DH2i Announces DxConsole HADR Edition

DH2i Company announced the release of DxConsole HADR Edition extending server application virtualization solutions that ensure management of enterprise applications across heterogeneous physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

It provides HA and DR automation capabilities to all Microsoft supported SQL Server instances, ensuring minimal downtime to applications.

It responds better than other HA and DR alternative for SQL Server. Other solutions have three major drawbacks.

• First, many businesses rely on recovery methods/technologies that do not provide fault detection and/or automated failover. Consequently, it often takes hours or even days to get systems backup and running after a failure.

• Second, automating HA and DR is complex and expensive. Other automated mechanisms are limited to the most expensive SQL Server and OS versions and editions and often require changes to infrastructure.

• The third drawback is that they cannot coordinate all required dependencies after a failure occurs to meet SLA requirements.

There was no method to address these shortcomings across multiple heterogeneous OS and SQL Server versions and/or editions, at an affordable cost for every instance.

This extends HA and DR for SQL Server from any source to any target. Withins of a failure, SQL server instances will be made available at an alternate location while maintaining the same application connection string. Full multi-subnet aware stretch clustering provides simple failover without the networking complexity requirement of spanning subnets across locations. This leverages any 3rd party replication technology (host based and/or SAN based) of the user’s choice, as well as any version or edition of SQL Server and OS. There is no requirement to make infrastructure changes or licensing upgrades.

“One of the top priorities for any IT Manager or database administrator is to ensure that their databases and applications never go down – and if one does, they need to make sure they can get it backup practically instantly, completely transparently, with absolutely no data loss,” said Jason Buffington, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “It’s hard to imagine any platform being as critical to customers of all sizes as SQL Server, so DH2i’s HADR offering should be a welcome alternative for DBAs and IT Pros looking to ensure the agility and recoverability of the database applications on which their users rely.”

“SQL Server downtime prevents employees and/or customers from accessing critical applications and information, which often equates to closing down a revenue stream for that period of time.  Even an extremely brief unscheduled outage can have a huge financial impact,” said Daniel Eriksson, chief infrastructure consultant, B3IT.  “For our customers, this is simply not an option.”  Eriksson continued, “We are looking at DxConsole HADR to enable our customers to ensure and streamline the management of SQL Server HA and DR, while adhering to today’s typically strict budgetary constraints.”

“DxConsole HADR Edition software orchestrates and automates HA, DR, maintenance, and management of SQL Server instances across a heterogeneous physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure,” said Don Boxley, co-founder and CEO, DH2i.  “In the event of an outage, SQL Server instances are dynamically re-hosted from on-premises to an alternate site. A single operational model and console ensures seamless coherent management of both the DR site and on-premises SQL Server instance workloads.  Active policy-based monitoring intelligently automates IT operations to maintain required SLA and QoS contracts for all SQL Server instances regardless of location.”

Customers leveraging the solution will also gain additional business benefits including increased efficiency, business agility, lower costs, and better ROI across their entire compute environment.

• It’s available and priced starting at $5,000 per physical processor.

• For VMs, the price is $625 per virtual CPU (with a 4 virtual CPU minimum per VM.)