DxEnterprise provides high availability and disaster recovery for databases, ensuring continuous operation and minimizing downtime. Its advanced technology assists with workload portability and protection, making it essential for maintaining business continuity.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| DxEnterprise | 9.2% |
| InfoScale | 20.5% |
| Windows Server Failover Clustering | 15.9% |
| Other | 54.4% |
DxEnterprise focuses on efficient database management, offering solutions designed to enhance operation stability. Its capabilities facilitate seamless workload optimization, ensuring high levels of data protection. With an emphasis on reducing maintenance time, it provides effective means of rapid recovery, ensuring infrastructure reliability. As organizations scale, DxEnterprise aids in accommodating increased demand while maintaining performance standards.
What are the key features of DxEnterprise?In specific industries such as finance and healthcare, DxEnterprise is implemented to handle critical data with precision and reliability. It serves institutions needing robust disaster recovery and high availability solutions, allowing them to maintain seamless operations and adhere to compliance standards. Its adaptability ensures tailored deployment to meet industry-specific requirements.
DxEnterprise was previously known as DH2i DxEnterprise.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.5 | I've used this for three years for its high availability and SQL patching, finding it superior to Microsoft SQL clustering. Support is excellent, and we've had no stability issues. My main concerns are the outdated interface and test environment licensing cost. |
| Systems Analyst/DBA at Vecima Networks | 4.0 | I found DxConsole, and especially DxEnterprise, excellent for SQL Server failover, providing redundancy and minimal downtime. Deployment improved with DxEnterprise, offering better stability and faster failovers with NTFS. Customer service is superb, making it a highly recommended upgrade. |
| VP of IT at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees | 4.0 | No summary available |
SQL patching
High availability
We were looking for a better-than-Microsoft-SQL clustering solution.
The interface can seem a little old school at times.
By Old School, I simply mean from a graphics perspective it looks like word 97, not word 2013.
I have used it for three years.
The team from DH2i stepped us through the install over the phone and made sure they were oncall during major upgrades.
We have not encountered any stability issues.
We have not encountered any scalability issues.
Customer service is excellent.
Technical Support:Technical support is excellent.
We previously used Microsoft clustering.
Initial setup was relatively straightforward for a clustering solution.
An in-house team implemented it.
We measure ROI in up-time. So far, no issues, whatsoever.
Unfortunately, you need to license your test environment, as well. We have a test environment purely for DxEnterprise.
Failover and clustering of SQL Server instances
It allowed us to have redundant servers for our SQL instances so in the event of system failure, we would only be down for a few minutes while things failed over
Better messages from system on errors and warnings. Better error logging in the DxTransfer tool.
over a year
Deployment went fairly smoothly. The biggest issue was that it used a different filesystem than PolyServe so we needed to move all of the data from the PolyServe File System (PFS) to the Melio File System (MFS). This was a very slow process and resulted in a lot of overtime as you need to turn off a SQL instance in order to move the databases.
Update - With the new DxEnterprise, you no longer need a fancy file system. We have NTFS set up now and failing over is even faster than with Melio.
Stability seems fairly good so far. Once things were configured properly, stability seems pretty good unless 3 of our 4 servers hosting the software go down. One server cannot nicely handle all of our SQL instances. But that is a server resource issue, not a DxConsole issue.
Update - We had stability issues with Melio, but since switching to DxEnterprise and using NTFS instead of Melio, we are more than happy. No stability issues at all.
Scalability seems to work quite nicely. Very similar to PolyServe.
Customer service has been excellent so far. Response times are very prompt.
Technical Support:Technical support has been very helpful. Any issues we ran into, they were able to help with or correct in a very quick manner.
PolyServe is what we used previously and we switched because we wanted a system that offered full support. PolyServe was forum-based support due to the product approaching EOL.
The initial setup was very straightforward. The installation is pretty much a "click next next next install" then once installed you enter your serial number and are good to go. If you have used PolyServe before, the software is very easy to configure. It uses similar terms for things and has very similar features.
Update - Upgrading from DxConsole to DxEnterprise was very easy. Upgrading from DxDev to DxEnterprise was a bit more bumpy, but even that was pretty easy to do.
We implemented In-house.
I am unsure on the original setup cost but the day to day cost is very low. We have email alerts set up on the system and unless all 4 servers go down at once, we will get email notifications on issues. Therefore I only really touch the system when it tells me something is wrong.
Update - Since upgrading to DxEnterprise and removing Melio, maintenance costs in hours are basically nothing. It has been a few months since we have needed to contact support and that was more just a heads-up that we were starting an update from DxConsole to DxEnterprise. We have had no need to contact Support since upgrading.
We didn't really evaluate other options as this product seemed to meet our needs and seemed to be very similar to our existing system.
If you have used PolyServe and are looking for an alternate before it is EOL, I strongly recommend DxConsole. The learning curve for those who have used PolyServe is very low and the system works great. I would refrain from using DxTransfer for moving databases and jobs, but it works nice for moving users. There is a new version of DxTransfer, but we have not had need to use it since we set up our systems.
Update - I strongly encourage people to upgrade from DxConsole to DxEnterprise. It works a lot better, is more stable and has much faster failovers. On top of that it has extra features not available in DxConsole.
Our company has been using DXConsole for over a year. We are a small SQL shop with limited budget but still require HA. We have 2 SQL servers and 10 virtual instances. We enjoy the fact that we can failover and failback with little to no issues to the databases. We also like the virtual instances where you don't have to make any ODBC changes to some of our applications when we do a failover. This product eases administration and gives us great reliability without the cost of SQL enterprise. I am curious to see if anyone is using the DR feature to another datacenter or the cloud.
