upSuite High Availability (HA) Middleware
Targeting the high availability needs of revenue-generating telecommunications applications, upSuite provides the ideal middleware solution for TEMs seeking transparency and ease of use for mission-critical servers and databases. Customers worldwide choose upSuite to ensure successful deployment of carrier-grade wireless and voice-over-packet applications ranging from MSCs and SGSNs to softswitches and media gateways.
upSuite is an award-winning middleware product that instantly provides high availability for any application or server. Real time data replication at the file-system level enables upSuite to provide rapid failover and recovery. upSuite detects critical software, hardware, or network failures and enables sub-second failover to a standby server. A key distinguishing feature is that upSuite can provide these services transparently to the application and operating system; no Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are necessary.
upSuite provides high availability for UFS (Solaris) and EXT2/EXT3 (Linux) local file systems or NFS server network file systems. NFS clients have uninterrupted access to NFS data during failover. Other high availability middleware products rely on shared-storage or block-level replication, which have distinct disadvantages. In contrast, the upSuite Shared Nothing Architecture - based on redundant systems, networks, and storage - contains no single point of failure.
Coupled with Continuous Computing's complete family of FlexTCA hardware and Trillium protocol software solutions, upSuite provides the fastest path from application development to deployment revenue. From IP media servers to 3G network nodes, upSuite is the high availability middleware of choice for deploying a wide range of high performance and scalable telecom applications.
Features and Benefits
Key Features
- 99.999% application and data availability
- Sub-second failure detection and failover
- Efficient application-transparent failover
- Efficient repair and replay recovery
- Minimal use of CPU and bandwidth
- Installs in minutes, works with Solaris and Linux
- No special training required to use, maintain, or support
- Lowest total cost of ownership
- Simple Shared Nothing Architecture
- Application continuity and data persistence simple and ensured
Applications Include
- Telecom Servers
- Web/Mail Servers
- Network & Element Management Servers
- Any Oracle or Database Servers
- Any Mission-Critical Data-Driven Application
Specifications
Features & Benefits
- Simple to implement and manage
- Provides HA capabilities to new and existing applications
- Transparent disk data replication. No APIs required, no recompiling
- Transparent failure detection and application failover. No APIs required, no recompiling
- Sub-second failover due to critical hardware, software, or network failure.
- Efficient replay, repair, and recovery during outages while application continues to run
- Enables lower hardware costs for high-availability applications. No expensive external disk subsystems or proprietary hardware
- For larger storage needs, use single-ported, single-controller disk subsystems instead of expensive and vulnerable dual-ported, dual-controller disk subsystems
- Runs on TCP/IP LAN
- Works with any database or UFS (Solaris) and EXT2/EXT3 (Linux) local file system
- Works with NFS server network file systems
- Transparent failover, no stale file handles (NFS server)
- Tunable heartbeats control failover
- Active/Standby supports heterogeneous hardware
- Transparent failover for NFS clients with no data loss or interruption of service
upSuite Modules
- upBeat
- Hardware failure detection
(IP Heartbeat, SCSI Heartbeat)
- Storage failure detection
(IP Heartbeat, SCSI Heartbeat)
- Network failure detection
(IP Heartbeat, SCSI Heartbeat)
- Application failure detection
(Transparent wrapper and API)
- API for status and control - upDisk
- Transparent synchronous disk data replication at the file-system level
- Recovery functions (replay & repair) to synchronize disk data of downed servers - ubManager
- Integrates non-HA aware applications into the upSuite HA framework - Supporting Architecture and OS
- Sun Sparc / Solaris 8, 9, and 10
- Intel x86 / Solaris 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
Administrative Value-Add
- Instant high availability for any application including Oracle databases, web servers, mail servers
- Eliminates downtime from hardware, software, or network failures
- Remarkably easy to install, use, and maintain
Technical Value-Add
- Ensures highest level of data/application availability
- Ensures end-user performance expectations
- Reduces capital expenses for unnecessary hardware and software
- Increases operational efficiencies
Financial Value-Add
- Dramatically reduces operating expenses for personnel required to maintain hardware, application, and network systems
- Avoids and eliminates costs associated with downtime and lost productivity
- Increases productivity with fewer people
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