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Alternatives to SolarWinds High Availability in SAM 6.3

So, SAM 6.3 and NPM 12.0.1 have been out for a couple of days adding native high availability to all SW modules. Being that this is the first iteration of HA in SW, I'm sure it'll get better with new revisions, but my biggest issue with it is that both primary and secondary servers (and the virtual IP) need to be on the same subnet. This obviously doesn't address the issue when a site where SW servers are goes down. Oddly enough, it requires an additional SQL server instance that need not be on the same subnet.

I've been tasked to develop a redundant solution for our SW environment, and the announcement of HA availability in SAM seems to be perfect, but I was wondering if there are alternatives to this new solution. Have you guys been using something else to achieve redundancy in your SW deployment?

Thanks!

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aLTeReGo

SolarWinds Failover Engine supports Disaster Recovery deployment configurations.

m_roberts

Hi,

As aLTeReGo has indicated the FailOver Engine license supports WAN mode.

In terms of alternatives, we are advising our customers to configure stretched vLans between the primary and secondary data centre to allow them to support the new HA feature in Orion. This would then provide an HA/DR resiliency deployment method, with the benefit of being able to continue to receive Syslog, SNMP Traps and Flow data from source devices, as the IP address used to send will not change i.e. using the cluster VIP.

Another, would be to deploy resiliency within your VM infrastructure, however this does not cater for all circumstances necessary for HA, so this may not provide the level of coverage you require. Also you will need tooling such as VMware SRM to orchestrate changes during the failover.

The last option would be to deploy Active/Passive (again using VM capabilities) or Active/Active, but these have downsides of either manual intervention or license/dual polling.

Mark Roberts

Prosperon - UK SolarWinds Partners

Installation | Consultancy | Training | Licenses

AlexSoul

Hey my friend, I am dealing with similar Challenge at the moment. I wrote you an extensive reply here, but then I thought it deserves a separate thread on its own - so, I create it. Please refer to the below and comment any further suggestions, issues, feedback and thoughts - I think we are in the same boat

High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution with Full Servers and Site Protection - RFC/Design Stage