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Eliminating User Downtime
Using Virtualisation To Reduce the Cost and Increase Effectiveness of Disaster recovery and Business Continuity
20th October 2010
What Do We Do?
• Continuous, uninterrupted user access to all critical applications and information without interruption• High Availability and Disaster recovery• Application Aware• Avoid unscheduled and scheduled loss of service• No loss of business, no loss of productivity• Meet or exceed service level agreements • Maintain reputation with key users • Exploit commodity application platforms
• Proactive approach to 24x7 Continuous Availability, Resiliency and Disaster Recovery
Working In Conjunction With Virtualisation
Delivering Business ValueProvides Fast, User Transparent, “Application-Aware”, Site Failover/Failback for Business-Critical Applications
Neverfail failover time = a few seconds to a few minutes
Supports Multi-Site, Mixed Physical / Virtual EnvironmentsReplicate across any storage type – SAN, DAS, iSCSI, FCFailover between any server type - P2P, P2V, V2P, V2V, P2V2V etc.On any virtualization platform - VMware, Hyper-V, CitrixAcross any distance – LAN, MAN, WANOne solution for both High Availability & Disaster Recovery
Brings Application Awareness, Intelligence and Automation to the Business Continuity ProcessProvides a Business-Centric View of Business Applications, Application Servers, IT Services, and their Interdependencies Provides a Single Point of Management and Control
Neverfail – The power behind VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
PrimaryServer
SecondaryServer
Protecting Availability of an Application
Neverfail Channel
LAN or WAN
BenefitsProvides application-aware High Availability and Disaster ResiliencyFast, user transparent failover/failbackNo disruption to applications, as primary applications are untouchedNeverfail replication enables any-to-any storage replicationNo SAN required, which reduces cost & removes single point of failurePhysical, Virtual, CombinationTransparent failover and failbackPlanned and unplanned outages
HBP HBS
Remote Site
VirtualTertiary(s)
(DR)
VirtualSecondary(s)
(HA)
PhysicalPrimary(s)
Protecting Physical & Virtual (P2V2V “Local HA+DR”)
LAN
NeverfailWANSmart
up to 30xtraffic reduction
Local Site
ESX / Hyper-V Host(s)
ESX / Hyper-V Host(s)
Benefit SummaryProvides fast, user transparent, application-aware failover/failbackProvides complete Continuous Availability (local HA and remote DR)WANSmart reduces RTO, RPO & bandwidth costsNeverfail replication enables any-to-any storage replicationNo SAN required, which reduces cost & removes single point of failureFlexible application failover as full site recovery is not requiredvXtender lowers licensing cost of protecting all virtual servers
vXtender Licensing
vXtender Licensing
Business Application
MS ClusteringDatabase Mirroring
Business-Centric Management & Protection
Load Balancing
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Traditionally, servers of like functionality are grouped together for availability &
protection, leading to multiple, standalone availability
solutions and incomplete protection for the Business
Application
Neverfail takes a Business-Centric approach and manages and
protects the complete Business application, including: -
Database Server Database Server
Application Server Application Server
Web Server Web Server
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App
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IndexServer
QueryServer
AdminServer
Excel Calculation
Server
A Single Point of Management
Continuous Availability Director Enables Business-Critical systems to be managed and protected in a Business-Centric manner e.g. by: -o Business System (SharePoint, Mobile Messaging, Web Application etc.)o Business Process (Manufacturing, Quality Assurance etc.)o Business Service (Accounting, Payroll Processing etc.)o Organizational Structure (New York Office, Media Div., Finance Dept. etc.)
Provides centralized monitoring, management & configuration for all Business-Critical systems and application server interdependencies
Provides centralized Global Health status (alerts, alarms etc.)
Provides detailed, real-time graphical representation of switchover, failover status progress
Provides simplified roll-up status of rules and events, through collapsible display options (for Memory, disk, processor etc.)
Provides simplified visualization and configuration of alerts
Neverfail Protection
Blackberry x1 Print Server x1 Web Server x4
File Server x7 Email Server x5 Application Server x6
Domain Controller x4Other x17 SQL Server x4
Blackberry x1 Print Server x1 Web Server x4
File Server x7 Email Server x5 Application Server x6
Other x13 SQL Server x4
64 Cores 48 Cores
Nashville Tennessee Lombard Illinois
Fast Track’s Disaster Recovery Setup
Primary Site located in Victoria London.– Physical Server Infrastructure– HP DL and Blade Servers– EVA HP SAN– Cisco Network– Expo 100meg Internet Connection
Secondary Site located in Maidenhead, Colocation– Vmware Server Infrastructure– HP DL Servers– MSA HP SAN– Cisco Network– 40meg Internet Connection
Fast Track’s use of Neverfail in Anger
Crystal Palace Diamond League Athletics 13th – 14th August 2010.
GB Basketball – NIA Birmingham
Enforced power outage on the 14th
Services Required
– MS Exchange – Blackberry Enterprise Server– SQL 2005 (Photo Accreditation and Results)– Active Directory– File and Print
BBC Live for 4 hours
No power available in Primary Office
Multi Million £ Contracts running for over a decade
Aviva, BBC Sport (UK and Global TV distribution) Reputation
Complementing vMotion and VMware HA
Neverfail vAppHAProvides complete, “Application-Aware” protection for business critical applications running on Vmware
Extends VMware HA & FT to protect against application failures, software failures, performance degradation, configuration failures & user error
Automatically detects, protects and restarts failed applications and/or initiates a VM VMotion to a different host
Integrates with vCenter monitoring to provide task activity updates, current status reports, start/stop times etc.
Avoids planned and unplanned downtime
vAppHA
Scenarios for vAppHA
1. Application Service Failure
vAppHA restarts the service
2. Persistent application failure or performance related problem
vAppHA can trigger graceful VM restart or vMotion to another host
3. Problem with VMware HA configuration
vAppHA alerts if configuration changes affect availability
4. SQL Server database goes off-line
vAppHA can bring the database back online
5. IIS Website becomes unavailable
vAppHA can detect and restart IIS
6. SQL Server db query time out signals performance problem
vMotion VM to a designated ESX host
7. The OS stops responding from depleted resources
Works with vSphere 4.1 Application Heartbeat API
vAppHA for VMware - Product Positioning
Product
Protection
VMware HA/FT Neverfail vAppHA
for VMware
Neverfail Continuous
Availability Suite
Virtual machines
Applications
ESX Hosts *
Physical machines
Storage
Site
Complete Solutions for both Physical & Virtual Environments
*Clustered ESX servers only
Neverfail vXtenderTM
Leverage ESX/Hyper-V for High Availability of Physical Tier-1 Business Applications
ProductionWorkloads
Neverfail – The complete solution for Continuous Availability across Physical, Virtual and San Infrastructures
Primary Site(Production)
Remote Site(Continuous Availability)
Remote Site(Disaster Recovery)
Heterogeneous InfrastructureRTO = Seconds to ~2mins
SAN
SAN
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat (OEM)Protection for VMware: - - vCenter Server- View - SRM
Array Based Replication+ VMware SRM
Homogeneous InfrastructureRTO = > 20mins to several hours
WAN
Neverfail WANSmartTM
Up to 30x traffic reduction
Neverfail vAppHAApplication Aware failoverfor VMware HA/FT & Hyper-V
Neverfail Monitoring ,Replication and Failover
ProductionWorkloads
vAppHA - What the Analysts have to say (ESG)
“Neverfail takes workload availability to the next level—in both virtual and physical environments - enhancing VMware’s VM protection offerings through integrating its application awareness products with VMware infrastructure-level HA.”
- Mark Bowker and Lauren Whitehouse, Enterprise Strategy Group
“Hardware failure is only one of the causes of downtime. The operating system could hang, the application could crash, and processes running on the virtual machine could consume excess CPU or memory resources—slowing an application to a crawl. Current solutions from virtualization vendors will not help in these situations.”
Questions?
www.neverfailgroup.com