Arcserve Replication and High Availability Add-on - License - 1 Unit

The Arcserve Replication and High Availability Add-on offers a robust, enterprise-grade solution designed to protect critical data and keep essential services online when it matters most. Tailored for academic institutions, charitable organizations, and government agencies, this license delivers trusted replication and automatic failover capabilities within the Arcserve Global License Program (GLP). With a single unit license, you gain peace of mind through continuous data protection, streamlined management, and a scalable path to uptime — all backed by Arcserve’s proven reliability and industry-leading support. Whether you’re safeguarding research databases, student records, government applications, or donor information, this add-on extends your existing Arcserve deployment with powerful HA and DR features that minimize downtime and data loss.

• Robust replication and high availability: Experience near-zero downtime and minimal data loss with continuous replication of protected assets. The add-on supports automated failover and failback, ensuring applications stay online during outages and can resume normal operations quickly after a disruption. This capability is designed for mission-critical workloads, including databases, virtualized environments, and line-of-business apps essential to academic, nonprofit, and government missions.
• Academic GLP pricing and convenient licensing: Access Arcserve’s proven protection with GLP Academic pricing specifically designed for education, nonprofits, and government partners. The license is issued as a 1 Unit add-on, offering a straightforward path to scale your data protection footprint without compromising on compliance or governance. This pricing model helps institutions stretch budgets while preserving enterprise-grade protection for key systems and data.
• Seamless integration and centralized management: The add-on integrates tightly with your existing Arcserve environment, providing unified policy management, centralized dashboards, and a single pane of glass for configuration, monitoring, and reporting. You can define replication targets, retention policies, and failover criteria once, then apply them consistently across multiple protected assets to simplify operations and reduce administrative overhead.
• Scalability, flexibility, and broad compatibility: Designed to grow with your organization, the add-on supports a variety of deployment models and protected assets, including virtual machines, physical servers, and multi-platform workloads. As you add more data sources or expand to additional sites, the replication and HA capabilities scale while preserving performance, enabling you to protect larger environments without rearchitecting your protection strategy.
• Support, training, and long-term value: With GLP academic eligibility, you’re not just buying a license — you’re obtaining access to Arcserve’s support resources, documentation, and training materials that help your team deploy, operate, and optimize protection more effectively. The result is improved reliability, faster recovery testing, and greater confidence in meeting regulatory and governance requirements for data protection and continuity.

Technical Details of Arcserve Replication and High Availability Add-on - License - 1 Unit

• License Type: Add-on license — 1 Unit
• Licensing Program: Arcserve Global License Program (GLP) Academic pricing
• Intended Use: Academic institutions, charities, and government organizations seeking enhanced replication and high availability
• Deployment Scope: Integrates with existing Arcserve protection environments to deliver replication and automatic failover for protected assets
• Delivery Method: Digital license activation within the Arcserve portal

How to install Arcserve Replication and High Availability Add-on

• Prepare your environment: Verify compatibility with your current Arcserve deployment, confirm prerequisites, and ensure your management console has the appropriate access rights to apply an add-on license.

• Obtain and apply the GLP license: Retrieve the 1 Unit GLP activation from the Arcserve portal or your institutional procurement channel, then apply the add-on license within the Arcserve management console to enable replication and HA features.

• Configure replication targets: Define source and target assets for replication, select replication mode (synchronous or asynchronous as appropriate for your data protection goals), and set retention and encryption policies to safeguard copied data.

• Create failover and recovery policies: Establish automatic and manual failover criteria, set test failover schedules, and configure post-failover recovery steps to ensure rapid restoration of services after an outage.

• Validate protection with a test run: Execute a controlled failover test to verify connectivity, data integrity, application accessibility, and recovery time objectives (RTOs). Review results, refine policies, and document recovery procedures for teams and stakeholders.

• Monitor and optimize: Use the centralized dashboard to monitor replication status, health checks, and event alerts. Regularly review performance metrics, adjust bandwidth usage, and perform periodic disaster recovery drills to maintain readiness.

Frequently asked questions

• Q: What does the Arcserve Replication and High Availability Add-on include?

  A: The add-on provides replication capabilities and automated failover/failback to protect critical assets within an Arcserve environment. It is offered under the GLP Academic pricing for eligible organizations and is delivered as a 1 Unit license, enabling controlled access to HA/DR features without expanding base licensing requirements.

• Q: Who is eligible for GLP Academic pricing?

  A: Eligibility is limited to academic institutions, charitable organizations, and government entities participating in the Arcserve Global License Program (GLP). Confirm eligibility with your institutional administrator or Arcserve channel partner to ensure compliant purchasing.

• Q: Can I deploy this add-on in both on-premises and cloud environments?

  A: The add-on is designed to integrate with Arcserve protection strategies that can span on-premises and cloud deployments. Specific deployment options depend on your existing Arcserve configuration and licensing terms; consult your Arcserve representative to tailor the HA/DR setup to your site’s topology.

• Q: How does this add-on impact RPO and RTO?

  A: By enabling continuous data replication and automated failover, the solution helps reduce recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) for protected workloads. Exact values depend on replication mode, network bandwidth, and failover configurations you implement.

• Q: What kind of support and updates come with the GLP Academic license?

  A: GLP Academic licenses typically include access to Arcserve support resources and ongoing updates that align with your eligibility. Check with your license administrator for specific scope, service levels, and renewal terms tied to your GLP agreement.

• Q: How do I verify that protection is active and functioning?

  A: Use the Arcserve management console to monitor replication status, verify that protected assets show healthy replication ports and last successful replication timestamps, and conduct regular DR drills to validate failover readiness and data integrity.