SmartX and Information2 Software (hereinafter referred to as “Information2”) provide a joint solution on hyperconvergence disaster recovery (DR), aiming to achieve near-zero RPO and RTO on SmartX ECP, while helping enterprise users build a simple and flexible DR resource pool.
Business Challenges
Enterprises usually face multiple challenges when building DR centers, including complex infrastructure deployment, difficulty in balancing cost and performance, and limited flexibility in DR capabilities, as outlined below.
- Complex DR Infrastructure Deployment: DR infrastructure typically involves the integration of multiple hardware and software products, making deployment complex and cost-consuming, while also introducing challenges in cross-product compatibility and ongoing operations. As a result, DR projects often have long deployment cycles and are difficult to implement.
- Difficulty in Balancing Performance and Cost: With the growing adoption of active-active and multi-active DR architectures, DR centers increasingly take on the role of supporting production systems, placing higher requirements on system stability and performance. At the same time, how to effectively control both construction and operational costs has become a key trade-off for enterprises when seeking high-quality solutions.
- Limited Scalability and Flexibility: As multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures become increasingly common, enterprise IT systems are able to scale dynamically in response to business changes. This requires DR solutions to offer the same level of agility and reliability that adapt to business changes. However, most DR centers today still show clear limitations in scalability and architectural adjustment.
SmartX & Information2’s Joint Solution: Achieve Near-Zero RPO & RTO DR on SmartX ECP
In this solution, SmartX provides a lightweight, stable, and production-ready IaaS foundation based on its hyperconverged software, SMTX OS. It allows deployment starting from three nodes with smooth on-demand scaling, effectively reducing the initial cost of DR infrastructure construction. In addition, consistency group snapshots enable holistic protection of VMs in the production environment, ensuring data consistency across applications. The centralized management platform – CloudTower – can further shorten service recovery and takeover time.
By integrating with multiple products from Information2, the solution can achieve near-zero RPO & RTO on SmartX ECP across various use cases like mission-critical systems, databases, and VM migration.
- i2CDP and i2Availability enable zero data loss for critical data and disaster recovery takeover for mission-critical systems.
- i2VP provides backup, recovery, and migration management for VMs on virtualization platforms.
- i2Active enables full and incremental database synchronization in high-concurrency transaction scenarios. By recording the starting point of each transaction, it ensures transaction integrity, helps users implement database disaster recovery in complex application environments, and provides advanced capabilities such as standby database takeover and incremental failback to the primary system.
Solution Values
- Simple and Agile: A streamlined architecture starting from three nodes. Supports online elastic scaling and on-demand investment, and enables automated data recovery and load balancing during scale-out.
- Intelligent: Intelligent resource utilization analysis and capacity planning prediction.
- Easy to Use: Intuitive operations, one-click online upgrades, and comprehensive, fine-grained monitoring and alerting.
- Continuous Data Protection: Byte-level real-time replication via i2CDP, enabling microsecond-level rollback and protection against logical errors.
- VM Replication and DR Drills: Agentless VM-level replication and protection, with periodic validation of availability.
- Automated Failover: i2Availability ensures automatic failover when application failures occur at any site, maintaining uninterrupted service.
- Near Active-Active DR: With i2Active, database-level real-time replication ensures the target database is immediately available, shares query workloads with the primary database, and enables read-write separation.
- Cross-Site Cluster Protection: Integrates multiple replication technologies to support cross-site cluster switching and service takeover.
In addition, to further enhance product compatibility and solution synergy, SmartX continues to advance compatibility certification for SMTX OS and CloudTower with Information2’s data backup and recovery management software and virtualization backup management software. Together, we deliver a more stable, reliable, and efficient DR experience for enterprise users.
Looking ahead, SmartX and Information2 will continue to deepen collaboration, driving joint innovation across product capabilities and ecosystem integration, and helping users build a more complete and continuously evolving infrastructure and data protection system.
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