redBorder

Technical needs are in constant growth in any company and that makes company service management more and more complex.

Each security gateway is a key element at the company network and any fail on these can cause an important economic loss. Nowadays not only use efficiency is sought but a complete high availability of critical services of the company.

redBorder has revolutionized the complex network environment administration concept. It can provide images to be executed in different blades. If hardware failures or abnormalities are found, services can be moved from one blade to another with the aim of assuring a better network quality for users.

Therefore, redBorder is, conceptually, an image provisioning solution designed to be used in critical high performance chassis in blade systems.

It allows to control in a graphical, safe and centralized manner a management and service central systems infrastructure in an unique multiplatform graphic interface. This makes the administrator become more independent from the hardware used by the company what implies a network and administration cost and time saving.

The complexity of current installations requires autonomous systems able to guarantee service availability at a proper level. The administrator must have be a system supervisor role more than a guard role forgetting about the most monotonous and tedious administration tasks.

MSB (Management Security Blade) tries to cover that role. MSB is responsible for complete chassis management, and that includes:

• Image provisioning at spare blades.
• Configuration and management of blade switches.
• Error and failure detection at the chassis to carry out the proper actuation.
• Service mobility according to a matrix priority defined by the administrator.

To offer a complete solution, MSB is installed in a two blade active-passive chassis cluster which guarantee a high complete availability of the services rendered by the chassis.

Using redBorder we get the following advantages:

• Instantaneous and automated application and blade fail-over. One blade acts as a back for up for N (1 to N) different applications each with multiple and different network interfaces.
• Network management simplicity through a single graphic multiplatform interface for each chassis.
• Instantaneous and automated network (switch) fail-over.
• Hot-swap maintenance and servicing.
• Zero-downtime and zero-risk software and blade upgrades.
• System-wide (entire chassis) Automated rollback, disaster recovery, replication and audit.
• Dynamic blade allocation.
• Automated performance and response monitoring.
• Automated network load-balancing and multi-element cluster management.
• redBorder does not alter the content of the images it controls, it simply adapts them to have them “displaced” in case of chassis errors or failures with the subsequent blade reconfiguration.
• No single point of failure.
• Total Cost of Ownership Reduction.

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