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Flexibility

1. Scalable Clustering Solution across LAN and WAN environments

EXPRESSCLUSTER is a scalable High Availability (HA) clustering solution. It can cluster up to 32 nodes at a single location (LAN) as well as at different locations across geographies (WAN ). It makes EXPRESSCLUSTER an integrated High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution. It can readily scale to meet the needs of both small businesses and large enterprises.

Up to 32 nodes support

2. HA clustering in complex environments of physical and virtual servers

EXPRESSCLUSTER can be configured to cluster physical servers, virtual servers or even a mix of few physical and few virtual servers in complex configurations like active-standby, active-active and M active N standby. This flexibility and support for multiple environments enables organizations to best utilize their current IT infrastructure and derive cost benefits from server consolidation and virtualization.

Active-Standby / Active-Active

M active-N standby

3. Bread Application Support

EXPRESSCLUSTER can protect virtually all application/database running on Windows or Linux platforms. It has been tested with standard enterprise applications like Oracle database, MS SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Sendmail, MS Exchange, Star Office, Weblogic and Webshere to name a few.

4. Unified web based GUI for easy management and configuration

EXPRESSCLUSTER’s unified web based GUI enables administrators to remotely control, monitor and configure all Windows and Linux clusters from a single screen. This unified web GUI simplifies administrative tasks by allowing configuration changes from any computer. All cluster server can be configured from a single management console making configuration a quick and simple process.

EXPRESSCLUSTER supports various types of environments.

Database Servers Microsoft SQL Server,
Oracl DB, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Email Servers Microsoft Exchange, Sendmail, Lotus Domino
Virtualization Platforms VMware Server/ESX,
Microsoft Virtual Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen
Operating Systems Windows, Linux (Novell,
SUSE and Red Hat)
Application Servers WebLogic, WebSphere,
JRun4, JBoss, OracleAS
Web Servers Microsoft IIS, Apache, Tomcat

5. Notification method

EXPRESSCLUSTER can immediately alert about system state and failure by SMS, e-mail or warning light. This keeps administrators updated about system status and enables them to quickly take corrective action in case of a failure.

Alert lamp and SMS

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