Former HP Serviceguard Users Get Help Moving to LifeKeeper Linux Platform

SteelEye, a supplier of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for multi vendor IT infrastructures, recently announced that their SteelEye Serviceguard Program will greatly assist users of HP Serviceguard for Linux to move effortlessly to the LifeKeeper for Linux platform.

LifeKeeper offers high availability and enterprise quality safeguards for important business applications and database collections including SAP, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres and IBM (News - Alert) Websphere.

Serviceguard for Linux has been discontinued by HP and current patrons can now move to SteelEye’s clustering software LifeKeeper.

The SteelEye Serviceguard Program supplies licenses of all SteelEye offerings at a discounted rate to current Serviceguard patrons for Linux and to help shift Serviceguard users for HP-UX clients.

The program also allows clients to reap the benefits associated with SteelEye’s significant 10-year long experience in the field, assisting clients in installing mission critical applications on Linux.

SteelEye has worked closely with HP in the past especially to ensure better utilization of LifeKeeper for HP Proliant x86 servers and would test interoperability of SteelEye LifeKeeper for Linux with HP Proliant servers and HP EVA and MSA storage.

HP will continue to retail their Serviceguard offering for HP-UX customers; however, customers can still move to LifeKeeper for their clustering platform requirements.

SteelEye’s LifeKeeper for Linux is offers support for multi-site geographic clusters unlike the HP Serviceguard and provides flexibility for users to have the broadest range of storage specifications for Linux customers by offering compatibility with more than 30 types of applications.  

LifeKeeper also makes implementation hassle-free with its standardized and plug-in installation and configuration model for all applications and databases which operate on Linux distributions.

In addition, the product requires minimum customization and the platform supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SLES, Oracle (News - Alert) Unbreakable Linux and CentOS Linux; with this multiple distribution support enterprises operating on Linux can be assured of dependable and relentless availability for Linux workloads.