VMware VirtualCenter is an essential tool in the management of complex virtual infrastructures. Everything from VMware VMotion® provisioning to VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) optimization depends on VMware VirtualCenter availability. Centralised management, monitoring and higher levels of security also depend on VirtualCenter.
As a single point of control it is essential that VirtualCenter is continuously available and protected against hardware failures, configuration issues and disaster situations. In fact, keeping VirtualCenter available through any type of outage should be a high priority to ensure maximum return on investment for your virtual infrastructure. Further, planned maintenance and development and testing environments all require that VirtualCenter remains continuously available.
Neverfail for VMware® VirtualCenter is the only continuous availability solution designed to automatically protect your VirtualCenter management environment, including License Server. It clones, and then continuously replicates, configuration settings, data and the SQL Server databases to ensure that a consistent, up-to-date copy of VMware VirtualCenter is maintained on a secondary server.
Neverfail then proactively monitors VirtualCenter to predict risks to availability. Risk factors include services becoming unavailable, performance degradation, operating system failures and total machine failures. When an outage is unavoidable, Neverfail automatically switches VirtualCenter control to a secondary machine. There is no interruption to the management and control operations offered by VirtualCenter, virtual infrastructure management policies simply continue to run delivering maximum quality of service to end-user applications.