Evidian Safekit
Simple and Economical High Availability Software
All-in-one high availability
For the same price, SafeKit provides load balancing, synchronous byte-level file replication, failover. Save costs of network boxes, replicated SAN storage and enterprise editions of OS and DB.
Zero specific skill
No special computer skills are required to deploy a SafeKit high availability solution on two servers.
Zero hardware extra cost
Forget about shared disks, replicated SAN storageā¦ SafeKit is hardware independent and runs on your existing physical servers, or in virtual machines, or in the cloud.
Zero software extra cost
SafeKit works with the standard editions of OS and databases: standard editions of Windows, Linux, AIX, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird, mySQL, PostgreSQL or other database or files.
High availability architectures
With the SafeKit software, the high availability architecture for a critical application requires to define an application module.
SafeKit offers two generic modules for creating two types of high availability architecture:
After a farm or mirror module configuration, a SafeKit cluster deployment with a critical application is simple and does not require any specific IT skills. And the management console is also simple to avoid human errors when managing the critical application.
Several modules can be deployed on the same HA cluster. Thus, advanced high availability architectures can be implemented for a given application: the farm and mirror cluster, the active-active cluster or the N+1 redundancy.
A high availability architecture with the SafeKit software does not require to use replicated SAN, network load balancers and Enterprise editions of OS and database. SafeKit combines these three hardware clustering solutions in the same simple and economical high availability software.
SafeKit high availability architectures
- Deploy a mirror module on 2 servers.And implement a mirror cluster with file replication at byte level with failover.
- Deploy a farm module on N servers. And implement a network load balancing cluster.
- Deploy a farm module + a mirror module.And implement a clustering solution with load balancing and mirroring.
- Deploy 2 mirror modules. And implement an active-active cluster with crossed data replication.
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