High Availability 2001

Press Briefing

Agenda

What we’re announcing today…a new vision for High AvailabilityNew HA software products• VERITAS Cluster Server QuickStart 2.0• VERITAS Cluster Server Traffic Director 2.0 • VERITAS Global Cluster Manager 1.1

Key Messages for Business Press

VERITAS is the Leader in High Availability Software

High Availability solutions enable server applications to quickly regain access to mission critical data after a failure or disaster in order of minutes or secondsVERITAS is recognized by IDC , Gartner, and Meta as the leading multi-platform provider of HA software• Estimated ½ to 2/3 market share on Solaris• VERITAS High Availability software is used by

virtually all major financial institutions, telco’s, and xSPs worldwide on UNIX and Windows

Today…VERITAS reveals pervasive High Availability strategy that simplifies the deployment of higher levels of availability in the internet data center

The Internet Data Center Requires a More Availability with Less Staff

e-business and the web have created a higher level of expectation for data availability• Now must deliver continuous data availability as perceived

by employees, business partners, or external customers• In the old IT model, High Availability was deployed only on

a few high end database servers

In the new environment, IT must…• Deliver on high levels of availability on every server in the

data center• Ensure a high quality end user experience regardless of

systems crashes, internet avalanches, or network failures• Deploy an inherently heterogeneous, multi-layered

environment from the Web server to Applications like CRM to Databases to Storage

• ……with same or fewer IT staff!

VERITAS Unveals Vision of Enabling Pervasive Deployment of HA

Extend deployment of High Availability beyond the “back-end” database server• New software based load balancer that re-directs traffic

requests based on context– Prevents system crashes due to “internet avalanches”– Cheaper and more flexible than hardware specific solutions

• Expanding partnerships with ISV partners for B2B and CRM applications– Simple API enables ISV’s to collaborate on VCS deployments

for more than just databases

Simplified Management of HA lowers barrier to adoption• Enable quick deployment and easy maintenance without

specialized training or service to enable HA on every server• Provides integrated tools to monitor and manage High

Availability across all levels of the data center and multiple data center locations

VERITAS Announces Products for Pervasive Deployment of HA

Extend deployment of High Availability beyond the “back-end” database server• VERITAS Cluster Server Traffic Director

– Software solution integrated with industry leading HA software that is used to load balance across web and application (CRM, B2B) servers

Simplified Management of HA• VERITAS Cluster Server Quickstart

– Simple fixed configuration version for a pair of servers– Emphasis on simplified functionality and easy installation allows

any IT admin to deploy HA without months of specialized training or consulting help

• Enhanced Global Cluster Manager for Unix and NT– Integrated management of all layers of the internet data center

• e.g. VCS for database servers , VCS Traffic Director for web and application servers , and VCS Quickstart for workgroup servers

– Enables multi-site High Availability & Disaster Recovery by integrating management data replication solutions from VERITAS or leading array vendors such as EMC and Hitachi.

Contrast VERITAS HA vs EMC

EMC High Availability• Utilities for EMC arrays only• Solutions are complex and

require significant consulting

• Embedded, proprietary data replication (SRDF) doesn’t scale to long distances or multiple sites

• No application recovery solutions…EMC references VERITAS to implement this

• No solution to manage HA across multiple web, application, and database server layers

VERITAS HA• HA for any application,

any array, any server• Focus on simplified

installation and management

• Host-based replication works well over any distance and with mixed storage arrays

• VCS provides tunable recovery times for any application

• HA management across all layers of internet data center and multiple sites.

Re-cap of Recent VERITAS HA Product Announcements

VERITAS Cluster Server to support Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) for 8i… 1st ISV to partner with Oracle for very fast database recovery IBM announces DB2 Agent for VCS…delivers fast DB2 recoveryVERITAS Announces SANPoint Foundation Suite…data sharing solution provides very fast recovery for scalable file/web serversVERITAS announces support for SUN Fire series servers and SUN T3 storage array support…co-operative qualification and support with SUN on HA solutions

Availability is Perception

Transaction Layer• UNIX or Windows

• Internal Storage

Perceived AvailabilitySupporting a Single User Experience

Application Layer• UNIX or Windows

• External SCSI Storage

Database Layer• Typically UNIX

• External SAN Storage

The Internet Datacenter

Heterogeneous by nature• Applications

• Operating Systems

• LAN, WAN & SAN Interconnect

• Storage

Specialized administration

Scalability at the speed of the Internet

Manage an end-to-end user experience through a more holistic approach

Guarantee levels of service (QoS) between layers

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June 4th 2001

Perceived Availability Regardless of Location

TokyoLondon

TorontoSan Francisco

A Global PresenceActual service location is transparent

• 24x7 customer service

• No disruption due to site failure

• Eliminate “3rd shift” administrators

Requires worldwide visibility and management

Positive customer perception requires achieving required availability levels at every layer in the internet data center, and around the world.

Under NDA until

June 4th 2001

VERITAS Delivers Solutions to Overcome the Barriers

Make Availability Pervasive • Fitting out the data center to meet two key requirements at

every layer– Define and maintain recovery profiles– Scale infrastructure based on demand without impacting the

recovery profile• Contain costs: platform- and hardware-independent

software provides leveraging/re-purposing of existing, heterogeneous resources at every layer

Unify Availability Management• Unified management across multiple layers and sites

allows quick response to changes/failures worldwide• Standardizes site-wide availability policies and procedures• Contain costs: centralized management tools increase

the server-to-administrator ratio

Under NDA until

June 4th 2001

Simplifying HA VERITAS Cluster Server QuickStart 2.0

HA is perceived to be complex/costly to deploy

• Typically high touch• Reserved for large backend

servers• Limited Application Layer

Support

No longer….

• Solaris HA for the masses• Based on industry standard VCS

2.0 engine (license upgrade)• No training required• Scales to 2 nodes• Four step GUI-driven Install &

Configuration• Simplified Web Admin Interface• Abstracted Command Line• Heterogeneous Storage Support

VERITAS Cluster Server QuickStart 2.0 – Simplified HA for the masses

Under NDA until

June 4th 2001

Extending HA across the Data Center VERITAS Cluster Server Traffic Director 2.0

Application Availability for 10’s machinesUNIX & Windows

Application AvailabilityHorizontal Scalability for a few machinesUNIX

Horizontal Scalability across 10’s-100’s systemsUNIX, Windows & Linux

VERITAS Traffic Director

Under NDA until

June 4th 2001

Consolidated Availability Management Console

• Centrally managing thousands of resources across hundreds of systems in multiple locations

• Consolidated management of Solaris, HP-UX and Windows NT VCS Cluster’s

• Tight integration of GCM, VCS and VVR Web based GUI’s

• Drill down navigation from Site View, through Application view’s to Storage Level

– In-context launch of VERITAS Cluster Server from VERITAS Global Cluster Manager

– Management of VVR replication process through GCM GUI

Extending this “snap-in” concept to:• VERITAS Cluster Server Traffic Director• VERITAS SANPoint Control• VERITAS File Replicator

GCM

VCS

VVR

Global Cluster Manager 1.1Now Available

Under NDA until

June 4th 2001

Summary

VERITAS….• dispels myths about HA with new products and

HA management vision• provides strategic software platform that is

hardware, application and platform independent• reduces costs

– dramatically simplifies HA implementation and increases the server-to-administrator ratio

– using an ISV allows leveraging and re-purposing of hardware

Availability is Perception: VERITAS provides pervasive availability