With Avance technology, any business can create an automated high availability environment. All it takes is a pair of commodity servers, a private Ethernet link, Avance software and 15 minutes of your time. That’s it. And, once you load your operating systems, the Avance Virtualization Wizard allows you to create virtual machines as quickly as you need them.

But don’t let our operational simplicity and ease of use fool you. The underlying technology features found in Avance software are among the most advanced that Stratus has ever developed.

• Built-in 24-7 monitoring, error detection, isolation and reporting. Avance software continuously monitors your physical servers and virtual machines – automatically identifying faults and calling for repairs.
• Automatic migration. If a problem is detected in one server, the software migrates applications and data to the other server – ensuring that applications will ride through most causes of system interruption without downtime or data loss.
• Online upgrades, maintenance and support. Leveraging its duplex hardware architecture to address planned and unplanned downtime, Avance technology enables repairs and upgrades to be performed on one server node while your applications continue to run normally on the second node.

• The Avance Virtualization Wizard helps you provision your virtual machines in a few clicks.

  Effortless Virtual Machine provisioning. Special knowledge of virtualization or HA architectures is not required to provision highly available Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs). The Avance Virtualization Wizard does the work for you, guiding you through the VM setup in a few clicks.
• Industry-standard x86 platforms optimized for HA. Avance HA immediately provides a hardened environment for traditional or virtualized applications without the added expense of customized hardware, failover scripts or expressly trained technicians.
• No need for a storage area network (SAN). A SAN is completely optional in an Avance solution. This reduces equipment and staffing costs, not to mention the time and effort it takes to set up and maintain a SAN.