FEATURE GUIDE

Double-Take® for Windows v5.0

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FEATURE GUIDE
Double-Take® for Windows v5.0

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Product Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Intelligent Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Email Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Management Console Server Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
(New) Full-Server Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
(New) Server Recovery Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
(New) Virtual Recovery Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
(New) Enterprise Install Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Product Update Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Asynchronous, Byte-level, Continuous Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Hardware Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Simple Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Double-Take Reporting Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Uses Existing Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Task Command Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Unlimited Distance Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Many-to-One Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Automated Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Open-file Mirroring and Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Flow Control (Unlimited Disk Queuing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Bandwidth Throttling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Resource Planning Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Active/Active MSCS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Serverless Backup Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Block Checksum Re-Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Replication Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
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Automatic Re-Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
File/Directory Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Support for Different File Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
SNMP Counters and Traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
(New) Enhanced Restores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Full Command-Line Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
(New) Advanced Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Server Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Target Reboot Without Re-Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
ICMP-less ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
MOM Integration Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Volume Shadow Copy Service Snapshot Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Reports and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
64-bit Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Enhanced Integration with Double-Take Application Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
(New) Interoperability with HSM Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Target State Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Target Path Blocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

About Double-Take® Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Double-Take Software Headquarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Sales and Support Outside the US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Double-Take Software Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
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Introduction
Product Description
Double-Take® from Double-Take Software goes beyond periodic backup to provide accessible and affordable data protection, ensure minimal
data loss, and enable immediate recovery from any disaster or system outage. Double-Take uses patented replication and failover technology
that continuously captures byte-level changes as they happen and replicates those changes to one or more target servers at any location,
locally or at a recovery site miles away. In the event of a disaster, Double-Take lets you recover from your target servers in minutes, if not
seconds. What's more, Double-Take delivers better protection than many hardware-based solutions, and it costs tens of thousands less. Start
with as few servers as you like, scale organically as your data requirements grow, and get a fast and continuing return on your investment.

Features
Intelligent Compression
Double-Take® is the only host-based replication solution that provides multilevel intelligent compression. Double-Take provides four options
for data compression that allows custom configuration to suit each customer’s individual requirements. These settings can be individually
configured for each replication set defined within Double-Take, allowing even further
customization by server, data, and/or network.

The first level is ‘no compression’. Chose this setting for data that resides on application
servers that require full availability of system resources or where network bandwidth is not
a concern. Less critical data where latency is not a major concern may also be considered
for no compression.

The next three levels enable compression, but to differing degrees. There is a tradeoff to
consider when choosing compression levels. Higher compression levels require Double-Take
to use additional system resources, including CPU and RAM, on both the source and target
servers. Level one provides the least amount of compression, using the least amount of

Figure 1: Intelligent Compression

system resources, resulting in a smaller data transfer benefit while level three performs the
highest degree of compression, resulting in the least amount of data being transmitted.
However, additional CPU and RAM will be required. By providing multiple levels to choose from, and allowing each to be set on individual
replication sets, customers can decide what level is necessary and what trade-offs are acceptable based on the actual data being protected.

As certain data types can actually increase in size when compressed, which will result in more data being transmitted rather than less,
Double-Take compares the size of the compressed data to that of the uncompressed and will transmit the smaller of the two. This ensures
that Double-Take compression does not increase the load on the network when intending to decrease it. Customers don’t have to be
concerned with first validating the data for its ‘compressibility’ prior to enabling compression. Double-Take will intelligently compress only the
data from which a benefit will result.

Email Alerts
For optimal data protection and availability, Double-Take can provide event notifications via email for immediate awareness of possible breaks
in service levels. Email alerts can be configured with different recipients for each Double-Take server, with each having its own event
notification level (informational, warning, error). The email message will include useful information in the subject line, including server name
where the event occurred and the error level and code. By using Double-Take, administrators can quickly and easily manage events via their
email clients by sorting or filtering by these events. They can then choose which ones require immediate attention and which do not.

By providing immediate and at-a-glance updates of the Double-Take environment via email, administrators do not have to continually monitor
the Double-Take management console to ensure everything is operating smoothly. This ability greatly increases the scalability and
manageability of the Double-Take environment.

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Management Console Server Filtering

Server Filtering allows individual administrators to create their own custom server views within the Double-Take management console. By
hiding certain servers, administrators are able to see just their select set of servers, simplifying manageability of the Double-Take environment.
Views are created by individual login IDs, allowing each administrator to only have to see the servers they are concerned with.
Through the use of customized server views, Double-Take allows for virtually unlimited scalability, as one can choose to view as few servers as
desired without having to search through the tens or hundreds of other servers being managed by Double-Take.

(New) Full-Server Failover

The Full-Server Failover feature applies the source server’s OS configuration, applications, and data to the target server. Because applications
do not have to be pre-installed and maintained on the target server, full-server failover is easy to configure. Full-Server Failover supports one-
to-one connections of 32bit or 64bit servers and can failover the LAN or WAN to dissimilar hardware.

(New) Server Recovery Option

Using the same technology as full-server failover, the Server Recovery Option can be purchased to provide many-to-one full server protection,
with the ability to recover servers as needed after failure. The Server Recovery Option supports 32bit or 64bit servers and can recover over the
LAN or WAN to dissimilar hardware.

(New) Virtual Recovery Assistant

Double-Take Virtual Recovery Assistant allows you to set up protection from a physical or source machine to a VMware ESX-based virtual
machine target. By using a virtual replication appliance to replicate data directly into a virtual machine’s (VM) virtual disk, the target VM does
not need to be running. This allows for over subscription of the virtual environment at the DR site and reduces licensing fees for guest
operating systems and applications. The Virtual Recovery Assistant provisions the target VM for you and monitors the protected source
machine. It can be configured to failover to the target automatically if the connection is lost between the source and target. Running low on
disk space on your source machine? Need more memory or more processors? Double-Take Virtual Recovery Assistant allows you to increase
the drive size, memory, and number of processors on the target VM during protection setup.

(New) Enterprise Install Console

The Enterprise Install Console helps you deploy and maintain your Double-Take installations. From within this console, you can automate
Double-Take installs or upgrades on all servers throughout your enterprise.

Product Update Checking

To help ensure customers always install, or are at least aware of the latest version of Double-Take available, the installation process allows the
user to check, via the web, for the latest product updates and releases. The user is given a list of updates available and can choose to
download and install immediately. This update check is also available via the Double-Take GUI, allowing users to check for updates whenever
they choose, without having to run the installation process. It is common for customers to install patches or enhancements to their Double-
Take install, Double-Take will first determine what updates the customer has installed and verify that these are all included in a particular
update before presenting it to the customer as an option for download. Any update that does not include all the patches already installed by
the customer are not listed for the customer to select.

Asynchronous, Byte-level, Continuous Replication

Asynchronous replication ensures that the replication process does not impact production applications, as can be the case with synchronous
replication. Double-Take captures the data for processing but does not keep it from updating the local disk, whereas with synchronous
replication the local disk is not updated until after the replicated data has been written/committed to the target disk and the corresponding
acknowledgement has been sent back to the production server. This results in a performance decrease on the production application because
it is waiting for confirmation that the replication has occurred. Double-Take allows the application to process data as it normally would and
simply captures the changes for processing in the background. Double-Take copies only the byte-level changes to files, not entire blocks
(physical or logical) or entire files, thereby reducing the overhead on the servers and the network. Byte-level replication ensures that all
transactions are captured and written in order on the target for maintaining exact replicas. These changes are captured as they are made,
resulting in near real-time replication. The data is being replicated by Double-Take before it is even written to the source disk.

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Hardware Independence
Whereas hardware-based synchronous replication is often proprietary for each storage vendor and provides no cross-vendor replication,
Double-Take has no affinity to any hardware or storage provider or storage architecture (SCSI, FibreChannel, iSCSI). This independence allows
Double-Take to be used on existing heterogeneous storage infrastructures and does not lock you in to a specific vendor for future purchases.
Using a hardware-independent solution allows for a myriad of uses not possible with proprietary array-based solutions. Performing migrations
to new hardware, implementation of a SAN or NAS, or any other project that requires moving data from one storage device to another is
possible and efficient with Double-Take, and there are no distance limitations. Best of all, there is no installation or training required every
time new hardware is added. Simply connect the storage to a host already running Double-Take, and define the data to be replicated.

Simple Management Console

The simplicity of navigating and configuring Double-Take provides for a much better overall user experience. This simplicity lends itself to the
proficient and extended use of Double-Take in your environment, reducing overall cost-of-ownership and improving ROI. Double-Take provides
an interface that is easy to use to ensure you can quickly and easily protect your data. The Double-Take UI automatically discovers servers
running Double-Take and displays them in a single window. Managing the entire Double-Take deployment can be performed from this single
console. Any transfers, reports, failures, and/or failbacks can be viewed from this single point.

Double-Take Reporting Center

Double-Take Reporting Center is a centralized reporting and analysis feature that offers detailed, custom analysis and reports of your entire
Double-Take environment. Double-Take Reporting Center collects and analyzes protection statistics and provides rich reports and dashboard
views to show the overall effectiveness of your protection scheme to key stakeholders in your organization.

Double-Take Reporting Center allows you to show the overall effectiveness of your Double-Take protection scheme over time, giving you the
information that you need to be accountable to management. Double-Take Reporting Center also allows you verify the integrity of the data
on your target server and gives you the ability to identify subtle or growing problems that may only be visible when looking at trends over
time.

Uses Existing Networks

Double-Take does not require its own private network for replicating data. Most often, existing networks are more than sufficient to facilitate
this work, allowing you to implement lower-cost data replication and protection solutions. This reduces the overall cost-of-ownership by
keeping the initial investment lower. This also removes any restrictions and additional costs for future network changes or purchases by
utilizing any IP network in place. Double-Take can also be run on its own private network should you want to isolate replication traffic.

Task Command Processing

Double-Take allows insertion of system commands into the data stream for execution at different points during its regular processing. Tasks
such as automatically initiating backup of your target servers are possible. Via in-band commands, you can ensure all files on the target are in
sync with each other (i.e. log and data files), pause writing on the target (allowing source changes to still be transmitted and captured) and
initiate the backup. Once the backup is complete, the task command can then enable writing on the target.

Unlimited Distance Replication

As Double-Take utilizes standard IP networks, there aren’t the typical distance limitations as with some synchronous and array-based
products. Being able to replicate over long distances lends itself to numerous uses that short distance products cannot accomplish. Solutions
such as centralized backup to copy regional site data to a local server for backup is possible and practical regardless of geographic
separations; protection against regional failures, replicating data across the country or across the globe to ensure the data is always available
if needed.

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Many-to-One Failover
Double-Take can be configured such that a single target server is used for numerous source servers. This can reduce the total cost of
ownership as it is not necessary to have a one-to-one exact duplicate of the hardware for replication purposes, as is the case with many other
replication solutions. This also helps to facilitate centralized backup since many local or remote servers can be backed up from a single server,
further lowering costs by reducing the number of backup licenses needed.

Automated Failover
Whether running MSCS or not, Double-Take can provide high-availability failover of servers
to ensure users remain online in case of a failure. While MSCS has distance limitations,
Double-Take does not, thereby providing failover protection during local AND regional
failures. This availability allows users and customers to quickly have access to their systems
and data. For customer-facing systems, it ensures that customer satisfaction remains high
and sales are not impacted. (Figure 2)

Open-file Mirroring and Replication

Double-Take doesn’t require that applications be restarted each time additional files
and/or directories are configured for replication. Users, customers and applications remain
online and active while Double-Take is at work, never having a negative impact on your

Figure 2: Automated Failover

productivity. Unlike many products, Double-Take is able to process open files and ensure
they are fully replicated without taking the files offline. Some backup products can provide
open-file backup support but at an additional cost.

Flow Control (Unlimited Disk Queuing)

Double-Take is designed to handle spikes in the data rate-of-change even if the network connection to the target server is not sufficient to
handle all the data at once. Double-Take will continue to filter all file changes and buffer these changes, while at the same time transmitting
to the target as quickly as possible. Queuing ensures that all transactions are replicated to the target without loss of data. With the
bandwidth throttling and scheduling features, users can now configure Double-Take around their production server and network requirements.
If performing backups from the target sever, replication can be paused to ensure a complete point-in-time backup, while also ensuring that all
changes on the Source server are still transmitted to the target and will be applied once the backup is complete.

Bandwidth Throttling
User-defined controls within Double-Take can limit the amount of the available network
bandwidth it can use for data replication. This allows replication to occur real-time without
impacting users on the same network. And, since Double-Take has the ability to queue data
for transmission, all changes will be updated to the target and not lost due to network
limits. Double-Take allows the administrator to define the actual type of network connection
being used (T1, 128Kbps, etc.) and then define the amount that can be used for replication.
Double-Take will not go beyond that limit, regardless of the amount of data it has to
transfer. Double-Take also allows you to limit network use during busy work hours and
increase or remove limits during non-peak hours. (Figure 3)
Figure 3: Bandwidth Throttling

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Resource Planning Tool

To ensure an optimal replication environment, Double-Take includes a Resource Planning Tool which runs the Double-Take filter process
without actually copying the data to a remote target. This gives information necessary to implement the appropriate networks and servers to
meet your RPO and RTO. By running this tool before deployment, you can avoid costly overspends on hardware and networks and avoid an
insufficient deployment that doesn’t meet your needs.

Active/Active MSCS Support

If running in a Microsoft® clustered environment in an Active/Active configuration, Double-Take can be configured to replicate data from any
or all members, to each other, or to remote systems. Double-Take can be configured to be aware of failovers and automatically adjust the
sources and targets accordingly, removing the need for user intervention at the time of failure.

Serverless Backup Support

While Double-Take does not replace tape backup, it can greatly enhance your existing backup solutions. By replicating production data
(application, file server, user, etc.) to a target server, backups can be performed from the target server without having to shut down
applications or requiring users to log off the production server. The backup window, which is often too small and results in incomplete
backups, is now not an issue, as the target server has virtually no time limits
for the backup to complete. Users continue to run 24X7 on the production server while backup is offloaded to non-production target servers.

Failback/Restore
Should a failure occur, Double-Take can facilitate data restoration from the target back to the original source or to an alternate location.
Through the Double-Take UI, users can easily restore data from the replicated disk back to the production disk once the failure is corrected.
This greatly reduces the time to recover and restore, as it is not necessary to go offsite for tapes and then restore one at a time. This also
ensures that you recover from the time the failure occurred, not from when the last backup was taken, which can result in a day or more of
lost data and productivity. Unlike other solutions that make the users remember which files came from what location, the Double-Take restore
process automatically reverses the direction of your original replication job.

Block Checksum Re-Mirror

Should a disconnect occur between the source and target, instead of doing a complete mirror of the entire replication set, Double-Take can
perform a block-checksum re-mirror. This re-mirror will only replicate the file differences between the source and target, which will take much
less time and resources to accomplish. This will ensure that the target is coordinated with the source. This feature greatly simplifies backup,
recovery, and replication management.

Replication Scheduling
Double-Take provides the flexibility to schedule when replication occurs. Double-Take will continue to filter and queue up all appropriate data
changes until the scheduled time has arrived, then replicates the queued changes to the target until the user-defined replication window
closes. This allows users to fine-tune Double-Take around their business needs to ensure network
and system resources are used efficiently and that replication does not impact production.

Versioning Mirrors
If multiple point-in-time versions are required, Double-Take can easily integrate with 3rd-party point-in-time applications for the creation of
multiple copies of the source data from different times throughout the day.

Automatic Re-Mirror
Should a problem or even scheduled maintenance require that the connection between the source and target be broken, Double-Take will re-
establish its connection when possible and will automatically re-mirror the source to the target(s), ensuring the target remains in sync with
the source.

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File/Directory Selection
With Double-Take you can select full file systems, directories or files for replication. This gives greater flexibility to configure efficient use of
resources. Important files can be selected, while system and temporary files can be skipped. The use of wildcards and drag-n-drop facilitate
quick and simple configuration.
Support for Different File Types
Double-Take has been successfully tested against different file types such as encrypted and compressed, and ultra-long file names, among
others. This ensures that Double-Take will be sure to correctly replicate all the data in your environment.

Verification
Although Double-Take has numerous checks to validate that the data on the target is an exact replica with the source, there is also a
verification option that can be run (either scheduled or immediately) that will verify the target is in sync with the source and create a report.
This is useful when there is a brief outage, if services are stopped, or if someone has made direct updates to the data on the target. You can
choose to just report on any differences or have all differences corrected.

SNMP Counters and Traps

Double-Take allows you to integrate it with your enterprise management frameworks. Double-Take will forward both replication statistics and
events via SNMP allowing simplified management by administrators.

(New) Enhanced Restores

Restores in Double-Take 5.0 maximize the uptime for end-users because there is no need to take applications offline during a restore. Any
changes made by users between the time the restore is started and initiation of failback will be replicated to the source.

Full Command-Line Control

Double-Take allows all GUI functions to be controlled from the commandline, either via scripts or individual commands, giving you greater
flexibility and automation capabilities.

(New) Advanced Scripting

Scripting in Double-Take 5.0 can be executed within a specific user context. There are also new script execution points that allow users to
have scripts activated around mirror events, such as mirror start, mirror complete, and mirror stop.

Server Groups
Server groups and health status information within the Double-Take console allow you to easily manage multiple Double-Take servers and
centrally monitor the health of real-time replication and failover.

Target Reboot Without Re-Mirror

You can gracefully shutdown the Double-Take Target server without requiring resynchronization of the entire protected dataset.

ICMP-less ping
Additional options for failover monitoring provide the ability to monitor the Double-Take service in place of monitoring the IP address of the
production server.

MOM Integration Pack

Double-Take Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager allows you to monitor issues on all Double-Take servers across your
enterprise and alerts you to only important events, allowing you to stay aware of, respond to, and demonstrate accountability for server and
application services levels.

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Volume Shadow Copy Service Snapshot Integration

Double-Take integrates with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to allow you to
schedule and recover from up to 64 point-in-time copies of data on your Double-
Take target. This ensures that you can easily recover from human error, corruption,
viruses, and other unwanted changes. (Figure 4)

Reports and Statistics

Double-Take provides reports and statistics about your replication environment
which allow you to know at any time exactly what is happening on a Double-Take
server, all from a single interface. Reports include information such as what has been
replicated last, how much has been replicated, failovers, downed systems, and other
useful statistics for ensuring adequate data protection.

Figure 4: VSS Snapshot

64-bit Support
Double-Take provides 64-bit versions that run on Windows® Server x64 Edition
(AMD64 and EMT64) or Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems.

Enhanced Integration with Double-Take Application Manager

From within the standard Double-Take Management console, administrators can easily launch the Double-Take Application Manager to
configure a new Exchange or SQL Server protection scenario or manage an existing one.

(New) Interoperability with HSM Products

Double-Take 5.0 interoperates with Hierarchical Storage Management solutions from Commvault, Bridgehead and DiskXtender. When these
products archive files, replace them with placeholder files, and recall the files, Double-Take replicates their every move. Additionally, when
Double-Take 5.0 performs its Verify operations on archived files, it recognizes the place-holder files and avoids unwanted file recalls.

Target State Awareness

Double-Take can report to the user the “state” of replicated data. This provides the administrator additional status information about the
replication process and can help them verify that their business-critical data is being protected by Double-Take or help them troubleshoot
potential issues that may be affecting real-time replication.

Double-Take’s VSS Snapshot Integration feature leverages Target State Awareness to take automatic point-in-time snapshots of protected data
as data moves from a “known” to an “unknown” state. This ensures that the administrator has at least a “known-good” copy of the
protected data from which to recover.

Target Path Blocking

This feature allows the administrator to easily block any other application or process from writing to the replicated data on the Double-Take
target server. This prevents unwanted changes from occurring inadvertently and ensures that the replicated data does not become corrupt due
to these unwanted changes.
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About Double-Take® Software

Headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, Double-Take® Software (Nasdaq: DBTK) is a leading provider of affordable software for
recoverability, including continuous data replication, application availability and system state protection. Double-Take Software products and
services enable customers to protect and recover business-critical data and applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint in
both physical and virtual environments. With its unparalleled partner programs, technical support, and professional services, Double-Take
Software is the solution of choice for more than ten thousand customers worldwide, from SMEs to the Fortune 500. Information about
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