Meridian Enterprise can be deployed in virtualized, high availability infrastructures like VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V in a Windows Server failover cluster or similar environment. By doing so, the underlying IT architecture provides high availability for Meridian Enterprise. Other scenarios for partial high availability or switchover are also possible.
For example, using VMware vSphere Replication, a production Meridian Enterprise server running on a virtual machine can be replicated to one or more copies in real time. If the production server fails, services can be switched over to a shadow server with minimal effort and time loss.
Meridian Explorer runs on Microsoft and Oracle systems for storing, managing, and serving documents and their metadata. It can thereby claim high availability when the Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database is run in a high availability cluster.
If a virtualized environment is not an option, certain components of Meridian Enterprise can achieve high availability with the aid of other infrastructure or 3rd party tools.
Related concepts
About Meridian deployment strategies
Understanding the single-server strategy
Understanding the multiple-server strategy
Understanding the workgroup model