Replicated Password Storage
Once deployed, Hitachi ID Privileged Password Manager becomes an essential part of an organization's IT infrastructure, since it alone houses privileged passwords for thousands of networked devices. An outage in Privileged Password Manager would mean that administrative access to a range of devices is interrupted -- a major outage to IT service.
Since servers occasionally break down, Privileged Password Manager supports load balancing and data replication between multiple physical servers. Any data updates written to its credential database are replicated, in real time, across all servers.
In short, Privileged Password Manager incorporates a highly available, replicated, multi-master architecture.
To provide out-of-the-box data replication, Privileged Password Manager includes a database service that replicates data between multiple instances. This service can be configured use either Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server databases as the physical storage mechanism. Hitachi ID Systems recommends one physical database instance per Privileged Password Manager server, normally on the same physical hardware as Privileged Password Manager itself.
The Privileged Password Manager data replication system makes it both simple and advisable for organizations to build a highly-available Privileged Password Manager server cluster, spanning multiple servers, with each server placed in a different physical site. Replication traffic is encrypted, authenticated, bandwidth-efficient and tolerant of latency, making it suitable for deployment over a WAN.
This multi-site, multi-master replication is configured at no additional cost, beyond that of the hardware for additional Privileged Password Manager servers, and with minimal administrative effort.