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Changing the Game: Moving from Reactive to Proactive High Availability Luigi Mercone Senior Director, Product Strategy

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Changing the Game: Moving from Reactive to Proactive High AvailabilityLuigi Mercone

Senior Director, Product Strategy

Storage and Availability Objectives

Manage storage growth

• Improve operations• Reduce cost per GB• Utilize existing assets

Increase availability and DR readiness

• What isn’t Mission Critical?• Maintenance windows shrinking• Site consolidation & A-A DR

Reduce cost with new technology

• Server virtualization• x86 servers• Thin storage

Agenda

Drive Out Downtime11

Transform Operations22

Leverage Existing Infrastructure33

Virtualize, Consolidate, and Scale44

Standardize, without compromise,on a single HA/DR platform

VERITAS Cluster Server Vision

We are focused on helping you

• Drive out downtime

• Transform operations

• Leverage existing infrastructure

• Virtualize, consolidate, and scale

GOAL

Foundations to Drive Out Downtime

Protect Data with FlashSnap, VVR

VSS Integrated Disk-based Point-in-time snapshots

Sync, Async, Sync-OverrideSit

e 1

Sit

e 2

02:00 05:00 06:00 07:00

Protect Access to Data with DMP

MPIO IntegratedMulti-Pathing

DR Testing with Firedrill

Primary Site DR Site

12

3

Campus Cluster Coordination

Storage Growthat the

Correct Site

Site A Site B

With Application, Data & Infrastructure Protection

Protect Application with VCS

Local, Metro and Wide-area HA/DR

Primary Site DR Site

SQLSQLSQL

Intelligent Local Failover

Failover factoring in load & capacity

EXCSQL

SQL

EXCA B C D

Primary Site

BCV Snapshot

Initiate Fire DrillMount Snapshot

Replication

Test ApplicationReset

Secondary Site

Rich ApplicationMonitoring & Control

Process

Mount

Volume

DiskGroup

IP

NIC

Application Service Group

Fast Failoverwith SF Cluster File System

Non-disruptiveDR Testing

PassiveServer

FailedServerActiveServer

Client

ActiveServer

Driving Out Downtime with VCS

Agenda

Drive Out Downtime11

Transform Operations22

Leverage Existing Infrastructure33

Virtualize, Consolidate, and Scale44

CentralizedManagement

Simplified Set-Upand Training

PowerfulReporting

Wizard-Driven ConfigurationWizard-Driven Configuration

Cluster Server SimulatorCluster Server Simulator

Transform Operations: Current Capabilities

Roaming Spare/No SpareArchitectures for Fewer Servers

Clustering the HardwareVendor’s Way

Utilization

Clustering the Symantec Way

Installation Assessment Service

http://sfprep.symantec.com

• All SFHA products

• Unix / Linux only

Installation Assessment Service

Agenda

Drive Out Downtime11

Transform Operations22

Leverage Existing Infrastructure33

Virtualize, Consolidate, and Scale44

Single HA and DR Solution forLocal, Metro, and Global Architectures

Out-of-the-BoxEnvironment Support

Leverage Existing Infrastructure: Current Capabilities

Metropolitan HA(Stretch Cluster)

Wide-Area DR(Global Cluster)

Local HA

SAPSAP SAPAPP 4 APP 3 APP 2 APP 1 APP 4 APP 3 APP 2 APP 1

Global Clustering

Asynchronous Replication

Synch Replication or Mirroring

Applications

Databases

Operating Systems

Data Replication

* Note: Above is a subsetof current agent support

Roaming Spare/No SpareArchitectures for Fewer Servers

DataBase

Mount

Volume

DiskGroup

IP

NIC

App

Mount

Volume

DiskGroup

IP

NIC

Basic Multi-Tier withRemote Group Agent

SupportVirtualization

Server Virtualization Technology

Application Monitoring HA DR

VMware

Solaris LDom

Solaris Zones

IBM LPars

IBM mPars

Clustering the HardwareVendor’s Way

Utilization

Clustering the Symantec Way

Virtualize, Consolidate & Scale:Current Capabilities

Agenda

Drive Out Downtime11

Transform Operations22

Leverage Existing Infrastructure33

Virtualize, Consolidate, and Scale44

Hardware (x86)

VMware ESX

Hardware (x86)VMware ESX

VM A

VERITAS Cluster Server for VMware

• End-to-End, comprehensive protection• Deep application awareness for Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SAP, others• Transparent to application administrators• Simple to deploy and maintain• No need for passive standby hardware and resources

VM DVM B

SQL

VM C

IIS

VM B

SQL

VCS VCS

Cause of Failure VMware HA VCSApp processes crash/hang XApp process startup order XAdmin accidentally caused failure XConfiguration changes XOS failure X ** XNIC or network failure XStorage connectivity failure XVirtual Server failure X XPhysical Server failure X XData center failure X * X

VCS Compared With VMware HA

* Future releases

** Experimental support (not supported by VMware)

If the application fails, VMware HA is not aware

VMware HA is not aware of network or storage connectivity failures

Client-Server Architecture

• Light Foot-print

• Scalable

• Priority based

• Grouping & Tagging

Policy Master

ORCL

ORCLORCL

ORCLORCL

CUS

……

WLS SQL SQL

VCS One

FS

Vol Vol

FS

Vol

DG

NIC

IP

FS

DB

LSNR

VCS DNA

• Service Groups

• Resources

• AgentsVCS One

• 256 mixed OS Nodes

• Multi tier HA/DR

• Operator efficiency

• Server consolidation

• Virtualization control

• Rolling Upgrades

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Thank You!

Luigi [email protected]