Solution Brief
Stratus Services for ztC Endurance™
Stratus platform experts paired with unmatched fault tolerance for complete peace of mind
Stratus provides a range of support and service offerings with a single focus – to enable your long-term continuous system availability and uptime for your critical applications. To ensure peak performance with no system downtime, Stratus Support Services provide proactive service offerings that meet your specific requirements and ensure the health of your ztC Endurance platform, including its underlying hardware and software components.
Stratus Support maximizes platform availability
Stratus platforms provide the most efficient way for leaders to digitally transform mission-critical operations for continuous availability and predictability with less risk. They are purpose-built to run business-critical applications and uniquely engineered for proactive health monitoring and serviceability without disruption, downtime, or data loss. Stratus’ unique Automated Uptime Layer with Smart Exchange™ software constantly monitors more than 500 system alarms to identify, manage, and report potential faults — and take action if required — before they impact your system. Combined with Stratus Support, Stratus platforms deliver unmatched reliability through our proven philosophy of integrated support, services, and platforms to deliver a complete availability solution.
Stratus ztC Endurance raises the bar for computing reliability with intelligent, predictive fault tolerance that delivers 7 nines (99.99999%) availability. Stratus Support offerings complement the platform’s built-in self-diagnosing system health, including alerts, which facilitate support functions such as remote monitoring, root cause determination, proactive issue resolution, and frictionless serviceability. Engaging Stratus experts and avoiding performance issues has never been easier.
Key Benefits
- Global service infrastructure with availability experts that ensure peak performance and downtime prevention
- 24/7/365 system monitoring by Stratus teams provides peace of mind for your critical infrastructure
- One stop for all platform and operating system support
- Greater than 99% issues resolved remotely for faster recovery
- Service calls are answered 24/7 by a live person; service engineers are experts with average tenure over 18 years
- Pro-active health monitoring provides key information to automatically order required replacement parts; delivered next business day
- Support available for 2X average platform lifespan compared to traditional server hardware
Stratus ztC Endurance platforms together with proactive Services ensure you benefit from the highest availability for your Microsoft® Windows Server®, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® and VMware® vSphere™ operating environments
Stratus Support Services provides worldwide coverage around the clock, no matter where your servers are located.
Proactive health monitoring with Stratus ASN or your method of choice
Stratus’ proactive availability management combines our advanced technologies with industry best practices backed by our more than four decades of availability expertise. Stratus’ support technicians monitor your systems over our secure global ActiveService™ Network (ASN). Leveraging information provided by the Automated Uptime Layer with Smart Exchange™, these experts are at the ready 24/7/365 to remotely diagnose and remediate complex issues.
In addition to the Stratus ASN, you can choose to integrate monitoring and alerting with your existing tools using SNMP and other protocols to set up alarms and notifications according to your preferences.
Stratus’ cost-effective service options guarantee on-demand service no matter where your system is located. There are no hours of waiting for a repair technician to show up — hopefully with the right part — to get your business back online. Everything a service technician can do onsite, Stratus’ service engineers can do remotely. They work in tandem with your IT team to resolve problems online 99% of the time while your business applications and operations continue to run as normal.
Your single source for comprehensive support
Stratus provides a single source of accountability for complex inter-related platforms, system software, and operating system support issues. Our global critical situation management system gives you priority response to a critical service request in 30 minutes or less.
As a result, you are able to deploy and maintain Stratus ztC Endurance computing platforms with less effort, worry, and aftermarket cost, while operating them for twice the lifespan of traditional servers, clusters, or IPCs from other vendors. With Stratus Support, you maximize the value and performance of your compute platforms.
Root cause analysis prevents problem recurrence
The Automated Uptime Layer with Smart Exchange™ reports a depth and frequency of diagnostic information that is unmatched in the industry. Hardware and software issues are captured, analyzed, and reported to Stratus. This in-depth diagnostic information gives support engineers the details they need to determine the root cause of issues related to the hardware or operating environment. Engineers are also able to draw upon configuration information, including firmware revision levels and a complete incident history.
Stratus’ service management platform tracks system events across the entire installed base, enabling us to identify and take remedial action on trends before they pose problems. We also use this data to improve future product and service capabilities.
Stratus takes ownership of complex interrelated hardware, software, and connectivity issues when vendor responsibility is not immediately clear.
Online support tools
Stratus’ comprehensive set of online support tools provide access to critical information.
- Global incident management system: Allows you to submit, track, and resolve issues quickly and easily
- Stratus knowledge base: Provides access to thousands of known problems and solutions based on more than 40 years of expertise in assuring availability
- Comprehensive support library: Includes product manuals, release notes, software patches, site planning guides, and more
Enhance operation of your Stratus ztC Endurance platform with Stratus Services
Our service options include:
Total Assurance support
Our Total Assurance coverage for ztC Endurance provides comprehensive, top priority support for customers with mission-critical applications. Total Assurance support offers a comprehensive set of proactive and reactive services for Stratus hardware and software, and third-party operating systems sold by Stratus.
- Stratus’ Uptime Guarantee1
- Priority critical situation management
- Vendor collaboration
- Full operating system support
- 24/7/365 engineer response to a critical call within minutes
- Around-the-clock system monitoring
- General root cause problem determination
- Uptime Assurance Layer with Smart Exchange™ software subscription
Comprehensive operating system support: Collaborative services with partners enable us to isolate the root cause of OS issues so that they can provide a permanent fix. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Stratus has earned the highest level of certification for quality and customer satisfaction. Additionally, when you purchase Red Hat Enterprise Linux or VMware ESXi® OS support, we will work collaboratively with your OS subscription support provider to resolve Stratus hardware and system software issues.
Virtual Machine Root Cause (vmRC): Virtual Machine Root Cause (vmRC) coverage is a unique service offered exclusively by Stratus for customers who require root cause determination for Red Hat and Microsoft Windows guest operating systems sold and supported by Stratus.
Stratus’ industry-leading zero-touch Edge Computing platforms backed by Stratus Support deliver the most reliable – and supported – edge infrastructure solution, allowing you to focus 100% of your time on operations.
System Assurance support
Our System Assurance Support is designed to maximize the availability of customers’ IT infrastructure. Stratus’ availability experts provide professional support and work with customer’s staff to resolve hardware and software issues on Stratus products. This plan includes the following services:
- Onsite parts exchange between 9:00 and 17:30 on a business day
- Full support of operating systems
- Around-the-clock system monitoring
- Remote monitoring and troubleshooting
- Uptime Assurance Layer with Smart Exchange™ software subscription
Stratus Support Services portfolio
For Stratus ztC Endurance systems running Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and VMware vSphere operating environments.
| ztC Enduranceサービスメニュー | トータルアシュアランスサポート | システムアシュアランスサポート |
|---|---|---|
| 障害、問い合わせ受付 | 24×7 | 24×7 |
| 一次回答の時間帯 | 24×7 | 8×5 |
| 調査解析 | 24×7 | 8×5 |
| OS調査 1 | ✓ | ✓ |
| オンサイト交換 | 24×7 | 8×5 |
| HW監視 | 24×7 | 24×7 (通知は8×5) |
| リモートアクセスのトラブルシューティング | ✓ | ✓ |
| AUL-SE/OSSWアップグレード作業 2 | ✓ | – |
| 緊急復旧支援 3 | 24×7 | システム停止時のみ |
| SWアップグレード権(AUL-SE, FW,BIOS,BMC) | ✓ | ✓ |
| 一次回答目標時間 | 30分、24×7 | 2時間、8×5 |
| 代替品先行発送 | 翌日発送 | 翌営業日発送 |
| サポートポータルアクセス | ✓ | ✓ |
| メディアリテンションサービス | オプション | オプション |
| Virtual Machine Root Cause(VMRC) サービス | オプション | オプション |
| 契約期間 | 1-10年 | 1-10年 |
- Provides financial protection against any unplanned downtime. Only Stratus offers this level of commitment to availability. Terms and conditions apply.
- When Red Hat Enterprise Linux is purchased from Stratus, customers are required to order the software license, Support and Subscription (SnS) service and a Stratus ztC Endurance offering.
- Where available.
Seven nines (99.99999%) availability of the Stratus ztC Endurance computing platform is based on requirements that customers use parts authorized for
Stratus ztC Endurance, maintain an active Stratus Support contract, and perform system updates recommended by Stratus.
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