SteelEye vAppKeeper

7.5Partner Training

David AbercrombieProduct Management

vAppKeeper Overview• GA – November 23, 2011• Linux-only support in 7.5• Goals

Strengthen HA position in the market• Initial release of vAppKeeper

Increasing SIOS relevance in VMware environments Adding application health awareness to VMware HA to improve

application availability Competes with Symantec ApplicationHA

• Addressing enterprise customer HA requirements Policy granularity and flexibility

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

Benefits of vAppKeeper + 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 Plugin allow management and monitoring through the

vSphere Client

• Allows customer to fully leverage VMware tools and automation without compatibility issues

vAppKeeper ArchitecturevSphere Client w/

vAppKeeper Plug-in

vMotion HA DRSVMware HA Application Monitoring API

App

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Browser-Based vAppKeeper UI

VMware Prerequisites and Platform Support • vAppKeeper requires VMware HA • High Availability is a feature in vCenter Standard

or Foundation • VMware offers several packages/bundles

Recommendation is to communicate that vAppKeeper requires VMware HA (VMware HA requires vCenter)

• vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 supported vCenter Server 4.1 u1 and higher, 5.0 ESX(i) 4.1 u1 and higher, ESXi 5.0

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)

Minimizing Recovery TimeApplication

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Failure Identified By Application

User

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Application Recovered

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Application Failure

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Failure Identified By vAppKeeper

And VMware HA Triggered

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Application Recovered

T3

VMware HA Responds

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Application Recovery Kits• Same local recovery capabilities as LifeKeeper

All application and DB ARKs supported with vAppKeeper

Includes recovery logic enhancements• Multi-level policy (server- and resource-level)

Local recovery only VMware HA recovery only Local recovery attempt then VMware HA recovery Notification (no local recovery or VMware HA recovery)

• Temporal recovery logic Server-level Set recovery attempt limits within a defined time period

Enterprise Management Visibility• vSphere Client dashboard and

granular application hierarchy views

Flexible Management Options• Brower-based user interface• Command-line interface• Multi-level policy• Temporal recovery logic

Cluster-Level Dashboard

Virtual Machine-Level Status

Browser-Based Interface

vAppKeeper Postioning

Customer Need Lead Solution Comment

Virtual Environment (VMware-only)Customer recovery time objectives are not met with VMware HA and all Linux workloads to be protected are deployed in a vSphere 4 environment

vAppKeeper

• vAppKeeper supports only VMware

Virtual Environment (non-VMware)Customer wishes to protect Linux-based applications in virtual environments other than VMware

SteelEye Protection Suite

• SPS for Linux can be deployed in Xen and KVM guests

Physical-to-Virtual Customer wishes to protect a Linux-based application by failing over from a physical server to a virtualized server

SteelEye Protection Suite

• Applies to:• VMware guests• Xen guests• KVM guests

Physical OnlyCustomer wishes to protect a Linux-based application deployed sole in a physical environment

SteelEye Protection Suite

SIOS Linux Solution Positioning

vAppKeeper Pricing

vAppKeeper Pricing• vAppKeeper SKUs include vAppKeeper and SMC bits

Workload value-based pricing• Standard

All ARKs except SAP and Oracle• Enterprise

All ARKs including SAP and Oracle Price points

• Standard - $400/VM• Enterprise - $850/VM

Bundles• 5 and 10 packs

Discount schedule:• 50 VMs – 10% - $360/VM Standard, $765/VM Enterprise • 100 VMs – 20% - $320/VM Standard, $680/VM Enterprise• 500 VMs – 30% - $280/VM Standard, $595/VM Enterprise• 1000+ VMs – Special Bid

Thank You

Single-Node HA Comparison for VMware Environments

EventAbility to Respond

VMware HA Symantec Application HA 5.2

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vAppKeeper - Technical Architecture