Marathon everRun MX

Providing the core of 24/7 Uptime’s high availability solutions, everRun MX from Marathon Technologies represents a breakthrough in virtualisation technology. everRun MX delivers increased overall availability and fault tolerance for Windows applications in a simple, affordable, software-based solution.

Marathon everRun MX protects any application (single or multi core environments) running in a Windows environment to the highest levels of system and/or component fault tolerance, without the need for any shared storage.

Microsoft applications (SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint, etc) or non MS environments such as SCADA, ERP, MRP, process control systems, etc are all protected by a single solution, providing complete multiple system availability – no matter what the processing conditions.

Chris Robinson from 24/7 Uptime explains how Marathon everRun MX high availability software works.

Live Demonstration – “How Marathon everRun MX works“

Learn how Marathon everRun MX works in real time with this live system demonstration. Marathon have incorporated the use of a webcam so you can see the immediate result once the power cable has been pulled out of the back of the servers…….

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How does it work?

Marathon everRun MX combines the components of two or more (up to four) physical hosts and allows them to work together as a single unit. In other words, two, three or four servers work as one. Faults such as disk array failure or network card outage are tolerated with zero downtime. Multiple failures on multiple hosts are tolerated and even complete server failure results in zero downtime.

Full Fault Tolerance – delivering 100% continuous availability through failures at both system and component level.

Self Healing - operation does not require IT department intervention or specialised skills.

SMP and Multi-Core Support - Marathon everRun MX is the only software-based fault tolerant solution that protects applications requiring symmetric multi-processor /multi-core support.

Hyperthreading – Marathon everRun MX is the first fault tolerant software solution to protect environments with hyperthreading enabled.

Hardware Agnostic – Marathon everRun MX is a software-only solution that runs on commodity, off-the-shelf x86 hardware platforms. It is completely hardware agnostic and lets you use any type of off-the-shelf storage (direct attached or SAN).

Reduced Virtualisation Overhead – Marathon everRun MX leverages the Intel Extended Page Table feature of the VT-enabled Intel Chipset architecture, reducing the virtualisation overhead associated with these workloads and improving overall performance.

Holistic – protects all components in the application infrastructure including servers, off-the-shelf storage (either internal or external array) and the network. This eliminates the need for multiple point solutions for availability.

Single Operating Environment – Marathon everRun MX is a single operating environment with only one IP address, hostname and MAC address. Users, clients and applications need only to connect to one system and never have to make changes to this, even when failures occur.

everRun Snapshots – Marathon everRun Snapshots provide backup of an operating environment at a single point in time, either manually or scheduled, without any downtime. Snapshots can then be exported as part of a backup and recovery strategy.

Offsite DR and Replication – optional offsite data transfer, replication and failover for the ultimate in end-to-end resilience. Read more about everRun MX Extend disaster recovery solution.