What’s new with HP Serviceguard Solutions

April 16, 2009: announcing Serviceguard Solutions based on Serviceguard A.11.19

HP Serviceguard Solutions for High Availability and Disaster Tolerance are part of the HP Virtual Server Environment and provide transparent recovery to rapidly and automatically restore service availability after a failure.

The new release of Serviceguard Solutions for Serviceguard A.11.19 includes the following new capabilities for physical and virtualized environments on HP-UX 11i:

• Full IPv6 and mixed IPv4/IPv6 compliance
• Faster and more comprehensive network recovery
• 83% faster failover that doesn’t slow down even as the cluster grows
• Workload balancing integrated into Serviceguard
• Metrocluster support for:
• SONET interconnects
• new licensing models to make disaster recovery affordable for smaller environments
• Support for XP Thin Provisioning storage virtualization to drastically reduce TCO and downtime at the same time.
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit now includes three new toolkits for IBM DB2, Sybase ASE and MySQL Server and allows you to deploy Oracle database into a cluster 8x faster with more flexible storage management options
• The first and only production-proven high availability for SAP liveCache—endorsed by SAP
• 100% of the most common actions performed on a cluster can now be done while the cluster is running
• Online storage changes with Serviceguard Extension for RAC

Cut administrative time and costs by 25% with advanced package inter-dependencies that are now integrated right into Serviceguard to eliminate custom scripting

HP Serviceguard A.11.19, Serviceguard Manager, and Serviceguard Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit are all available as part of the HP-UX 11i v3 High Availability and Data Center Operating Environments.

Serviceguard Extension for SAP, Serviceguard Extension for RAC , Serviceguard Storage Management Suite, and Serviceguard Solutions for Disaster Tolerance can all be purchased separately as needed to enhance the availability and manageability of your environment.