Double-Take® Flex reduces the time and expense of desktop and server provisioning and management, while increasing the level of control that you have over your current infrastructure.
Double-Take® Flex lets you create shared network boot volumes that can be provisioned once and assigned to many machines in order to boot from the same volume on the iSCSI SAN. This provides the flexibility for centralised management to rapidly provision multiple new workstations or servers all while keeping them highly secure. Double-Take® Flex turns any Windows server in iSCSI SAN and manages boot volumes with its built-in iSCSI tools, helping to efficiently manage single or multiple desktop or server images while creating a more flexible and dynamic infrastructure.
Key Benefits:
- Centralised Management – Double-Take® Flex allows shared access to network storage
- Simplified recovery - reduces the cost of managing workloads, replacing failed drives or restoring drives to their original state
- Fast server and desktop deployment – create shared boot volumes that can be provisioned once and assigned to many machines in order to boot from the same volume on the SAN.
- Powerful provisioning
- Blade-ready - enables existing Ethernet NICs on blades to perform diskless boot from iSCSI.
- Low-cost iSCSI Storage – Double-Take Flex turns any Windows® server into an iSCSI SAN
- Virtual machine friendly – workstations can use local processing for running workloads and free CPU cycles on shared iSCSI SAN volume.
- Safe desktops - A boot volume can be shared with each user maintaining a private and persistent write cache so environments can be customised.
- Simple, shareable virtualised storage
Read the Learning Assistant Case Study
Leading the field in online assessment for vocational qualifications, Learning Assistant has enabled thousands of learners to get qualified since 2002. Over the last two years, the company has experienced faster than projected growth, thanks partly to a number of innovations made by their software development team. What Learning Assistant needed was the most resilient and scalable system they could find, which took up the least amount of physical space, used the least amount of power, and of course, still be the most cost effective solution. Finally, the system had to pretty much run itself, and be manageable by in-house staff.
Double-Take Flex Technical Demonstration
This 5min flash-based technical demonstration of the Double-Take® Flex product shows how to provision a shared image and boot multiple clients from that shared image. Click here.