Micro Focus Business Continuity Clustering

Micro Focus Business Continuity Clustering protects your key business systems against downtime and disaster. Built on Cluster Services™ (NCS) and Open Enterprise Server, Business Continuity Clustering is the only product on the market that automates the configuration and management of a high-availability clustered-server solution.

Business Continuity Clustering works with Open Enterprise Server and Cluster Services to provide site-to-site failover of critical workgroup and networking services. Regardless of whether you run a Netware® or SUSE® Linux Enterprise server, you can failover those services to a cluster in a different geographical location. This eliminates downtime, ensures that critical services are available, mitigates compliance risk, and minimizes the possibility of human error.

Data access is crucial for today's enterprises. To avoid the many consequences of downtime, including unsatisfied customers, idle employees and delayed projects, you need to know that your systems will be available 24/7, no matter what occurs. Micro Focus Business Continuity Clustering not only eliminates downtime, it also automates the configuration and management of your business continuity solution.

Built on Cluster Services (NCS) and Open Enterprise Server, Business Continuity Clustering helps protect your enterprise by providing:

• Integration with an enterprise-caliber directory, which delivers single-click migration of services, configurations and data from one cluster to another
• Multi-site clusters to ensure seamless data transfer in the event of service interruption or severe calamity
• Automated network differences among data centers (i.e., dynamic adjustment of name-to-IP-address resolution when data centers have different subnets)
• Remote synchronization of user and trustee metadata for secure recovery
• Storage of third-party Perl or other SAN-management scripts in eDirectory pool objects to manage devices comprising a Storage Services pool
• Deployment through Identity Manager eDirectory™-to-eDirectory drivers (formerly DirXML eDirectory-to eDirectory drivers), Micro Focus iManager v2.x plug-ins and third-party storage-array management integration
• Protection for numerous server-based applications and databases (such as GroupWise®, Apache, MySQL, PHP and other J2EE web Applications) or those using native file access protocols of client workstations (including Windows, UNIX, Linux, Macintosh, web and Internet clients and servers)
• Massive scalability for management of up to four clusters of 32 server nodes (a total geographic cluster of 128 server nodes

Downtime is not an option for today's businesses. Business Continuity Clustering ensures that in the event of an isolated server problem—or even severe calamity—your company's systems function normally and without interruption.

Business Continuity Clustering works with Open Enterprise Server and Cluster Services to provide site-to-site failover of critical workgroup and networking services. Regardless of whether you run a Netware® or SUSE® Linux Enterprise server, you can failover those services to a cluster in a different geographical location. This eliminates downtime, ensures that critical services are available, mitigates compliance risk, and minimizes the possibility of human error.

While the market offers a variety of high-availability and failover services, only Business Continuity Clustering is integrated with an enterprise-caliber directory. Directory integration delivers the automation that makes Business Continuity Clustering a sound investment. Automated configuration and management processes save you time, ensure compliance, minimize the possibility of human error and lower your total cost of network ownership.

In addition to leveraging the directory, Business Continuity Clustering uses other technologies to automate the deployment and management of business-continuity clusters. These technologies include Identity Manager eDirectory-to-eDirectory drivers (formerly DirXML eDirectory-to-eDirectory drivers), Micro Focus iManager v2.x plug-ins and third-party storage-array management integration.

With just one click, you can migrate services, configurations and other essential data from one data-center cluster to another. These services may be server-based applications and databases (GroupWise®, Apache, MySQL, PHP and other J2EE web applications) and those using native file access protocols of client workstations, including Windows, UNIX, Linux, Macintosh, web and Internet clients and servers.

Highly scalable, Business Continuity Clustering can meet the uptime requirements of even the largest enterprises. With the ability to easily manage and configure up to 128 clustered server nodes, you'll have powerful expansion options—not to mention peace of mind in knowing that your data is always available.

Business Continuity Clustering offers the following benefits:

• Prevents disruption of enterprise services and ensures that business proceeds as planned
• Delivers automated configuration and management of high-availability clusters, eliminating time-consuming manual updates and reducing possible data-entry errors
• Complements and enhances third-party storage and hardware technologies
• Helps ensure regulatory compliance
• Accommodates rapid business growth and expansion

With Business Continuity Clustering, you can be confident that your systems are always available. Even if one of your data centers is damaged or goes offline indefinitely, you can continue to meet customer demands, maintain a web presence and keep business flowing smoothly.

• Open Enterprise Server Support Pack 2 or later
• NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5 or later
• Two to four clusters with Cluster Services 1.8.2 (the version that ships with Open Enterprise Server Support Pack 2 or NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5) or later installed and running on each node in the cluster

Please note that third-party storage-array integration supports only arrays that have command-line interface (CLI) support on NetWare 6.5 or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, or have an SMI-S interface.

For full details on system requirements, please see the Business Continuity Clustering documentation.

For information about how to buy Business Continuity Clustering, please visit the How to Buy page for Open Enterprise Server.