Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager
Managed File Transfer with Zero Downtime and No Data Loss

Overview:

Neverfail Failover Manager delivers zero downtime, no data loss, and unified failover management by maximizing availability of MOVEit Transfer with automated failover. Failover Manager enables you to:

Ensure reliable file transfers for 24/7 operations

Unified failover management for MOVEit Transfer, MOVEit Automation, SQL Server and Windows file servers. Failover to secondary and tertiary servers maximizes file transfer success. No single point of failure delivers 24/7 operations.

Safeguard against data loss for business continuity and compliance

Heartbeat communication between primary and failover servers ensures zero data loss in the event of failure. Failover within a single or to remote disaster recovery site within seconds to minutes.

Simplify and automate file transfer operations

Predictive and automated rules-based failover ensures continuous operations. Installed in as little as an hour for local failover. No additional hardware and software for load balancing is required. Apply Windows updates on MOVEit MFT servers without downtime.

Neverfail Failover Manager Architecture

Failover Manager heartbeat communication between primary and secondary servers continuously replicates data at the windows kernel level ensuring zero data loss in the event of a failure.

Features:

System Requirements:

Minimum Requirements:

Hardware

• Processor: Dual-core 2.4GHz or faster
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Hard Drive: 15 GB of free disk space

Operating Systems*

• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2003
  

Databases

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition 32-bit or 64-bit Local Only
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise 32-bit or 64-bit Local or Remote
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise 32-bit or 64-bit Local or Remote
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard or Enterprise 32-bit or 64-bit Local or Remote

WebServer

Microsoft IIS versions 6, 7.x and 8.x
WhatsUp Gold requires the following Web Server Role Services for IIS 7.x or 8 at a minimum:

• Web Server
• ASP .NET
• Static Content
• HTTP Redirection
• Default Document

WhatsUp Gold requires the following web server extension for IIS 6 at a minimum:

• ASP .NET

Supported Virtual Environments

• VMware vCenter Server versions 4.x, 5.x
• VMWare ESXi versions 3.5, 4.x, 5.x
• VMware ESX versions 3.5, 4.x
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

Web Browsers

• Google Chrome (recommended)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 9.x, and 10.x
• Mozilla Firefox version 36.0.1 or later

Documentation:

Download the Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Datasheet (.PDF)