Symantec’s Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 for VMware ESX Provides High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Physical and Virtual Server Environmen

Symantec’s Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 for VMware ESX Provides High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Physical and Virtual Server Environmen

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today unveiled Veritas™ Cluster Server (VCS) 5.0 for VMware ESX, bringing high availability and disaster recovery to heterogeneous data centers running virtual server software. VCS for VMware ESX automates remote failover for disaster recovery and provides management of clustered virtual and physical servers. Ideally suited to prevent downtime in case of application, virtual machine, network link, or server failures, VCS for VMware ESX centralizes cluster management in a single ESX server or across a campus or WAN. VCS is a key component of Veritas Server Foundation, a suite of products which enables enterprise customers to discover in detail what is running on the servers in their data center, actively manage and administer those servers, and ensure that mission critical applications running on those servers are always available. Symantec will be demonstrating VCS for VMware ESX at the VMworld 2006 conference being held in Los Angeles this week.

“VMware administrators are seeking tools that not only automate disaster recovery but help them minimize the vulnerabilities associated with running multiple virtual servers on the same physical server,” said Poulomi Damany, director of product management for Symantec’s Data Center Management Group. “Veritas Cluster Server for VMware ESX solves these problems by combining disaster recovery and high availability, and consolidating control of both virtual and physical servers and their dependencies.”

VCS for VMware ESX complements Symantec’s clustering solutions for Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms. Symantec is the market leader in cross-platform server clustering, according to the 2006 edition of the IDC Worldwide Clustering and Availability Software report¹. With added support for VMware ESX, the market’s most widely used virtual server platform, VCS for VMware ESX provides a single solution to consolidate management of VMware virtual servers in heterogeneous data center environments.

Read the complete Press Release