Milestone Redundancy and High Availability
The simplest high availability cluster with real-time replication and failover without shared disk
Updated on Friday, April 14, 2023
Evidian SafeKit is a pure software solution that provides replication and failover to Milestone XProtect Management Server. This platform agnostic and easy-to-use product can also be applied for redundancy and high availability of other applications deployed with Milestone.
What is needed
From Evidian
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SafeKit high availability software
From Milestone Systems
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Milestone XProtect
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Overview
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Overview
Milestone Redundancy and High Availability - The simplest high availability cluster with real-time replication and failover without shared disk
Evidian SafeKit allows you to quickly set up a Milestone cluster with real-time file replication and automatic failover of the management services and the SQL database. The product is simple and avoids complexity of other failover clusters: no need for external storage, domain controller configuration or SQL enterprise edition. A free trial of SafeKit is offered to implement the solution in less than 1 hour.Note that SafeKit is a generic product on Windows and Linux.
You can implement with the same product real-time replication and failover of other databases and applications, full Hyper-V or KVM virtual machines, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud applications.
This platform agnostic solution is ideal for a partner with a critical application and who wants to provide a high availability option easy to deploy to many customers.
Key features
- Redundancy with automatic failover on a secondary server.
- Replicates in real-time any folder containing any type of data (database, full virtual machine...).
- Cluster with no need for shared disk, no need fo database or OS enterprise editions and no need for specific skills.
- Works with Windows for server and PC, with Linux, with physical or virtual machines.
- Possibility to replicate full Hyper-V or KVM virtual machines which can contain Milestone XProtect and other applications.
How it works
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Step 1. Real-time replication
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Step 2. Automatic failover
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Step 3. Failback with automatic resynchronization
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Step 4. Return to real-time replication
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Either replication of application data and restart of the application.
Or replication of full virtual machines and reboot of VMs.
If you do not know how the application works, VM HA is the simplest.
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How to install
Documentation
This is where you can find additional documentation
| Evidian SafeKit Installation Guide | pdf Download (170.53 KB) |
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Installers
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Specification
Required Evidian product(s)
SafeKit 7
Has proven compatibility with the following Milestone versions:
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XProtectExpress+2022 R1, 03/08 2022
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XProtectCorporate2022 R1, 03/08 2022
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XProtectExpert2022 R1, 03/08 2022
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XProtectEssential+2022 R1, 03/08 2022
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XProtectProfessional+2022 R1, 03/08 2022
Is also expected to work with:
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XProtectExpress+2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
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XProtectCorporate2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
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XProtectExpert2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
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XProtectEssential+2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
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XProtectProfessional+2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
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