Workload Flexibility Solution Guide(Uk)
- 1. Double-Take Software - www.doubletake.com or +44 (0) 333 1234 200 WORKLOAD FLEXIBILITY Easily manage IT workloads by running them from an iSCSI SAN With rising server management, call centre support and maintenance costs, managing IT workloads can be a real resource hog. Workload flexibility products from Double-Take® Software can drastically reduce the time and expense of desktop and server provisioning and management, while increasing the level of control that you have over your current infrastructure. Centralised Management netBoot/i™ from Double-Take Software allows shared access to your network storage - reducing the cost of managing workloads, replacing failed drives or restoring drives to their original state. With netBoot/i, any machine can boot different operating system images and change them quickly for other tasks. Quick provisioning ensures that hardware resources are used to their full potential. Server rooms, testing labs, training centres and grid computing applications can switch between boot volumes depending on the task, while desk-side visits become a thing of the past. Deploy Faster Server and desktop deployment is time consuming and expensive. With netBoot/i, volumes can be quickly duplicated using snapshot or cloning features specific to an iSCSI storage vendor. With sanFly™, you can create shared boot volumes that can be provisioned once and assigned to many machines in order to boot from the same volume on the SAN. Easy Compliance Network booting allows every piece of corporate infrastructure to be stored on an iSCSI SAN. iSCSI storage is affordable for small business, and powerful enough to scale for use in big enterprises. netBoot/i can take regular snapshots, copies or even replicate offsite. Bulletproof Desktops netBoot/i can create one unique boot volume per machine or one boot volume shared among multiple machines. Instead of re-imaging a hard drive, a reboot returns the machine to a pristine state. A boot volume can also be shared with each user maintaining a private and persistent write cache so environments can be customised. Simplify Recovery By using the cloning features of the SAN vendor’s software, netBoot/i allows disaster recovery and hard drive replication to be performed with the same tools used for all data management. If a machine fails, it can be directed to boot from a snapshot or copied boot volume on the SAN. Blade-ready netBoot/i enables existing Ethernet NICs on blades to perform diskless boot from iSCSI. Servers can be deployed, provisioned and re-provisioned quickly. Servers gain instant flexibility by separating the operating system and data from the hardware. Low-cost iSCSI Storage sanFly turns any Windows® server into an iSCSI SAN. Set up is just five clicks away and provides shared modes for the iSCSI storage it manages, allowing multiple servers or workstations access to shared volumes. When used with netBoot/i, sanFly lets you rapidly launch and provision virtual and physical servers and desktops for recovery, migration or backup using a combination of traditional host-based technologies and new iSCSI storage- based technologies. SOLUTION OVERVIEW FOR How netBoot/i Works