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LifeKeeper for Windows VMware VirtualCenter Management Server Recovery Kit, Version 6 Update 2

Today we released Version 6 Update 2 of the LifeKeeper for Windows VMware VirtualCenter Management Server Recovery Kit.

New features added include:

• basic support for VC 2.5 (vpxd, License Server, webAcccess). 
• Automatic setting of new registry key for 2.5 managedIP. 
• Improved/fixed handling of services containing spaces. 
• Setting services to manual and stopping services on extend. 
• Removed limit on optional services, and inclusion of 2.5 optional services. 
• Enhanced documentation, including checklist, and 2.5 installation appendix.

Please refer to the LifeKeeper for Windows VMware VirtualCenter Management Server Recovery Kit Administration Guide for more information

LifeKeeper for Linux version 6 Update 2

Today, we released LifeKeeper for Linux Version 6 Update 2 Maintenance 2.   Here are the highlights:

A new recovery kit to integrate LifeKeeper with NEC iStoragePathSavior.

• Official Name - NEC iStorage StoragePathSavior (SPS) Recovery Kit, Version 6.2.
• New Part Number:    LI-SPS-6               

General Maintenance for the following kits:

• Apache Recovery Kit
• ClearCase Recovery Kit
• WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit
• Postfix Recovery Kit
• Device-Mapper Multipath (DMMP) Recovery Kit
• SDD Recovery Kit
• PowerPath Recovery Kit

Please refer to the LifeKeeper for Linux v6 Update 2 Release Notes and the corresponding Administration Guides for additional information.

Dwain Sims
Linux Product Manager

On Exchange 2007

Senior VP, Bob Williamson, was interviewed by Nordicmond e-Channel on the topic of Business Continuity for Microsoft Exchange.    An excerpt is below:

How critical is the role that MS Exchange performs in a modern organization?

Each year, SteelEye conducts the Business Continuity Index Survey which asks a number of questions about corporate plans around business continuity.  Each year we ask the companies to rank the most critical IT functions to protect in a disaster.  Customer support and Email always rank as the top two critical functions.   In the 2007 survey, 61% of companies said that protecting email was either “Extremely Important” or “Vital to Our Business”.

LifeKeeper review in Windows IT Pro

  Our second fantastic  Windows review in two months has hit the press!  We have great products that are being recognized by the leading Windows publications; congratulations to the team on these outstanding achievements.

Always There For You

Redmond Magazine has published an overview of various high availability solutions, including LifeKeeper.  An excerpt reads

[LifeKeeper] works with whatever additional server hardware you have available and you can implement it fairly quickly. Because it can protect SQL Server systems (in addition to Exchange), it offers high availability for the back-end of a wide range of applications. Anyone looking to improve uptime with SQL Server should look into LifeKeeper.