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OPS-10: Managing multiple sites part time: Replication & OpenEdge Management Case Study
Brian Bowman Sr. Solution Engineer
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Try This…
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What were you watching?
How many turned Red? How many were Yellow? How many disappeared altogether?
Bonus Question:• How many changed color?
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Maybe a bit slower?
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What if you could do this?
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Agenda
Company Overview Business Problems IT Faced OE Replication Overview OE Management Overview Challenges & Successes Wrap-up & Questions
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Company Overview
Privately held company Custom built application (mostly) Currently between 800 & 1,000 users (CAGR: 25%) One of the US’s largest technology distribution
companies First company to distribute
• Color TV
• Home PC
• Gaming system
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Systems Overview
Windows-based servers Windows GUI application 8 distribution sites (with application)
• Across North America
Corporate office does all reporting One DBA
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Technology Overview
OpenEdge 10.1B Approx. 50 developers in house VMware used extensively at corporate Peak AI updates: 15K blocks / Hour 256K lines between sites and corporate
PSDN Whitepaper: Determining Fathom Replication Network Bandwidth
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Distribution CenterCorporate Office
Technology Picture
DB-Corp DB
Reporting Client
Customer Service,
Order Entry Client
Network
Security System
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Agenda
Company Overview Business Problems IT Faced OE Replication Overview OE Management Overview Challenges & Successes Wrap-up & Questions
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Business Problems IT Faces
Remote reporting No local DR solution 24 hour shipping guarantee One DBA No remote visibility Changes happening rapidly
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Agenda
Company Overview Business Problems IT Faced OE Replication Overview OE Management Overview Challenges & Successes Wrap-up & Questions
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What is OpenEdge Replication?
Automated data replication of your mission critical database to a hot stand-by.
Software that improves application availability with no application changes.
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OE Replication – Solving Business Problems
Remote reporting - OpenEdge Replication No Local DR solution - OpenEdge Replication 24 hour shipping guarantee – OpenEdge
Replication One DBA No remote visibility Changes happening rapidly
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OE Replication – Solving Business Problems
Remote reporting - OpenEdge Replication No Local DR solution - OpenEdge Replication 24 hour shipping guarantee – OpenEdge
Replication One DBA No remote visibility Changes happening rapidly
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Agenda
Company Overview Business Problems IT Faced OE Replication Overview OE Management Overview Challenges & Successes Wrap-up & Questions
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OpenEdge Management
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OE Management - Solving Business Problems
Remote reporting - OpenEdge Replication No Local DR solution - OpenEdge Replication 24 hour shipping guarantee – OpenEdge
Replication One DBA – OpenEdge Management No remote visibility – OpenEdge Management Changes happening rapidly – OpenEdge
Management
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Agenda
Company Overview Business Problems IT Faced OE Replication Overview OE Management Overview Challenges & Successes Wrap-up & Questions
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Challenges Faced in the Implementation
1. Bandwidth • 256K lines between sites and corporate• Video Surveillance shares the same line…
2. Backup transfers (California – Pennsylvania)• Backup is only available via overnight
currier…
3. Logistics• 8 sites plus corporate• Very little down time available• Different sites on different releases
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OpenEdge Replication Network Requirements Calculations
After Image Volume:• 10,000 8K AI blocks / Hr (81 megabytes)
• + 50% safety factor (123 megabytes)
• 2 megabytes / minute 36K / Second
• Roughly 14% of network bandwidth required
Network overhead
Security cameras
OpenEdge Replication
OpenEdge Management
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Successes in the Implementation
Proof of Concept enforced the value of Replication for Performance and HA
OpenEdge Management• Up and running in less than one week
OpenEdge Replication • Up and running within the same week
– all but 3 sites (HW Problems)
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Wrap-up
OpenEdge Replication and Management helped solve business problems!
Tools provided the ability to do more with the same resources
Remote Management is critical in today’s business
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Questions?
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Thank You
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