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.