Free online training on the SafeKit high availability software

SafeKit Training

Introduction

1. Overview / pptx

   • Features
   • Architectures
   • Distinctive advantages

2. Competition / pptx

   • Hardware vs software cluster
   • Synchronous vs asynchronous replication
   • File vs disk replication
   • High availability vs fault tolerance
   • Hardware vs software load balancing
   • Virtual machine vs application HA

Installation, Console, CLI

3. Install and setup / pptx

   • Package installation
   • Nodes setup
   • Cluster configuration
   • Upgrade

4. Web console / pptx

   • Cluster configuration
   • Configuration tab
   • Control tab
   • Monitor tab
   • Advanced Configuration tab

5. Command line / pptx

   • Silent installation
   • Cluster administration
   • Module administration
   • Command line interface

Advanced configuration

6. Mirror module / pptx

   • userconfig.xml + restart scripts
   • Heartbeat (<hearbeat>)
   • Virtual IP address (<vip>)
   • Real-time file replication (<rfs>)

7. Farm  module / pptx

   • userconfig.xml + restart scripts
   • Farm configuration (<farm>)
   • Virtual IP address (<vip>)

8. Checkers / pptx

   • Failover machine (<failover>)
   • Process monitoring (<errd>)
   • Network and duplicate IP checkers
   • Custom checker (<custom>)
   • Split brain checker (<splitbrain>)
   • TCP, ping, module checkers

Support

9. Support tools / pptx

   • Analyze snapshots

10. Evidian support / pptx

    • Get permanent license key
    • Register on support.evidian.com
    • Call desk

Documentation

11. Technical documentation

    • Modules
    • User's Guide HTML (PDF)
    • Release notes
    • SRB with supported OS

12. Presales documentation

    • Data sheet
    • Technical overview (docx)

SafeKit: an ideal solution for a partner application

This platform agnostic solution is ideal for a partner with a critical application and who wants to provide a redundancy and high availability option easy to deploy to many customers.

This clustering solution is also recognized as the simplest to implement by our partners.

SafeKit Modules for Plug&Play Redundancy and High Availability Solutions

Advanced clustering architectures

Several modules can be deployed on the same cluster. Thus, advanced clustering architectures can be implemented:

• the farm+mirror cluster built by deploying a farm module and a mirror module on the same cluster,
• the active/active cluster with replication built by deploying several mirror modules on 2 servers,
• the Hyper-V cluster or KVM cluster with real-time replication and failover of full virtual machines between 2 active hypervisors,
• the N-1 cluster built by deploying N mirror modules on N+1 servers.

Demonstrations of Redundancy and High Availability Solutions

SafeKit Webinar

This webinar presents in 2 minutes Evidian SafeKit.

In this webinar, you will understand SafeKit mirror and farm clusters.

Microsoft SQL Server Cluster

This video shows a mirror module configuration with synchronous real-time replication and failover.

The file replication and the failover are configured for Microsoft SQL Server but it works in the same manner for other databases.

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Apache Cluster

This video shows a farm module configuration with load balancing and failover.

The load balancing and the failover are configured for Apache but it works in the same manner for other web services.

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Hyper-V Cluster

This video shows a Hyper-V cluster with full replications of virtual machines.

Virtual machines can run on both Hyper-V servers and they are restarted in case of failure.

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