A solution for high availability, read scalability, and non-disruptive storage-level migration for Microsoft SQL Server databases.
Executive Summary
Ensuring high availability and seamless migration is critical for Microsoft SQL Server environments, where any downtime can lead to significant business disruptions. Organizations require storage solutions that ensure data consistency, minimize outages, and provide smooth failover during both planned and unplanned events.
Everpure® FlashArray™ ActiveCluster™ offers key features designed to meet these needs. This solution provides active/active replication across multiple sites, synchronous data replication, and automatic failover. These capabilities ensure continuous availability and non-disruptive database migrations for SQL Server workloads.
The primary benefits of ActiveCluster include zero recovery time objectives and zero recovery point objectives, ease of configuration, and the ability to maintain high availability without complex infrastructure. The simplicity and automation of ActiveCluster help reduce operational overhead for administrators while ensuring SQL Server databases remain available and performant during failures or migrations.
ActiveCluster delivers a powerful, scalable solution for SQL Server environments that demand high availability, reliability, and ease of management, providing peace of mind concerning critical business applications.
How to Use This Document
This document serves as a comprehensive resource designed to offer insights into the effective utilization of FlashArray and the ActiveCluster feature. It highlights the capabilities of ActiveCluster in providing redundancy and high availability at the storage layer for SQL Server databases, ultimately minimizing downtime and ensuring uninterrupted operations. Throughout this document, there is detailed guidance and best practices to help achieve a robust and resilient storage environment for SQL Server databases.
This document is intended for storage, SQL Server database, and system administrators who plan to implement FlashArray and ActiveCluster for a range of deployment scenarios including unclustered SQL Server databases and SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances.