sios – comprehensive high availability options for your vmware environment
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Copyright © 2011 SIOS Inc. | SIOS Confidential Information Copyright © 2011 SIOS Inc. | SIOS Confidential Information
SIOS – Comprehensive High Availability Options for your
VMware Environment
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Agenda
• About SIOS/SteelEye• Importance of High Availability
Challenges of HA in VMware Environments
• SIOS – Enhancing VMware HA vAppKeeper SIOS SteelEye Protection Suite
• Demo• Next Steps
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About SIOS / SteelEyeWho is SIOS Technology Corp / SteelEye?• Founded 1999, wholly owned subsidiary of SIOS
Technology, Inc Profitable division within a profitable, publicly traded organization
• Provides Best-In-Class High Availability, Data Replication and Disaster Recovery solutions
• Global Organization Headquartered in San Mateo, CA Remote Offices throughout the US, UK and Japan
• Over 35,000 licenses installed worldwide• RedHat and Novell certified solutions
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The Cost of Downtime
Linux in the Enterprise• Need for Linux based HA solutions
is higher than ever: Critical Linux applications such as
SAP and Oracle are rapidly growing across the enterprise
Applications not missions critical in the past are critical now (email, etc)
These applications need to be highly available to serve today’s 24x7x365 business landscape
• Bottom Line: Cost of downtime to customers is substantial ! Cost of protection is NOT.
BusinessOperation
Cost/Hr. of Downtime
Brokerage $6.45 M
Credit Card / Sales Authorization $2.6 M
Home Catalog Sales $90 K
Airline Ticketing $89.5 K
Tele-Ticketing Sales $69 K
Package Shipping $28 K
ATM Fees $ 14.5 K
Your Business $ ??
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Why HA: Pain Points / Challenges
Business Needs SIOS Provides
Minimize Application Downtime High Availability for systems, applications AND storage
Flexibility / Agility Flexible storage options, grow/adapt as business needs change
Eliminate Single Points of FailurePeer-To-Peer HA solution with minimal
management overhead and proven/consistent architecture
Protect Mission Critical Data Efficient data replication/rewind
Reduce Cost Leverage existing servers, storage and networking
Improve Service Levels to customers while reducing Total Cost of Ownership!
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SIOS Offerings for LinuxSIOS / Steeleye Solutions are• Flexible for both Virtual and Physical Environments
Physical to Physical Physical to Virtual Virtual to Virtual
• Offers Multiple Levels of Protection Integrated Application Monitoring for VMware HA Comprehensive Multi Node Clustering
• Able to protect ANY application Supports many enterprise apps off the shelf Protect your own custom applications with ease
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High Availability Challenges in VMware Environment
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Sources of Outages – Limitations of VMware HA
• VMware HA strength lies in protection against hardware failures
• 80% of unplanned outages are the result of application failures, misconfigurations and other operational errors
• Application awareness is essential to maximizing application availability
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SteelEye vAppKeeper
Integrated High Availability with VMware
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vAppKeeper Brings Application Awareness to your VMware HA
• Cost-effective high availability solution for applications that do not require multi-node clustering No standby resources (hardware, software, etc.) necessary Less complex to deploy and manage than multi-node clustering Plug-in allow management and monitoring through the vSphere
Client
• Allows customer to fully leverage VMware tools and automation without compatibility issues
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vAppKeeper - Single-Node Protection
vMotion HA DRS
vSphere Client w/ vAppKeeper Plug-in
VMware HA Application Monitoring API
App
OS OS OS OSSMC
vA K App
vA K App
vA K App
vA K
HTTP
Browser-Based vAppKeeper UI
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vAppKeeper + VMware HA = Resiliency
VMware HA• Monitors physical host for
failure• Monitors virtual machine
for failure• Can monitor VMware Tools
heartbeat to identify OS failure
vAppKeeper• Monitors the health and
applications (A) and their dependencies (D)
• Withholds heartbeat to instruct VMware HA to respond to an application failure (restart, VMotion)
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Enterprise Management
Visibility• vSphere Client dashboard and
granular application hierarchy viewsFlexible Management Options• Brower-based user interface
• Command-line interface
• Multi-level policy
• Temporal recovery logic
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SIOS – End to End Linux Protection
Physical Clusters
Physical to Virtual
Virtual to Virtual Cloud
SteelEye Protection
Suite
SteelEye Protection
Suite SteelEye Protection
Suite(Non-VMware)
SteelEye Protection
Suite(Non-VMware)
vAppKeeper(VMware)
vAppKeeper(VMware)
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Next Steps• For More Information
Visit us.sios.com
• Interested in an Evaluation? Download the Evaluation guide Request an Evaluation license
• Interested in Proof of Concept? Define PoC Success Criteria Develop PoC Project Plan with SIOS solution experts
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SPS for Linux – Backup Slides
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SPS for Linux - Overview
Combining High Availability with efficient Data Replication to ensure Business Continuity for your
Mission Critical Apps!
LifeKeeper SteelEyeData Replication
ApplicationAwareAgents
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SPS for Linux - Highlights
SteelEye Protection Suite for Linux is:• Application Aware: Provides built-in, Application Aware
Availability for over 30 key applications out of the box (Oracle, SAP, etc).
• Easy and Empowering: With just a few clicks in the wizard-driven UI: Recover application, servers, storage and networking Monitor health and events Manage the switchover/failover of critical applications with ease
• Flexible / Extensible: Flexible storage options Grow/adapt your clusters with ease as your business needs change Easily extend to support custom applications
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