One of the hottest topics in today’s IT corridors revolves around the uses and benefits of virtualization technologies. IT professionals everywhere are implementing virtualization for a variety of business needs, driven by opportunities to improve server flexibility and utilization and reduce total cost of ownership
As the virtualization market leader, VMware provides the platform allowing IT administrators to make the most efficient use of their hardware resources, from the development lab to the data center, allowing complete flexibility in deployment of virtualized platforms.
Neverfail is a member of the VMware Technology Alliance Program (TAP) allowing collaboration to ensure mutual compatibility of technology to ensure clients can enjoy unparalleled levels of availability. Neverfail’s Continuous Availability Suite provides the maximum level of protection for mission critical applications during all phases of virtualization.
The principle areas where Neverfail and VMware provide added value include:
- High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Continuous Operations protection for existing physical deployments of tier-1, mission-critical applications such as Microsoft® Exchange, SQLServer and RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server through deployment of virtual secondary servers.
- Immediate deployment in parallel with VMware strategy
- Gain implementation experience with tier-1 applications on the virtual platform
- Seamless switchover and switchback between physical and virtual environments
- Planned maintenance of physical servers enabled through virtual servers
- Does not rely on enterprise class storage upgrades such as SAN technology
- Risk free Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration
- Application Level Protection for tier-1 applications deployed on VMware, with built in bandwidth optimization for remote disaster protection
- Full virtual-to-virtual (V2V) protection even without SAN technology
- Proactive application level monitoring predicts where outages may happen and proactively switches service delivery to a clean copy of the application of the secondary virtual server
- Disaster recovery protection across physical locations without the requirement for stretched SAN technologies
- Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) Deployment Options
- Re-use physical hardware in remote locations for disaster recovery
- Maintain physical reference copy to meet third party support requirements for issue re-creation on a physical platform
In addition, Neverfail provides investment protection for the Virtual Infrastructure components such as VMotion and DRS through the product Neverfail for VMware VirtualCenter. This product ensures continuous availability of VirtualCenter management server components including the SQLServer database and other configuration details.
“Neverfail’s new product offering can be used to protect VMware VirtualCenter and complement the many benefits of VMware Infrastructure, said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances at VMware.”
By combining virtualization technology with Neverfail you achieve the best of both worlds – an optimally-provisioned, consolidated server environment that, through a combination of VMWare’s focus on the platform and Neverfail’s focus on the business application, is always available to end-users, allowing them to continuously perform their job functions without the threat of an outage. Only through achieving both of these goals simultaneously can the objective of maximized business performance be realized.
For more information on Neverfail's VMWare technology support, please visit our support page.
