Marathon Technologies

everRun VM

Automated High Availability / Fault Tolerance for Citrix XenServer

Marathon has partnered with Citrix®, developer of XenServer™, the dynamic virtualization software platform based on the Xen hypervisor. The integration of Marathon everRun® and Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition leap-frogs other high-availability offerings for server virtualization. 

Features and Benefits:

  • Run Business Critical Applications—And More—In Virtual Machines: everRun VM delivers reliable protection for critical virtual workloads by providing redundant virtual machines and synchronized mirroring of your network, storage and data. Prevent application downtime and data loss for your customers.
  • The integration of Citrix XenServer's superior "bare-metal" performance and everRun VM's unique fault-tolerant architecture gives your customer the confidence to run business critical and other essential applications in virtual machines, so they can gain the benefits of server virtualization across a much broader range of applications.
  • Your Customer Only Pays for the Availability They Need: everRun VM lets your customer select the right protection level for each application running in virtual machines. By matching the right availability for each application, they only pay for the availability protection they need. 
  • Automate Virtual Machine Availability: everRun VM completely automates VM availability setup, configuration, fault detection and policy management. Automated setup and configuration eliminates the manual configuration other availability solutions require. Your customer can point to the VM they want to protect, and everRun's setup wizard does the rest. They can fully deploy everRun VM from bare metal in 30 minutes or less.
    everRun VM's embedded policy management automatically handles all system, network and disk I/O failures. Failures are automatically and immediately addressed—without IT intervention.
    By automating VM availability, everRun VM removes the availability burden that traditional "bolt-on" clustering and data replication software requires. And for the first time, midsize businesses can get practical, automated HA and DR.
  • Protect Any Windows Server Application Running in VMs: everRun VM is application independent—it works with any Windows Server application. No cluster awareness needed. No customization required.
  • Simplify Availability Management: everRun VM treats redundant virtual machines as one, so your customer only needs to manage one environment for each application, not two separate environments that other high-availability offerings require. 
  • Managing this environment is centralized through the everRun Availability Center (eAC), a web-based management interface that provides a consolidated view of your customer’s entire everRun VM environment. As their needs grow, they can simply point-and-click to add additional servers to the pool to support additional applications and obtain higher performance.
  • Get Fault Tolerance Between Data Centers: everRun VM goes beyond local protection by enabling fault tolerance between locations up to 100 miles apart. everRun VM includes SplitSite®, which can automatically ensure your customer’s essential applications are still available from a different location when one site is not operating. With SplitSite your customer can still meet compliance and production requirements, even if their primary data center is hit with a disaster.