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 Ipswitch Failover solutions.

Failover and Disaster Recovery (DR) with Ipswitch Failover

For those in need of a failover and/or disaster recovery solution, we recommend Ipswitch Failover. We 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 in another location. This setup provides a second failover solution at another site (given 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 Transfer 8.2 (and later) with Ipswitch Failover in the following test environment:

Machine 1 (Primary):

• MOVEit Transfer 8.2 (and later) with MySQL database (no Web Farms)
• Windows Server 2012
• Two network interface cards (one exclusively for Ipswitch Failover 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 Ipswitch Failover Administrator's Guide for Ipswitch Failover Heartbeat for a description of the Ipswitch Failover setup and step-by-step instructions.

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