Symantec Updates Cluster Server

January 22nd, 2007: Symantec has heralded the release of its Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 for VMware ESX, boasting advanced monitoring capabilities for applications running within virtual machines and automated failover for local and remote sites.

In the event of a disaster, Symantec claims that Cluster Server provides a higher level of application availability than what is possible with existing manual recovery methods. It also claims that the software improves server resource utilisation across data centres and helps prevent downtime associated with application, virtual machine, network link, or server failures.

Symantec also says that Cluster Server can help maintain availability for a single data centre or multiple data centres across a campus, metropolitan or wide area network (WAN).

Overall, Symantec says Cluster Server offers:

• Server, application and resource monitoring for high levels of availability
• Automatic recovery from application, network storage, virtual resource, virtual server, and physical server failures
• And centralised management of virtual and physical clustered servers from a single console

Comprehensive protection from wide area disasters by integrating disaster recovery plan verification tools, remote application failover features and real-time data replication to enable organisations to test disaster recovery without disrupting production environments.

"Customers who are building out virtual server farms look to Symantec for the same disaster recovery capabilities they have relied on to maximise availability in traditional server environments," says Dan Lamorena, senior manager of product marketing for Symantec's Data Center Management Group. "Veritas Cluster Server for VMware ESX helps organisations reduce the complexity of managing server and application real estate to ensure availability of business-critical applications."

Veritas Cluster Server for VMware ESX is available now with prices starting at $1,995 per server.

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