SharePoint High Availability

Business Advantages of DocAve High Availability

• Ensure Business Continuity During a Disaster

  Switch to a stand-by environment instantly from anywhere and redirect users through a simple DNS flip to ensure nearly zero downtime during a disaster. Whether dealing with a common hardware failure or a large-scale disaster, your SharePoint environment is immediately accessible to all users.

• Minimal Potential Data Loss Diminishes Adverse Impact on Productivity

  Continuous scheduled synchronization allows for mirroring of the SharePoint environment. In most cases, it is completely seamless to end-users.

• Make Your Disaster Recovery Planning Fit Your Needs

  No special appliances are required to implement DocAve SharePoint High Availability. Select content databases you want replicated to a stand-by environment based on business importance or any other criteria. With no distance or proximity requirements, implement your stand-by environment in any datacenter around the world.

• Guarantee End-User Trust In Your SharePoint Environment

  An hour of infrastructure outage can cause unacceptable productivity loss for your business. Because of SharePoint’s diverse infrastructure, it is impossible to use productivity-loss methods common to other platforms. With DocAve, you can reduce downtime to a just a few seconds, and satisfy the most aggressive SLA’s.

Learn more how DocAve responds to SLA requirements

DocAve High Availability Technical Overview

Ensure continuous access to your SharePoint environment with the DocAve SharePoint High Availability (SPDR-HA) module, an Enterprise-level disaster recovery solution.

DocAve SharePoint High Availability Features:

• Optional offline synchronization allows content to be synchronized to the Stand-By Server via a flat file.
• Graphical dashboard displays status of synchronization jobs for all content databases.
• Switch to stand-by environment immediately with a simple DNS switch. Also, create customized failover plans accessible via command line to further minimize down-time.
• SharePoint-aware replication to a standby environment enables an instantaneous ‘switch’ and minimizes downtime. Replication can be performed continuously in real-time or on a scheduled basis at the Web Application or Content Database level.
• Enterprise-strength, data-packet level, fault tolerance ensures reliable, full fidelity data replications over noisy networks. Failed replication will resume from point of last successful transfer so your work will not be lost and resources won’t be wasted.
• Full or incremental replication options utilizing industry standards with SQL mirroring or log-shipping.
• Optional compression and throttle control settings further enhance low-bandwidth replication and allow for control of network traffic.
• Fully-integrated into the DocAve platform, allowing for centralized administration of all scheduling, monitoring, and management tasks across multiple SharePoint servers from a single “access-from-anywhere” web interface.
• User-friendly GUI offers SharePoint centric tree-mode viewing during planning phase and “one-click” process to bring stand-by “online” during disaster recovery.
• SQL Mirroring allows for tighter coexistence with "DocAve Backup and Recovery":/products/sharepoint-backup for a fool-proof disaster recovery solution.

DocAve SharePoint High Availability minimizes downtime through real-time disaster coverage at these levels:

• SQL Server
• Virtual Server
• Content Databases

The DocAve High Availability Supports:

• SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v.3.0
• SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v.2.0

Note: DocAve v5 presently supports SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Foundation, MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 only. For current SPS 2003 and WSS 2.0 support, please utilize DocAve 4.5.

View & Compare: DocAve SharePoint High Availability vs. Native SharePoint and SQL Backups

DocAve High Availability Resources

Product Brochures:

• DocAve High Availability Product Brochure
  True Redundancy to Ensure 24x7 Fault Tolerance

Case Studies:

• West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service Bolsters Microsoft SharePoint Data Protection with DocAve
  Find out how DocAve shaved several weeks off the time necessary to complete a critical project throughout its entire SharePoint deployment with swift, full-fidelity restores.
• Seiko Epson Corporation Migrates from eRoom to SharePoint, Performs Granular Backup of Critical Data, and Automates Content Lifecycle Management with DocAve
  Find out how Seiko Epson Corporation migrated 300 GB of content to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and effectively protected and managed its SharePoint data.

Read more Customer Success Stories

User Guides:

• DocAve v5 User Guide - ALL MODULES
• DocAve 4.5 User Guide - ALL MODULES
• DocAve 4.1 Disaster Recovery: High Availability (SPDR-HA) User Guide
• DocAve 4.1 Installation Guide
• DocAve 4.1 Control Panel User Guide
• View all User Guides (including User Guides for older versions)