EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3 X 3.1 Feature Improvements ... with EXPRESSCLUSTER, it does not detect failover as trouble. ... Extended support for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1Feature Improvements

NEC CorporationSystem Software Division

August, 2013

Virtualization

Expansion of non-disruptive failover

support(Hyper-V, KVM,vSphere 5(ESXi))

Smart Failover (*)

System resourcemonitoring

Java VM monitoring

Availability

Group dependency

Process name monitoring

Data mirroring

Feature for remote clustering

Mirror data bandwidth control

Operability

Smartphone &tablet support

Failure Simulation

Linkage with system mgmt s/w

(MIB support)

Twitter support

Simplified serviceresource configuration

(*) What is “Smart HA Cluster”?In addition to failover due to any failure, it enables failover based on predictive detection of failure which helps system to achieve higher reliability.

EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 Enhancements

VMware vCenter Server Plug-in provision

Package Product

EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1for SAP NetWeaver

2012/10NEW

2012/10NEW

2012/10Enhanced

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Product name

EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 for SAP NetWeaver(with 1 Year Support)

EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 for SAP NetWeaver(with 3 Years Support)



Added product lineup certified with SAP NetWeaverfor exclusive use!

Product package includes:・Media・Clustering module・SAP connecting module・SAP clustering guide・Sample source

▐ All-in-one package for clustering system implementation including all the modules and documents needed

▐ Attached configuration guide which enables trustworthy clustering setting▐ Bundled with 1-10 years of support, enabling reliable operation for extended periods of time

Note

- Each product(even if physical or virtual) includes a license for one node. (If you need 2 nodes, please purchase 2 products.)

- To extend support period, PP support pack is required.

- All the products or service marks mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners

IndustryIndustry’’s Firsts First（SAP HA Interface Certification）

EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 for SAP NetWeaver (1/2) 2012/10NEW Linux

Windows

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▐ Easy implementation The modules needed for monitoring SAP

NetWeaver is included and reduces implementation time.

Included clustering guide and sample source which enables trustworthy clustering setting

▐ Light Operation Enables failover in each SAP component to

minimize downtime

▐ Smooth Operability Enables to control SAP Components through SAP

MMC and realizes seamless operability• As communicate mutually and fit together

with EXPRESSCLUSTER, it does not detect failover as trouble.

• Enables to operate from EXPRESSCLUSTER WebManager

Industry’s First SAP HA Interface Certified Software !

SAP MMC

EXPRESSCLUSTER WebManager

EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 for SAP NetWeaver (2/2)

SAP NetWeaver SAP NetWeaverFailover

MonitorStart/Stop combination

MaxDB

PAS

ERS1

ASCS

ERS1

ASCS

PAS

ERS1

ASCS

Database

PAS

ERS1

ASCS

Database

AAS

ERS2

ASCS

Failover

Linux2012/10

NEW

IndustryIndustry’’s Firsts First（SAP HA Interface Certification）

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Windows

Extended support of live migration feature (non-disruptive failover)

Hyper-V, vSphere 4, KVM, XenServer vSphere 5

* Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V’s Live Migration is supported when a Network Attached Storage(NAS) is used as a shared disk. Quick Migration is supported in case of using Hyper-V 2.0/1.0.

Hypervisor Hypervisor

PartialPartialFC connectionFC connection

failurefailure

Partial Partial networknetwork

connectionconnectionfailurefailure

VM1

VM2

EXPRESSCLUSTER monitors physical resource and guest OS from hypervisor (host OS)

VM1

VM2

Hypervisor Hypervisor

VM1

VM1

ClustermgmtVM

Monitoring and other VM controls can be done from cluster management VM

VM2

Linux

ClustermgmtVM

FailureFailure

VM2

Improved Virtualization SupportWindows

▐ Extended support for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

(KVM, VMware, XenServer are already supported)

2012/10Enhanced

Windows Server 2012 support

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Monitoring status of each server is apparent

Obvious where the resource is activated

Enables centralized management of the clustering status of business systems (virtual machines)

One click to activate the WebManagerfor more details and operation

VMware vCenter Server Plug-in Linux

Windows2012/10

NEW

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group1group1 group2group2group3group3

group4group4

Predicts failure and automatically judges appropriate server to failover by collecting/analyzing system resource usage

Smart Failover Linux

Windows

Active Server

Standby Server -2

Standby Server -1

System Resource Agent

“Increase” tendency

“Decrease” tendency

Application

Application

ResourceUsage

Predictionof failure

now

Smart failover

ResourceUsage

ResourceUsage




Realize stable operation by avoiding system resource failure

System resource- CPU- Memoryetc


Now Future

Monitors whole system resourceMonitors whole system resourcePrevents trouble in advancePrevents trouble in advance

Stores system resource informationStores system resource informationCan be used for sizing or reportingCan be used for sizing or reporting

Monitors resource of each processMonitors resource of each processAlerts abnormal resource usageAlerts abnormal resource usage

Process

Process

ProcessPredicts resource

shortage near future


Resourceusage

Resourceusage

Resource usagesmall BigAlert

Linux

Windows

New monitoring option “System Resource Agent”


Improves availability of application server by monitoring of Java virtual machine.

Linux

Windows

New monitoring option “Java Resource Agent”

Java VM

Java App

Application Server

Java Resource Agent

Memory pool

Memory monitoring

Garbage collection monitoring

Heap Non-Heap

Heapshortage

Thread pool

Thread pool monitoring

Threads

Java VM

Java App

Application Server

Java Resource Agent

Load Balancer

Failure

Major Supported Application Servers

- WebOTX Application Server

- WebLogic Server

- JBoss Application Server

- Apache Tomcat

Monitoring of Java VMMonitoring of Java VM

Normal

Fallback Recovery

Linkage with load balancerLinkage with load balancer

Enables fallback operation by detecting abnormal status which health check of load balancer (Ping/TCP/HTTP) can not detect


Shortened failover time by localizing the failover unit

EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1

▐ All the resource should be in the same failover group in case system requires multiple applications (cluster resource) to start in fixed order.

▐ Restarts all registered resources in case of failure.

▐ Enabled to define groups by each apps (cluster resource), and determine order to start/stop.

▐ Target group will be restarted in case of failure

App A resource

App B resource

App C resource

Failover Group (Unit of failover) Separated groups for each apps can be defined

Linux

Windows

Solaris

Group

Group

Group

App A resource

App B resource

App C resource

Failo

ver time

App A

App B

App C

App A

Start O

rder

Sto

p O

rder

Group Dependency

Previous

Failo

ver time

Only failed group will be restarted/switched thus failover time can be reduced!

Start O

rder

Sto

p O

rder


Group start/stop can be configured from GUI while being able to view the current settings at a glance

Depth 0

Depth 1

Start Dependency

Depth 2

Depth 3

failover1 failover2

failover3 failover4

failover5

failover6

Linux

Windows

Solaris

Example of Example of

Dependency SettingDependency Setting

Group Dependency


Child/Grandchild process can now be monitored by EXPRESSCLUSTER

Previous EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1

▐ With process name monitoring resource, structure of app is understood while monitoring.

E.g.1)

E.g.2)

▐ Process (grandchild) of parent/child relationis not monitored.

App (Grandchild)

App (Child)

EXPRESSCLUSTER (parent)

Linux

Windows

Solaris

App (Child)


Start?

App (Grandchild 1)

App (Child)


App (Grandchild 2)

App (Grandchild 3)

App (Grandchild 4)

App (Grandchild 5)

▐ Setting of E.g.1)

Process name “APPL”

▐ Setting of E.g.2)

Process name “APP*”

Wildcard “*” is supported

APPL

Process name monitoring

App (Grandchild)


Managing cluster systems from Android devices.

Linux

Windows

Solaris

＊＊＊

＊＊＊＊＊

Smartphone

Other Android Devices

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Smartphone & tablet support


Tweets server condition in case of any failure occurrence on the server

Failure

Failover

App

Enables system administrators to be informed about the cluster events in real-time

・・

Linux

Windows

Solaris

XXXXX_xxx2011.9.13 17:39 Completed failover of Server1

13th September

XXXXX_xxx2011.9.13 17:38Started failover of Server1

13th September

Direct Messages sent to you

Important notification on twitter

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Server stopped

Failovercompleted

Search

Tweet Favorite Following Follower List

Twitter support

Protected tweet or Direct Message


SNMP Manager enables cluster management.

Enables integrated management including network devices etc

Failover

SNMP Manager

Failure

SNMP communication* NEC MasterScope Network Manager case

Easy setting with GUI

Linux

Windows

Solaris

Displays information/situation from SNMP communication of EXPRESSCLUSTER

Linkage between system mgmt software (MIB support)


Enables failure simulation from management console for testing the failover scenario

“Verification Mode” is added to the management consoleEarly discovery of mistakes in configuration, and confirms recovery of monitor resource.

Linux

Windows

Solaris

2. Select dummy failure from monitor resource

1. Select verification mode

3. Select server to use for dummy failure

4. Easily simulate the failure

Failure simulation from the management console


Previous EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1

▐ Service name to be registered in service resource should be specified manually where human mistake is likely to occur.

Automatically obtains the service name managed in service management console of Windows OS

Windows

1. Display service name from Connect button

2. Just select service name for registration from list box.

Needed to input service name manually every time

Easy setting of service resource


Throughput/status of data mirroring can be monitored in real time.

▐ By periodic information collection, problems such as performance degradation which was earlier difficult to detect can be recognized.

▐ Amount of data mirrored among servers can be visualized.

Mirror data

Statistic information will be recorded in the logs, and output can be taken as CSV files.

By executing command, such as average throughput for certain period can be viewed.

Average data writing quantity (MB/s)

Average mirror communication quantity (MB/s)

Average data transfer time Byte number of

sent mirror data

Linux

Windows

Windows version

Linuxversion

Performance monitor

Command prompt

Feature for remote cluster

File(F) Edit(E) Setting(S) Control(C) Window(W)


Enables to limit the available bandwidth for data mirroring

▐ Bandwidth for data mirroring can be configured depending on network environment

▐ Even without dedicated line for mirroring, the impact can be minimized

Mirror data

Network is occupied if data is big or network bandwidth is narrow.

Mirror data

Impact to other communications

Ensures communication bandwidth

*Windows version has been supported from previous version

Linux

Windows

Mirror data bandwidth control (Network Shaping)

Without network shaping……

With network shaping……


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EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3 X 3.1 Feature Improvements ... with EXPRESSCLUSTER, it does not detect failover as trouble. ... Extended support for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V