Enhanced high availability for Linux running under VMware
Virtualization provides significant business value, resulting in many business-critical systems being migrated to virtual environments. While virtualization offers significant cost and scalability benefits, there are risks and challenges in preserving application availability and disaster recovery. VMware includes basic tools that monitor hardware availability. However, these integrated offerings lack the sophistication and intelligence required to provide application protection. Recent research from Aberdeen1 confirms that best in class enterprises are leveraging HA extensions like SIOS’ SteelEye vAppKeeper to provide the stringent recovery times required to successfully deploy critical applications into virtualized environments.
vAppKeeper Application Awareness and Intelligence
Traditional VMware availability operates at the virtual machine level, providing no insight or intelligence about issues or risks inside the virtual machine. SIOS vAppKeeper shines a light into this traditional “black box” by enabling full application awareness inside VMware virtual machines. This awareness allows vAppKeeper to apply prescriptive knowledge leading to more intelligent recovery actions and better recovery times (RTO). This unique application awareness technology leverages more than ten years of SIOS application recovery experience to benefit VMware users.
