Recovery can include restarting the application within the same virtual machine, migrating the application to a virtual machine on the same server, migrating it to a virtual machine on a different server or performing failover to a physical server.
The software can run within either a Linux or Windows guest operating system, and according to the company, LifeKeeper monitors applications and all of their dependencies including file systems, device drivers, IP addresses and data connections to ensure that any failure is automatically detected and recovered.
SteelEye Protection Suite is said to complement the high availability technologies that are already built into VI3 (VMware HA and VMware Consolidated Backup) by delivering advanced data replication and high availability clustering technologies to monitor and automatically recover any piece of the VI3 environment.įor example, while VMware HA protects virtual machines from hardware failures, SteelEye LifeKeeper provides protection against operating system and application failures within the virtual machines. The product is called SteelEye Protection Suite for VMware Infrastructure 3, and the company describes it as breakthrough technology which supports clustering together physical and virtual servers for high availability, continuous data protection and disaster recovery.
SteelEye Technology recently announced their latest product designed to increase the availability and data protection of virtual machines in a VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) environment.