecture
    This technical brief describes the High-Availability (HA) Architecture of the ThinkAgile CP platform. The composable platform is designed to give you a true public cloud experience but inside your own datacenter. The ThinkAgile CPinnovation is in its software, which is designed to run on standard hardware; however, to ensure the very best customer experience, our offering includes both software and hardware. As will become clear, there are no single points of failure in ThinkAgile CP.
  • Resource Reservation for High Availability Applications
    This section describes example approaches that illustrate how to use resource reservation in ThinkAgile CP to ensure High Availability for your critical application instances in the event of node failure.
  • Oversubscription in ThinkAgile CP
    Oversubscription in ThinkAgile CP refers to various methods by which more resources than are available on the physical host can be assigned to the virtual machines (VMs) that host supports. In general, administrators can oversubscribe processing, memory, and storage resources in virtual machines.
  • Security in ThinkAgile CP
    The ThinkAgile CP Composable Cloud Platform is a hardware and software private cloud appliance placed inside a customer's data center and managed from a cloud portal running on AWS.