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Thirty Minutes to SharePoint Availability

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Today’s Agenda

– Common causes of downtime in SharePoint environments

– High availability and DR capabilities "out of the box"

– Third party options for protecting SharePoint server farms

– Determining the right availability solution for your SharePoint environment

Impacts to Availabilityof a SharePoint Farm

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Common Causes of Downtime

– Environmental issues

– Network latency issues

– Database availability

– Hardware issues

– Connectivity issues

– Planned maintenance

– Application availability

– Human error

Built-in SharePoint Availability Options

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SharePoint built-in HA capabilities:Redundancy

– SharePoint’s built-in HA based on server redundancy

– SharePoint depends on database availability

– Limited to local subnets & low-latency links

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SharePoint built-in DR capabilities:Secondary Farm

– Complete second SharePoint farm in another location

– Requires some form of database replication for SQL Server

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Challenges of Protecting a SharePoint Farm

- No Application Server failover

- Index Server Single Point of Failure

- Low latency & high bandwidth req.

- Third server req. for automation

No single point of control

- Multiple technologies

- Manual coordination

- Scripted task dependencies

Microsoft Recommended Configuration

- No Application Awareness

Third-party SharePoint Availability Options

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Why Third-Party Options

– Software/hardware to add value over what’s in the box

– Protection from broader range of vulnerabilities

– Simplify overall HA infrastructure

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Types of 3rd-party Solutions

– Fast back-up & recovery

– SAN-based replication

– Server virtualization

– Hardware clustering

– Host-based replication

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Third party options for protecting SharePoint Server:Rapid-recovery backups

– Application-level backups– Disk-based backup– Virtual recovery capabilities– Accelerated data recovery

Server 1

SAN

SAN Storage

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Third party options for protecting SharePoint Server:SAN-based replication solutions

– Protects the storage-layer of the application

– Replicates raw storage between similar devices

Server 1 Server 2

SAN

SAN Storage

SAN

SAN Storage

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Third party options for protecting SharePoint Server: Virtualization-based solutions

– Protects a complete guest VM from hardware failures

– Shared or replicated VM file restarts on another host

Virtual Stacked Servers

Virtual ServersVirtual Servers

SAN

Shared SAN Storage

SAN

SAN Storage

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Third party options for protecting SharePoint Server:Host-based replication solutions

– Active server replicates changes to a stand-by server

– Application-layer visibility and management

Primary Server Secondary Server

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Evolution of Continuous Availability

RecoveryCentric

AvailabilityCentric

DataEmphasis

Backup & RestoreFile, Block, Full, Incremental, On-site, Off-site

Data ReplicationSnapshot, Asynchronous, Synchronous, CDP

BusinessEmphasis

Continuous AvailabilityNo User or Application Downtime, Application-

Awareness, Automation, Local & Remote Availability

ApplicationEmphasis

Basic FailoverClustering, Fault Tolerance, High Availability

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SharePoint Application Monitoring

– Availability is made of many things

– Neverfail application-level monitoring

– Notification and automation

Passive Server

Admin

User/Customer

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Passive Server Active Server

Host OS

Application Response

Network

Services

Performance Monitoring

Rules and Thresholds

End-user Availability

Rules and Thresholds

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MS Clustering

Array Replication

Multiple point solutions do not solve the problem

Load Balancing

VMware HA

Traditionally, servers of like functionality are grouped together

for availability and protection

Integration of multiple, standalone availability solutions is complex

and expensive to maintain

Lack of coordination between availability solutions leads to

incomplete protection for your app

DR solutions typically protect data, not application availability,

cutomers left owning a manual recovery process

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– Business-centric application management

– Monitor and control the entire application vertical

– One solution, one console

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Neverfail protects all SharePoint components….

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Single point of management and control across the entire farm

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….to “fail-the-farm” in a DR context…..

User Transparent Failover/Failback, Application-Aware, CDP, Replication

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Application-Aware Management Framework (AMF)

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…optionally adding local HA alongside DR

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Determining the Right Solution

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Choosing the Right Solution for SharePoint

– Consider the cost of downtime– How critical is your SharePoint infrastructure to you business?

– Consider the possible vulnerabilities– What scenarios do you need to protects yourself against?

– Consider the availability options– Which solution covers the vulnerabilities you need protection from?

– Neverfail provides the most robust affordable solution for SharePoint and any other Windows-based application

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Key Technology Differentiators

– Protects End-to-End Business Services– Neverfail aggregates & protects any set of multi-tier components,

including applications, servers, services, and it maps all their interdependencies

– Complete Protection Against the Widest Range of Failures– Leverages Application Awareness, Intelligence and Automation– Eliminates both planned and unplanned downtime

– WAN Acceleration & Deduplication– Essential feature set to enable DR deployments

– Heterogeneous Protection– Physical and Virtual Environments (P2P, P2V, V2P, V2V)– Any Combination of Physical Server and Storage Hardware

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