Vision Solutions – EchoCluster for AIX

Affordable, Nonstop, Automated High Availability for your AIX Servers

EchoCluster for AIX from Vision Solutions keeps your applications protected and available. So you can do more with your business.

EchoCluster^TM for AIX® from Vision Solutions keeps your applications up and running through continuous server monitoring and immediate, automated failover to a local or remotely located alternate server. With innovative features that continuously seek out potential problems at the hardware, software and network levels, it minimizes downtime to only seconds or minutes.

So you can save time and money and boost productivity. It’s the easy, affordable way to keep your critical AIX applications and data protected and available.

Keep Your Business Up and Running-Easily and Confidently

EchoCluster for AIX delivers nonstop, automated protection that keeps your servers working hard for your business with innovative features that save you time, money and labour.

• Continuous monitoring and automatic failover delivers 24/7 error-free availability without the time or expense of manual IT labor.
• Remote failover capabilities provide solid disaster recovery protection for AIX clusters.
• All aspects of failover performed automatically in only seconds including dismount of storage, IP address switching, remount and application startup.
• Individual applications can be separately failed over without disturbing other applications for faster, more efficient recovery.
• Smart network connection management automatically re-routes network connections during communication failures to avoid unnecessary failovers.
• Cluster “heartbeat” server-status communications are conducted via a dedicated Ethernet connection for assured, continuous communications even during heavy network traffic.
• Fast, point-and-click switching enables you to easily move users to an alternate server while you perform maintenance on the primary server.

What Can EchoCluster for AIX Do for You?

With continuous self-monitoring and automated failover, EchoCluster for AIX keeps your applications protected and available. So you can do more with your business.

• Boost productivity and accelerate your business processes.
• Ensure business continuity for your customers, partners and employees.
• Get true disaster recovery protection for your AIX clusters.
• Eliminate the IT costs and business consequences of system downtime.
• Perform maintenance, upgrades and test new applications with no interruptions to business operations.
• Easily comply with regulatory mandates for data protection and availability.
• Achieve a rapid return on investment by recovering the time and expense lost to downtime.

Availability that Fits – Today and in the Future

EchoCluster for AIX fits seamlessly into your existing IT environment. And it will continue to protect your environment as it grows and evolves-regardless of application, database or storage system changes.

• Easy to use, automated GUI eliminates the need for special training or advanced AIX administrative skills.
• Intuitive management console provides a unified, at-a-glance view of the availability status, and fast, easy access to all EchoCluster for AIX management operations.
• Monitors and manages availability with minimal impact on server and network resources.
• Configurable timeout parameters enable you to fine tune failover response sensitivity according to the specific needs of your environment and users.
• Groups of interdependent applications can be monitored and failed over as a single unit for fully coordinated recovery and elimination of human error during manual switches.
• Compatible with all RDBM systems, stateless applications and storage architectures.

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