As hybrid cloud deployment becomes the norm for critical applications, HPE Serviceguard for Linux has evolved to meet new challenges with new simplified editions, hybrid capabilities, interface, and more.
As you accelerate towards running hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, HPE is adapting the solutions you depend on to work seamlessly and make life easier in the cloud. That’s why HPE Serviceguard for Linux (SGLX) is undergoing a big transformation – one we think you’re going to like.
The latest SGLX is simplified with two new editions and a redesigned interface. It has a new, per-core or per-vCPU licensing model that’s a perfect fit for cloud. And we’ve made it easy to move your high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) workloads between on-premises and cloud environments.
In this post, learn all about what’s changed and how new SGLX features can solve some of your biggest DR challenges.
Supporting a more efficient move to hybrid environments
The move to hybrid deployments continues to accelerate. According to a November 2022 survey of 1,700 IT decision makers by analysts IDC, 78% of applications are expected to be deployed in a private cloud or off premises by 2024.1
The same survey finds more companies are seeking trusted cloud sources as they navigate uncertain times.2
What hasn’t changed is that avoiding downtime is paramount, wherever your critical applications live. Outages are costly and cause significant losses in revenue, not to mention the more difficult to measure but equally, if not more significant, negative impact to business reputation. Research by the Uptime Institute finds that more than 60% of failures result in $100,000 USD in losses, while 15% of outages cost businesses more than $1 million USD.3 And this costly downtime can happen in any deployment model.
All this speaks to the challenges faced by organizations needing to maintain high availability for critical environments. Many of these want to move their DR sites to the cloud, to eliminate the growing cost of managing a dedicated, physical DR site.
Organizations with hybrid critical workloads — spanning on-premises and cloud, or moving between the two — also want HA and DR solutions that are compatible with all of their deployments. Solutions sometimes include a primary site on premises and a DR site in the cloud, but this set up can be complex and expensive.
How can you take a truly hybrid approach to HA and DR, while meeting broader efficiency goals as you tackle rising costs?
SGLX extends to the cloud
HPE Serviceguard for Linux, our high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) clustering solution for critical environments, has advanced to meet these needs. The solution is supported as BYOL on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and now on Google Cloud Platform, providing HA for workloads deployed with shared-nothing architectures. It can also deliver HA and DR across public cloud regions and availability zones for these providers.
We’ve previously shared news about SGLX’s availability on the Microsoft Azure cloud marketplace as a virtual machine (VM) extension. This extension is easy to install with a fast and automated process, easy use with virtual machines (VMs) deployed in the cloud, and available via a bring-your-own-license model.
Simplified with two new editions
Now, SGLX is evolving again. From January 2023, the solution is available in two simple new editions that replace previous offerings.
HPE Serviceguard for Linux High Availability E5 Edition is for customers who need a high availability solution. If you want to protect applications against downtime, and you have a single target replication and/or shared storage, this is the edition for you.
HPE Serviceguard for Linux High Availability (HA) + Disaster Recovery (DR) E7 Edition is for customers who want automated disaster recovery capabilities, in addition to all of the features in the HA E5 Edition. With this edition, you can configure automated recovery for your nearby DR site, and a push-button recovery for a remote DR site. If you have multiple target replications, or deployments that need DR capabilities across on-premises, cloud, and/or HPE GreenLake environments, this is the edition you should choose.
A range of optional add-ons provides out-of-the-box fully integrated solutions for specific applications and architectures:
New capabilities for customers adopting cloud, hybrid, and SaaS
If yours is one of the many organizations moving applications to cloud and adopting hybrid cloud infrastructure, SGLX has new capabilities to help you protect these environments.
With new workload mobility capability, you can perform push-button disaster recovery and user-controlled mobility of Oracle workloads4 from on-premises environments to cloud or HPE GreenLake, and vice versa.
New DR rehearsal capability allows you to test the DR readiness of your critical workload deployments on a regular basis, starting with Oracle workloads deployed with Oracle Data Guard. DR rehearsal allows you to simulate a DR operation without performing a real DR failover. The DR rehearsal and workload mobility capabilities will support more workload types as SGLX continues to evolve.
You can simplify management with an enhanced, workload-centric GUI that provides a single-pane view of the information you need. This includes info on the health of workloads (such as SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, and others), data replication, and the health of nodes hosting your workloads.
Zerto integration allows you to make migrating critical workloads to the cloud easier. Zerto is a simple and scalable solution for cloud mobility, and you can use it with SGLX to seamlessly migrate critical workloads – along with their data from on-premises environments — to cloud DR in a VMware environment.
Try the new SGLX and learn more
With new support for hybrid cloud deployments, in addition to its proven fast failover with full data integrity and seamless integration with critical apps, SGLX is a better way to say “no” to downtime than ever before.
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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. Connect with Diana on LinkedIn.
[1] Workload mobility for other applications available via CLI now. Planned availability via GUI during 1H CY’23
[2] IDC (2022, September). Cloud Pulse Survey
[3] IDC (2022, November). IDC Cloud Pulse 3Q21 Executive Summary (digital presentation)
[4] The Uptime Institute (2021). Global Survey of IT and Data Center Managers
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