SteelEye Technology Virtual Server Protection
SteelEye Technology delivers high availability and disaster recovery for virtual server environments.
Virtual machine technologies including Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX Server are being increasingly deployed to help businesses improve IT efficiency while driving down computing costs. As IT infrastructures evolve to include virtualization in order to help address scalability and manageability needs, it is critical that virtual server protection strategies evolve as well. SteelEye provides proven, reliable and cost effective data replication and high availability capabilities that work just as well in virtual server environments as they do on physical servers.
The SteelEye family of data replication, application monitoring and disaster recovery solutions provides
- Depending on the platform, complete high availability for applications and data with fast and automatic failure detection and recovery of both physical and virtual servers
- Comprehensive monitoring and recovery for individual applications and services within the VMs
- Tremendous flexibility in building failover configurations from a mixture of physical and virtual machines using either shared storage or data replication.
SteelEye's virtual server protection solution operates in virtual machines the same as on standalone physical systems to provide management of individual applications, database and critical services residing within the virtual machine. LifeKeeper supports physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical types of failover configurations with a nearly limitless range of more complex configurations possible from these simple building blocks.
- SteelEye protects applications and data within either the host OS or Linux and Windows guest OS.
- SteelEye provides continuous data protection of virtual machines across either LAN or WAN connections to ensure disaster recovery.
- SteelEye supports clusters built with any combination of physical and virtual servers.
Chris Wolf of analyst firm, Burton Group:
From a reliability standpoint, running applications on a VM may be even more secure than running them on a dedicated physical machine. Applications that do not natively support clustering can fail over to another server as part of a virtual machine via VMware HA, and adding replication software such as that offered by SteelEyeTechnology Inc. makes the process even easier, since it can trigger failover based on application failures.
