SIOS Protection Suite for Linux V.9.5 Clustering Software for HA and Automation for SAP S/4HANA Environments

SIOS Technology Corp. announced the availability of  Protection Suite for Linux version 9.5 clustering software, featuring automation and application-aware monitoring and failover orchestration that make creating and managing HA clusters in complex SAP S/4HANA environments easy and error free for enterprises, MSPs and cloud providers.

Click to enlarge

SAP S/4HANA environments comprise multiple services that need to be maintained in the right locations and started up in the right order. Manually configuring and managing clusters in these complex environments can be time-consuming and prone to human errors that increase the risk of downtime and data loss.

The available Protection Suite version 9.5 includes intelligent application availability tools and utilities that automate configuration, validate user input, provide application monitoring and ensure that failover automatically complies with application best-practices.

“HA is complex for simple systems. With complicated and intricate SAP environments it can be a monstrous task. Eliminating the need for manual setup, scripting and specialized skills is essential in minimizing inherent risk of error,” said Michael Bilancieri, SVP, products and marketing. “For the first time, companies can confidently migrate their SAP environments to the cloud and meet strict availability SLAs with a single comprehensive solution designed exclusively for SAP S/4HANA. Application Intelligence is the key to ensuring rapid identification and recovery of issues and minimizing risk of failed recoveries. This is also critical in ensuring we employ the right mode of recovery for any given issue – HA is not a one-size-fits-all solution.“

New system cloning capabilities enable easy deployment of SIOS clusters to protect any application using consistent, predefined settings and integrated best practices.

“MSPs, cloud providers and enterprises looking to offer HA as part of their standard configurations can use the cloning feature to automatically provision multiple SIOS clusters quickly and easily,” he added. “It also gives SMEs an easy way to deploy a single SIOS cluster in a predefined configuration.“

Protection Suite for Linux
The Protection Suite for Linux enables businesses to create a HA cluster to protect any application, including SQL Server, Oracle, SAP and S/4HANA, in an integrated combination of failover clustering, continuous application monitoring, data replication and configurable recovery policies to protect business-critical applications from downtime and disasters.

Protection Suite for Linux includes:

• LifeKeeper – Flexible failover clustering software that monitors the entire application stack and orchestrates application-aware failover.

• DataKeeper – Host-based, block level data replication for mirroring local storage in a SANless cluster configuration or replicating to remote locations or cloud for DR.

• Application Recovery Kits (ARKs) – Extensions to LifeKeeper that integrate with applications to provide intelligent methods for simplifying setup, automating manual tasks and handling diverse application recovery events. They detect application level failures and ensure applications-specific best practices are maintained throughout the failover process.

The 9.5 version of Protection Suite for Linux expands the company’s support matrix to include support for Linux OSs and databases, including RHEL 8.1, CentOS 8.0, CentOS 8.1, Oracle 8.0, Oracle 8.1.

The firm’s  Protection Suite for Linux with Application Recovery Kits (ARKs) for SAP S/4HANA is available. Visit the AWS Marketplace for purchasing information.

Read also:
SIOS: Availability of AppKeeper Out-of-the-Box Solution to Automatically Respond to Service Outages on Amazon EC2 Instances
Starts at $40/month per EC2 instance.
February 7, 2020 | Press Release
Azure Certified SIOS DataKeeper Available Through Azure and Stack Marketplace
To achieve HA in these environments with automation of failover process
November 15, 2019 | Press Release