Continuity Software Showcases Proactive Detection of Risks

Continuity Software, Inc., provider of service availability risk management solutions, released a technical demonstration video that illustrates the company’s unique approach for early detection of misconfigurations in Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) environments.
 
“Many of our customers are running critical application workloads on VCS clusters,” explained Gil Asherie, VP sales, Continuity Software. “Outages and service interruptions are absolutely unacceptable in such scenarios. The new demo shows how our AvailabilityGuard solution is being used in VCS environments as an early warning system that helps avoid such downtime incidents.”
 
“One of the examples featured in the video showcases a two-node, active-passive VCS cluster,” continued Asherie. “The active node is correctly mapped to the shared storage, but the passive node is not. As a result, the affected service group and its resources will not be able to failover successfully. Thus, if the active node goes down, the cluster users will experience a serious outage. In the demo, we see how AvailabilityGuard automatically detected this misconfiguration and helped avoid a major downtime event.”
 
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Guard’s risk-detection engine also checks for a large number of other VCS misconfigurations and issues including: missing mount points, resource dependency correctness, service group and resource states, I/O fencing and heartbeat best practices, GCO validation (communication, replication agents, storage device groups and more), recommendations for specific VCS resources, campus cluster mirroring guidelines, Storage Foundation best practices, and much more.
 
Demo video of  VCS outage prevention (registration needed)