A metro storage cluster is the perfect solution if disaster, data loss and downtime avoidance are your top priorities. Built with market-leading VMware technology, metro storage clustering allows you to effectively extend your eCloud Private by expanding its local storage and networking across two physically separate locations. This means that should disaster strike at one data centre site, knocking it offline, your operations automatically transfer to the second site in minutes to provide near-zero downtime.
Choose from Manchester or London-based metro storage clustering sites, with long-distance separation supported with our central and west London sites.
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Balance workloads across two of our enterprise-grade, UK data centres. Gain 25km separation across London sites.
In disaster scenarios - achieve near-zero Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Achieve many of the benefits of a local high-availability configuration, with the added benefit of geographic separation
Live virtual machine migration - migrate VMs between sites, with zero downtime
VMware Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) is an option which can be added to an eCloud Private environment at UKFast. Our multi-site network is designed to deliver the high bandwidth, low latency connectivity that vMSC needs to work effectively, and provide the benefits of a local high-availability solution with geographic separation.
VMware Metro Storage Cluster combines synchronous replication with array-based clustering. When running a vMSC, your storage subsystems seamlessly span the two data centres, presenting a single and common infrastructure to your VMware vSphere virtual machine layer.
vMSC is recommended where disaster and downtime cannot be tolerated. In other words, it's about seeking to protect your applications and data before a disaster occurs. Combining vMSC with our Advanced Backup with Commvault service can also provide a comprehensive disaster recovery solution.
We have the expertise, capability and flexibility to design a multi-site solution that meets your business needs. If our Metro Storage Cluster solution doesn't sound like the right fit, we have a number of alternative solutions which also provide geographic hosting resilience.
Our-award winning VMware-based cloud platform.
High availability clustering for Linux solutions.
Run Windows-based solutions across multiple sites.
LAN extension connectivity between data centres.
Your eCloud virtual machine layer runs on VMware's vSphere technology. Metro Storage Clustering creates a single storage subsystem that spans two UKFast data centres, and presents it to your virtual machine layer.
Connectivity between your virtual machine layer and vMSC is provided by Fibre Channel, which supports the maximum round trip time of less than 10 milliseconds for vMSC to function as designed.
Various vMSC configurations are possible, talk to our eCloud experts to understand which one is right for you.
Your solution is only ever housed in our government and ISO-certified, ultra-secure data centres managed by security cleared personnel. And as an exclusively UK-based company, hosting with UKFast offers guaranteed data sovereignty. UKFast is a government approved supplier through the G-Cloud 11 framework.
