Increasing Manageability and Availability for SANs: SANPoint Foundation Suite HA

Presentation Outline Business and Customer Issues High Availability Trends What is SANPoint Foundation Suite HA? SANPoint Foundation Suite HA: How does it work? Target Markets Summary

Data Management Challenges Volume of data generated by each new major application has expanded exponentially Need to be assured that data is protected, recoverable and always available Everyone in the enterprise needs information access to perform their jobs Disparate, non-integrated computing platforms need to share information

IT Challenges/Trends Managing data with fewer IT resources Managing hardware and software changes on a daily basis Delivering timing system and application performance Companies are approaching performance and scalability limits with existing infrastructure

High Availability Trends Storage Area Networks (SANs) Centralized management Provides scalable growth to meet increasing storage demands Reduces administrative overhead Increases application availability Off-host backup Storage and server consolidation Clustered Environments Ideal for fast application failover in the event of hardware failure Offers load balancing to maximize compute power throughout the cluster

Why Should You Care About SANs? Source: Enterprise Management Associates 2/2000

Moving from host to SAN-based data Today’s data is host-based, even if stored in SAN-based storage Moving control of that data from host to host exacts an unacceptable penalty SAN-aware data storage will enable: Improved HA architectures Framework for existing applications Infrastructure for new parallel applications Simplified content/media serving VERITAS is introducing a new solution for SAN data sharing

Introducing: VERITAS SANPoint Foundation Suite™ HA

SANPoint Foundation Suite HA Transparent data sharing Centralized management Fast application failover Reduced downtime for maintenance Built in integrity (locking) Fully integrated solution for high availability environments such as SANs and clustering

SANPoint Foundation Suite HA Integration of Cluster File System Cluster Volume Manager VERITAS Cluster Server VERITAS Cluster Volume Manager VERITAS Cluster File System VERITAS Cluster Server Single File System Image Optimized for SAN environment

Cluster File System VxFS - core file system Availability Scalability Manageability Cluster File System Global Lock Manager Global Atomic Broadcast Cluster membership Cache coherency Low Latency Transport Private Ethernet or Fibre Channel Built on the availability, scalability and manageability of VxFS Common single file system on shared storage Highly available Application transparent

Cluster Volume Manager Critical for shared data enviroments All nodes see the same volumes Nodes exchange meta-data info Supports all VxVM capabilities CVM Host B Host C Host D CVM Host A SAN Cluster File System

VERITAS Cluster Server To the Cluster File System: Provides high availability Provides messaging services HA application clustering Future versions of SANPoint Foundation Suite will be available with lite or limited functionality version of VCS

Target Environments

Target Customer SAN Environments Storage Consolidation Off-host Backup Existing VERITAS Foundation Suite and VCS customers Highly Competitive Environments High Growth Industries Mission Critical Application Deployments Shrinking IT Resources

Target Applications eBusiness Infrastructure Web applications ISP, XSP, hosting Content servers Enterprise Applications Billing systems Proprietary data processing DSS/DW Databases Single instance File Servers General purpose file serving

eBusiness Infrastructure Business Problems eBusinesses require rapid deployment and provisioning of applications: Capacity on demand business models CNN Election Night Administrative costs high Moving data Maintaining software images Stale data, content, binaries Application load balancing

The Solution Provide a data virtualization layer that meets eBusiness needs Quick and non-disruptive migration Data Storage Lower admin costs Don’t move data Don’t install SW Simple load balancing Increase manageability due to flexible deployment of multiple apps Content management File sharing

eBusiness: Web Servers (Read-mostly) Shared nothing environment: Web database is replicated on two disks - one for each web server Double the disk space; regular copy operations required Alternative - NFS server The Solution: No web database replication required Save disk space; no synchronization problems No NFS server required Web Data WebServers Web Data Web Data WebServers

Messaging Solutions Partitioned operation: Flat files Manually partitioned data Load balancing difficult The Solution: Single data repository Any to any connection External load balancing Optimized server usage A-Z Data G-M Data A-F Data N-S Data T-Z Data Servers

Enterprise Applications Batch processing Proprietary apps DW/DSS Billing Simplified data access architecture for operational efficiency Less everything (network, servers, storage, people) Less complex, therefore more manageable Test, data movement, pilot

Off-Host Processing Easy implementation of off-host processing with FastResync Data Incoming Transactions Data Warehouse Extraction Data Daily Mirror Hourly Mirror CRM Cluster Volume Manager Shared Data Database Servers

Backup Server Off-host Backup Incremental Backup Application Oracle Cluster File System livedata NetBackup Application Server Shared disks Hot Backup split mirror

High Availability for Databases Oracle Failover: Detect failure Import disk group Replay file system log Mount file system Initiate Oracle Oracle logs Fail over IP addresses The Solution: Faster failover Eliminate DG import & FS mount Oracle fast recovery mode PayrollSales InventoryAccounts Sales Inventory Hot Standby

File Serving The appliance problem: “I loved my first appliance server, I hated my 20 th ” Appliance Server

File Serving The network appliance problem: “I loved my first network appliance server, I hated my 20 th ” Appliance Server

File Serving The Solution: File system defined globally Shared files located on any available disk No fail over after server shutdown SANPoint Foundation SANPoint Foundation SANPoint Foundation SANPoint Foundation

More Information

Near-term Product Announcement SANPoint Foundation Suite HA FCS – May 2001 Solaris 8 only (HP-UX targeted by Q4 2001) and supports 8 node clusters Available on Tier 1-4 systems

Sales Materials Datasheet Business and Technical White Paper FAQ Overview presentation Competitive positioning Hardware support matrix

SPFS HA packaging The first release of SPFS HA is an edition integrating the following point products: VxFS/VxCFS 3.4 patch 1 VxVM/VxCVM: VCS 1.3 (for GAB/LLT/GLM)

Supported Arrays SPFS HA only supports arrays which can support fibre channel technology SPFS HA will only support switched fibre channel fabric SPFS HA will support the V3 storage appliance EMC Symmetrix 3830 Clariion HDS FC 7700E, 5800FC SUN A5x00, T3

Host Bus Adapters & Switches Supports Fibre channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) cards from JNI (1063) and Emulex 8000 JNI supports IP and DLPI over Fibre channel and SPFS HA uses a single HBA for both disk I/O and cluster messaging (heartbeat) traffic Supports Brocade Silkworm (2800) channel switches

Summary

Three directions for SANPoint products Help IT manage increasing complexity of SAN configurations Improving SAN management Enable simplified and global approaches to storage management Improving storage management Enabling applications to leverage the capabilities of the hardware topologies Enabling new application architectures VERITAS is providing solutions to leverage data access in SAN environments

Why VERITAS and SANs? We Deliver on Heterogeneous SANs VERITAS qualifies all major storage and fabric vendors on all open system platforms in mixed vendor topologies Data Center Quality SAN Products All SAN solutions are designed and tested to scale as your SAN grows in TBs, servers, fabric complexity Track Record of Success More SAN installations than any other software vendor Investment in the Future SANs are a top priority for new technology development VERITAS works actively to set the standards for SAN applications and management

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