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Architecting for 24x7 Availability

DM100. Architecting for 24x7 Availability. Jim Battenberg Director, Product Marketing Neverfail. Agenda. SharePoint is becoming Mission Critical Goal for Continuous Availability The Myriad of Availability Technologies The Scale of Availability Availability: It’s all about Risk

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Architecting for 24x7 Availability

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  1. DM100 Architecting for 24x7 Availability Jim Battenberg Director, Product Marketing Neverfail

  2. Agenda • SharePoint is becoming Mission Critical • Goal for Continuous Availability • The Myriad of Availability Technologies • The Scale of Availability • Availability: It’s all about Risk • SharePoint Continuous Availability Platform • Architecting for 24x7 SharePoint Availability • 24x7 SharePoint Real World Examples • Q&A

  3. SharePoint is becoming mission critical • “The Interest in content management is at an all-time high, regardless of geography or organization size” – Gartner: Give the Users What They Want: 2007 ECM Survey Dec 07 Manufacturing: Knowledge Management Healthcare: Patient Records, HIPPA Business Intelligence Collaboration PlatformServices BusinessForms Portal Legal: LEDES Federal: Continuance of Operations: COOP Content Management Search Retail: Call Center Product Search Finance: SARBOX • “SharePoint is becoming the de facto collaboration platform in Exchange-enabled organizations” – Osterman Research Jan 08

  4. Architect for 24/7 and Goal for Continuous Availability from a User Perspective

  5. Continuous Availability Considerations • External Factors • Utility Interruption • Server Room Upgrades • Network Link Failures • Environmental / Disaster • Fire • Flood • Earthquake • Terrorism • Virtualization • Failed Migration • Insufficient Resources • Only Supported on Physical IT Failures • Processor • Storage • Network • Application • Power • Related Applications Service Disruption • Performance Degradation • Data Corruption • Configuration • Human Error • Maintenance

  6. The Myriad of Availability Technologies SQL Clustering Back Up Recycle Bin Replication Active / Passive Database Mirroring Restore Asynchronous Web Delete Events Log Shipping SANs / Fibre Channel Active / Active WANA CDP STSADM Versioning Fault Tolerance NLB

  7. Scale of Availability Continuous Availability Complete Environmental Monitoring and Protection Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Data Protection Business Centric Availability Centric Clustering Active/Passive, Active/Active, Multi-node Application Centric Replication-Failover Storage, Asynchronous, CDP, Manual, Automatic Recovery Centric Data Centric Back Up File, Block, Full, Incremental, On-site, Off-site

  8. What’s the right solution? Availability Continuous Availability Recovery Clustering Business Criticality Replication- Failover Backup Uptime

  9. Availability: It’s All About Risk Recovery Profile Transaction / Data Loss Outage Time RTO / RPO Scope of Protection Operational Capability Administrative overhead Manual error exposure Human dependency Business Risk Components covered Number of “gaps” Total Cost Acquisition Maintenance On-going Labor

  10. SharePoint Continuous Availability Platform End Users Persistent Connection Layer Hardware Hardware Monitoring Replication Failover Switchback Rollback SharePoint (MOSS/WSS/ SQL/Search) SharePoint (MOSS/WSS/ SQL/Search) Ecosystem Monitoring Windows Server OS Windows Server OS Application Intelligence Primary Secondary Validate Ecosystem before Installation

  11. Architecting for 24x7 SharePoint Availability • SOLUTION 1: Simple to deploy Continuous Availability farm Data Center Web Farm (Active Servers) Web Farm (Passive Servers) SharePoint Front End (Passive) SharePoint Front End SQL (Passive) Search Index (Passive) SQL Search Index Second network

  12. Architecting for 24x7 SharePoint Availability • SOLUTION 2: “WAN stretch” for combined HA/DR with multiple SharePoint Front End servers Disaster Recovery Site Search Index (Passive) SharePoint FE (Passive) SQL (Passive) nf nf WAN Data Center SharePoint FE 2 Search Index SharePoint Front End 1 SQL NLB

  13. Architecting for 24x7 SharePoint Availability • SOLUTION 3: Enterprise HA/DR solution with NLB and Clustering for local HA and virtualization for DR Disaster Recovery Site SharePoint FE (Passive) SQL (Passive) Search Index (Passive) WAN Windows Server + Virtual Data Center Search Index SharePoint FE 2 SharePoint Front End 1 SQL (MSCS Active) SQL (MSCS Passive) MSCS NLB SAN

  14. Large Military Agency… • Requirements • Highly Available Mobile and Portable Data Centers to be used as a primary communications system for troops deployed overseas • Maintain constant communication in conflict regions • Continuance of Operations mandate • Solution • Combination of virtual and physical protection ensuring automated failover of entire communications environment • SQL, SharePoint and Exchange running on two trucks, geographically dispersed on opposite sides of the country SharePoint SQL Exchange Wireless WAN SharePoint SQL Exchange

  15. Large Space Agency… • Requirements • Highly available content management system maintaining meeting materials, sample telemetry and procedural reference data to support operations of a major spacecraft • Needed a seamless and automatic failover / failback process to maintain continuity of operations in the event of a server or facility failure • Considered “mission-critical” by the end-users • Solution • High Availability SharePoint installation • Single Server (WSS2.0, SQL 2000) Active/Passive installation over a WAN environment • Seamless manual failovers and failbacks every six months for verification testing of Disaster Recovery Site Disaster Recovery Site SharePoint WSS/SQL nf Primary Location SharePoint WSS/SQL nf

  16. Architecting for 24x7 The Goal: Continuous Availability • Continuous, uninterrupted user access to all critical applications and information without interruption from any threat… • Server failure, data loss, power outage, storage failure, disaster, configuration error Predict whether applications will be available • Application Intelligence • Automated Corrective Action Protect Application Availability • Automated failover and failback • End-to-end Ecosystem Monitoring Deliver Performance • Keep users connected • No business downtime • Affordable and Accessible

  17. About Neverfail Global software company More than a decade of experience evolving from a Disaster Recovery consulting firm Development team with decades of experience from Tandem/Compaq/HP 1,500+ customers in 36 countries Continuous Availability software solutions for Windows-based applications SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, File Server, RIM BlackBerry, VMware VirtualCenter File Server IIS 18

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