How does onQ work?

Basically, onQ works like this:

•	onQ is a fully integrated turnkey Appliance solution. One onQ Appliance is deployed for high-availability (HA) protection. Most businesses add a second onQ Appliance at another location for disaster recovery (DR) or use Quorum’s hybrid cloud offering to host their DR.

•	Each onQ Appliance hosts the onQ Manager, Quorum’s core software.

•	Your HA Appliance is connected to the same network as your protected nodes. The DR Appliance is typically connected to the HA Appliance (not the protected nodes) through a VPN over a WAN.

•	onQ Service software is installed on each protected node (PN). The onQ Manager communicates with this software to determine operational status and to schedule snapshots.

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You manage onQ Manager through an intuitive, browser-based, user interface called the onQ Portal. When you install your onQ Appliance(s), you use the UI to configure the onQ Appliance to take incremental snapshots for each protected node. You also use the UI to control and monitor the protection process.

•	Once protection is started, the HA Appliance manages your backup schedule, taking deduplicated, incremental snapshots of your protected nodes at specified intervals.

•	After each snapshot is added to the repository, the onQ Manager on the HA Appliance updates the recovery node corresponding to the protected node.

•	At the same time, the DR Appliance is synchronized and independently updates its own recovery node. Thus, there are individual up-to-date recovery nodes on both the HA Appliance and the DR Appliance.

•	onQ Manager alerts you by e-mail if a protected node or an incremental snapshot fails.

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