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Epicure Protects Business Critical SQL Server with Amazon EC2 and SIOS SANLess Clustering Software

January 13, 2023 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

Epicure Protects Business Critical SQL Server with Amazon EC2 and SIOS SANLess Clustering Software

Epicure Protects Business Critical SQL Server with Amazon EC2 and SIOS SANLess Clustering Software

SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition Software Provides High Availability and Disaster Protection.

Epicure, Canada’s leading direct sales company, sells healthy, easy-to-prepare food products through a network of over 16,000 consultants. The company relies on two websites for its critical business operations. Their public website provides company and product information, recipes, blogs, and enrollment information to its customers and to people interested in becoming a consultant. Their internal website provides consultants with important information about products and enables them to place all of their orders. “Our websites are vital to our business,” said Russell Born, Senior Network Infrastructure Administrator at Epicure.

The Environment

Both of Epicure’s websites run on a single server using two instances of SQL Server Standard Edition—one for each website. As the company expanded its products and services, the Epicure IT department needed to update and to ensure both of its business-critical websites would continue to operate in the event of failures or disasters. They decided to move both websites from a third-party hosted facility to its on-premises data center and to use Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud for disaster recovery. “By bringing the sites in-house, we could ensure that our websites would deliver excellent user experiences for both our customers and consultants as our business continues to grow,” said Born.

The Challenge

As part of this website update process, Epicure IT staff wanted an efficient, cost- effective way to provide high availability and disaster protection for both websites while continuing to run them on two instances of SQL Server Standard Edition.

“We didn’t want the added expense of moving to SQL Server Enterprise Edition if we could provide HA and DR with the more cost- effective Standard Edition,” Born said.

The Solution

Using SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software, Epicure IT staff created a two-node SANLess cluster in an active-passive failover configuration that enables each SQL instance to failover independently. One cluster node is in the Epicure on-premises data center and the second node is in an instance of the AWS EC2 cloud. Epicure IT staff created the SIOS SANLess clusters and configured them using the software’s intuitive graphical user interface.

The Results

The SIOS software provided Epicure with an easy, cost-efficient way to provide HA and DR protection for its business-critical SQL Server applications without the cost and complexity of building out a remote DR site or purchasing costly SAN storage or SQL Server Enterprise Edition licenses. “The SIOS software has allowed us to create a hybrid solution that provides the cost savings of running on-premises and the reliability and flexibility of running in the cloud,” said Born. “Because we know that if there is a website outage, it will failover automatically, our IT team can now focus their attention on other priorities to strengthen our business.”

Reproduced with permission from SIOS

Filed Under: Clustering Simplified Tagged With: AWS EC2, cluster quorum, SIOS Datakeeper, SQL Server

SIOS DataKeeper Clustering Software Enables Gulliver International to Move Internal IT Systems to Amazon Web Services Safely

January 10, 2023 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

SIOS DataKeeper Clustering Software Enables Gulliver International to Move Internal IT Systems to Amazon Web Services Safely

SIOS DataKeeper Clustering Software Enables Gulliver International to Move Internal IT Systems to Amazon Web Services Safely

SIOS software provides high availability in AWS environments, enabling leading pre-owned vehicle company to move all IT system to the cloud.

Gulliver International is a leading pre-owned car company based in Tokyo with 420 locations throughout Japan. Over the next four years, the company plans to expand into a global business with 1600 stores worldwide. To ensure its IT infrastructure can accommodate this rapid growth, the company is migrating all of its internal systems to AWS and promoting a company-wide “cloud-first” policy for all new applications.

“Moving our systems to the cloud will give us flexibility and scalability we need to grow quickly and cost-efficiently, while continuously providing excellent service to our customers,” said Manabu Tsukishima, IT Manager, Gulliver International.

The Challenge

To ensure the success of their cloud-first initiative, Gulliver needed to protect their business critical applications from downtime in a cloud environment, where traditional failover clusters are not possible.

“We would not consider moving our applications to the cloud without an efficient, easy-to-implement high availability solution,” said Tsukishima. Gulliver chose to use SIOS DataKeeper software, which is sold in Japan by SIOS Technology, Inc.

The Solution

SIOS DataKeeper software enables Gulliver to use Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) to build a failover cluster in a cloud environment, where traditional shared- storage clusters are not possible.

SIOS software uses efficient, real time replication to synchronize storage between servers operating as a WSFC cluster in an AWS environment.

Using SIOS software, Gulliver can configure two servers operating as a cluster across separate Amazon Availability Zones.

Just as in a traditional physical environment, if there is a failure on the primary server in the AWS cloud within one Availability Zone, WSFC moves the application to the second server located in another Amazon Availability Zone, providing full disaster tolerance and recovery in the cloud.

The Results

“We are extremely pleased with the value that SIOS DataKeeper software brings to our company’s cloud-first initiative,” said Tsukishima. With SIOS DataKeeper software, Gulliver can move to the cloud without adding complexity or disruption to existing operations.

“By enabling us to use a clustering configuration in the cloud in the same way we would in a physical environment, SIOS DataKeeper software made it possible for us to migrate to AWS without sacrificing application protection or changing the configuration of our existing system at all.”

About 30 percent of Gulliver’s existing on-premises systems have been migrated to AWS without any changes to the company’s system administration or added complexity.

As Gulliver continues to execute its expansion plan, it will soon need to protect even larger volumes of data and a wider range of applications. To meet thi s need, it will continue to use SIOS DataKeeper software as it migrates systems to the cloud. As a Standard Consulting Partner of APN (AWS Partner Network), SIOS is committed to continuing to provide high availability systems that operate on AWS.”

Reproduced with permission from SIOS

Filed Under: Clustering Simplified Tagged With: AWS EC2, Cloud, cloud migration, cluster quorum, SIOS Datakeeper

Disaster: Live! SQL Server from Disaster to Operational

August 28, 2022 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

Disaster Live! SQL Server from Disaster to Operational

Disaster: Live! SQL Server from Disaster to Operational

What happens in a SQL Server disaster? Here’s your chance to be part of the action.

This webinar guides you through a few simulated disasters of SQL Server. Walk away from this webinar with a DR plan and a checklist to ensure your business operations run as expected in the event of an outage.

Register here
Reproduced with permission from SIOS

Filed Under: Clustering Simplified Tagged With: Cloud, disaster recovery, SIOS Datakeeper, SQL Server, Windows Server

SIOS Protection Suite/LifeKeeper for Linux – Integrated Components

May 29, 2022 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

SIOS Protection Suite/LifeKeeper for Linux – Integrated Components

SIOS Protection Suite/LifeKeeper for Linux – Integrated Components

SIOS Protection Suite includes the following software components to protect an organization’s mission-critical systems.

SIOS LifeKeeper

SIOS LifeKeeper provides a complete fault-resilient software solution that enables high availability for servers, file systems, applications, and processes. LifeKeeper does not require any customized, fault-tolerant hardware. LifeKeeper simply requires two or more systems to be grouped in a network and site-specific configuration data is then created to provide automatic fault detection and recovery.

In the case of a failure, LifeKeeper migrates protected resources from the failed server to a designated standby server. Users experience a brief interruption during the actual switchover. However, LifeKeeper restores operations on the standby server without operator intervention.

SIOS DataKeeper

SIOS DataKeeper provides an integrated data replication capability for LifeKeeper environments. This feature enables LifeKeeper resources to operate in shared and non-shared storage environments.

Application Recovery Kits (ARKs)

Application Recovery Kits (ARKs) include tools and utilities that allow LifeKeeper to manage and control a specific application or service. When an ARK is installed for a specific application, LifeKeeper is able to monitor the health of the application and automatically recover the application if it fails. These Recovery Kits are non-intrusive and require no changes within the application in order for it to be protected by LifeKeeper.

There is a comprehensive library of ‘off-the-shelf’ Application Recovery Kits available as part of the SIOS Protection Suite portfolio. The types and quantity of ARKs supplied vary based on the edition of SIOS Protection Suite purchased.

Reproduced with permission from SIOS

Filed Under: Clustering Simplified Tagged With: Application Recovery Kits, SIOS Datakeeper, SIOS LifeKeeper

How to Activate a License for SIOS Clustering Software

September 6, 2020 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

How to Activate a License for SIOS Clustering Software

How to Activate a License for SIOS Clustering Software

This brief video is the first in a series of application availability “how to” tutorials designed by the SIOS support team. It walks through the simple steps needed to get started with your SIOS Protection Suite or SIOS DataKeeper software.  Learn how to access a wide range of support resources in the SIOS documentation library.

How to Activate a License for SIOS Clustering Software

Reproduced with permission from SIOS

Filed Under: Clustering Simplified Tagged With: SIOS Datakeeper, sios protection suite

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