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In this video, Dave Bermingham gives a quick demo on using SIOS Protection Suite for SQL Server.
In the GUI, we configure the protection of your SQL Server to give you high availability and disaster recovery configurations. You see we are connected to 2 servers. We will walk through the process to create a failover process between primary and secondary servers.
2. Create Resource Hierarchy: Now that communication heartbeats are established, we will create a resource hierarchy.
3. Create SQL Server Resource & Volume Resource: Now that we have the IP resource created, we will create the SQL server resource & the volume resource.We will choose the primary and backup server. The application we want to protect is Microsoft SQL server. The instance is the primary. The name looking for is the sa account and the password for the sa account. It queried the instance of SQL Server on this server. The current databases are all located on the E drive.
4. Create a Mirror: We can see the SQL Server resource is created on the primary server. The next step is to extend on the secondary server. Now it wants to extend the volume E to the secondary server so we’ll create a mirror. It’s asking us for the endpoints of the mirrors. We set the private network for the replication and then will choose synchronous mirroring for local area networks. Then we create the mirror.
And we will extend the resource to the secondary server. When we click finish, we will have a fully configured functioning SIOS Protection Suite for SQL Server. We have SQL, the IP and volume all running on primary server and being backed up by the secondary server.
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Learn how to deal with pressure to meet challenges such as cutting costs, keeping users happy, adding apps, and keeping your data center running smoothly. The good news is you have more choices than ever to help you meet these challenges in any combination of physical, virtual, and cloud configurations.
SIOS protects critical business applications in Windows and Linux environments including public, private, and hybrid clouds and lets you build clusters your way using your choice of server and storage hardware. Configure your data center the way you want it. Run your SQL Server, Oracle, or SAP applications in a cloud without worrying about down time or data loss. Mix SAN and SANLess environments. However you decide to do it, SIOS delivers clusters your way.
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Each year, your task is likely to provide higher levels of service using existing infrastructure and a smaller IT budget. Tolerance for downtime or data loss is gone. Applications have to be up 24/7 and you need to be protected whether that’s a server outage, a networking outage, application outage, or even entire data center loss. The expectation is that the amount of downtime and the amount of data loss converges on “0”.
IT professionals have more options than ever on how you’re going to support your end users whether that’s deployment of physical servers, virtual servers, or even cloud technologies. Choosing a solution comes down to understanding business objectives, technical requirements, and budget limitations as well as needing to understand how you’re going to protect the environment to ensure it is always available and you don’t have any downtime or any data loss.
This is typically done by implementing a traditional SAN based cluster involving two or more servers connected into some type of shared storage. If there is an issue, it will fail the application over and bring everything back online. SIOS software supports this and makes it easy to set up and manage. While a SAN based cluster is great for local high availability, the SAN generally represents high cost, complexity, potential failure in your clustering architecture, and it also doesn’t help you solve the disaster recovery problem.
SIOS software allows you to build out your cluster using your choice of hardware but now leveraging local storage. SIOS provides real-time block level data replication that’s fully cluster aware and integrated allowing you to leverage that very fast local storage with your cluster configuration. Also, adopting a SANLess cluster can reduce the overall cost of the solution by eliminating the SAN. As a result, you’ve not only eliminated the cost of the SAN hardware but also SAN infrastructure and administrative costs that come along with your SAN license savings. In addition, you will be cutting out that single point of failure in your clustering architecture so it won’t take down the entire environment. You can also eliminate data loss because our real-time block level data replication technology keeps the local storage in sync. Provided with the software there is also user friendly wizard-based user interfaces.
To sum things up, SIOS gives you the flexibility to protect your mission-critical applications and data in physical, virtual, or cloud environments. Learn more about our high availability solutions.
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