High Availability

Organizations today need high availability that provides maximum uptime, data availability, and meets compliance standards.

  • Introduction to SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn
  • Protect Data With Higher Chance of Recovery

    SQL Server 2012 provides everything you need to address availability and reliability of data at every level of the enterprise – at the right price and at the right time.

    What's New in SQL Server 2012

    • Help reduce planned and unplanned downtime with the new integrated high availability and disaster recovery solution, SQL Server AlwaysOn.
    • Simplify deployment and management of high availability requirements using integrated configuration and monitoring tools.
    • Improve IT cost efficiency and performance using up to four Active Secondary.
    • Reduce planned downtime with Windows Server Core.

    Key Capabilities

    • Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery

      Achieve the required 9’s with new SQL Server AlwaysOn.

      Comprehensive Technologies for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
      • Set up Availability Group with the ability to failover multiple databases as a unit to ensure the availability of all databases in the application.
      • Provide an integrated set of options, and seamless application failover with the Availability Group Listener feature.
      • Easily monitor the high availability configuration using AlwaysOn dashboard, a visual configuration of the health of your database.
      • Enhance SQL Server failover clustering and support multi-site clustering across subnet to enable cross-datacenter failover of SQL Server instances.
      • Help control when a failover should happen and eliminate false failover of instances and databases.

    • Make Full Use of Standby Hardware

      Achieve increased hardware utilization and performance using Always On Active Secondaries.

      Eliminate Idle Secondary Hardware
      • Improve performance by redirecting reporting workloads, utilizing secondary hardware, and freeing up capacity on the primary hardware.
      • Gain near real time reports and rapid query performance for reporting queries with fast data replication and creation of auto statistics.
      • Achieve seamless redirection of reporting applications to a new secondary one using read-only routing in the event of a failure.
      • Improve capacity utilization on the secondary hardware by offloading backup jobs to the Active Secondary.
      • Seamlessly restore backups run on multiple secondaries using the Database Recovery Advisor.

    • Dramatically Increase Total Uptime of Applications

      Reduce planned downtime and improve 9’s using Windows Server Core and other high availability capabilities.

      Full Usage of Hardware, Superior Up Time
      • Reduce the number of OS patches required by running SQL Server on Windows Server Core.
      • Improve application uptime with support for reindexing of LOB columns and the addition of non-null columns as online operations.
      • Significantly reduce downtime during patching and upgrades using the rolling upgrade capabilities in AlwaysOn.
      • Bring applications online faster during planned failover with failover time within seconds instead of hours.

    Related Solutions

    "SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn gives us an integrated high-availability and disaster recovery solution that delivers around-the-clock data access and fast performance for less money."

    Fabio Catassi
    Chief Technology Officer, Mediterranean Shipping Company

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