FEATURE BRIEF

Stingray Multi-site Manager Stingray MSM is an integrated management solution that gives a coordinated view of your application delivery fabric, which may span multiple, geographically distributed, data centers and cloud-based environments. As an advanced feature, MSM makes it easier to manage clusters of Stingray™ Traffic Manager deployments, greatly reducing the complexity of multi-site installations. In addition, the integrated global load balancing (GLB) feature allows you to control where traffic is directed throughout the world, based on factors such as geographic location and data center load.

Stingray MSM is fully distributed, in a multiple-master fashion and so avoids the single-point of failure inherent in centralized management appliances.

Production (New York)

Production (Beijing)

Engineering (Ukraine)

Multi-Site Management: •  Is reliable and globally distributed

•  Allows you to manage a Stingray cluster that spans multiple geographic locations

•  Lets you coordinate and deploy specialized configuration to each location

•  Works with Stingray’s Global Server Load Balancing capability to direct traffic to the most appropriate locations

Benefits With Stingray MSM, you can take advantage of an integrated management solution that provides you with a coordinated view of your application delivery fabric, that may span multiple geographically distributed data centers and cloud-based environments.

• One global point of control: control configuration and traffic management policies across multiple geographic locations, including cloud resources, all from a single point – remove manual error and enable instant global response to situations

• One global view of performance  and reliability across multiple locations: Understand web traffic trends and manage user interactions in real-time, detailed visualization and reporting tools

• Improvement in service performance and availability: Leverage both global and local load balancing techniques, application acceleration capabilities, and local web traffic management policies to prioritize and secure traffic

FEATURE BRIEF: Stingray Multi-site Manager

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What does Stingray MSM do? Stingray MSM provides coordinated management of Stingray Traffic Manager software deployed across multiple locations. It provides a global view of application configuration, activity, and health. It builds on Stingray’s clustered administration interface, extending it across multiple clusters so that you can view and manage all traffic management systems from any location, and:

• Fully manage the application delivery configuration deployed in each location • Perform staged deployment of configuration from development and test environments to multiple production environments • Gain a complete view of application performance and health and real-time user activity • View a single combined report of event logs and diagnostic status across all traffic management systems

With Stingray MSM, you have full control of the specific services and application delivery rules used in each Stingray cluster. Local differences can be easily catered for, thus reducing the operational costs and errors when delivering the same service from multiple locations. Stingray MSM makes it easy to keep track of software versions, license keys, and SSL certificates across all of your traffic management devices.

How to deploy Stingray MSM? When an application or service is deployed from multiple locations simultaneously, Stingray Traffic Manager manages traffic to and within each location based on business priorities and deployment strategies.

Stingray MSM may be used to manage configuration when staging the deployment of services in development, test and production environments. For example, service-specific application delivery policies may be created in a development environment, migrated to a test environment for performance and acceptance testing, and then rolled out to multiple production environments once testing has completed. The rich set of APIs available makes it possible to automate the entire process and integrate with full application staging solutions.

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Europe

Japan

Development

Single-site deployment

Wide-area (global) load balancing (traffic directed across multiple locations)

Disaster recovery (US fails over to Europe)

Development environment

Traffic Management units are deployed in each location, with integrated management using Stingray Multi-Site Management and global traffic direction using global load balancing.

FEATURE BRIEF: Stingray Multi-site Manager

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View performance, health, and user activity With the Stingray MSM, an administrator can view service activity and performance across all the Stingray Traffic Manager clusters from any of the administration interfaces in the clusters. Real-time and historical activity charts and current connections reports are all aggregated into a single view.

Combined logging and reporting Diagnosing and resolving application problems across multiple locations can be time-consuming and error prone. MSM reduces time-to-fix by combining all event logs and diagnostic information into single reports, to give an accurate global view of the health and status of services in each location.

Conclusion Stingray Traffic Manager provides a mature, scalable traffic management fabric that underpins applications delivered from any combination of physical, virtual or cloud-based data centers.

Additional Resources: For configuration information on how to merge Stingray Traffic Manager clusters with MSM, please refer to:

http://community.riverbed.com/t5/Answers/Merging-Clusters-with-Zeus-Multi-Site-Manager/m-p/16328

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