CA XOsoft™ High Availability (formerly CA XOsoft WANSyncHA) for BlackBerry
CA XOsoft offers a customized solution for BlackBerry business continuity using the award-winning CA XOsoft High Availability Option for SQL failover solution with asynchronous real-time replication and automated server failover and failback to provide cost-effective business continuity and disaster recovery for BlackBerry Server on both 32- and 64 bit Windows servers, as well as MSCS clusters.
Customized with CA XOsoft's BlackBerry high availability solution, CA XOsoft High Availability offers push-button or fully automatic failover of your mission-critical BlackBerry server and its supporting SQL database over a LAN or WAN, BlackBerry-aware status monitoring, completely non-disruptive automatic testing, and integrated continuous data protection as a guard against data corruption, all in a system that sets the standard for ease of configuration and management.
BlackBerry Enterprise Server is becoming a critical component of the enterprise communications infrastructure in support of mobile productivity. If disaster should strike, whether in the form of a hurricane, a blackout, or far more likely, a virus attack or software or user error, your ability to respond well to the crisis can make the difference between a bright future and the end of your business. At the very least, you are likely to incur significant costs in lost business and, perhaps more importantly, lost confidence by your customers, investors, and other stakeholders. BlackBerry disaster recovery is not just about insurance. It is about maintaining your employees' productivity wherever they are and it is about maintaining your competitive edge.
The CA XOsoft High Availability Option for BlackBerry is designed to give you that edge.
CA XOsoft High Availability for BlackBerry — a Solution that offers True Business Continuity
The CA XOsoft High Availability customized solution for BlackBerry Enterprise Server builds on CA XOsoft High Availability Option for SQL to replicate, monitor and fail over the Microsoft SQL database that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server uses to store all of its information. A short, simple guide allows you to add the capability to CA XOsoft High Availability Option for SQL to manage and monitor BlackBerry services and to perform a switchover of BlackBerry users in the event of a failover. With this customized solution, CA XOsoft High Availability provides a business continuity solution that integrates several technologies to provide continuous availability through a wide range of disruptions from server failure to data corruption to the loss of an entire site.
A XOsoft High Availability Option for SQL provides:
- Asynchronous host-based software replication that transfers changes to BlackBerry data as they occur to a standby replica server located locally or over the WAN
- Automatic monitoring of your production BlackBerry Enterprise Server, including both server availability and the state of BlackBerry services and data
- Push-button or auto-triggered automatic failover of all users to a standby server, which may be on the same network or across a WAN at an arbitrarily distant site
- Push-button or automatic failover back to the original server when ready
- Integrated continuous data protection (CDP) for recovery from data corrupted by virus action or user or application error
- A CDP Repository with full text searching capability give end users control to recover important data quickly without placing the burden on IT administrators
- With the New Centralized Manager you have greater operational control by allowing you to manage all your replication/failover scenario configurations for your entire environment from a single console
- Bandwidth benchmarking assessment mode allows you to estimate bandwidth requirements prior to the deployment of any replication scenario. This gives you greater cost control by knowing exactly what your requirements are so that you can purchase only the bandwidth you need to meet your business needs
- Unique ease of installation with no application or user downtime, automated remote installation, and wizard-driven creation of new high availability scenarios
In addition, for compliance and testing purposes, CA XOsoft Assured Recovery works in conjunction with CA XOsoft High Availability to support full testing of application recoverability on the BlackBerry disaster recovery replica system. Testing is done by actually starting up SQL on the replica and performing whatever operations are required to verify the integrity of the data, without any disruption to or gap in protection of the production system.
How BlackBerry High Availability Works
Since BlackBerry Enterprise Server uses SQL to store all of its information, most of the BlackBerry high availability logic is already built into CA XOsoft High Availability Option for SQL. All that is required to begin is to install BlackBerry server and SQL on both the production and replica servers, and to configure the BlackBerry servers to point to both instances of SQL. Setting up BlackBerry disaster recovery is then a simple matter of configuring a normal CA XOsoft High Availability Option for SQL scenario and registering 4 simple scripts provided by CA XOsoft. These scripts supplement the normal actions of CA XOsoft High Availability to add monitoring and start/stop actions for BlackBerry-specific services and to perform the user-switchover actions that the administrator would normally do through the BlackBerry Manager.
A brief step-by-step guide to setting up CA XOsoft High Availability for Option BlackBerry is available from CA XOsoft customer support.
The design of CA XOsoft High Availability is such that the four brief scripts that are registered enable CA XOsoft High Availability to perform exactly the same kinds of validations and failover actions that are performed for applications for which support is built in.
Other Resources
Learn more about our BlackBerry high availability solution by downloading a trial evaluation of the production version of our software. Our white paper Business and IT Requirements for High Availability, will help to complete your BlackBerry disaster recovery research.
Read about the 5 key principles that guide the design of the CA XOsoft High Availability disaster recovery solution and all of CA XOsoft's products.
Be sure to view our library of recorded webcasts and demos pertaining to our high availability automatic failover solution.
Be sure to contact us for information related to your specific BlackBerry replication and high availability needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
The CA XOsoft High Availability Option for BlackBerry Solution Advantage
The CA XOsoft High Availability Option for BlackBerry delivers significant benefits that enable reduced cost and complexity, significantly broader and deeper protection against a wide variety of potential disruptions, and support that allows your business to become much more proactive in handling both crisis situations and planned downtime. Major benefits of the CA XOsoft High Availability Option for BlackBerry replication and high availability solution based on CA XOsoft High Availability Option for SQL include:
Broader BlackBerry Disaster Recovery Protection for Reduced Vulnerability
Effective protection is not about having a single technology, but about layering solutions to provide protection against the full range of types of failures. CA XOsoft High Availability works with the other critical components of your business continuity system, like clustering, backup and snapshot technologies, and then itself adds several key technologies to address a broad range of potential threats. Remember: anything that keeps your business from doing what it does is a disaster, whether that is a flood, virus, or bug in your server software. The CA XOsoft High Availability Option for BlackBerry solution enhances your ability to respond, and therefore your ability to provide continuous, reliable service to your customers.
- Automatic failover across LAN or WAN protects against storage failure on a cluster or standalone system as well as loss of an entire site
- "Soft" installation allows software to be deployed without server reboots or application service restarts — which means no downtime is required to deploy the solution
- Real-time replication of BlackBerry data as it changes minimizes potential data loss
- Integrated continuous data protection (CDP) ensures recovery even when data becomes corrupted
- BlackBerry-specific monitoring ensures that failures are detected quickly, so you can respond quickly
Increased Productivity Through BlackBerry High Availability
In the end, the purpose of a business continuity solution is productivity: to ensure that your people and your business are able to continue operating during and after a disaster. CA XOsoft High Availability Option for BlackBerry high availability ensures this through consistent use of automation throughout the operation of the product, increasing the productivity of your system administrator through ease of configuration and management and of your users through decreased application downtime.
- Fully automatic failover or user triggered, single-click failover reduce the time that users are unable to work
- Fully automated push-button failback when your production system is ready avoids cumbersome reconfiguration and additional downtime
- Auto-discovery of SQL components and auto-configuration of appropriate settings means minimal administrator time to configure your high availability solution
- Intuitive GUI for central management of all business continuity scenarios maximizes administrator productivity
- Support for scenario templates and support for configuration changes to multiple scenarios at once increase productivity and reduce errors
- Together with CA XOsoft Assured Recovery, automated testing of the replica SQL database and BlackBerry services requires no administrator intervention and has no user impact, while maintaining BlackBerry disaster recovery protection at all times
- Remote installation wizard and zero-downtime installation minimize demands on IT staff and impact on users
True BlackBerry Disaster Recovery with Reduced Complexity and Cost
It is important that the expense in money and time of purchasing, installing and managing your BlackBerry replication and BlackBerry high availability solution be commensurate with the potential cost that you are protecting against. Some systems truly require the tremendous expense and complexity of the very highest-end high availability solutions, but most applications can trade a few extra seconds during an automatic failover for dramatically reduced up front and total costs.
- Protection tailored to the subtleties of the BlackBerry environment simplifies setup for dramatically reduced time to deploy
- Hardware and platform-independent software approach provides an effective BlackBerry high availability solution at significantly lower cost
- BlackBerry-aware automation and intuitive interface reduce administrator time for lower TCO
- Real-time asynchronous BlackBerry replication offers continuous protection over cost-effective networks
- Single point of management and monitoring reduces management complexity.
- Clear scenario status indicators and multiple alert paths ensure that issues requiring action are identified quickly
- Support for scenario templates and support for configuration changes to multiple scenarios at once increase productivity and reduce errors
- Has no hidden costs - does not require advanced OS editions or third-party clustering solutions
- Combined with CA XOsoft Assured Recovery, allows zero-impact, fully automated testing of your disaster recovery system
- Easily combines with virtual server technologies for reduced cost and complexity (see our solution paper Consolidation of Disaster Recovery Replica Servers: WANSync and Virtual Server Technologies)
- Scheduled bandwidth throttling reduces impact on production environment
Increased Flexibility to Fit Your Needs and Environment
Our CA XOsoft High Availability solution provides a simple-to-configure tailored solution for BlackBerry high availability in realistic environments.
BlackBerry High Availability For Critical Applications
CA XOsoft High Availability Option for BlackBerry disaster recovery builds on the CA XOsoft Replication platform for host-based asynchronous replication over LAN or WAN, but extends it to provide a true high availability solution with BlackBerry-aware monitoring and automatic failover, even across IP networks.
CA XOsoft High Availability builds on CA XOsoft Replication's ability to maintain standby replicas of complete BlackBerry servers. These synchronized servers may be local to the organization, but may also be maintained remotely, with real-time IIS replication over the WAN ensuring that the information on the standby servers is only seconds behind the production system. Should a server fall prey to unexpected failure or be brought down for maintenance, a synchronized replica, regardless of where it is located in the world, can automatically and instantaneously be brought on-line to maintain high availability, with no need for laborious manual procedures.
Failover may be triggered automatically, or CA XOsoft High Availability can be configured to alert the appropriate administrator who can trigger an automated failover with a simple push of a button. When the production server is available again, failback is equally simple — a push of a button. The entire process takes only a few minutes — at most the time required to stop and start application services on the servers involved.
You can find more detailed technical information on CA XOsoft High Availability and the architectures that support it in our accompanying advanced discussion of replication, high availability and automated testing technology. An even more in-depth discussion for those who really wish to understand the underlying technology is available in our advanced architecture overview white paper, Disaster Recovery and High Availability with WANSync: An Architectural Overview.
Read about the 5 key principles that guide the design of CA XOsoft High Availability and all of CA XOsoft's products.
Gain a better understanding of the CA XOsoft High Availability Option for BlackBerry product by downloading a trial evaluation of our production software. Download our Business and IT Requirements for High Availability white paper as a resource for your BlackBerry disaster recovery research.
Be sure to view our library of recorded webcasts and demos pertaining to our BlackBerry high availability automatic failover solution.
Be sure to contact us for information related to your specific BlackBerry replication and high availability needs |
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