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SteelEye Technology, Inc.

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SteelEye Technology delivers continuous data protection and business continuity software to SMB and enterprise customers worldwide. Customers adopt SteelEye for its field-proven solutions to assure the availability of business critical applications and data on Windows, Linux, and virtual environments being deployed today. Business continuity has become a global concern of C-level management and IT organizations. SteelEye delivers robust, fault-resilient protection of critical IT resources to satisfy these concerns while providing disaster recovery capabilities. SteelEye collaborates with Microsoft and other key infrastructure providers to deliver on the expectations of the market for maintaining productivity during periods of planned and unplanned downtime.

For more information about SteelEye, visit the company profile on Microsoft Pinpoint.

SteelEye Technology and Microsoft Virtualization

In addition to being a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, SteelEye is also a Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering—Multi-Site Cluster Partner

As a Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering—Multi-Site Cluster Partner, SteelEye delivers SteelEye DataKeeper Cluster Edition, the replication engine which enables real-time replication of running Hyper-V VMs and integrates with Windows Server Failover Clustering to facilitate high availability and disaster recovery solutions of Hyper-V resources without the need for shared storage, thereby eliminating the single point of failure that shared storage represents.

SteelEye DataKeeper Cluster Edition can also run within the Hyper-V guest VMs to provide protection for SQL, Exchange, and other business critical applications that require more granular application level monitoring and recovery.

  • Real-time replication of Hyper-V VMs.

  • Enables “Quick Migrations” across data centers.

  • Eliminates shared storage as single point of failure in Hyper-V high availability environments.

Customer Scenario

Deploying multiple VMs on a single physical host increases the impact of unplanned and planned downtime as multiple servers are impacted each time a host server is taken offline. To take full advantage of server consolidation, you must address server availability to minimize downtime.

Server virtualization facilitates easier disaster recovery through server encapsulation. An entire server is now captured in a single VHD file which can be moved easily across different server platforms. DataKeeper replicates the VHD file for DR.

SteelEye DataKeeper and Windows Server Failover Clustering work together to address these concerns.

SteelEye Technology + Microsoft Solution

A highly optimized host-based replication solution

When looking for a way to minimize the impact of planned and unplanned downtime of Hyper-V host servers, Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) is the answer. However, WSFC alone does not address server availability in the event of a failure of your shared storage array. SteelEye DataKeeper Cluster Edition replicates virtual machines at the block level between heterogeneous storage arrays, eliminating shared storage as a single point of failure. A DataKeeper Volume resource replaces the physical disk resource in a Hyper-V WSFC configuration, enabling “shared nothing” Hyper-V clusters.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Hyper-V virtualization enables quicker, easier recovery of servers in the event of a disaster. The encapsulation of a server into a single, portable VHD files eliminates the need for complicated and costly bare-metal recoveries from backup in the event of a disaster. SteelEye DataKeeper enhances the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) by providing real-time replication of running VMs to the DR site. SteelEye DataKeeper Cluster Edition and WSFC enable geographically dispersed clusters, which provide the highest RPO and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) available for disaster recovery of Hyper-V VMs. Recovery in the DR site can be accomplished in just seconds! SteelEye DataKeeper can be used to replicate running Hyper-V VMs (VHD files) for disaster recovery purposes. When WSFC Hyper-V protection is not deployed, in the event of a disaster, virtual machines can be recovered in the DR site by using the replicated VHD files to commission new Hyper-V VMs.

  • SteelEye® DataKeeper™
    SteelEye DataKeeper is a highly optimized host-based replication solution which replicates data and VMs across LAN and WAN connections.

  • SteelEye® DataKeeper™ Cluster Edition
    SteelEye DataKeeper Cluster Edition integrates seamlessly with Hyper-V and Windows Server Failover Clustering for HA and Disaster Recovery.

Solution Briefs

White Papers

Webcasts

Demos

  • SteelEye DataKeeper and Microsoft Hyper-V
    A video that shows how SteelEye DataKeeper works with Windows Server Failover Clustering to support geographically dispersed Hyper-V clusters.

  • DHCP Clusters with DataKeeper
    A video that shows how SteelEye DataKeeper works with Windows Server Failover Clustering to support DHCP clusters without the use of shared storage.

Press Releases

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SteelEye DataKeeper Disaster Recovery for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Watch this webinar to find out about Datakeeper, SteelEye’s solution for replication and disaster recovery of virtual machines.