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Co-StandbyServer
AAdvanced For Microsoft SQL Server 2000
The Next Step in Windows
Availability
Interested in
eliminating the need to work on weekends, nights and
holidays?
Interested in minimizing
downtime and maximizing business productivity?
Interested in an
availability solution that fits your needs today and won't cause
you pain as you grow?
Co-StandbyServer
AAdvanced is your answer!
In today's world of
mobile computing, global business and electronic commerce, you
need Microsoft SQL Server environments to be available 24x7, 365
days a year. Every minute of downtime, planned or unplanned, can
cost you thousands of dollars and lost opportunities.
Co-StandbyServer AAdvanced with its patented synchronous mirroring
protection provides advanced, reliable, and cost effective
availability with turnkey simplicity. The solution provides
everything that you need to synchronize data between two servers,
monitor and restart SQL application services, and avoid the costly
effects of system failures. Keep your business in business with
Co-StandbyServer AAdvanced.
Co-StandbyServer
AAdvanced is the next generation of Co-StandbyServer. By
merging the best of Co-StandbyServer with AAM,
Co-StandbyServer AAdvanced continues to provide Windows customers
with the synchronous, block-level mirroring and ease-of-use they
demand while delivering the ability to expand into the enterprise
with the simple switch of a license key. 's Co-StandbyServer
AAdvanced for Microsoft SQL Server delivers a turn-key solution to
synchronize data, monitor and protect SQL application services,
and avoid costly effects of system failures, keeping your business
in business.
Key features of
Co-StandbyServer AAdvanced include:
Familiar
Features:
 Patented Block Level Mirroring ensures that
a mirrored copy of the data is always in at least two places
Configuration Flexibility allows you to
choose either shared or non-shared disk configurations
Using a dedicated link adds no traffic to
local network and the ability to separate servers up to 10km
Use existing industry standard
hardware
Key Ease of Use
Features:
Wizard deployment using setup.exe ensures
that you can quickly and easily deploy Co-StandbyServer
AAdvanced in just a few minutes per server.
The Java Console provides you with more
resource details than provided with previous versions of
Co-StandbyServer, ensuring you can rapidly find and repair
problems on the failed server.
The Java Console provides a live state
indicator for all managed objects defined by a color status,
shown right on the main screen for all managed servers and
resources across as many branch offices and departments as you
have protected. This allows you to see what is happening as soon
as it occurs, and respond to it more quickly and precisely if
action is required.
Three levels of user-access, including
administrator, operator and read-only access, simplify and
reduce the cost of your availability management. Operators can
view and control all objects in a domain, but cannot change
their definition. This ability to delegate daily operations to
operators frees up valuable administrator's time while still
maintaining administrative control.
Availability Tracking allows you to track
metrics for reporting and analysis, providing a comprehensive
picture of the health of your environment. Each resource group
defined by the administrator is tracked by cause, duration, date
and time of each downtime event, and is categorized as planned
or unplanned. Administrators can export this data to easily
report on the service levels that they have delivered, and to
measure the downtime associated with maintenance and other
planned activities versus actual failure.
Increased Scalability
and Interoperability:
Easily upgrade to AAM with just the
change of a license key Supports UNIX and Linux systems in addition to Windows.
Heterogeneous servers can be centrally monitored and managed from AAM's Java Console
Lower the total cost of availability management
Centrally manage Branch Office environments from the Data Center
Multiple branch offices can be managed and
controlled using a single centralized team of expert
administrators
Details
Patented Synchronous
Mirroring
Ease
of Use
Non-intrusive System Maintenance
Scalability and
Interoperability
Requirements
Patented Synchronous
Mirroring
synchronous
mirroring protects production Windows data by creating a second
copy on a connected Windows server, which can be used if the first
copy is damaged or becomes unavailable. It eliminates the need for
a shared disk and can be used to replicate your data for business
continuance. Through the use of a dedicated link, risks and
latency typically associated with public networks are avoided.
Co-StandbyServer AAdvanced supports standard LAN and also
Fiber connections, to enable you to mirror data across distances
up to 10 kilometers.
Ease of Use
Co-StandbyServer
AAdvanced is designed to minimize the administrative burden of
managing applications in branch office and departmental IT
departments. Key ease-of-use features include:
Wizard Deployment:
Wizard deployment using setup.exe ensures
that you can quickly and easily deploy Co-StandbyServer
AAdvanced in just a few minutes per server.
New GUI Interface
The Java Console provides you with more resource details than provided with previous versions of Co-StandbyServer, ensuring you can rapidly find and repair problems on the failed server.
The Java
Console provides a live state indicator for all managed objects
defined by a color status, shown right on the main screen for
all managed servers and resources across as many branch offices
and departments as you have protected. This allows you to see
what is happening as soon as it occurs, and respond to it more
quickly and precisely if action is required.
Operator Level Control
Three levels of user-access, including
administrator, operator and read-only access, simplify and
reduce the cost of your availability management. Operators can
view and control all objects in a domain, but cannot change
their definition. This ability to delegate daily operations to
operators frees up valuable administrator's time while still
maintaining administrative control.
Availability Tracking
Availability Tracking allows you to track
metrics for reporting and analysis, providing a comprehensive
picture of the health of your environment. Each resource group
defined by the administrator is tracked by cause, duration, date
and time of each downtime event, and is categorized as planned
or unplanned. Administrators can export this data to easily
report on the service levels that they have delivered, and to
measure the downtime associated with maintenance and other
planned activities versus actual failure.
Non-intrusive System
Maintenance
Routine systems
maintenance activities can now be performed during regular
business hours using Co-StandbyServer AAdvanced.
Proactively relocate an application from one server to another
while users continue to operate virtually uninterrupted and with
an absolute minimum of downtime. Improved application uptime
reduces operating expenses, reduces the stress on systems
administrators, and increases corporate
productivity.
Scalability and
Interoperability
Co-StandbyServer
AAdvanced can easily be upgraded to AAM with just the
change of a license key, to work with UNIX and Linux systems in
addition to Windows. All of these servers can be monitored and
managed from AAM's Java Console at the same time, dramatically
lowering the total cost of availability management. This
capability to scale up to UNIX and Linux is unique to 's
offering, and enables Windows to enter data centers without adding
extra cost and management overhead. In addition, it offers
customers running Windows in multiple branch offices the ability
to manage and control all of their resource availability, across
all sites and servers, using a single centralized team of expert
administrators.
Requirements
Co-StandbyServer NT:
Two
Intel-based servers. The hardware in each does not need to be
identical but it should be as similar in RAM, processor and disk
technology as possible.
30
MB of free space on the system hard disk for the Co-Standby Server
files on each server.
An
active/active configuration requires a minimum of two additional
disks (total of three) per server as seen by Windows NT Disk
Administrator.
An
active/passive configuration requires at least one additional disk
(total of two) per server as seen by Windows NT Disk
Administrator.
Co-StandbyServer 2000:
Two
Intel-based servers with 133 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU.
256
MB of RAM recommended minimum (128 MB minimum supported; 8 GB
maximum).
Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server
30
MB free disk space
Additional network cards in each
machine.
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