Effective business continuity solutions can be an expensive “insurance policy.” Organizations that have mission-critical applications and zero tolerance for downtime or data loss often establish a synchronized, redundant failover system whose sole purpose is to ensure ongoing access to their systems during an emergency. These systems are complex, expensive, and lie idle much of the time.
Sybase Mirror Activator is a business continuity tool that enhances synchronized, redundant failover systems that support the restoration of critical outages while also reducing network costs, accelerating recovery time, database recovery, and guaranteeing data integrity.
Our QuickStart for Mirror Activator Service Package is a complement to your recent Mirror Activator purchase from Sybase that gets your implementation up and running in less than 6 weeks.
Objectives
Sybase’s goal is to promote customer self-sufficiency with respect to current and future Mirror Activator implementations; regardless of the platform and number of databases.
Through this Service Package, you will:
- Learn how to install and configure Sybase Mirror Activator under production-like conditions; as well as understand its support requirements,
- Test failure scenarios with the Mirror Activator product fully supported by Sybase Professional Services,
- Receive comprehensive documentation detailing your site-specific findings and any procedures required to fail-over and fall back on the Mirror Activator product.
Typical Disaster Recovery Architecture/Design
Most customers have a disaster recovery design that has all or some of the server building blocks illustrated in the figure below. The basic architecture represented here allows a varied mix of hardware and software technologies, and is intended to facilitate discussions that will ensure a better understanding of the effort.
Benefits
Successful server consolidation services provides the following benefits to your organization:
- Higher utilization of computing resources across the enterprise
- More streamlined and easier upgrade path for technology
- Easier adoption of new technology
- Faster application deployment
- Improved data quality and data management
- Easier standardization and compliance with best practices
- Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by consolidating applications and databases
- Reduction in number of servers and storage devices (reduced power requirements)
- Reduction in manpower required to service hardware and software
- Scalability to meet future demands
- Increased control over mission-critical data
- Reduced need to maintain a large skill base to support legacy platforms
Deliverables
- Test environment configured to support and test Sybase Mirror Activator product
- Step-by-step documentation detailing your site-specific findings and any procedures required to fail-over and fall back on the Mirror Activator product
- Generic Implementation and Procedures Guide - including documentation of procedures executed throughout the engagement - that can be used for future implementation and configuration of Mirror Activator in ACS Database instances.
QuickStart for Mirror Activator Data Sheet
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