Challenges of System Availability
Today most businesses rely on information technology in daily operations. Ensuring access to
information requires that applications and data meet stringent uptime requirements. While many companies have recognized
the need for fault tolerance system to support mission-critical applications, there is continuous pressure to reduce IT
budget. Therefore, achieving a scalable and cost-effective high-availability solution for business continuity has been
challenging.
Open Fault-Resilient Cluster Infrastructure
ShaoLin InfiniCluster enables businesses to get the best of both needs - high-availability on
Linux. It is an enterprise-class and scalable clustering solution for reducing both planned and unplanned downtime. ShaoLin
InfiniCluster helps organizations to enhance the stability and manageability of their server farms to achieve the open and
fault-resilient cluster infrastructure for deploying mission-critical applications.
ShaoLin InfiniCluster maintains system uptime by monitoring the health status of system and
applications, and automatically moving them to another server in the event of a failure, it ensures continuous business
operations and maximizes service level of an application or database. ShaoLin InfiniCluster can also effectively simplify
server consolidation, helping IT personnel to easily manage multiple servers, applications and computing resources at a
single point which result in saving on IT budget.
With its high scalability and extensive support of multi-platform and hardware, ShaoLin
InfiniCluster offers the flexibility to protect from a single database instance to multiple clusters across sites. This
product allows enterprises to deploy both local clustering and remote clustering to meet their high availability and
disaster recovery needs for today's mixed and open computing environments with high return on investment.
Product Highlights
- Unlimited number of nodes in a cluster - meets "on-demand" business requirements
- Active-active and N+1 cluster configurations - facilitates server consolidation
- System level to application level monitoring - provides maximum protection
- Out-of-the-box support for applications and databases - guarantees application compatibility and availability with a wide range of Service Monitoring Agents
- Support for parallel multi-instance applications - simplifies application (such as parallel database) management
- Advanced virtual machine support - gives clustering support to applications running with virtual machines
- Reliable multi-channel kernel-based cluster communication (heartbeat) - ensures accurate fault detection
- Intelligent policy-based failover - automates availability requirements, ensures server utilization and service level with advanced failover logic
- Easy to install and configure, and online maintenance - minimizes deployment time and planned downtime
- Multi-cluster management and reporting - manages and reports on multiple clusters across sites from a single console
- Multi-platform and mixed Linux OS support - provides flexibility to consolidate different server environments
- Comprehensive hardware, storage and replication technologies support - meets different requirements for different customers
- Works with other ShaoLin products - offers a complete load-balanced and disaster-tolerated data center solution
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