EchoStream And EchoCluster, High Availability for AIX

Over the past 6 weeks we have created a storm in the market over EchoStream – a Continuous Data Protection for AIX systems – and EchoCluster, the complementary product for High Availability fail over. Both have been met with so much enthusiasm from the AIX community.

It seems that both these types of products have been lacking from the AIX market space

EchoStream, from Vision Solutions,  is a true continuous data protection solution that delivers any point-in-time data recovery at the push of a button. Instantly reverse accidental or malicious data corruption without the time and labour required for recovery from tape.

This is a truly a unique product that is not application or database aware and has a very light footprint on your network. So it is suitable for nearly all applications from intense ERP applications to light peripheral applications. It can make recovery from a small or large disaster very simple as you can recover a single file, an application or complete LPAR’ed servers.

To talk about EchoCluster we first have to define a couple of terms:

• High Performance Clustering
  • A cluster with nodes running software to implement parallelism, often with high performance network infrastructure
• High Availability Clustering
  • A cluster with nodes running software to implement automatic takeover in cases of failure

EchoCluster is an implementation of High Availability clustering on AIX

This product, by using a heartbeat between servers, can manage automated or manual failover of single applications or complete servers in the event of a failure. It also manages the syncronisation of data back to the production server and fail back once the problem has been repaired.

If you would like to know more about this exciting product set, talk with your Computer Merchants rep, or call us on 1800 777 111.