Commercial High-Availability Linux Software

Commercial High-Availablity Software

• High-Availability.com provides RSF-1 (Resilient Software Facility - 1). RSF-1 is available on every major Linux distribution, and provides agents for many popular software packages, and supports clusters of up to 64 nodes.
• SteelEye's's LifeKeeper High-Availability product for Linux. LifeKeeper provides application recovery kits for Oracle, Informix, Apache and Sendmail.
• Convolo: The commercial version of Mission Critical Linux's Kimberlite software.
• North Fork Network's SANi.q. product combines with inexpensive hardware (IDE/SCSI disks, Ethernet networks) to create scalable, fault-tolerant, and easy-to-manage Storage Area Networks. An evaluation copy is available from their web site.
• Clustra Database: Clustra's core product, the Clustra Database, is a zero-downtime, relational SQL database.
• HP's MC/Service Guard for Linux.
• Polyserve's's Understudy: a web, file, and email server clustering utility providing constant server availability. A 30-day evaluation copy can be gotten from their web site.
• Net/Equater
• TurboLinux High Availability Cluster. This is a commercial product which is similar in intent to the Linux Virtual Server project. In fact, it has used Wensong's kernel pieces in the past.
• Wizard Watchdog Service Cluster Software
• Resonate's Central Dispatch product, now being marketed by Penguin Computing (press release). It appears that Central Dispatch is also similar to the LVS project, including both load balancing and HA facilities.
• Twincom's Network Disk Mirror a commercial product similar in function to the NBD+RAID1 open source solution, but already neatly packaged up for you. It seems like it would work well as a Linux-HA resource, or in combination with some other commercial package.
• Fujitsu Siemens Computers has announced the availability of their RMS (Reliant Monitor Software) High-Availability software for Linux. RMS seems similar to a combination of the freely available heartbeat and Mon packages.
• Mod_Redundancy is an Apache-Module that creates High Availability for this webserver throug a Master/Slave-Mechanism. As soon as the Slave notices that the Master is not available anymore, it takes over the IP-Address and the webservice automatically. It is commercial Software, but a free 30-day evaluation license is available directly from the website.
  Mod_redundancy looks a lot like a subset of the freely available heartbeat package.
• Legato now provides their Legato Cluster high-availability clustering products for Linux.
• Integratus now provides their Universal High AvailabilityTM Extension for Linux. [press release].
• IBM's WebSphere Performance Pack: rumored to be soon ported to Linux

Commercial Monitoring Software for Linux

• Fidelia's NetVigil - a Linux based, massively scalable monitoring product.

Commercial High-Availablity Hardware

• Linux NetworX makes hardware specifically for Linux clusters.
• VMIC Reflective Memory

  Reflective Memory is a high-speed, real-time, deterministic network. With Reflective memory, each node on the network has a local copy of shared data. The act of writing the reflective memory causes the local data on all the nodes to be updated.

• BIGip: F5 network's turnkey load balancing/HA solution

Commercial Clustering Information Sites