subversion multisite software appliance screen tour
DESCRIPTION
WANdisco's (http://www.wandisco.com) Subversion MultiSite Software Appliance provides immediate, real and tangible benefits to organizations by minimizing ongoing maintenance and administration costs and dramatically reducing deployment time. A globally distributed IT organization can literally be up and running in minutes. Just download it, turn it on, and it works.TRANSCRIPT
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Subversion MultiSite:
► Peer-to-peer architecture with no single point of failure.
• Not master-slave or multi-master.
► Subversion repositories connected over aWAN synchronize automatically with eachwrite operation.
► Developers at all locations experience LAN speed performance for both read and write operations.
► Built-in hot backup and automated disaster recovery features make third party solutions completely unnecessary.
► Transparent implementation doesn’t change Subversion’s behavior, so there’s no retraining.
The Application
For IT Organizations:
► Administrative overhead:
• Performing backups and other routine maintenance
• Maintaining system availabilityand dealing with disaster recovery
• Manually applying patches and performing upgrades
► Third party components add to the complexity
• Operating systems
• Databases
• Web Servers
• Plug-ins
The Challenges
► Distributed environments compound these
challenges.
► Projects take longer to complete
► Time to market delays lead to lost revenue
The Challenges
For ISVs:
► Longer development cycles.
► Software vendors have to restrict the list of supported platforms.
• No software vendor can QA every newrelease on every platform.
• This can limit an ISVs potential market.
► Added support burden
► Longer sales cycles
The Challenges
► Hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) can address some of these challenges:
• Deployment is immediate.
• Maintenance and support is handled primarily by the SaaS vendor.
► However, some enterprise applications may not be a fit for the SaaS model:
• Applications that require heavy customization.
• Applications that need to integratewith legacy in-house systems.
► A hybrid delivery model is emerging thatcombines SaaS with software appliances.
► WANdisco will soon be offering a hybrid solution leveraging Amazon’s EC2.
The Challenges
Product Delivery as a Software Appliance:
► Removes cost and complexity by eliminating environmental dependencies.
► Combines zero-latency deployment of SaaS with flexibility, control and security of behind the firewall solutions.
► Up and running in 2 minutes!!
► Update server provides latest patches and upgrades automatically to all sitesupon request.
• Eliminates risk from inconsistent manual processes.
The Solution
► WANdisco packages the appropriate build for each customer’s vm containing all of the components:
• WANdisco’s Subversion MultiSite
• Apache
• Subversion
• JeOS (rPath Linux)
• Interfaces with different VM environments
• Provides everything for ISO deployment
► Subversion MultiSite can be deployed at locations where there’s no staff to support any of the components.
The Solution
► All of the components are preconfigured for optimal performance:
• Apache Web Server is preconfigured for Subversion MultiSite only, unlike many standard implementations.
► rPath’s JeOS has a smaller footprint and consumes fewer resources than a standard Linux OS:
• Stripped down version of Linux tuned just for Subversion MultiSite and the VM.
• Eliminates unneeded Linux components that support a broad range of applications and hardware.
► Many VMs now provide direct access from JeOS to the hardware via device drivers.
• Removes virtualization overhead.
The Solution
► Download MultiSite.vmx file from WANdisco.
► Just load the file into a virtual machine directory on a server at each site.
► The Subversion MultiSite Software Appliance becomes a guest operating system on the host server at each site.
► Each instance of the Subversion MultiSite Software Appliance has its own unique IP address.
Deployment
Demo
► Removes cost and complexity from deploying and maintaining enterprise applications byeliminating environmental dependencies.
► Requires no tradeoffs in terms of Subversion MultiSite’s functionality or performance.
► Fully supported Just Enough Operating System (JeOS) based on Linux delivers everything needed for deployment under a VM, or on industry standard hardware.
► Available for any target virtualization environment including VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer, and Windows with Hyper-V.
► Automatic updates for all appliance components, including Subversion, Apache and WANdisco eliminate manual upgrades and patches.
Summary