Versio Redundancy
Keep up to five channels mirrored and synchronized, with automatic failover based on real-time health and status monitoring.
Channel redundancy builder
Versio™ Redundancy is an application that provides flexible channel redundancy in the Versio ecosystem. It can keep up to five playout channels mirrored and synchronized, including automatic failover based on real-time health and status monitoring.
Versio Redundancy provides a powerful and scalable redundancy solution, specifically designed for geo-dispersed deployments, helping to manage channel backups in case of a loss of connectivity during playback. Used for managing redundant Versio™ instances, it provides operators with the information they need to take the correct actions to protect channel playout.
Benefits
Maximum channel protection
Create and arrange redundancy stacks in seconds, up to 5 Versio instances per stack.
N+M redundancy
Controlling pools of shared backup Versio instances.
Manual or automatic failover
With configurable criteria; control of external automatic changeover device.
Active/Active mode support
When controlling two parallel broadcast chains, synchronizing main and backup schedules.
Elastic channel redundancy
Adding – with drag & drop – extra backup Versio instances for a given playout channel: double, triple, or quadruple backup.
Ideal for Disaster Recovery
Synchronize schedules on a DR system deployed in a different location, on-prem or in the cloud.
Features
Backup channel pools
Assign Versio instances to “pools”; if a Primary failure occurs, a backup instance is selected from the pool and assigned as the backup system. When the Primary returns online, the backup is returned to the pool and can be used if another Primary fails.
Channel synchronization
Changes made on a Primary channel (manual edits or updates coming from Traffic) are replicated to Follow channels assigned to the channel Stack
Continuity check
The automation system checks and corrects the running point of all schedules in a redundant stack so that the schedules can be kept synchronized.
Aggregate as-run logs
The system remembers which instances from the redundancy stack were active so it can send as-run data back to the traffic system. If failover occurs from instance A to B, the as-run log sent to traffic includes events from A before the failover, and B after it.
More Versio™ Redundancy features
Unified dashboard to monitor the status of all Primary/Follow channel instances on their assigned stacks
Switch over to a Follow channel instance if the Primary channel instance loses network connectivity or has video playback issues
Different failover modes supported:
– Automatic channel failover (Primary to a designated Follow) should an error condition occur on the Primary instance that could impact playout, multiple monitoring fault conditions can be configured
– An operator can manually perform a channel failover from the current Primary instance to a selected Follow channel instance
Instances can be promoted / demoted in the stack hierarchy
Quarantine or un-quarantine instances
Ability to disable sync or sync check to a particular channel redundancy stack, allowing manual control on individual channels with the automation or master control panels
Password protection: A password can be set for modifying stacks in UI, preventing someone from accidentally changing a redundancy stack configuration
Router control on failover (LRC protocol)
Supports both Versio Automation and ADC Automation channel synchronization
GPI changeover support (optional) using a Sealevel SeaMAX 410E GPI/O unit to assign GPOs to a channel instance and send a trigger to an external changeover switch following failover actions on the redundancy control UI
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