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8 Ways to Make Clusters Easy to Use and Easy to Own.


IT managers are constantly challenged to provide higher levels of service and protect more applications and data from downtime, while spending less time and money.

Meeting this challenge is harder than ever before. Today’s data center costs continue to rise. And so does end users demand. Users expect nearly continuous availability for applications that may not have been considered mission critical in the past, such as Application servers, File, Server, SQL and Oracle database servers, others..

Protect more. Spend less.


The good news is that you have more choices than ever to meet your IT challenges. New configurations are saving money and data center improving efficiency.

Virtual Server Environments

Allocate computing resources more efficiently with VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen or other virtual server environments.

Public or private cloud

You can save capital costs by using a public (Amazon EC2, Azure, other) or private cloud.

High Performance Storage

Improve application response times with high performance SSD or flash storage. such as Fusion-io.

Hybrid Cloud

You can even combine a traditional physical server environment with cloud in hybrid configurations for better disaster recovery protection.

More choices than ever.


!So, how do you protect your business-critical applications such as SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP in these new, efficient configurations from downtime and disasters? Traditional shared storage (SAN-based) cluster solutions are impractical or impossible in virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments. They’re pretty expensive and represent a single point of failure in a physical server environment too.

The #SANLess cluster solution. Simply add SIOS software as an ingredient to build a #SANLess cluster. Instead of shared storage, #SANLess clusters use local storage synchronized through real-time, block level replication to ensure applications have immediate access to current data even in the event of a failover. No costly SAN. No single point of failure. High availability and data protection for physical, virtual, cloud, and high performance environments.

You can have efficiency and protection.

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?SIOS software is an essential ingredient that allows you to build Clusters Your Way™ to protect any combination of physical, virtual, cloud, or high performance storage configuration without the need for shared storage. Use SIOS software to add configuration flexibility and disaster protection to a SAN-based cluster. Or use it with Windows Server Failover Clustering to create a #SANLess cluster to protect environments where SAN-based clusters are impossible or impractical.

What is a #SANLess cluster? #SANLess cluster software is an essential ingredient that you add when building a Windows cluster. It uses real time, block level replication to synchronize local storage on primary and standby nodes. It enhances WSFC by allowing complete failover protection, while eliminating the cost and single point of failure risk of a traditional SAN.

The following shows you eight ways to use SAN and #SANLess software to meet your IT challenges, get the most value from new configurations, and ensure your important applications are protected from downtime and disasters.

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8 Ways to Make Clusters Easy to Use. Easy to Own.

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1Automate configuration. Simplify management.

SIOS takes the complexity out of building, configuring, and managing a cluster. Simply add SIOS software as an ingredient when you build a cluster and get added configuration flexibility and ease-of-use.

Easy to use. Easy to own.

SIOS software also provides easy implementation and configuration for Windows and Linux environments. SIOS provides intuitive user interfaces that let you configure a cluster in minutes.


2SIOS software gives you the flexibility to replicate between the configurations of your choice – between SAN and #SANLess environments and any combination of physical, virtual, and cloud configurations.

No need for identical hardware at the source and destination means no vendor lock-in. You can even use your existing hardware.

So keep using your SAN-based cluster and failover to a #SANLess cluster. Or create a #SANLess cluster in your data center and replicate to a cloud. The choice is yours.

Clusters for Hybrid Storage

Get flexibility you won’t believe.


3Are you experiencing slow application response times even though you have servers with high CPU core counts and lots of memory? Often times SAN storage just can’t keep up with new, fast servers.

#SANLess Clusters for High Performance Storage

Build a #SANLess cluster with local attached high performance SSD storage to speed application response times and get complete failover protection for a fraction of the cost of a SAN-based cluster.

Spend a lot less for blazing performance. At a fraction of the cost.

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4Cloud environments - Amazon, Azure, and others - offer flexibility and cost savings. But you still have to protect important applications against downtime and disasters.

#SANLess software enables failover of application instances across cloud availability zones or regions to provide site-wide, local, and regional disaster protection without downtime or data loss. You get the flexibility and cost-savings of the cloud and the availability and disaster protection of a cluster.

Protect applications in a cloud.


5Create a Hybrid Cloud

Combine an on-premise failover cluster with replication to the cloud for easy, cost-efficient disaster protection without the cost of a remote data center or a second SAN.

Extend Clusters for Disaster Recovery

Extend a SIOS cluster to a remote location, the cloud or a node outside your cluster to provide efficient, real time, block level replication and disaster protection for your business critical applications.

If you have a failure in the primary system, the application will failover to the local standby server automatically. If all of your systems fail or if you have an outage of the entire data center, you have a third node in the cloud waiting to take over with a real time copy of the data.

Easy, cost-efficient disaster protection.

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6Keep your important applications running through floods, power outages, and other regional disasters with a multisite cluster.

SIOS software enables failover of applications across geographic locations and cloud availability zones or regions to provide sitewide, local, and regional disaster protection.

#SANLess Clusters for Multisite Environments >”Two by one” cluster. Use a traditional SAN-based cluster at the primary site and replicate to a #SANLess node in a remote site or a cloud.

>“Two by two” cluster. Replicate from a traditional SAN-based environment locally to a #SANLess environment in a remote DR site. You get high availability and disaster either side of the data center. The software performs real time replication between SAN and #SANLess storage at both sites. This solution eliminates the costs and maintenance associated with SAN based replication, and also eliminates vendor lock-in, as the SAN’s at each datacenter can be different.

Keep running through regional disasters.

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7SIOS lets you create a cluster using virtual machines running on any leading hypervisor including VMware, Xen, and Hyper-V.

#SANLess Clusters for Virtual Servers. Simply install SIOS #SANless clusters software to create a #SANLess cluster within your virtual machines. SIOS keeps data synchronized using real time, block level replication between machines. You get high availability protection for your business critical applications without the cost or complexity of a SAN-based cluster.

Protect your virtual server environment.

VMware or Xen environment Hyper-V environment


Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migrations. Perform virtual machine failovers and virtual machine Live Migration without the need for shared storage. Simply install #SANLess cluster software at the hypervisor level to replicate and failover VMs from one host machine to another. Move data, applications, and entire VMs from one host to another quickly and easily - without interrupting service to your end users.

SIOS software also lets you restore replicated VMs to perform disaster recovery testing without disruption to the production site. When testing is complete, SIOS software eliminates changes that were made on the target server during the testing and resumes the replication from where it stopped.

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