HPE Serviceguard for Linux is hybrid cloud-ready on Azure Marketplace

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Moving workloads to the cloud has advantages, but downtime still exists and critical workloads need high availability. Learn how HPE Serviceguard, now available in Microsoft Azure, solves key challenges.  

Businesses are moving more workloads to the cloud, and hybrid cloud has a strategic role to play. Hybrid clouds integrate resources across the data center, at the edge and in the public cloud. And this helps support requirements spanning data sovereignty, data integrity, regulatory compliance, financial management, and operational excellence.[i]

There are further reasons why businesses are building hybrid multi-cloud strategies. A recent IDC survey shows current investments are driven by IT modernization (38% of respondents), automation (38%) and data protection (37%), as well as business continuity and disaster recovery (20%). Hybrid cloud is also enabling businesses to access public cloud benefits, such as flexible consumption and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions.[ii]

However, while cloud can simplify IT management and even hand the burden over to a cloud provider, it doesn’t mean the end of downtime — and so, critical workloads running in the cloud still need to be protected by high availability and disaster recovery solutions.

The costs of downtime for critical workloads can be huge, and may include loss of revenue, reputation damage, and fines from regulators. As an example, a 2021 outage of AWS EC2 compute regions in the U.S. impacted nearly one third of all cloud infrastructure services.[iii]

The question is, then, how can you reap the advantages of moving critical workloads to the cloud, while ensuring they are highly available and protected against disaster?

Choosing a Linux high availability solution

As you’d expect, there are various options on the market. Some are provided as open source software. Some are available as optional components of the SUSE and Red Hat ecosystems.

At HPE we’ve been evolving our own Linux solution, HPE Serviceguard for Linux (SGLX), for more than 20 years. It delivers fully automated, proven HA and DR solutions that maximize uptime for critical workloads, whether they are running on physical x86 or virtualized Linux environments, on premises, cloud and in hybrid cloud deployments. And SGLX can be deployed on any HPE x86 server, any hypervisor, and any kind of storage.

With SGLX you can:

• Maximize application uptime – Through robust monitoring, accurate fault detection, self-tuning controls, application context awareness and advanced features that help shorten planned downtime for maintenance.
• Automate and speed recovery – From a wide range of outages – covering the full stack from server to application, and without human intervention.
• Achieve zero RPO and near-zero RTO for workloads – Reducing or eliminating the business impacts of disaster events.
• Assure data integrity – Under any failover scenario, thanks to unique and proven algorithms.

SGLX targets critical workloads in the data management and data analytics space, including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2 and EDB Postgres, NFS, open source databases and more, with out-of-the-box, application-aware solutions. You can also protect custom applications with ease.

And given the high cost of downtime, an investment in SGLX typically pays for itself after preventing a single downtime event. Read our blogs on recent SGLX innovations and how SGLX was tested in space for more details.

HPE Serviceguard for Linux is now available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

SGLX has continuously evolved with our customers’ changing needs – and with so many businesses now making the journey to hybrid cloud, SGLX has adapted once again. The solution is now available on the Microsoft Azure cloud marketplace as a VM (virtual machine) extension, which makes it:

• Easy to install with an automated process that significantly reduces the effort and time required.
• Easy to include SGLX with a new VM deployment or any of your existing VMs.
• Easier to install and configure Quorum Server, which is required for SGLX cluster arbitration, on Azure VM.

The SGLX VM extension is available in all regions of the Microsoft Azure Marketplace (with the exception HPE-embargoed and sanctioned countries). 

Learn more and get started with SGLX on Azure

As businesses like yours continue to take advantage of hybrid multi-cloud, SGLX will continue to evolve to support this journey.

To learn more about SGLX for Azure and other critical, data-intensive workloads, click below:

• Go to the Azure Portal, navigate to a Virtual machine, then Settings > Extensions > Add and search for “HPE Serviceguard.” For all the details, check this page.
• Request a quote from HPE sales
• Download the HPE Serviceguard for Linux brochure
• Visit the HPE Serviceguard for Linux page

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Meet Compute Experts blogger Diana Cortes, HPE Marketing Manager, Data Solutions

Diana has spent the past 24 years working with the technologies that power the world’s most demanding IT environments and is interested in how solutions based on those technologies impact the business. A native from Colombia, Diana holds an MBA from Georgetown University and has held a variety of regional and global roles with HPE in the U.S., the U.K. and Sweden. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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[i] IDC (2022, April). Managed Cloud Services: Architecting the Optimal Hybrid Cloud. IDC #US49026822.

[ii] IDC IT Infrastructure Survey Q4 2021

[iii] Synergy Research Group (2021, July). Quarterly Cloud Market report.