Upcoming Webinar: Data Protection and Recovery Options with SQL Server
Date: March 25th, 2008 at 12pm ET
Speakers: Nicholas Schoonover, Double-Take Software; and Stephen Wynkoop, Founder of SSWUG.org and Microsoft MVP, President of Bits on the Wire, inc. 

Please join us for an informative live webinar featuring our in-house SQL guru, as well as Stephen Wynkoop - a SQL evangelist and the founder of SSWUG.org. We'll look into the various data protection options you have with SQL Server when it comes to setting up a recovery system for your server.  We'll explain the pros and cons of each and where you can apply them in your own systems.

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Join Double-Take Software’s Director of Solutions Engineering, Bob Roudebush, as he presents a short technical whiteboard session to explain the functionality of Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure. This short overview will also help to explain the differences between Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure versus Double-Take for Virtual Systems.

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Question: What ports are required for Double-Take?

Answer: The Double-Take service, Double-Take Management Console, Text Client, and Failover Control Center use three different ports. These ports are 1100 TCP and UDP, 1105 UDP, and 1106 TCP. These ports are required to be allowed both inbound and outbound on both source and target servers for communication across a firewall. These ports can be changed either through the Management Console, Registry, or Text Client. Some Double-Take applications like the Double-Take Application Manager, Recovery Manager, Enterprise Install Console, Double-Take Reporting Center, and Full Server Failover Manager also use Microsoft’s WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation).  WMI relies on DCOM and RPC and the ports required and how to allow communication across a firewall will be best answered by Microsoft.

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The Professional services Fail Safe engagement is a service to assist customers with exercising failover and failback techniques using Double-Take and GeoCluster products to ensure complete data protection when it matters most. This is an on-site engagement where a certified Double-Take Software engineer will ensure that your high availability plans remain in optimum operating condition and will assist with the failover testing, best practice guidance for applying upgrades and service packs, and exercising business continuance objectives.

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