Recovering Windows Servers in around a minute
For a seamless recovery of your Windows servers, SteelEye Life Keeper from Open Minds guarantees to provide you with a complete disaster recovery solution ensuring that you maintain business continuity. Our high availability solutions will grant continuous data protection providing data replication as well as the monitoring of all your Windows servers to ensure failover through the Java GUI.
Replicate and monitor your Windows servers
Replication to one or more servers takes place over a LAN or WAN continuously. In addition, LifeKeeper is configured to monitor the state of all applications and services.
Failover, Email notification and return to service
When a failover occurs, you will receive an email or text informing you
which server or service has been afected. After you have resolved the
problem, restoring the server back into service is easy. Data is
automatically resynchronised from the backup to the primary server.
When this is finished, the main server can be brought back online.
Return to service can be automatic or manual, depending on how the
failback is configured.
Help with your application recovery
Open Minds can help you plan, setup and deploy recovery for any application on your Windows servers.
As well as off-the-shelf applications like Exchange, IIS, SQL Server and those listed below, we have a bespoke application recovery module which will monitor and recover any application. Your application does not need to be cluster-aware or have any special APIs for this to work.
Out of the box High Availability and Disaster Recovery for any application
Exchange
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SQL Server
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IIS
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Oracle
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Windows File Server
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VMWare ESX Server
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Apache
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DB2
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Bespoke Applications
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VMWare Virtual Centre
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Mimesweeper
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Progress
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Unlisted applications can also be protected easily providing you with a complete disaster recovery solution.
Some Examples of how we Achieve Business Continuity
1. LAN failover without shared storage (High Availability)
Data mirroring eliminates the requirement for a shared storage by mirroring application data across a LAN so that when a failover occurs, the application data is current and accessible. Replication can be done synchronous or asynchronously.
2. WAN failover (Disaster Recovery)
By combining the data mirroring capabilities of LifeKeeper
withapplication recovery, a disaster recovery scenario that can recover
afailed server to a remote site is achieved. There is no
differencebetween the LAN and WAN solutions except the location of the
serversand the underlying infrastructure.
3. LAN failover with shared storage (High Availability)
Failover over a shared SCSI or Fibre environments assumes data availability is maintained by the storage architecture.
4. 3-node combination of LAN and WAN recovery (High Availability and Disaster Recovery)
This option provides a two way replication of data to a local and remote backup. The applications and hardware are monitored, and failover can be either local or remote. The local backup is invoked for ‘everyday’ failures or operational downtime, whereas the remote backup is invoked for site disasters.