What IS Stratus ftServer?
The Penguin Solutions Stratus ftServer is a continuously available computing platform engineered for mission-critical applications in the data center, control room, or edge. It prevents downtime and data loss with a fully redundant hardware architecture, Stratus Automated Uptime Layer (AUL) software, and proactive health monitoring.
The system is designed to be deployed and serviced by both IT and OT teams, making it suitable for enterprises and distributed operations where skilled IT staff may be limited.
BENEFITS
Maximise Your Investment
Continuous uptime
Built-in fault tolerance delivers greater than five nines availability.
Data integrity
Redundant architecture ensures no in-flight data loss during component failure.
Simplified management
Proactive monitoring, self-healing, and automated alerts.
Workload consolidation
Supports virtualization for running multiple applications on one platform.
Long lifecycle
7–10 year lifespan, reducing IT footprint and licensing costs.
Serviceable design
Hot-swappable CRUs enable repair without downtime.
Features
✔ Stratus Automated Uptime Layer (AUL) manages synchronization, replication, and monitoring
✔ Transparent fault tolerance for applications (no changes required)
✔ Hot-swappable Customer Replaceable Units (CPU, storage, I/O, power)
✔ Proactive health monitoring and alerts via ActiveService™ Network
✔ Runs on standard Intel-based components with Windows Server, VMware vSphere, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
✔ Supports bare-metal workloads or hypervisors for consolidation
✔ Multiple models (2920, 4920, 6910, 6920) for different workload and budget requirements
