SteelEye Protection Suitefor Linux

Tony Tomarchiotony.tomarchio@us.sios.com

The Gold Standard for High Availability and Data Replication

Agenda

Today’s Agenda

• About SIOS/SteelEye

• Importance of High Availability

• SIOS/SteelEye Product Offerings

• SPS For Linux

• Product Overview

• Key Capabilities, Features and Benefits

• Architecture/Deployment Examples

• Customer Case Studies

• Demo

• Next Steps

About SIOS / SteelEye

Who 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

The Cost of Downtime

Linux in the Enterprise

Business Operation

Cost/Hr. of Downtime

• 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.

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 $ ??

Why HA: Pain Points / Challenges

Improve Service Levels to customers while reducing Total Cost of Ownership!

Business Needs SPS for Linux 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 Failure Peer-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

SIOS Family of Offerings

SIOS / Steeleye Solutions are

• Cross Platform – Support for

• Linux

• Windows

• Virtual Environments

• Flexible, yet Enterprise Class

• Flexible storage choices (Shared Storage, NAS, iSCSI, Data Replication)

• Single and/or Multi-Site protection

• Supports Physical-to-Physical (P2P), Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) clusters

• Able to protect ANY application

• Supports over 30 of the most common apps off the shelf

• Protect your own custom applications with ease

SIOS Family of Offerings

Best-In-Class Solutions for High Availability, Data Replication and Disaster Recovery

SteelEye LifeKeeper

• Provides heartbeat monitoring and automated failover for systems and applications – Locally, LAN or WAN

• Application-Aware Availability – detects application issues, not just system failures

• Distributed, Resource driven clusters. No single Point-Of-Failures

SteelEye DataKeeper / Data Replication

• Real-Time, High Performance Volume replication

• Synchronous and Asynchronous

• Integrated with HA solutions or operate standalone

SPS for Linux - Overview

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Combining High Availability with efficient Data Replication to ensure Business Continuity for your Mission Critical Apps!

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SPS for LinuxFeatures and Benefits

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.

SPS for Linux - Highlights

SteelEye Protection Suite for Linux is:

• Multi-Distro capable: Supports Enterprise Linux distributions such as

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

• Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL)

• Community ENTerprise Operating System (CentOS)

• Asianux

Adapt clusters over time to meet evolving business requirements:

• What is your Recovery Time Objective?

• What is your Recovery Point Objective?

• What is your budget and available resources?

Scalable Availability

All configurations supported across both physical and virtual servers

We have a solution for all requirements

Out of the Box Linux Knowledge

Services• SAP• WebSphere MQ• Any Custom App

Applications• Apache• Samba• NFS• LVM• SW Raid (md)

Databases Storage

• Oracle• MySQL• PostgreSQL• Sybase• DB2• Informix

• DMMP• NAS• EMC PowerPath• Hitachi HDLM• IBM SDD• Data Replication

Protect Any

Application

Support for Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI, NAS, Host-based Replication, Array Based Replication or a combination

Ensure data integrity with SCSI reservations. No need for external STONITH devices.

2 to 32 nodes, Active/Active, Active/Passive, Cascading/Prioritized Failover, Nto1, 1toN, Physical and Virtual

Proven, reliable product architecture. Ability to perform rolling upgrade of clusters in place – without downtime

Storage

I/O Fencing

DeploymentOptions

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Key Features and Benefits

MonitorMonitor the status of protected servers, communication paths, resources and applications via the GUI, CLI or SMTP / SNMP alerts.

SteelEye Data Replication (SDR)

Key Features:

• Host-based data replication leveraging existing LAN/WAN• Multi-target Replication• Automatic reversal of source/target during failover

• Block-Level, Volume/LUN replication• File system agnostic – handles in-use/missing files• Very low overhead – only changes are replicated

• 3 Modes: Synchronous, Asynchronous or Periodic

• Prevents full re-syncs via Intent Logging and bitmap support

• Bandwidth Throttling and 9 Levels of Compression

• Utilize available bandwidth without the need for expensive hardware accelerators/devices

• Continuous Data Protection with Data Rewind and Recovery Wizard

Easy to Learn and Use

Simplified User Interface

• Monitor and Administer your clusters via a single, intuitive interface

• Wizard-based setup

• Java-Based UI can be run as an application or browser based applet

• Command Line Interface (CLI) and SDK for integration and extension

Thank You!

SPS for LinuxArchitecture/Deployment

Examples

Customer Example 1

Large Telco & Cable Provider: Content Distribution Service

• “Classic” Shared Storage Cluster: leveraging Fibre Channel SAN storage.

• Customer deployed 17-node clusters across approx. 48 different content distribution locations

• Protecting Application Servers and Database in each cluster

• SCSI reservations provide I/O fencing to ensure data integrity – prevent “rogue operator” scenario

• Provides Cascading and prioritized failover of services

• Note: many types of storage and multipath solutions supported.

Customer Example 2

Central Bank Protecting and Replicating Payment Processing

• “Shared Nothing” Cluster using SteelEye Data Replication

• Hundreds of remote sites aggregating data back to a central location

• Protecting Oracle Databases and Custom Applications

• Eliminates the expense and single point of failure of shared storage

• Ideal for Disaster Recovery configurations:

• Automated failover protection of replicated data between datacenters

Customer Example 3

Government customer protecting onboard combat systems• Customer deployed a “Multi-Site”

Cluster – Best of Both Worlds:

• Robustness of a classic shared storage cluster

• Efficient data replication to a disaster recovery site.

• Protecting NFS services mission-critical combat systems depend upon.

• Supports cascading/prioritized failover with replication redirection

• Less expensive and more flexible than storage-based replication solutions. Customer needed to re-use existing mixed hardware/storage.

SPS For Linux

Demo

Key Takeaways

SteelEye Protection Suite:

• Best-In-Class Solution for High Availability, Data Replication and Disaster Recovery

• Scalable to meet your evolving business needs

• Protection for All Key Elements in the Stack: OS, App, DB, Storage, etc

• Application Aware Agents

• Flexible Storage Configurations

• Advanced I/O Fencing

• Easy to Use, Wizard-driven UI for configuration and management

• Architectural Consistency – proven for 10+ years!

Thank You!

For More Information on SPS for Linux:

• Visit us on the web: http://us.sios.com/Solutions_for_Linux_160.htm

• Email: sales@us.sios.com

• SIOS Upcoming Events: http://us.sios.com/Upcoming_Events_62.htm

• Recorded Webinars: http://us.sios.com/Recorded_Webinars_45.htm