Service Solutions

Server Storage Packages:  Clustering

Any amount of IT downtime can have serious consequences for your business.
Loss of revenue, lost productivity, and damage to your reputation and customer relationships are hard to explain away.

To achieve near-zero downtime, mission-critical systems cannot afford to have single points of failure, whether in servers, storage, or interconnects.  High-availability is now a necessity for IT systems. High-availability is most effectively achieved in server and storage systems through server clustering, which allows systems to survive hardware or software failures without users experiencing downtime.

Our technical consultants evaluate your UNIX or Windows environment for compatibility with multi-computer clustering. We are certified for:

  • HP ServiceGuard
  • IBM HACMP
  • Sun Cluster for Solaris applications
  • Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) for Exchange, SQL Server and Windows Server clusters
  • Remote Managed Services for 24x7 cluster monitoring and management

 

We provide enterprise-wide clustering that is capable of delivering highly available application services to your business. Partnering with SMS ensures clustering is implemented successfully, reducing your risk and vulnerability and preparing you for any disruption or problem.

ServiceGuard is one example of how multiple nodes are organized into an enterprise cluster that is capable of delivering highly available application services. The High Availability Clustering Design & Implementation service delivers the planning, design, and implementation of a highly available HP-UX based infrastructure.

Clustering Deliverables

  • Evaluate the computer environment for compatibility with clustering
  • Evaluate the application environment for compatibility with clustering
  • Architect and design the high availability implementation
  • Install, configure, and customize clustering with your applications
  • Test the environment against predefined failure scenarios
  • Document the new high availability environment

Our experience with HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, and Windows maximizes your IT investments, minimizes your service costs, and can even extend your product life-cycle.  We use a flexible and collaborative process, customized, to help you design, build, integrate, and manage solutions in the most effective way for your business.

Highly available doesn't have to be highly expensive.