Enabling the Always-On Enterprise
SQL Server consolidation and high availability with Melio Enterprise
"SQL server proliferation has forced too many organizations down the ugly path of SQL server sprawl. SQL sprawl exponentially increases DBA operational tasks and management to the breaking point. It's become a waking nightmare. Sanbolic's Melio software relieves that stress by consolidating their SQL ecosystem into something far simpler and more manageable."
- Marc Staimer, President and CDS of Dragon Slayer Consulting.
"Achieving true SQL server consolidation is much more than just virtualized SQL instances. SQL consolidation should also deliver clustering, high availability, and load balancing on top of the newly consolidated footprint. Users that wish to garner the best possible ROI from their SQL environment should look at solutions such as Sanbolic's Melio Enterprise which delivers this functionality embedded in its AppCluster solution."
- Laura DuBois, Program Vice President, Storage Software, IDC.
The Problem
IT organizations have become heavily dependent on SQL across a broad range of applications, and database consolidation has become both a major undertaking and a high priority. Unfortunately, the conventional consolidation and high availability solutions are painful and require significant amount of underutilized hardware and overwhelming management costs.
The Solution
Melio Enterprise consolidates, protects and manages physical and virtual SQL workloads, enabling a more agile, efficient and scalable shared cluster of critical SQL database instances. By creating a centrally managed active-active cluster of SQL data and storage resources, the resulting host-resident solution brings high availability, non-disruptive failover/migration, load balancing and Quality-of-Service (QoS) to a customer's SQL database footprint.
Key Benefits
With Melio Enterprise, customers can efficiently deploy large, flexible, and efficient SQL Server environments beyond what can be achieved with failover clustering or virtual servers alone. Efficiently consolidating expensive database footprint can drive tremendous cost savings on software licenses, reduce hardware footprint and simplify storage management without sacrificing the stability, agility and scalability required by the most mission-critical databases.
Key Features & Enhancements
- Out of the box support for Windows Failover Clustering
- Tight Microsoft Hyper-V integration
- Increased data protection using Microsoft VSS integrated snapshots
- Embedded snapshot and mirroring to create read-only volumes for reporting, and flexible data protection
- Non-disruptive storage live migration for SQL workloads