AlwaysOn Content Server
Continuity of Operations Disaster Recovery High Availability for OpenText Content Server
Syntergy’s AlwaysOn Content Server allows you to implement solutions for Disaster Recovery (DR), High Availability (HA) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) for OpenText Content Server. These strategies can be deployed either “On-Premise” or “IaaS” based infrastructures such as OpenText Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Content Server environments.
Businesses require Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Content Servers that require:
- Content Server to be 100% available during planned and un-planned outages
- Read/Write access to the secondary Content Servers when the primary server is not available
- Content Server data needs to exist in a different geography or multiple geographies for extra resiliency and risk management
- Content Server needs to be easily testable for DR audits without impacting the production system
- Very short Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) e.g. less than hour or even down to minutes.
This is now a dilemma for the IT departments and in many organizations they are not meeting their defined SLAs and COOP requirements, impacting businesses in the areas of – loss of revenue, compliance, risk management and time consuming or failed DR/Audit exercises.
Industry “experts” continue to recommend the traditional out-of-the-box (OOTB) methods or “Active/Passive” solutions which are either Windows Server or database based (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle) and not Content Server architecture based. There are limitations with these approaches and they are not meeting most organizations Content Server SLAs.IT Departments are now demanding and implementing application-layer replication technologies such as Syntergy’s AlwaysOn Content Server to achieve their SLA goals.
AlwaysOn Content Server Use Cases
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7x24x365 “Always-On” Content Servers
Active/Active Disaster Recovery Data Centers
Service Level Agreement with very low RTO and RPO requirements
Read/Write (Synchronous) DR Content Servers over a wide area network with network bandwidth and latency limitations
Multiple Standby “Always-On” Content Servers
Hot backup and failover solutions for Content Server
Key Benefits
Why Teams love AlwaysOn Content Server
Continuity of Operations Disaster Recovery High Availability for OpenText Content Server
No single point of catastrophic failure for Content Server
Maintain very high up-times, always-on solutions for Content Server
Minutes to zero RTO and RPO – Continuous replication of content
Mission-critical content will continue to be available to the users during planned and unplanned outages
Implement multiple standby, geographically dispersed Content Servers
Implement Active-Active solutions for Content Servers – Users are active on two or more Content Servers
Perform Audits/DR compliance exercises without impacting production servers.
Perform rolling upgrades on production servers with no disruptions to the users.
Selectively replicate content that requires to be available 7X24X365
Hot/Live during recovery - Data is incrementally transferred back to production server from DR server after a failover -Read/Write operations are supported on DR server
Heterogeneous setup – Content Server architecture does not have to be identical
Back up database content and documents (blobs) that are in the External File System (EFS) at the same time
Do You...
- Want to avoid a single point of catastrophic failure for Content Server?
- Need very high up-times for Content Server – it's so business-critical it can never go down?
- Need to implement Service Level Agreement for Content Server that requires a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) to be in minutes to zero?
- Need to deploy multiple standby Content Servers for extra resiliency in multiple geographies?
- Need to implement a hot backup and failover solution for Content Server environments?
- Need to implement an “Active-Active”, “7x24x365” Content Server availability?
- Need to deploy a Content Server DR/High Availability instance to data center over a WAN with Read/Write Capability (Synchronous Mode)?
- Need to deploy a DR Content Server that is easily testable for Audits/DR exercises without impacting the production server?
- Need to perform rolling upgrades on production server (patching Windows, SQL, Content Server) while users are accessing secondary server for “Continuity of Operations”.
- Need to implement selective Service Level Agreement for content in Content Server?
If yes, is Content server is for you.
Specifications
Component | Requirement |
|---|---|
Browsers | All standard browsers |
Servers | Livelink Version 9.x and Content Server® 10.x, 16.x, 2X.x on UNIX® and Windows® |
Databases | 1. Oracle 2. SQL Server 3. SAP Hana 4. PostgreSQL |
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