You know very well how critical your data is to your organization and how much your business would be impacted were that data to become unavailable because of a major IT outage.
Organizations typically rely on traditional tape backup to guard against this eventuality. More comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) solutions that automatically maintain up-to-date copies of data at a remote location are desirable, but are often unaffordable for two reasons.: either the solutions require very expensive equipment on both ends, or they require modifications to every host. The former is beyond the scope of the small to medium size enterprise, the latter is host-invasive, complex and difficult to manage.
DataCore Makes Disaster Recovery Practical
DataCore's cost-effective solutions make DR simple and practical and within the reach of any organization, no matter the size. Please check out the SANmelody feature-packed DR solution bundles. For larger enterprise requirements, please checkout: SANsymphony. For multi-site disaster recovery, please see the Advanced Site Recovery DataSheet. The Advanced Site Recovery software enables businesses to embrace Distributed Disaster Recovery (D-DR) that allows organizations to cost-effectively spread disaster recovery (DR) responsibilities across several smaller sites.
SANmelody converts a Windows-based server or VM into a "Disk Server" whose added disk capacity and data protection features are accessible by application servers (email, web, database, etc.) over an Ethernet LAN or Fibre Channel SAN. For DR, the Disk Server may be configured to automatically and transparently replicate critical data from any SANmelody disk servers to a remote site.
Replication Using Your Existing Assets
By installing DataCore's SANmelody software, any standard Windows Server can be converted in minutes into a dedicated Disk Server. . The Disk Server can then be used to serve disk space over the LAN to business critical application servers in your network. To your application servers, the additional disk space appears to be coming from additional internal disk drives. By enabling the SANmelody Asynchronous IP Mirror (AIM) Replication feature, you can replicate any of these Disk Server volumes to a distant Disk Server whether it be hundreds of yards or hundreds of miles away; Only a conventional IP LAN or WAN is required to connect the two sites. Get more technical detail on how Asynchronous IP Mirroring (AIM) works.
Replication of data is fully automatic and, once initial synchronization is complete, only changes to the data are transmitted, keeping network traffic (and transmission costs) to a minimum.
Easy to Manage Disaster Recovery Configuration
One of the major advantages of the SANmelody is that, unlike host-based solutions, the replication of data is focused on and performed by collaborating SANmelody Disk Servers. This means that there is no need to install resource-hungry and costly software on each of your application servers.
Because the SANmelody Disk Server manages the underlying storage for your business servers, it becomes a central point of control for those storage volumes. When an application updates a Disk Server managed volume configured for automatic replication, the SANmelody software will also transmit the data blocks to the remote site. This simplifies management because you can do so from a singlepoint of administration, instead of having to configure each application server separately to achieve the same goals.
Replication is performed for only those volumes you choose, so data transmission can be kept to a minimum. Changes to the configuration, such as adding business servers r and replicating additional volumes, can be carried out at any time non-disruptively, creating an easily managed and expandable DR environment.
Easy Recovery of Data
If disaster or data corruption strikes one of your critical servers, you can be confident that the remote replica of your data can be used for recovery purposes. This can be achieved in several ways. The simplest is to combine asynchronous replication with SANmelody's Snapshot option to capture point-in-time images at the remote site for failback.
Furthermore, by integrating the remote Disk Server with your existing backup software and SANmelody Snapshot features you can automatically trigger tape backup at the remote location creating an offsite vault for your backup tapes without the need for expensive and time consuming courier services.
