Increasing Manageability and Availability for SANs: SANPoint Foundation Suite HA

1. Increasing Manageability and Availability for SANs:SANPoint Foundation Suite HA

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. Introducing: VERITAS SANPoint Foundation Suite™ HA

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

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

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

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

13. 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

14. Target Environments

15. 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

16. 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

17. eBusiness InfrastructureBusiness 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

18. 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

19. 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 Web Servers eBusiness: Web Servers(Read-mostly) Web Data Web Data Web Servers

20. 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 Messaging Solutions Email Servers Email Servers

21. Enterprise Applications • 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

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

23. live data Incremental Backup Backup Off-host Backup Application Server Hot Backup Backup Server Application NetBackup Oracle Cluster File System Shared disks split mirror

24. Payroll Sales Sales Accounts Inventory Inventory 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 Hot Standby

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

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

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

28. More Information

29. Near-term Product Announcement • SANPoint Foundation Suite HA 2001-05 • FCS – May 2001 • Solaris 8 only (HP-UX targeted by Q4 2001) and supports 8 node clusters • Available on Tier 1-4 systems

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

31. 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: 3.1.1 • VCS 1.3 (for GAB/LLT/GLM)

32. 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

33. 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

34. Summary

35. 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

36. 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

37. Thank you!