Clustering Software handles business-critical applications.
Press Release Summary:
Scalable over LAN or WAN, SteelEye LifeKeeper maintains availability of applications running on clustered server systems by monitoring system and application health, maintaining client connectivity, and providing ongoing data access. It allows applications to failover to other servers in cluster to enable automatic system and application recovery if system goes down. With up to 32-node cluster protection, product supports synchronous or asynchronous data replication.
Original Press Release:
SteelEye LifeKeeper High-Availability Clustering Software - Solutions to Handle Your Business-Critical Applications
Overview
SteelEye LifeKeeper High-Availability Clustering Software1 offers an excellent balance of maintaining the high availability of applications running on clustered server systems, while helping to reduce the total cost of ownership for the IT infrastructure.
SteelEye LifeKeeper is a software application designed to maintain high levels of availability of applications by monitoring system and application health, maintaining client connectivity, and providing excellent ongoing data access.
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 LifeKeeper minimize the risk of a single point of failure. It allows systems to meet the stringent availability requirements of business-critical operations by creating a more fault-resilient environment.
SteelEye offers LifeKeeper Recovery Kits (RKs) for packaged software, including databases, Web servers, and application servers. These RKs include tools and utilities that allow LifeKeeper to manage and control a specific application. When an RK is installed for a specific application, LifeKeeper can monitor the health of the application, and automatically recovers the application if it fails.
Ordering SteelEye LifeKeeper High-Availability Clustering Software and IBM eserver xSeries® at the same time is convenient and creates an excellent high-availability solution for business-critical applications. The following xSeries servers provide a range of function, processor performance, and price points to meet small- to large-enterprise, high-availability requirements:
· xSeries 305, 306, 335, 343, 345, 365, 382
· xSeries 205, 206, 225, 235, 255
· xSeries 445, 450, 455
· BladeCenter(TM) Servers
A broad range of offerings for popular applications are available.
Five support packages are available. SteelEye requires that the appropriate support package be purchased for the first year to support a LifeKeeper product2.
Key prerequisites
Supported xSeries running in either Microsoftä Windows(TM) 2000 or Linux operating environments.
Availability date
June 8, 2004
At a glance
LifeKeeper enables enterprises of all sizes to experience continuous uptime of business-critical applications, servers and data, with up to 32-node, cluster protection1. Features include:
· Enterprise-grade integrated clustering and data replication offering
· Ease of use and deployment
· Non-intrusive - Requires little to no application modification
· Application-centric monitoring and recovery
· Data replication - Supports synchronous or asynchronous
· Scalable over LAN or WAN
· Uptime protection:
- Feature-rich, runs on standard platforms
- Auto reboot and recovery of primary system into network
- Up to 32-node protection for data and applications
· Data and application protection
- Recovery Kits (RKs) - Simple method to protect open source, commercial, and internal applications
- Helps eliminate planned downtimes
· Java(TM)-based GUI - Extensive ease of use across platforms
1 IBM makes no representations or warranties regarding vendor products or services. Some software may differ from its retail version (if available); and may not include user manuals or all program functionality. Software license agreements may apply.
2 Terms and conditions of this program are set forth by SteelEye, not IBM.
