everRun® MX: For the Windows application that absolutely, positively, CANNOT go down.
What's better than high availability? Fault tolerance! Marathon's everRunTM product line sets a new standard
of availability for Windows applications. Marathon
lets you compute through a failure instead of interrupting service while a service fails over or a server re-boots.
What Is Your Most Critical Application?
Do you have a Windows application that is so mission-critical that it absolutely, positively cannot go
down? Server virtualization brings some nice high-availability features, but, typically, if a
virtualization host fails, the application is still down for however long it takes to reboot the
critical virtual system on a surviving virtualization host. But what if that's not good enough? And it
may not be good enough for:
A video surveillance system where you can't afford to lose several minutes of video frames.
A building access system (e.g., for a major airport) where you can't afford to have any interruption
in the software that controls access to secured areas.
A process automation system where an interruption in the integrity of a product line could result
in not only lost time and productivity while the line is cleaned out and restarted, but could also
result in the loss of thousands of dollars worth of raw material.
Or perhaps in your business, you have a critical SQL Server that has to be on-line all the time, or maybe
email is so important to your business that you can't afford to have your Exchange server drop even a
single message.
Whatever that application is, if you simply cannot afford for it to be offline, even for the time it takes
to reboot it, you need to protect it with Marathon's everRun MX.
Marathon's
patented everRun technology runs on top of an OEM version of the Citrix XenServer hypervisor (included).
It allows you to protect a virtual machine from one XenServer virtualization
host to another. For "Level 3" protection (the highest level of protection available), the protection
wizard will create an exact copy of your protected virtual machine ("PVM") on the second server, which
will be kept in perfect lockstep with the original. RAM is also kept in synch, and if you don't have a
storage area network (SAN) available, you can use local storage in your two servers, and everRun MX will
keep the storage synchronized as well. The everRun MX product is the only solution available today that
can provide this kind of lockstep execution for workloads that require more than a single virtual CPU.
Your PVM doesn't just fail over to the other host, it computes
through any failure up to and including a complete failure of an entire virtual host.
And you can have up to four everRun MX hosts in an availability pool, and protect a workload that's
running on any one of the hosts to any other one of the hosts.
Add the Split-Site option, and you can separate the hosts in a two-host pool for further reliability,
or, with everRun MX Extend, you can provide asynchronous replication to a third physical or virtual host
in a remote location for the ultimate in Disaster Recovery protection.
For more information on how everRun MX can keep your applications running, check out the 15 minute video
below:
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Moose Logic is a Certified Marathon Training Facility
Moose Logic is proud to announce that we have been selected by Marathon Technologies to deliver the everRun
MX certification training course. The course runs two days, and is delivered virtually using Citrix's
GoToTraining. Classes can also be scheduled as required at our Bothell, WA,
office, or at a customer facility. For more information and class schedule, please visit our Marathon training page.
Do you sell software solutions that need high availability?
Moose Logic is also a Value Added Distributor for Marathon Technologies, and can help you enhance your
own solution offerings by adding everRun MX. For more information, please visit our reseller information page.
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virtualization has made my life easier for provisioning new servers and adding disk
space. And it is the total virtualized environment, spanning Citrix Xen and SANmelody that
makes this possible.”
Marathon's
patented everRun technology runs on top of an OEM version of the Citrix XenServer hypervisor (included).
It allows you to protect a virtual machine from one XenServer virtualization
host to another. For "Level 3" protection (the highest level of protection available), the protection
wizard will create an exact copy of your protected virtual machine ("PVM") on the second server, which
will be kept in perfect lockstep with the original. RAM is also kept in synch, and if you don't have a
storage area network (SAN) available, you can use local storage in your two servers, and everRun MX will
keep the storage synchronized as well. The everRun MX product is the only solution available today that
can provide this kind of lockstep execution for workloads that require more than a single virtual CPU.
Your PVM doesn't just fail over to the other host, it computes
through any failure up to and including a complete failure of an entire virtual host.
