DH2i: DxEnterprise Support for Microsoft Azure Shared Disks and Disk Storage Enhancements

DH2i announced DxEnterprise support for the recently announced Microsoft Azure Shared Disks and Azure Disk Storage enhancements.

By coupling DxEnterprise software with Azure shared disks, customers can eliminate complexity and achieve HA and DR for their SQL Server deployments in Azure – all while reducing costs and planned downtime. Organizations looking to make the switch to Azure can now have highly available SQL Server with shared storage up and running in just minutes.

Many organizations are changing the way they run their business and the need to move to the cloud has become increasingly prevalent. In fact, the benefits of cloud computing are so prominent that research predicts that by 2022, around 60% of enterprises will,improve technology and catalyze growth. will utilize an external service provider’s cloud-managed service offering, which is double the percentage from 2018. As more deployments are moved to the cloud, the need to ensure uninterrupted access to applications beyond on-premises has become important for business operations. With the release of Azure shared disks, this requirement has been met for SQL Server users. Customers that are deploying SQL Server in Azure are now able to create HA instances using shared disks for full instance failover.

Click to enlarge

However, organizations currently using Pacemaker or WSFC for SQL Server cluster management face various challenges with their deployments. With these legacy solutions, configuration and ongoing maintenance are complicated, numerous prerequisites must be met, and the associated licensing costs can be extreme. DxEnterprise’s approach rids these common disruptions while offering all of the benefits of intelligent, self-healing HA and DR. It provides flexibility by allowing users to build clusters with more than 2 nodes on any edition and pool together the different versions of SQL Server for further consolidation.

“With DxEnterprise, organizations get all of the advantages of intelligent, self-healing HA and disaster resilience with multi-subnet failover,” said Don Boxley, CEO and co-founder. “Paired with Azure shared disks, companies can achieve true HA for their SQL Server deployments in Azure and benefit from easy business workload portability, all while dramatically reducing costs and planned downtime.“

Ressources:
DxEnterprise & Azure Shared Disks for Highly Available SQL Server Instances
Technical quickstart guides available for Windows and Linux

Read also:
Paycoq in Korea Chooses DH2i
To ensure IT infrastructure HA and DR, and to lower costs
November 6, 2019 | Press Release
DH2i Closes 2018 With Record Customer Acquisition and Revenue
Driven by product innovation and partnerships
January 10, 2019 | Press Release