SIOS – Comprehensive High Availability Options for your

VMware Environment

Agenda

• About SIOS/SteelEye

• Importance of High Availability

• Challenges of HA in VMware Environments• SIOS – Enhancing VMware HA

• vAppKeeper• SIOS SteelEye Protection Suite

• Demo

• Next Steps

About SIOS / SteelEye

Who is SIOS Technology Corp / SteelEye ?•Founded 1999, wholly owned subsidiary of SIOS Technology, Inc

• Profitable division within a profitable, publicly traded organization

•Provides Best-In-Class High Availability, Data Replication and Disaster Recovery solutions

•Global Organization•Headquartered in San Mateo, CA•Remote Offices throughout the US, UK and Japan

•Over 35,000 licenses installed worldwide

RedHat and Novell certified solutions

The Cost of Downtime

Linux in the EnterpriseBusiness Operation

Cost/Hr. of Downtime

• Need for Linux based HA solutions is higher than ever:

• Critical Linux applications such as SAP and Oracle are rapidly growing across the enterprise

• Applications not missions critical in the past are critical now (email, etc)

• These applications need to be highly available to serve today’s 24x7x365 business landscape

• Bottom Line: Cost of downtime to customers is substantial ! Cost of protection is NOT.

Brokerage $6.45 M

Credit Card / Sales Authorization

$2.6 M

Home Catalog Sales $90 K

Airline Ticketing $89.5 K

Tele-Ticketing Sales $69 K

Package Shipping $28 K

ATM Fees $ 14.5 K

Your Business $ ??

Why HA: Pain Points / Challenges

Improve Service Levels to customers while reducing Total Cost of Ownership!

Business Needs SIOS Provides

Minimize Application Downtime High Availability for systems, applications AND storage

Flexibility / Agility Flexible storage options, grow/adapt as business needs change

Eliminate Single Points of Failure Peer-To-Peer HA solution with minimal management overhead and

proven/consistent architectureProtect Mission Critical Data Efficient data replication/rewind

Reduce Cost Leverage existing servers, storage and networking

SIOS Offerings for Linux

SIOS / Steeleye Solutions are

• Flexible for both Virtual and Physical Environments • Physical to Physical• Physical to Virtual• Virtual to Virtual

• Offers Multiple Levels of Protection• Integrated Application Monitoring for VMware HA• Comprehensive Multi Node Clustering

• Able to protect ANY application• Supports many enterprise apps off the shelf• Protect your own custom applications with ease

High Availability Challenges in VMware Environment

Sources of Outages – Limitations of VMware HA

• VMware HA strength lies in protection against hardware failures

• 80% of unplanned outages are the result of application failures, misconfigurations and other operational errors

• Application awareness is essential to maximizing application availability

vAppKeeper –Integrated High Availability with VMware

vAppKeeper Brings Application Awareness to your VMware HA

• Cost-effective high availability solution for applications that do not require multi-node clustering No standby resources (hardware, software, etc.) necessary Less complex to deploy and manage than multi-node

clustering Plugin allow management and monitoring through the

vSphere Client

• Allows customer to fully leverage VMware tools and automation without compatibility issues

vAppKeeper - Single-Node Protection

vMotion HA DRS

vSphere Client w/ vAppKeeper Plug-in

VMware HA Application Monitoring API

App

OS OS OS OSSMC

vA K App

vA K App

vA K App

vA K

HTTP

Browser-Based vAppKeeper UI

vAppKeeper + VMware HA = Resiliency

VMware HA• Monitors physical host for

failure• Monitors virtual machine

for failure• Can monitor VMware Tools

heartbeat to identify OS failure

vAppKeeper• Monitors the health and

applications (A) and their dependencies (D)

• Withholds heartbeat to instruct VMware HA to respond to an application failure (restart, VMotion)

Enterprise Management Visibility• vSphere Client dashboard and

granular application hierarchy views

Flexible Management Options• Brower-based user interface• Command-line interface• Multi-level policy• Temporal recovery logic

SIOS – End to End Linux Protection

Physical Clusters

Physical to Virtual

Virtual to Virtual

Cloud

(Non-VMware)

SteelEye ProtectionSuite

SteelEye ProtectionSuite

SteelEye ProtectionSuite

vAppKeeper

SteelEye ProtectionSuite

vAppKeeper

(Non-VMware)

(VMware) (VMware)

Next Steps

• For More Information

• Visit us.sios.com

• Interested in an Evaluation?

• Download the Evaluation guide

• Request an Evaluation license

• Interested in Proof of Concept?

• Define PoC Success Criteria

• Develop PoC Project Plan with SIOS solution experts

SPS for Linux – Backup Slides

SPS for Linux - Overview

SteelEye Protection Suite for LinuxSteelEye Protection Suite for Linux

Combining High Availability with efficient Data Replication to ensure Business Continuity for your Mission Critical Apps!

LifeKeeperLifeKeeperSteelEye

Data ReplicationSteelEye

Data Replication

ApplicationAwareAgents

ApplicationAwareAgents

SPS for Linux - Highlights

SteelEye Protection Suite for Linux is:

• Application Aware: Provides built-in, Application Aware Availability for over 30 key applications out of the box (Oracle, SAP, etc).

• Easy and Empowering: With just a few clicks in the wizard-driven UI:• Recover application, servers, storage and networking• Monitor health and events• Manage the switchover/failover of critical applications with ease

• Flexible / Extensible:• Flexible storage options• Grow/adapt your clusters with ease as your business needs change• Easily extend to support custom applications.

Thank You