1. Deploying Highly Available SAP in the Cloud
Jerry Melnick, President, CEO
SIOS Technology Corp.

2. Business Critical Applications Employ High Availability (HA) Technologies to Meet User Needs
Goals
Keep the business running
Minimize down-time
Eliminate data loss
Maintain data integrity
Techniques
Build HA into the application
Build redundancy into the infrastructure
Transparent application recovery
Transparent data replication
Techniques
Build HA into the application

3. Traditional Shared Storage Cluster
High Availability Clustering Traditional Foundation for High Availability and Disaster Protection
Protect
SQL Server, SAP, Oracle
Failover
Move application operations to a standby server
Traditional Shared Storage Cluster
Failover
SAP
SQL
Oracle
Infrastructure level protection
application, server & storage
Predictable service levels
No loss of data
Fast switchover time
High performance
Flexible & Scalable Configurations

4. High Availability Clusters in the Cloud
FAILOVER
Traditional failover clustering requires shared storage
SAP
SAP
But shared storage is not available in public clouds
SQL SERVER
storage
REPLICATION
storage
storage
SIOS SANLess Clusters Enables High Availability in the Cloud

5. SIOS Enables High Value Applications to Move to Azure
DataKeeper Cluster Edition
Windows
Key Advantages of SANLess clusters
Trusted and familiar approach to HA
Assures availability & no data loss in Azure
Lowers total ownership cost - eliminates high SAN costs
Improves IT flexibility
SIOS Protection Suite
Linux
SIOS value opens up new opportunities & gives Distributors/SI’s 3 ways to build revenue
Why SIOS:
1. Help you differentiate your cloud offerings
2. Make money
3. No one else can provide HA
4. Can not buy on the street

6. Cloud Trend Predictions – circa 2013
Gartner predicted that the bulk of new IT spending in 2016 will be for cloud computing platforms and applications
Public cloud services grew 16.5% in 2016
from $175B in 2015 to $204B
Source: Gartner Newsroom

7. What About Critical Applications in the Cloud?

8. SIOS SANLess Clusters, SAP, Microsoft & Azure
Certified solution for Windows Server Failover Clustering on Azure
Certified solution for SAP high availability on Azure
Fully documented implementation guide by Microsoft
Available in the Azure Marketplace
™ SIOS Confidential 2015 6
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9. Clustering with SIOS in Azure An HA Foundation for Business & IT Agility in the New Data Center
SIOS Protection Suite
With Linux
Windows Server Failover Clustering
Application Monitoring
Recovery Orchestration
Region 2
Region 1
Availability
Zone 1
Zone 2
Cloud – Multiple Availability Zones
Multi-Region Cloud
Physical Servers
Cloud
Data Redundancy
REPLICATION
Shared SAN
SIOS DataKeeper

10. High Availability SAP in Azure
Client
2nd Region
DR Site
Availability
Zone
Microsoft
Windows Server Failover Cluster +
SIOS DataKeeper
Application Servers
SAP Central Services
ASCS/SCS/PAS/ERS
3 Node configuration
to manage
Regional
Disasters
REPLICATION
Database specific HA or
SIOS DataKeeper
Database
Servers
REPLICATION

11. Move Your Critical Applications to the Cloud With SIOS SANLess Clusters
Clusters Your WayTM

13. SIOS DataKeeper Replication
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
Change-only replication
Very low overhead
Modes: Synchronous or Asynchronous
Prevents full re-syncs via bitmap file
File System or
Application
Replication
Source
Driver
Target
Volume or
Disk Device
Volume or
Disk Device
Specific to how DR works, Keep

14. DataKeeper Cluster Edition
SIOS Products SAN & SANLess Clusters for Physical, Virtual, and Cloud Environments
Windows
Linux
DataKeeper Cluster Edition
Enhancing Windows Server Failover Clustering
SIOS Protection Suite
Enterprise-Ready Linux Clusters

15. SPS for Linux - Overview
SPS provides protection for key SAP components:
Primary Application Server (PAS)
ABAP SAP Central Service (ASCS)
SAP Central Services (SCS)
Enqueue and message servers
Enqueue Replication Server (ERS)
Database (Oracle, etc)
Shared and/or Replicated File Systems
Logical Volumes (LVM)
NFS Mounts and Exports
Virtual IPs CI AS
Cluster
State: Active
State: Stand-by
Database CI
SAP Central Instance
SCS
SAP Central Server Services AS
Application Server
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16. Traditional Shared Storage Cluster
High Availability Server Clustering Foundation for High Availability and Disaster Protection
Protect mission-critical applications
SQL Server, SAP, Oracle
Failover for high availability
Move application operations to a standby server
Traditional Shared Storage Cluster
Failover
SAP
SQL
Oracle

17. Who is SIOS? SIOS Confidential 2016 Founded in 1999
Formerly Steeleye Technology
Headquarters in San Mateo, CA
Offices across the US, UK and Japan
Recognized experts in application availability
More than 50,000 licenses installed globally in a wide range of industries
Partners are industry leaders
This is a build slide, each bullet requires a click
SIOS Confidential 2016

18. SIOS – SAP Certified

19. SIOS Technical Overview

20. Traditional Cluster
Failover
Not Available in Azure

21. #SANLess Clustering with DataKeeper
Failover
Replication
Synchronous or Asynchronous
Low Latency Block Replication
Between Server Nodes

22. #SANLess Clustering with DataKeeper
Failover
Replication
Synchronous or Asynchronous
Low Latency Block Replication
Between Server Nodes

23. #SANLess Clustering with DataKeeper
Failover
Failover
Replication
Replication

24. Multisite Cluster with Hybrid Cloud
Failover
Failover
Replication
Synchronous or Asynchronous
Low Latency Block Replication
Between Server Nodes

25. #SANLess Clustering in Azure
Azure-West
Failover
Fault Domain
Fault Domain
Replication
Across Fault Domains
SQL 1
SQL 2
Fault Domain
DC2
File Share Witness
EDIT adding Availability Zone

26. Enabling Business Critical Applications In Physical Virtual, Cloud and Hybrid Environments
FAILOVER
Failover application instances across cloud availability zones, regions or hybrid cloud Site-wide, local, and regional disaster protection with minimal downtime and no data loss The flexibility and cost-savings of the cloud and the availability and features of a traditional cluster
SQL SERVER
SQL SERVER
storage
REPLICATION
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27. SANLess MultiSite Clusters in Amazon
Amazon AWS
Availability Zone 1
Availability Zone 2
Block Replication across
Fault Domains
SQL1
SQL1
Availability Zone 3
DC2
File Share Witness
Amazon VPC
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28. SANLess Clustering in Azure
Azure-West
Failover
Fault Domain
Fault Domain
Replication
Across Fault Domains
SQL 1
SQL 2
Fault Domain DC
File Share Witness
EDIT adding Availability Zone
SIOS Technology Corp. All rights reserved.

29. High Availability Clusters in the Cloud
FAILOVER
Traditional failover clustering requires shared storage
SAP
SCS/ASCS DB
SAP
SCS/ASCS DB
But there’s no shared storage in the cloud
SQL SERVER
REPLICATION
SANLess Clusters provides synchronized redundant storage
storage
REPLICATION
storage
storage
SIOS DataKeeper permits clusters to use cloud storage just like a SAN