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SRMXtender
Extending Site Recovery Manager to protect any critical business application
Business applications are being virtualized at a tremendous rate with the majority of companies adopting VMware vSphere as their platform of choice. However, many Tier-1 applications continue to use physical servers, whether for reasons of vendor support or performance. Whilst customers seek to reduce operational costs through standardizing on vSphere, its inability to include some critical physical servers within its business continuity paradigm makes this goal unattainable in practice. In fact, costs may increase through the need to deploy multiple business continuity strategies to cope with a heterogeneous world.
A second challenge facing many organizations is that any significant downtime or data loss for critical applications can impact the reputation, and sometimes even the survival of their business. These organizations need disaster recovery solutions that can support service levels of close to zero downtime and zero data loss for these applications.
Companies have turned to VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to reduce their business continuity costs by exploiting centralized recovery plans for their virtual machines. Neverfail’s SRMXtender offers customers further significant cost saving by automating the inclusion of physical machines, or even VMs deployed on other virtualization platforms, within SRM Recovery Plans. When customers test their Recovery Plans, or call upon them to keep their business running after a site disaster, Neverfail’s runtime infrastructure fails over non-vSphere servers according to SRM plans. It also offers industry-leading recovery time and recovery point objectives, allowing customers to meet the stringent availability targets associated with business critical applications.
