Here's your chance to find out how you can offer high availability for printing in your enterprise environment.
For more information on UniPrint Infinity v9 and our High Availability Module, contact sales@uniprint.net
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High Availability For Your Printing Infrastructure
1. Beyond Universal Printer Driverv9
v9
High Availability For Your Printing Infrastructure
Presented by:
Christopher Hathway (Technical Director EMEA)
Sharon Munday (PR & Marketing EMEA)
3. High Availability
Beyond Universal Printer Driverv9
To ensure maximum uptime UniPrint Infinity's High Availability
(HA) module eliminates single points of failure in the printing
system safeguarding your critical systems. With the
additional capability of load balancing you can also be ensured
that even in the largest enterprise environments printing will
remain quick and efficient.
In today’s fast moving global business environment, a print service
outage is at the very least an inconvenience resulting in a loss of
staff productivity. In areas such as healthcare however it could
much more serious.
4. High Availability
Redundancy for
licensing – having
multiple license servers
protects against license
server failure.
Redundancy for Bridge
server – protects
against Bridge server
UniPrint™ service
failure. Printers
automatically route via
secondary bridge in
case of failure.
Redundancy for Print
servers – protects
against Print server
failure – print jobs
automatically routed to
secondary print server
in case of failure.
Leverages existing HA
database servers via
ODBC connections
Beyond Universal Printer Driverv9
5. Beyond Universal Printer Driverv9
Data Centre 1
Windows Server
2003/2008/2012
(UP Bridge 1)
Windows Server
2003/2008/2012
(UP Print Server 1)
Printers
UP vPad
(Print Appliance)
Remote site
Windows Server
2003/2008/2012
(UP Bridge 2)
Windows Server
2003/2008/2012
(UP Print Server 2)
High Availability With Load Balancing
Windows Server
2003/2008 R2/2012 R2
(UP Application Server)
Data Centre 2
Windows Server
2003/2008 R2/2012 R2
(UP Application Server)
6. Beyond Universal Printer Driverv9
Data Centre 1
Windows Server
2003/2008/2012
(UP Bridge 1)
Windows Server
2003/2008/2012
(UP Print Server 1)
Printers
UP vPad
(Print Appliance)
Remote site
Windows Server
2003/2008/2012
(UP Bridge 2)
Windows Server
2003/2008/2012
(UP Print Server 2)
High Availability – Failover
Windows Server
2003/2008 R2/2012 R2
(UP Application Server)
Data Centre 2
Windows Server
2003/2008 R2/2012 R2
(UP Application Server)
7. Print Stream Compression
Beyond Universal Printer Driverv9
• Remove print servers from remote sites and replace with a low overhead print
server appliance.
• UniPrint’s vPad allows you to consolidate your print servers into a central data
centre and put them into a high availability configuration
• If a vPad breaks down it can be quickly be replaced, minimizing downtime.
• Multiple vPads can be used in a remote location to provide higher level of
protection
• In v9, vPads now support 2 connections to remote servers - allowing full High
Availability
• vPads also optimise print data from print server to remote site offering RAW
print data compression rates of over 95% in some case
Remote site
HA Improvements
To make the High Availability module easier to implement and maintain, the following components will be synchronized automatically:
Printer IDs. A new routine – printer name collision detection – is introduced so that any printers with the same names will be recognized as the same printer within the system with multiple Printer IDs associated.
Printer Profile. Profiles associated with printers with the same names and native drivers will be sync between Print Servers.
Bridge Server DevMode.
PrintPAL Mapping.
Option to choose between using the built-in Firebird database or an ODBC connection to connect to a MSSQL/Oracle server.