Do you want to protect your Microsoft® SQL® 2000 server from unplanned downtime?

Neverfail for SQL Server is a cluster-class high availability solution for Microsoft SQL® 2000 that keeps your databases up and running and ensures availability of the connected applications regardless of the cause of failure.

The information contained in databases represents a competitive asset for many companies. With so many other systems storing their data in the backend SQL database, the loss of this server could affect virtually all users on your network. Losing the data in the database, or losing access to that data for a period of time can be catastrophic to a company. 

• Can your business afford a loss of access to your data?
• Will your customers tolerate impaired service?
• Can you guarantee service availability when your business needs it most?

Neverfail for SQL Server 2000 provides high-availability and fault-tolerance for SQL Server by using Neverfail Heartbeat technology running on a pair of servers.
 
Neverfail for SQL keeps a current version of the complete database(s) on a passive server. In case of a failure of the active server the database will still be available, and database services as well as application services will be re-started on the passive server.

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Your databases are the lifeblood of your business and are too important to leave to back-up or replication. And why settle for a partial solution that focuses only on recovering hardware and data failures from a primary server when Neverfail for SQL Server can deliver comprehensive, proactive failure protection for all elements of your server environment?

Only Neverfail for SQL Server can give you a cluster-class, high availability solution that’s easy to install and approximately one-tenth the cost of other cluster-class solutions.

Key Features

Pre-emptive failover avoidance

• Neverfail can take a variety of corrective actions to repair or resolve problems detected through its monitoring capability.
• Avoids expense of IT personnel involvement in managing unnecessary fail-overs.

Seamless switch-over,fail-over and switch-back of application workload

• Automatically moves an application’s workload back and forth between primary and secondary servers.
• Improves availability by providing seamless, non-disruptive application redundancy to users

Monitors all key application performance attributes

• Monitors all key performance aspects of the operating system, hardware and application.
• Improves availability by identifying when overall performance begins to degrade
• Automatically monitors all key application services
• Automatically monitors the availability of all key services associated with a specific application.
• Improves availability by showing not only whether a server is available or not, but what is happening within the application.

Dynamically identifies and includes specific application components

• Neverfail for SQL Server intelligently discovers all application files, registry settings, services and databases associated with a specific application.
• Saves time, money and lowers risk by eliminating any customization or scripting required to support specific applications. Neverfail supports the SQL Server application straight “out of the box.”

Primary server requirements

• Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003 compatible server with 2GB of free system hard disk space. This should not be spread over several drives.
• A minimum of 1GB RAM is recommended. Exact requirements depend on application load.
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server latest SP version, or Microsoft Windows 2003.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard or Enterprise latest SP version.

Secondary server requirements

Licensing

• Neverfail for SQL Server is licensed based on the Server in a pair with the greatest number of CPU’s.