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


IT managers are constantly challenged: provide higher levels of service and protect more applications and data from

downtime, while spending less time and money. .

Users expect nearly continuous availability: Applications that may not have been

considered mission critical in the past, such as application servers, File, Server, SQL and Oracle database servers, others.

The Challenge: 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 - Save capital costs with a public (Amazon EC2, Azure, other) or private cloud.High Performance Storage - Use SSDs or PCIe-based flash devices for faster application response times. Hybrid Cloud - Combine a traditional physical server environment with cloud for better DR.

More choices than ever.


How do you protect your business-critical applications (SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP) in 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.

You can have efficiency and protection.

SAN-based cluster


Instead of shared storage, #SANLess clusters use real time, block level replication to synchronize local storage on primary and standby nodes.

No costly SAN. No single point of failure. Configuration flexibility – protects physical,

virtual, cloud, and high performance storage environments.

The #SANLess cluster solution

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SIOS #SANLess cluster


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.

Why not build Clusters Your Way™ ??


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

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Take the complexity out of building, configuring, and managing a cluster.

Easy to use. Easy to own. SIOS software provides easy

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

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Replicate between the configurations of your choice – between SAN and #SANLess and any combination of physical, virtual, and cloud configurations.

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

Keep using your SAN-based cluster and failover to a #SANLess cluster.

Create a #SANLess cluster in your data center and replicate to a cloud.

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Are application response times slow even with high CPU core counts and lots of memory?

SAN storage just can’t keep up with new, fast servers.

High Performance Storage #SANLess cluster with local attached

high performance SSD storage speed application response times and deliver failover protection for a fraction of the cost of a SAN-based cluster.

Blazing performance at a fraction of the cost. 33


SIOS #SANLess software enables failover of application instances across cloud availability zones or regions

Site-wide, local, and regional disaster protection without downtime or data loss.

The flexibility and cost-savings of the cloud and the availability and disaster protection of a cluster.

Protect applications in a cloud.44


Create a Hybrid Cloud Combine an on-premise failover cluster with

replication to the cloudEasy, cost-efficient disaster protection without

the cost of a remote data center or a second SAN.

Extend a SIOS Clusters for DRExtend to a remote location, the cloud or a node

outside the cluster In a failure in the primary system, the application

fails over to the local standby server automatically. If all systems fail or a data center-widen outage a

third node in the cloud takes over with a real time

copy of the data.

Easy, cost-efficient disaster protection.55


“Two by two”

#SANLess MultiSite ClustersSIOS software enables failover across geographic locations and cloud availability zones or regions to for sitewide, local, and regional disaster protection.

“Two by one” cluster. SAN-based cluster at the primary site replicates to a #SANLess node in a remote site or a cloud.

“Two by two” cluster. Replicate from a SAN-based cluster locally to a #SANLess cluster in a remote DR site.

HA and DR on both sides of the data center.

Keep running through regional disasters.

“Two by one”

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Create a cluster using virtual machines running on any leading hypervisor,

including VMware, Xen, and Hyper-V.

#SANLess Clusters for Virtual Servers. Install SIOS software to create

a #SANLess cluster within your virtual machines. SIOS keeps data

synchronized using real time, block level replication between machines.

Protect your virtual server environment.

VMware or Xen environment

Hyper-V environment

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Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migrations. Perform VM failovers and VM Live Migration without shared

storage.

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.

Restore replicated VMs for DR testing without disruption to the

production site.

After testing, SIOS software eliminates changes that were made on

the target server during the testing and resumes the replication from

where it stopped.

Leverage Hyper-V server portability.

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