SANPoint Foundation Suite HA

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SANPoint Foundation Suite HA

• Robert Soderbery
• Sr. Director, Product Management
• VERITAS Software Corporation

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Contents

• SANPoint Foundation Suite HA Defined
• Applications
• eBusiness Infrastructure
• Enterprise Applications
• Databases
• File Servers
• Pricing and Availability
• Summary

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IntroducingSANPoint Foundation Suite HA
Integration of VERITAS Cluster Server with
SANPoint File System and Cluster Volume
Manager. Provides support for VERITAS
Cluster Server provides

• HA clusters
• File sharing
• Parallel applications

• HA application clustering
• High availability to the Cluster File System

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SANPoint Foundation Suite HA
Host B
Host A
Host D
Host C
VCS
VCS
VCS
VCS
Cluster File System
Cluster File System
Cluster File System
Cluster File System
CVM
CVM
CVM
CVM
SAN
Available for Solaris in 00Q4
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VxFS to Cluster File System
Cluster File System
Cache coherency
Global Lock Manager
Low Latency Transport
VxFS - core file system Availability
Scalability Manageability
Cluster membership
Private Ethernet Or Fibre Channel
Global Atomic Broadcast
Cluster File System is built on the availability,
scalability and manageability of VxFS.
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Cluster Volume Manager is critical for shared
data environments
Host B
Host A
Host D
Host C
Cluster File System
Cluster File System
Cluster File System
Cluster File System
CVM
CVM
CVM
CVM
SAN
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VERITAS Cluster Server

• VCS is bundled with SANPoint Foundation Suite HA
• VCS provides high availability and messaging
  services to the Cluster File System and is
  available for HA application clustering

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SANPoint Foundation SuiteApplications
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SANPoint Foundation Suite 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

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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

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eBusiness Infrastructure Solutions

• SANPoint Foundation Suite provides a data
  virtualization layer that meets eBusiness needs.
• Dyanamic QOS requirements
• SLAs
• Quick and non-disruptive migration
• Data
• Storage
• Lower admin costs
• Dont move data
• Dont install SW
• Simple load balancing

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eBusiness Infrastructure Solutions

• Manageability due to flexible deployment of
  multiple apps and customers in common
  infrastructure.
• Simplified
• Less costly
• Reduce data movement
• Content management
• File sharing

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Web Servers (Read-mostly)

• Standard shared nothing
• operation
• Web database is replicated on two disks - one for
  each web server
• Double the disk space regular copy operations
  required
• Alternative - NFS server

• CFS operation
• No web database replication required
• Save disk space no synchronization problems
• No NFS server required

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Messaging Solutions
G-M Data
A-F Data
N-S Data
T-Z Data

• Partitioned operation
• Flat files
• Manually partitioned data
• Load balancing difficult

• SANPoint Foundation
• Suite
• Single data repository
• Any to any connection
• External load balancing
• Optimized server usage

A-Z Data
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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

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Simplifying Load Balancing
Application Servers

• Todays configuration
• Partitioned data
• Difficult to manage
• Difficult to load balance

Data Server

• SANPoint Foundation Suite
• Partitioning separated from file system
  configuration
• Cluster can grow to multiple servers easily
• Simple to manage and load balance

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Billing and Telco Processing

• Single writer, multiple reader
• systems
• Many applications have simple partitioning
  solutions
• SANPoint Foundation Suite simplifies todays
  complex implementations

Data
Server
Server
Incoming Transactions
Billing Data
Analysis Server
Transaction Server
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Off-Host Processing

• Multiple mirrors must be used today
• for off-host processing
• Requires 2 times storage capacity

Daily Mirror
Hourly Mirror
File System
Data
Data
Data
Server
Server
Server
Incoming Transactions
CRM
Database Server
Database Server
Database Server
Data Warehouse Extraction
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Off-Host Processing

• File System Storage Checkpoints
• become an off-host processing
• capability
• Only save changed data

File System w/Checkpoints
Data
Last day changes
Last hour changes
Server
Server
Server
Incoming Transactions
CRM
Database Server
Database Server
Database Server
Data Warehouse Extraction
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RDBMS

• Fast failover for high availability
• Manageability
• Single binary image
• Single data image reduces complexity and
  configuration, with improved reliability

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High Availability

• Oracle Failover
• Detect failure
• Import disk group
• Replay file system log
• Mount file system
• Initiate Oracle
• Oracle logs
• Fail over IP addresses
• Faster failover
• Eliminate DG import FS mount
• Oracle fast recovery mode

Sales
Inventory
Hot Standby
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File Serving

• The network appliance problem
• I loved my first network appliance server, I
  hated my 20th

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File Serving

• The network appliance problem
• I loved my first network appliance server, I
  hated my 20th

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File Serving

• CFS operation
• File system defined globally
• Shared files located on any available disk
• No fail over after server shutdown

SANPoint Foundation
SANPoint Foundation
SANPoint Foundation
SANPoint Foundation
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Pricing Availability

• Immediate availability on Solaris

Base Pricing (U.S.)
Tier 2
Tier 4
Tier 1
Tier 3
SANPoint Foundation Suite HA
15,300
Future
71,400
33,150
Upgrade Pricing (U.S.)
File System or Volume Manager
12,800
27,850
59,900
Future
Foundation Suite or VCS
10,300
22,250
47,800
Future
Foundation Suite
5,200
11,250
24,300
Future
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Summary

• Integration of Cluster File System, Cluster
  Volume Manager, Cluster Server
• Improves ROI for SAN deployments
• eBusiness Infrastructure - enables rapid
  provisioning
• Enterprise Applications - simplified data access
  architecture for operational efficiency
• Databases - improves availability with faster
  fail over
• File Servers - simplifies administration while
  maintaining or improving performance
  availability
• For More Information
• http//www.veritas.com