Redundancy using Microsoft Clustering

BMC Defender Server, as a Windows application, is completely agreeable to implementation within a Microsoft Cluster Server. For those sites with clustering capability, two or more copies of BMC Defender Server can be installed on clustered servers employing failover and load balancing to both extend the capacity, and increase the reliability of the BMC Defender implementation.

As a first step in evaluating failover and redundancy requirements, organizations should consider the cost and implementation trade-offs of simply deploying BMC Defender in a clustered environment. Microsoft Clustering, in addition to increasing reliability and availability, has important implications in scalability issues.

However, Microsoft Clustering can be a highly expensive proposition, with steep implementation and maintenance costs, and might make this approach undesirable for small or even medium-sized organizations. Further information on Clustering, Windows Failover Clustering, and Component Load Balancing is directly available directly Microsoft.