SteelEye IS High Availability
SteelEye LifeKeeper is the robust, fast and flexible high availability solution.
Applications that were reliable yesterday may be at risk tomorrow. And in today's economic and business environment, downtime is simply not an option.
Ensuring that your business critical applications are available regardless of hardware, software, or infrastructure failure is essential to the success of your business. Both planned and unplanned downtime costs your business money.
Application high availability no longer requires expensive hardware, re-writing applications or "Cluster Gurus" to build and manage complicated clusters. SteelEye® LifeKeeper® is the flexible and easy to use high availability solution that will keep your applications available without the complexity or cost of traditional clustering.
While LifeKeeper is very adept at monitoring and protecting the systems hardware, SteelEye has long known that applications are the most critical element in a highly available system. LifeKeeper monitors a broad range of applications to insure that they are alive and healthy. Whether you are running Exchange, SQLServer, Oracle, a custom application or simply a file server, LifeKeeper limits unnecessary failovers, if the hardware is still active, by recovering failed applications locally, without a full failover to another server.
To enable automatic system and application recovery if the system goes down, LifeKeeper allows applications to failover to other servers in the cluster. This helps minimize the risk of a single point of failure and allows systems to meet the stringent availability requirements of mission-critical operations by creating a fault resilient environment.
If an event creates an interruption in a server's availability, LifeKeeper automatically transfers control of the protected resources and applications to another server in the cluster. Because this switchover is transparent to clients, a system failure does not impact users' productivity. LifeKeeper migrates all applications and transfers connectivity in such a way that clients have continuous access to applications and data. This ensures that all clients - from internal users to customers shopping online – are not affected by unanticipated system failures.
LifeKeeper delivers significant advantages:
- Ensures applications are highly available regardless of the type of failure
- Achieves high availability using your existing hardware and infrastructure
- Protects all applications – not just "cluster aware" applications
- A single solution that provides both local high availability and disaster recovery in the event of a complete site loss
- Minimizes downtime and shortens the "maintenance windows" associated with upgrades, services packs, etc.
- Monitors and ensures accessibility of critical software application services and databases in addition to standard "system level" only protection
- Achieves Windows and Linux high availability in virtual, physical, or mixed environments
- Scalable for enterprises of all sizes
- Supports virtualization technology including VMWare®, and Microsoft® Hyper-V
For more information on SteelEye's high availability solutions click here or call 800-769-4942 (North America) or +1 (650) 843-0655 (International) or +44 1494 429382 (EMEA).
