Enabling the Always-On Enterprise
SQL Server High Availability
"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
The challenge with SQL Server high availability solutions is that current approaches to clustering are overly complex, requiring coordination across disparate layers of applications, data and storage infrastructure.
The Solution
Melio consolidates physical and virtual SQL instances into a centralized data management platform, providing active-active access to the entire SQL infrastructure. This approach greatly simplifies the task of ensuring application availability, while providing additional snapshot and mirroring capability to protect against storage failure. Melio also embeds features such as synchronous and asynchronous mirroring, cluster wide VSS snapshots and, database level QoS to ensure enhanced configurability of SQL Server high availability and performance.
Key Benefits
By consolidating the the storage layer up into a centralized data management platform Melio can bridge the lack of coordination between the virtualized server instances and the back-end data store. Managed from within a single framework, the resulting infrastructure is more centrzlized and flexible, allowing for greater levels of server and storage consolidation and increased performance and SQL Server high availability.