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Rich Castagna, Editorial Director- Replication services. Monolithic arrays support highly specialized replication features, such as consistency groups to ensure that a consistent point-in-time copy of application data exists before any further writes are written to the source data.
- Availability and reliability. Monolithic arrays provide higher availability and reliability for the most demanding applications.
- Known issues. Microcode bugs appear even in the best of arrays, especially those used in heterogeneous environments. Bugs in monolithic arrays tend to be better documented, easier to identify and corrected faster than those in midrange code.
--JEROME M. WENDT