Lifekeeper for MS Exchange

Lifekeeper voor MS Exchange is ontworpen voor omgevingen waar de hoogste graad van Exchange beschikbaarheid nodig is.

Lifekeeper voor MS Exchange is toe te passen als locale back-up tot een wide area disaster recovery oplossing en werkt geheel automatich.

Wanneer er een MS Exchange server/applicatie in problemen komt zorgt LifeKeeper er geheel automatisch voor dat een andere server zijn taak over neemt zoder dat de gebruikers er iets van merken.

Integrated, Automated and Scalable

LifeKeeper for Exchange is the industry's most comprehensive and scalable solution for ensuring the highest levels of Exchange Server availability.

LifeKeeper for Exchange is scalable to address all levels of availability requirements, from local Exchange data replication for backup, to local automated failover, to complete wide-area disaster recovery of Exchange at a remote site.

LifeKeeper for Exchange integrates fully with Exchange Server and provides a comprehensive, automated, hands-off solution that is easy to implement.

LifeKeeper for Exchange is from SteelEye, the industry leading specialist in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions for Intel® environments.

Key Benefits

Integrated Data Replication and High Availability Clustering

• High-performance, enterprise grade clustering to ensure 99.99% uptime and enhanced reliability of Exchange
• Data replication and clustering capabilities integrated with Microsoft Exchange Server
• Supports all versions of Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Exchange Server
• Easy to Install
• No application modification required
• Does not require implementation of Exchange Server Enterprise Edition
• Does not require implementation of Enterprise or Data Center versions of Windows server OS
• Non-intrusive, non-coding approach eliminates the potential for destabilizing Exchange caused by changes in configuration settings

Easy to Use and Deploy

• Web-enabled JAVA-based graphical interface simplifies cluster configuration, administration and monitoring
• Graphical interface reduces learning curve and eliminates the need to learn scripting languages and command line instructions
• Can be accessed from either the system console or any JAVA-enabled web browser, thereby allowing remote administration

Flexible Data Replication

• Real-time or periodic "disk-to-disk" replication enables faster and more efficient recovery than relying upon tape backups
• Data can be replicated synchronously or asynchronously

Exchange Server Monitoring and Recovery

• Provides health monitoring and failover of these key Exchange components:

  • World Wide Web Publishing Service
  • SMTP Service
  • Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
  • System Attendant
  • Information Store
  • Routing Engine

• LifeKeeper provides the option to monitor and protect additional services, as well as products that support your Exchange environment, including:

  • Exchange Connectivity Controller
  • Connector for Lotus cc:Mail
  • Connector for Lotus Notes
  • Router for Novel GroupWise
  • Connector for Novell GroupWise
  • Exchange Chat
  • SPAM Filters
  • Virus Scanners
  • Blackberry Servers
  • Tape Back-Up Systems

• In the event of a failure, LifeKeeper for Exchange will automatically attempt to restart services on the same server. If services cannot be restarted, LifeKeeper will automatically restart services on the designated server in the cluster

Scalable over LAN or WAN

LifeKeeper for Exchange Server scales to provide data replication, failover, and clustering across LAN and WAN environments.

Backed by SteelEye Consulting Services

SteelEye offers a full range of consulting and professional services to assist customers in achieving their high availability business objectives, and to support the deployment of SteelEye products.

Services include High Availability Assessment, Solution Design, Configuration and Deployment, and Training.

Product Capabilities

Data Replication

The data replication capabilities within LifeKeeper for Exchange are industry-proven and ensure that data is always available.

In Figure 1, data from a local disk located on an active server is replicated to a local disk located on a backup server.

• The recovery process from a local system failure is virtually immediate because data is available on a hot disk
• Data replication can be used to create a range of automated backup procedures that eliminate the need to disrupt users' work activities, or to schedule midnight backup sessions
• Data replication works effectively with tape backup systems to support your organization's established archiving procedures

Application Failover

The failover capability within LifeKeeper for Exchange monitors Exchange server system resources and services, and initiates a recovery action in the case of a failure.

• The combination of failover and data replication is the perfect solution to greatly reduce the risk of downtime in environments where RAID technology is not deployed. (Figure 2)

Figure 2: Data Replication and Failover

• The combination of LifeKeeper for Exchange with shared storage is a proven clustering solution that eliminates single points of failure in your Exchange environment, thereby reducing downtime and enhancing availability (Figure 3)

Figure 3: LifeKeeper for Exchange clustering

• LifeKeeper for Exchange addresses the challenge of planned outages by allowing the manual failover of services to a backup server when maintenance and upgrades are to be performed. This enables user access and operations while planned maintenance is performed.

Disaster Recovery

The wide-area Disaster Recovery capabilities within LifeKeeper for Exchange provide a complete and unmatched automated disaster recovery solution. (Figure 4).

Figure 4: Disaster Recovery

• Provides automated and integrated data replication and failover to a remote site:

  • Reliably monitors critical resources across WAN
  • Asynchronously and reliably replicates data over a WAN

• Comprehensive monitoring minimizes risk of 'false failovers' and ensures switch to remote site takes place only in disastrous circumstances

• Choice of full automation or manually-activated "panic button"

• Access to Exchange Server services is restored in minutes, rather than days

Graphical Interface & Administration

The LifeKeeper for Exchange graphical user interface simplifies configuration and management of application monitoring, failover and data replication.

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