top of page

News

Introduction to High Availability in Facilities Management: Ensuring Safe and Reliable Operations

  • Writer: RoyceMedia
    RoyceMedia
  • Apr 3, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: Apr 11, 2023


Facility management is a complicated field requiring various technologies and processes to ensure the safe and efficient operation of buildings and facilities. High availability is one of the essential components of facility management. This article will provide an introduction to high availability in facility management.


In facility management, it is essential to specify what high availability means. High availability is the capacity of a system or service to remain operational and accessible despite hardware or software failures, network problems, and other disturbances. This is crucial in facility management, where downtime or disruptions can have severe effects, such as health and safety hazards, equipment damage, and lost productivity.


Why is high availability in facility management so important? First and foremost, it contributes to building residents' safety and well-being. It also protects vital equipment and infrastructure against damage and deterioration caused by unplanned outages or downtime. It enables property managers to provide regular and dependable services to renters and customers.


How, therefore, may facility managers achieve high operating availability? There are various effective tactics and technology. They consist of the following:


Redundancy refers to having numerous mission-critical systems or services such that if one instance fails, another can take over. This ensures that a backup option is always available during a breakdown.


Load balancing includes distributing traffic over numerous servers or instances so that traffic can be redirected to another if one server fails. This can assist in ensuring that the system has no single point of failure.


Failover is the automatic switching to a backup system or service if the primary system or service fails. This can assist in ensuring that essential services continue to be accessible despite failures or disruptions.


Recovery from Catastrophic Failures, such as natural catastrophes or cyberattacks, requires a plan. This can aid in ensuring that facility management operations can continue despite a significant disturbance.


Cloud-based solutions provide a variety of high-availability capabilities, including redundant storage, load balancing, and automatic failover. This can ensure that essential services remain accessible during a localized disruption or outage.


High availability is an essential aspect of facility management operations. Facility managers may preserve the safety and well-being of occupants, maintain critical infrastructure and equipment, and provide consistent and reliable services to customers and renters by ensuring that critical systems and services are always available. Various tactics and technologies are required to achieve high availability, including redundancy, load balancing, failover, disaster recovery, and cloud-based solutions. With these technologies, site managers may ensure that their activities stay accessible and operational despite any obstacles.


Learn more about RoyceMedia FailXafe High Availability software solution at https://www.roycemedia.com/failxafe-ha

Abstract Lines

STAY IN THE KNOW

Thanks for submitting!

  • VMware Virtualization
    Reduce capital and operational costs by increasing energy efficiency and using less hardware with server consolidation. Enhance business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities for your virtualized infrastructure. Virtualize business critical applications and databases (Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP HANA, SAP Sybase, SAP Business Suite, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SAP) for the highest SLAs and top performance. Gain policy-based automation and ensure compliance and performance with a zero-touch infrastructure using VMware vRealize™ Operations™ for virtualization management. See more at: http://www.vmware.com/ap/virtualization/#sthash.XGalA895.dpuf
  • Server Virtualization
    Abstracting the operating system and applications from the physical hardware gives you a more cost-efficient, agile and simplified server environment. Using server virtualization, multiple operating systems can run on a single physical server as virtual machines, each with access to the underlying server's computing resources. Most servers operate at less than 15 percent of capacity, leading to server sprawl and complexity. Server virtualization addresses these inefficiencies. VMware vSphere offers a complete server virtualization platform that delivers: 80 percent greater utilization of server resources Up to 50 percent savings in capital and operating costs 10:1 or better server consolidation ratio. Since virtualized infrastructure has unique management needs, VMware offers vSphere with Operations Management, which delivers vSphere optimized with critical capacity and performance management capabilities. It is designed for businesses of all sizes to run applications at high service levels and maximize hardware savings through even higher capacity utilization and consolidation ratios. Benefits of virtualization are nothing short of dramatic. Up to 80 percent greater utilization of every server. Reductions in hardware requirements by a ratio of 10:1 or better. Capital and operations expenses cut by half, with annual savings of more than $1,500 for each server virtualized. Robust, affordable high availability.
  • Network Virtualization
    Network virtualization is the complete reproduction of a physical network in software. Virtual networks offer the same features and guarantees of a physical network with the operational benefits and hardware independence of virtualization—rapid provisioning, non-disruptive deployment, automated maintenance, and support for both legacy and new applications. Presents logical networking devices and services—logical ports, switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs and more—to connected workloads. Applications run on the virtual network exactly the same as if on a physical network. With software-defined networking, virtualization principles are applied to network resources, abstracting, pooling and automating them to transcend the limitations of rigid physical architectures. Network services are assigned to each application and remain with it, elastically adapting to its changing requirements. Software-defined networking has many benefits: Simplified provisioning Enhanced scalability Simplified management Lower operating cos
  • Desktop Virtualization
    Deploying desktops as a managed service gives you the opportunity to respond quicker to changing needs and opportunities. You can reduce costs and increase service by quickly and easily delivering virtualized desktops and applications to branch offices, outsourced and offshore employees and mobile workers on iPad and Android tablets. VMware desktop solutions are scalable, consistent, fully secure and highly available to ensure maximum uptime and productivity.
  • Application Virtualization
    In order to maintain QoS and SLA for Tier 1 business applications in virtual environments, IT organizations must focus on the virtualization components of the project, the management and monitoring of virtualized business applications, and on maintaining corporate guidelines for business continuity and disaster recovery. With the VMware Tier 1 Application Virtualization solution built on VMware vCloud Suite®, you can enhance the quality of IT services delivered, while simplifying your infrastructure, maximizing efficiency and eliminating costly over-provisioning. Learn more about application virtualization.
  • Storage Virtulization
    Huge data volumes and real-time applications are pushing storage demands to new levels. As the leader in hyper-converged software-defined storage for virtual environments, VMware Virtual SAN™ applies the principles of VMware's Software-Defined Data Center to storage by abstracting the disks and flash drives inside your servers, combining them into high-performance storage pools, and delivering them as software. Virtual SAN offers simplified, policy-based provisioning, and it’s integrated with the vSphere web client, so you can: Easily manage both compute and storage through a single interface. Significantly improve storage resource utilization and flexibility. Simplify OS patching and driver requirements, regardless of storage topology. Increase application uptime and simplify day-to-day operations. Leverage and complement your existing storage infrastructure. Learn more about storage virtualization. See more at:http://www.vmware.com/ap/virtualization/#sthash.XGalA895.dpuf

Get started with RoyceMedia

Drop us a message and our team of experts will be in touch with you.

Our Location

211 Henderson Road #09-04

Singapore 159552

Follow Us

© Copyright by ROYCEMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES PTE LTD. All Rights Reserved.

bottom of page