High Availability, Failover and Disaster Recovery

High Availability (HA) with Web Farms

The Web Farms feature of MOVEit is a good choice when you need a high availability environment, as you can add servers for to add capability. A Web Farm shares a common database and file store among nodes and provides increased availability by scaling the system to increase its capacity.

For more information see Web Farms in this guide. Note that the Web Farm solution is not currently qualified to work with the Neverfail solutions.

Failover and Disaster Recovery (DR) with Neverfail

For those in need of a failover and/or disaster recovery solution, we recommend our partner Neverfail. Neverfail consultants can work with you to configure three basic scenarios:

• Local failover using a primary and secondary server. This setup enables a redundant local system with complete replication of the local database and file store for failover to secondary node. It offers increased system availability, but not increased capacity.

  

• Remote Disaster Recovery (DR) by adding a tertiary server via WAN links. This setup adds a third redundant server on a WAN node that provides failover in the event the local network that houses the primary and secondary servers fails.

  

• Remote Disaster Recovery. This setup enables a redundant server on a WAN node that provides failover in the event the primary server fails.

  

We have tested the above scenarios using MOVEit DMZ 8.1 with Neverfail in the following test environment:

Machine 1 (Primary):

• MOVEit DMZ 8.1 with MySQL database (no Web Farms)
• Windows Server 2012
• Two network interface cards (one exclusively for Neverfail Heartbeat)

Machine 2 (secondary) on the local network and Machine 3 (Tertiary) on a remote network must have the same specifications as machine 1.

Refer to the Administrator's Guide for Neverfail Heartbeat for a description of the Neverfail setup and step-by-step instructions.

Neverfail consultants can help you configure MOVEit in these failover and disaster recovery scenarios.