thirty minutes to share point availability
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Revisiting a presentation I gave back in 2010, still just as relevant today!TRANSCRIPT
© 2010 Neverfail
Thirty Minutes to SharePoint Availability
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Today’s Agenda
– Common causes of downtime in SharePoint environments
– High availability and DR capabilities "out of the box"
– Third party options for protecting SharePoint server farms
– Determining the right availability solution for your SharePoint environment
Impacts to Availabilityof a SharePoint Farm
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Common Causes of Downtime
– Environmental issues
– Network latency issues
– Database availability
– Hardware issues
– Connectivity issues
– Planned maintenance
– Application availability
– Human error
Built-in SharePoint Availability Options
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SharePoint built-in HA capabilities:Redundancy
– SharePoint’s built-in HA based on server redundancy
– SharePoint depends on database availability
– Limited to local subnets & low-latency links
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SharePoint built-in DR capabilities:Secondary Farm
– Complete second SharePoint farm in another location
– Requires some form of database replication for SQL Server
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Challenges of Protecting a SharePoint Farm
- No Application Server failover
- Index Server Single Point of Failure
- Low latency & high bandwidth req.
- Third server req. for automation
No single point of control
- Multiple technologies
- Manual coordination
- Scripted task dependencies
Microsoft Recommended Configuration
- No Application Awareness
Third-party SharePoint Availability Options
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Why Third-Party Options
– Software/hardware to add value over what’s in the box
– Protection from broader range of vulnerabilities
– Simplify overall HA infrastructure
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Types of 3rd-party Solutions
– Fast back-up & recovery
– SAN-based replication
– Server virtualization
– Hardware clustering
– Host-based replication
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Third party options for protecting SharePoint Server:Rapid-recovery backups
– Application-level backups– Disk-based backup– Virtual recovery capabilities– Accelerated data recovery
Server 1
SAN
SAN Storage
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Third party options for protecting SharePoint Server:SAN-based replication solutions
– Protects the storage-layer of the application
– Replicates raw storage between similar devices
Server 1 Server 2
SAN
SAN Storage
SAN
SAN Storage
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Third party options for protecting SharePoint Server: Virtualization-based solutions
– Protects a complete guest VM from hardware failures
– Shared or replicated VM file restarts on another host
Virtual Stacked Servers
Virtual ServersVirtual Servers
SAN
Shared SAN Storage
SAN
SAN Storage
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Third party options for protecting SharePoint Server:Host-based replication solutions
– Active server replicates changes to a stand-by server
– Application-layer visibility and management
Primary Server Secondary Server
Neverfail for SharePoint
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Evolution of Continuous Availability
RecoveryCentric
AvailabilityCentric
DataEmphasis
Backup & RestoreFile, Block, Full, Incremental, On-site, Off-site
Data ReplicationSnapshot, Asynchronous, Synchronous, CDP
BusinessEmphasis
Continuous AvailabilityNo User or Application Downtime, Application-
Awareness, Automation, Local & Remote Availability
ApplicationEmphasis
Basic FailoverClustering, Fault Tolerance, High Availability
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SharePoint Application Monitoring
– Availability is made of many things
– Neverfail application-level monitoring
– Notification and automation
Passive Server
Admin
User/Customer
Active Server
Neverfail Continuous Availability Director
Passive Server Active Server
Host OS
Application Response
Network
Services
Performance Monitoring
Rules and Thresholds
End-user Availability
Rules and Thresholds
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MS Clustering
Array Replication
Multiple point solutions do not solve the problem
Load Balancing
VMware HA
Traditionally, servers of like functionality are grouped together
for availability and protection
Integration of multiple, standalone availability solutions is complex
and expensive to maintain
Lack of coordination between availability solutions leads to
incomplete protection for your app
DR solutions typically protect data, not application availability,
cutomers left owning a manual recovery process
SQLServer SQLServer
SharePoint SharePoint
Web Server Web Server
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Sharepoint Farm
Customers require a simple, holistic solution
SQL Server SQL Server
SharePoint SharePoint
Web Server Web Server
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– Business-centric application management
– Monitor and control the entire application vertical
– One solution, one console
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Neverfail protects all SharePoint components….
NeverfailContinuousAvailability
Director
AMF
ApplicationModules
3rd PartyAdaptors
Scope
SQL ServerSQL Server
Virtu
alizedP
hysical
SharePoint Farm
Web Tier
Application Tier
Database Tier
Query Server Index ServerExec Calc ServerCentral Admin
IIS IIS IIS
Single point of management and control across the entire farm
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….to “fail-the-farm” in a DR context…..
User Transparent Failover/Failback, Application-Aware, CDP, Replication
Neverfail - Continuous Availability Director
Application-Aware Management Framework (AMF)
Email Files Remote UsersCollaborationWebDatabase Custom AppsNeverfail Admin
Primary Site Secondary Site
Neverfail
WANsmart
up to 30x
traffic reduction
Virtu
alized
SharePoint Farm (Active)
Ph
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l
Web Front End
Application Tier
Database Tier
Query Server
SQL Server
IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS
Index Server
Exec Calc Server
Central Admin
SQL Server
Virtu
alized
SharePoint Farm (Active)
Ph
ys
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l
Web Front End
Application Tier
Database Tier
Query Server
SQL Server
IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS
Index Server
Exec Calc Server
Central Admin
SQL Server
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…optionally adding local HA alongside DR
Neverfail - Continuous Availability Director
Application-Aware Management Framework (AMF)
Email Files Remote UsersCollaborationWebDatabase Custom AppsNeverfail Admin
Virtu
alized
SharePoint Farm (Active) SharePoint Farm (Passive)
Primary Site Remote SiteP
hy
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al
User Transparent Failover/Failback, Application-Aware, CDP, Replication
Virtu
alized
SharePoint Farm (Passive)Web Front End
Application Tier
Database Tier
Query Server
SQL Server
IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS
Index Server
Exec Calc Server
Central Admin
SQL Server
Web Front End
Application Tier
Database Tier
Query Server
SQL Server
IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS
Index Server
Exec Calc Server
Central Admin
SQL Server
Web Front End
Application Tier
Database Tier
Query Server
SQL Server
IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS IIS+MOSS
Index Server
Exec Calc Server
Central Admin
SQL Server
Neverfail
WANSmart
Neverfail
WANsmart
Determining the Right Solution
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Choosing the Right Solution for SharePoint
– Consider the cost of downtime– How critical is your SharePoint infrastructure to you business?
– Consider the possible vulnerabilities– What scenarios do you need to protects yourself against?
– Consider the availability options– Which solution covers the vulnerabilities you need protection from?
– Neverfail provides the most robust affordable solution for SharePoint and any other Windows-based application
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Key Technology Differentiators
– Protects End-to-End Business Services– Neverfail aggregates & protects any set of multi-tier components,
including applications, servers, services, and it maps all their interdependencies
– Complete Protection Against the Widest Range of Failures– Leverages Application Awareness, Intelligence and Automation– Eliminates both planned and unplanned downtime
– WAN Acceleration & Deduplication– Essential feature set to enable DR deployments
– Heterogeneous Protection– Physical and Virtual Environments (P2P, P2V, V2P, V2V)– Any Combination of Physical Server and Storage Hardware
© 2010 Neverfail
Neverfail for SharePoint Availability
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