Vendors offer an abundance of products for easing do-it-yourself disaster recover. Helpful tools for the do-it-yourself disaster-recovery enterprise Brocade SilkWorm SAN routers – manage failover between remotely located and/or differing types of SANs.HP Virtual Server Environment for HP-UX 11i – aimed at servers and blade servers; is one of the many tools HP offers for virtualizing servers. HP Workload Manager – available for many operating systems, dynamically allocates CPU, memory and disk resources to meet application service-level objectives.McData Eclipse or IPS families of multiprotocol SAN switches – manage failover between remotely located and/or differing types of SANs. Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 (evaluation release available now, full release expected late 2004) – supports virtualization of Windows 2000 servers.Solaris 10 – provides a variety of virtualization services for Sun boxes running Solaris applications, such as clustering (doesn’t support other operating systems).Solaris 10 N1 Grid Containers – partitions Sun boxes so that they can run multiple instances of Solaris, even older and new versions simultaneously.Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software – provides automatic failover, load balancing and the like even between Sun servers in remote locations; can prioritize traffic from applications that cannot sustain delays.Topspin Communications Topspin 360 server switch – creates virtualized clusters between servers of any operating system (even those running VMware) and/or between SANs for automatic failover, load balancing and the like. Useful for sites wanting to virtualize non-Windows servers.Topspin VFrame – software for programming the 360 server switch with user-defined policies for load balancing, failover and the like. Supports VMware, Oracle Grid Computing and others. VMware ESX Server or GSX Server – popular software for virtualizing Intel-based servers.VMware P2V Assistant – eases conversion of physical servers onto virtual servers; can be helpful if moving from failed physical servers to back-up virtual servers.VMware VMotion – takes an image of a VMware ESX or GSX virtual server for porting to another server running VMware virtualization software; intended for scheduled maintenance, not automatic failover from disasters. Related content news Dell provides $150M to develop an AI compute cluster for Imbue Helping the startup build an independent system to create foundation models may help solidify Dell’s spot alongside cloud computing giants in the race to power AI. By Elizabeth Montalbano Nov 29, 2023 4 mins Generative AI news DRAM prices slide as the semiconductor industry starts to decline TSMC is reported to be cutting production runs on its mature process nodes as a glut of older chips in the market is putting downward pricing pressure on DDR4. By Sam Reynolds Nov 29, 2023 3 mins Flash Storage Flash Storage Technology Industry news analysis Cisco, AWS strengthen ties between cloud-management products Combining insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and AWS into a single view can dramatically reduce problem identification and resolution time, the vendors say. By Michael Cooney Nov 28, 2023 4 mins Network Management Software Cloud Computing opinion Is anything useful happening in network management? Enterprises see the potential for AI to benefit network management, but progress so far is limited by AI’s ability to work with company-specific network data and the range of devices that AI can see. By Tom Nolle Nov 28, 2023 7 mins Generative AI Network Management Software Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe