Neverfail and VMware a heartbeat apart
Neverfail and VMware a heartbeat apart
March 3, 2009: Disaster recovery company Neverfail has announced a new OEM license agreement with VMware.
The deal incorporates Neverfail's continuous availability technology and application management framework (AMF) software into the new VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat, a new VMware product that monitors and manages the automatic failover of VMware vCenter Server.
Proactive protection against planned and unplanned downtime for VMware vCenter Server is the promise of this OEM agreement. VMware has extended its ability to protect VMware vCenter Server against a broad range of downtime risks by replicating the server configuration and data to a passive standby server.
It monitors VMware vCenter Server connectivity and components, including the license server and VMware Update Manager, and can restart the entire VMware vCenter Server instance on the passive server.
In January 2008 Neverfail introduced Neverfail for VMware VirtualCenter (now called VMware vCenter Server) which has seen a growing level of interest and use by blue-chip organizations. The same technology behind Neverfail for VirtualCenter forms the basis of VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat.
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat will be available in March 2009. It will be available directly through VMware reseller and distribution channels and supported directly by VMware.