Jan 26, 2011 marathon technologies specialises in fault tolerant systems and claims its latest everrun mx is the worlds first software product to provide full protection for smp and multicore aware windows. The everrun mx ft clustering software for virtual machines comes in two flavors, and rather than pricing them based on features, marathon is pricing them based on the size of the company. Marathon this week started shipping a new version of its everrun mx server fault tolerant software featuring integration. A competitive product from marathon technologies, called everrun mx, embedded clustering, fault tolerance, and data replication inside the. Many organizations look to minimize system downtime. Stratus technologies everrun extend disaster recovery. Data sheet 1 stratus everrun mx is a unique downtime prevention software solution that ensures continuous availability for windows applications on standard intel servers. Microsoft, marathon team on windows server, hyperv fault.
Stratus runs marathon after highavailability server rival gobble. Stratus technologies everrun and splitsite provide a highavailability, fault tolerant business continuity solution for ccure systems. Marathon adds suspenders to virty server belts the register. Document lab exercise everrun mx snapshots author date. The purchase of marathon will allow stratus to offer a more sophisticated faulttolerant software package with everrun mx. Marathon technologies ratchets up availability with everrun mx. In late 2010, marathon released everrun mx, the industrys first softwarebased fault tolerant solution for symmetric multiprocessing smp and multicore. It takes over synchronizing, monitoring and recovering from problems in the physical and virtual environment to prevent downtime of your applications. Marathon everrun mx is the worlds first softwarebased, fault tolerance solution that supports both multicoremultiprocessor microsoft applications. Unlike avance, everrun can offer true fault tolerance, namely the ability. With everrun mx, all your microsoft applications can have fault tolerant protection for a cost that is lower than todays recoverybased, high availability solutions. Fault tolerance, according to marathon, eliminates risks associated with restarts of systems and of virtual machines and data recovery.
It combines the physical resources of two standard windows servers into a single operating environment with complete redundancy of all underlying hardware and data. Marathon beats vmware to the smp faulttolerance punch marathon s everrun mx is the first to provide an affordable, software based fault tolerance solution for multicore and smp servers and. Marathon since 2012, acquired by stratus everrun system adds a software layer on top on standard intel servers. Stratus technologies everrun extend disaster recovery solution. Marathon s everrun mx has splitsite capabilities that allow a faulttolerant pair to be lashed through a wan link and be as far as 100 miles apart, but asynchronous replication allows for a. In late 2010, marathon released everrun mx, the industrys first software based fault tolerant solution for symmetric multiprocessing smp and multicore servers and applications. Marathon s first generation everrun 2g was introduced about two years ago and it supported a single processor. Everrun software add embedded clustering, fault tolerance, and data replication to xenserver linuxbased hypervisor. Oct 04, 2010 marathon claims that everrun mx is the industrys first software based fault tolerant solution for smp and multicore servers and applications. Stratus acquires competing ha software provider marathon cio. Most of the processors considered in an everrun mx configuration will be multi. Read on for more detail on everrun enterprise vs express. Activating and configuring snmp three software applications are required for the everrun. Stratus technologies acquires marathon technologies.
Run the executable to unzip the file which includes the upgrade files and instructions on how to upgrade. Stratus acquires competing ha software provider marathon. Getting its hands on everrun mx is one of the reasons why stratus acquired marathon for an undisclosed sum in september 2012. Marathon combines dr, fault tolerance for smp servers. Marathon technologies specialises in fault tolerant systems and claims its latest everrun mx is the worlds first software product to provide full protection for smp and multicore aware windows. Marathon recently released everrun mx, which provides a flexible offering to deliver ft workloads on commodity hardware. The two are collaborating to ensure marathon s everrun faulttolerant software works with windows server and hyperv server. A competitive product from marathon technologies, called everrun mx, embedded clustering, fault tolerance, and data replication inside the xenserver, too, and offered higher availability than avance. Marathon recently released everrun mx, which provides a flexible. Microsoft, marathon team on windows server, hyperv fault tolerance. Author date this labexercise demonstrates snapshotusage in everrun mx 6.
Nov 23, 2011 this is a demo of marathon technologies everrun mx. Marathon s new everrun mx raises the bar for systemlevel fault tolerant servers and supports multicore and smpcapable applications too. Faulttolerant options expand with everrun mx virtualization. From the everrun mx console you select a vm and simply follow the protection wizard which. Stratus technologies everrun and splitsite redundancy platforms. Marathon looks to broaden fault tolerant computing. Marathon technologies has announced the introduction of marathon everrun mx express a new competitivelypriced availability solution that provides broader and simpler implementation options. Unlike the competing softwarebased fault tolerant solutions marathons everrun mx supports multiple servers and multiple processors. Jan 26, 2011 marathons new everrun mx raises the bar for systemlevel fault tolerant servers and supports multicore and smpcapable applications too. Some workloads simply cant be seen to fail or slow down because the results would be disastrous. Sep 24, 2012 as is the case with the avance virtual server clustering and ha product from stratus, the everrun mx product from marathon buried clustering, replication, and faulttolerance software inside the. Ive been meeting to post something on the announcement of marathon technologies everrun 2g and everrun vm lockstep.
Marathon enhances server fault tolerance with new everrun mx. Marathon extends fault tolerance to remote site or cloud. Marathon everrun mx 2 stratus everrun mx software do you dream of alwayson application. Using the url provided during the install process, open the everrun availability center eac management gui. Marathon everrun mx, splitsite 12 months maintenance mmxsite0 1.
Use everrun to rapidly and cost effectively deliver the levels of. Stratus technologies everrun extend provides a disaster recovery, business continuity solution for ccure systems. Marathon s new software lets customers stack workloads in a virtualized way to provide multiple workloads on that same platform, welch said. Back when i worked in the supply chain software industry, i used the.
Extend is a valuable solution in stratus product family, giving you the advantage of having your system down for mere minutes or hours vs. This is a demo of marathon technologies everrun mx. This solution is the worlds first softwarebased, faulttolerant solution that supports single and symmetric multiprocessor and multicore microsoft applications. The attached text file has the procedure and lists the. In late 2010, marathon released everrun mx, the industrys first softwarebased fault tolerant solution for symmetric multiprocessing smp and multicore servers and applications. Marathon technologies has been working on creating a fault tolerant environment based upon standard, offtheshelf systems for quite some time. Marathon everrun ft is a faulttolerant solution designed for the windows 2003 and intel platform. Nov 02, 2010 on the heels of shipping its everrun mx software for fault tolerance and high availability for symmetrical multiprocessing smp and multicore cpu servers, marathon technologies today announced everrun mx extend, which integrates cas arcserve replication technology with everrun mx for disaster recovery.
Quickly transform your applications into continuously available solutions with customized application availability, accelerating time to revenue a highly versatile, yet affordable continuously available software solution, everrun combined with industry standard x86 systems quickly and easily protects your virtualized workloads and data. Marathon this week started shipping its new everrun mx fault tolerant software, which ties two standard windows servers into a single. A message from stratus ceo dave laurello about the covid19 virus. This generation of everrun mx supports two, four or eight physical processors. Marathon technologies is headquartered in littleton, ma, united states with additional. A highly versatile, yet affordable continuously available software solution, everrun combined with industry standard x86 systems quickly and easily protects your virtualized workloads and data. Availability is a term associated with the measurement of an applications uptime or downtime and is defined as the percentage of time in a given time span for instance, a year that your applications are operational and accessible to users. We call this technology everrun availability services. Author date arvid kuipers raxco software march 28, 2011 revisions. Two servers are linked via a virtualization platform that pairs protected virtual machines together to create a single operating environment. Apr 30, 2009 ive been meeting to post something on the announcement of marathon technologies everrun 2g and everrun vm lockstep. Oct 05, 2010 marathon technologies has been working on creating a fault tolerant environment based upon standard, offtheshelf systems for quite some time. Ive spoken the the good folks of marathon on many ocassions in the past see.
The component manager allows the application to look at the hardware across all platforms as a single. This solution is the worlds first softwarebased, faulttolerant solution that. The attached text file has the procedure and lists the issues that were resolved in all hotfixes, 1 through 9. May 24, 2012 marathon technologies achieved certified partner status with invensys operations management. Oct 11, 2010 the everrun mx software presents a single operating environment with one ip address and one mac address to the outside world, which means end users dont have to change anything in terms of. Here youll find documentation, product downloads, and drivers and tools for stratus everrun mx. Marathon achieves invensys certified partner product status.
Use everrun to rapidly and cost effectively deliver the levels of continuous availability you need, when and where you need them. The everrun snmp extension agent allows monitoring on a perpvm basis. To learn more about marathon technologies everrun fault tolerance software. With everrun installed, the administrator uses a wizardbased gui to simply select and protect a vm.
Marathon extends fault tolerance to remote site or cloud with arcserve. Marathon technologies is headquartered in littleton, ma, united states with additional offices in the united states, europe and asia. Description workaroundcomment id installation of the everrun software on iscsi storage repositories sr is not supported in this version of everrun. Hochverfugbarkeitslosungen marathon technologies ubernommen.
Stratus technologies everrun and splitsite redundancy. Marathon technologies everrun 2g and everrun vm lockstep. Unlike traditional high availability products and clustering solutions, everrun mx express can withstand server component failures. Sep 24, 2012 the addition of the marathon everrun line, including marathon everrun mx, the worlds first softwarebased, fault tolerant solution to support multicoremultiprocessor microsoft applications. The software requirements for everrun mx are listed below. Marathon everrun mx is a full fault tolerance to multiprocessor applications. Stratus technologies everrun extend disaster recovery solution stratus technologies everrun extend provides a disaster recovery, business continuity solution for ccure systems.
Marathon technologies specialises in fault tolerant systems and claims its latest everrun mx is the worlds first software product to provide full protection for. Using patented virtualization technology, marathon everrun ft delivers the industrys highest levels of availability for your servers and applications. Marathon expanded fault tolerance and disaster recovery for supervisory control applications in a virtualized environment by certifying archestra system platform 2012 and wonderware intouch 2012 software on everrun mx. The everrun software must be installed onto an existing citrix xenserver virtualization. Marathon beats vmware to the smp faulttolerance punch. This chapter contains instructions for configuring the software required to implement the everrun snmp reporting service.
Stratus moves fault tolerance from hardware to software. Install the everrun software onto each xenserver host in the pool. A single central processor unit that provides a full set of processor resources to run a software thread of execution. One or more cores may reside within a physical processor chip package. When systems are down, security monitoring operations stop and this can have a huge impact on a companys employees and assets. Stratus merges everrun mx and avance ha to create continous processing powerhouse.
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