Video Management Software (VMS) collects and records camera video and provides an interface for operators to view live and recorded video.
Video management software increases life safety, reduces theft and improves security officers efficiency.
Why a VMS software is critical?
Video Management Software (VMS) records all criminal acts, from theft to murder, and provides a means to track criminals.
The safety of people is directly associated with the proper execution of the VMS software.
And that's why the system must always be available to security officers who must react immediately to the slightest incident.
Key players list in VMS
The key players in VMS are:
Genetec (Canada)
Milestone (Denmark)
Hikvision (China)
Dahua (China)
Motorola (Avigilon) (Canada)
Johnson Controls (Ireland)
Tiandy (China)
Eagle Eye Networks (US)
ISS (US)
Teledyne Flir (US)
SafeKit brings two solutions for redundancy and high availability of a VMS software
Redundancy and high availability at the application level
In this type of solution, only application data are replicated. And only the application is restared in case of failure.
This solution requires a technical understanding of the application. You need to define which services to restart, specify the application folders to replicate, and configure a virtual IP address for failover. But this solution is platform agnostic and works with applications inside physical machines, virtual machines, in the Cloud. Any hypervisor is supported (VMware, Hyper-V...).
New application (define services to restart, application folders to replicate, a virtual IP address for failover): Windows, Linux
Redundancy and high availability at the virtual machine level
In this type of solution, the VMS software is put inside a virtual machine. The full Virtual Machine (VM) is replicated and restarted (Application + OS).
The advantage of this solution is that it does not require a technical understanding of the application; you only need to define the location of the VM files where the application is installed. This solution is generic for any VMS software. However, it works only with Windows/Hyper-V and Linux/KVM, but not with VMware. This is an active/active solution with several virtual machines replicated and restarted between two nodes.
