Splunk for Double-Take

Protecting business-critical data and applications while maximizing uptime is critical for any organization. Splunk for Double-Take, a collaborative platform, brings higher system availability, lower cost of maintaining availability, and simplified monitoring of business critical Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server environments. By adding the power of Splunk IT Search into the Double-Take offering, users can tap into the capabilities of real-time search, alerting, reporting and analysis, to aggressively and proactively ensure successful failover conditions through a broader view of their environment.

Providing a flexible and actionable solution, Splunk for Double-Take allows users to access information across silos from a single point, allowing data to be correlated across the infrastructure. Splunk for Double-Take dashboards and reports give SQL and Exchange administrator’s better visibility into what is happening with business critical applications by monitoring and alerting on the complete environment, including underlying infrastructure components and other applications.

How the Splunk for Double-Take App Works

Through flexible, real-time reporting, customers are able to identify the source of an error and map it back to a specific infrastructure access point – including operating system, hypervisor, server, storage, and security or network devices. Splunk for Double-Take enhances a customer’s view of the infrastructure they rely upon Double-Take to protect. The solution prevents false positive failover conditions by providing a broader view of the environment, post-mortem failover and recovery analysis, alerts and reports.

Splunk for Double-Take - Exchange

• Storage hosting stores and logs unavailable
• Store availability/state
• Store allocation vs. available free space
• Services starting/stopping/restarting
• Application process memory utilization
• Application process CPU utilization
• Overall Exchange Server pair CPU utilization

Splunk for Double-Take – SQL Server

• Storage hosting databases and logs unavailable
• DB availability/state
• DB allocation vs. available free space
• Services starting/stopping/restarting
• Databases starting/stopping/restarting
• Application memory utilization
• Target Server Memory (available to consume)
• Total Server Memory (currently consumed)
• Application process memory utilization
• Application process CPU utilization
• Overall SQL Server pair CPU utilization

Splunk for Double-Take – Double-Take System Metrics

• Server CPU utilization
• Server memory utilization
• Server storage utilization
• Server network utilization

Double-Take and Splunk have partnered to deliver an advanced High Availability/Disaster Recover reporting and analysis platform for Exchange and SQL Server Administrators. This brings even more value to users of the Double-Take Availability solution, and enables them to meet the challenging requirements of maximum available for these business critical applications.

Double-Take® Software (Nasdaq: DBTK) is a leading provider of affordable workload optimization products that are simple to use and enable IT managers to easily move, protect, recover and more flexibly run critical IT workloads in physical and virtual environments, regardless of platform or location. With its unparalleled partner programs, technical support, and professional services, Double-Take Software is the solution of choice for more than 19,000 customers worldwide, from SMEs to the Fortune 500. Information about Double-Take Software’s products and services can be found at www.doubletake.com.

The Splunk for Double-Take app can be downloaded for free. Trial licenses of Splunk can be requested from the store. For more information on Double-Take Software Inc , please visit http://www.doubletake.com.