Deploying Highly Available SAP in the Cloud Jerry Melnick, President, CEO SIOS Technology Corp. http://us.sios.com

Business Critical Applications Employ High Availability (HA) Technologies to Meet User Needs Goals Keep the business running Minimize down-time Eliminate data loss Maintain data integrity Techniques Build HA into the application Build redundancy into the infrastructure Transparent application recovery Transparent data replication Techniques Build HA into the application

Traditional Shared Storage Cluster High Availability Clustering Traditional Foundation for High Availability and Disaster Protection Protect SQL Server, SAP, Oracle Failover Move application operations to a standby server Traditional Shared Storage Cluster Failover SAP SQL Oracle Infrastructure level protection application, server & storage Predictable service levels No loss of data Fast switchover time High performance Flexible & Scalable Configurations

High Availability Clusters in the Cloud FAILOVER Traditional failover clustering requires shared storage SAP SAP But shared storage is not available in public clouds SQL SERVER storage REPLICATION storage storage SIOS SANLess Clusters Enables High Availability in the Cloud

SIOS Enables High Value Applications to Move to Azure DataKeeper Cluster Edition Windows Key Advantages of SANLess clusters Trusted and familiar approach to HA Assures availability & no data loss in Azure Lowers total ownership cost - eliminates high SAN costs Improves IT flexibility SIOS Protection Suite Linux SIOS value opens up new opportunities & gives Distributors/SI’s 3 ways to build revenue Why SIOS: 1. Help you differentiate your cloud offerings 2. Make money 3. No one else can provide HA 4. Can not buy on the street

Cloud Trend Predictions – circa 2013 Gartner predicted that the bulk of new IT spending in 2016 will be for cloud computing platforms and applications Public cloud services grew 16.5% in 2016 from $175B in 2015 to $204B Source: Gartner Newsroom

What About Critical Applications in the Cloud?

SIOS SANLess Clusters, SAP, Microsoft & Azure Certified solution for Windows Server Failover Clustering on Azure Certified solution for SAP high availability on Azure Fully documented implementation guide by Microsoft Available in the Azure Marketplace ™ SIOS Confidential 2015 6 orp. All Rights Reserved.

Clustering with SIOS in Azure An HA Foundation for Business & IT Agility in the New Data Center SIOS Protection Suite With Linux Windows Server Failover Clustering Application Monitoring Recovery Orchestration Region 2 Region 1 Availability Zone 1 Zone 2 Cloud – Multiple Availability Zones Multi-Region Cloud Physical Servers Cloud Data Redundancy REPLICATION Shared SAN SIOS DataKeeper

High Availability SAP in Azure Client 2nd Region DR Site Availability Zone Microsoft Windows Server Failover Cluster + SIOS DataKeeper Application Servers SAP Central Services ASCS/SCS/PAS/ERS 3 Node configuration to manage Regional Disasters REPLICATION Database specific HA or SIOS DataKeeper Database Servers REPLICATION

Move Your Critical Applications to the Cloud With SIOS SANLess Clusters Clusters Your WayTM http://us.sios.com

SIOS DataKeeper Replication Key Features: Host-based data replication leveraging existing LAN/WAN Multi-target Replication Automatic reversal of source/target during failover Block-Level, Volume/LUN replication Change-only replication Very low overhead Modes: Synchronous or Asynchronous Prevents full re-syncs via bitmap file File System or Application Replication Source Driver Target Volume or Disk Device Volume or Disk Device Specific to how DR works, Keep

DataKeeper Cluster Edition SIOS Products SAN & SANLess Clusters for Physical, Virtual, and Cloud Environments Windows Linux DataKeeper Cluster Edition Enhancing Windows Server Failover Clustering SIOS Protection Suite Enterprise-Ready Linux Clusters

SPS for Linux - Overview SPS provides protection for key SAP components: Primary Application Server (PAS) ABAP SAP Central Service (ASCS) SAP Central Services (SCS) Enqueue and message servers Enqueue Replication Server (ERS) Database (Oracle, etc) Shared and/or Replicated File Systems Logical Volumes (LVM) NFS Mounts and Exports Virtual IPs CI AS Cluster State: Active State: Stand-by Database CI SAP Central Instance SCS SAP Central Server Services AS Application Server DO WE WANT TO KEEP THIS SLIDE?

Traditional Shared Storage Cluster High Availability Server Clustering Foundation for High Availability and Disaster Protection Protect mission-critical applications SQL Server, SAP, Oracle Failover for high availability Move application operations to a standby server Traditional Shared Storage Cluster Failover SAP SQL Oracle

Who is SIOS? SIOS Confidential 2016 Founded in 1999 Formerly Steeleye Technology Headquarters in San Mateo, CA Offices across the US, UK and Japan Recognized experts in application availability More than 50,000 licenses installed globally in a wide range of industries Partners are industry leaders This is a build slide, each bullet requires a click SIOS Confidential 2016

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SIOS Technical Overview

Traditional Cluster Failover Not Available in Azure

#SANLess Clustering with DataKeeper Failover Replication Synchronous or Asynchronous Low Latency Block Replication Between Server Nodes

#SANLess Clustering with DataKeeper Failover Replication Synchronous or Asynchronous Low Latency Block Replication Between Server Nodes

#SANLess Clustering with DataKeeper Failover Failover Replication Replication

Multisite Cluster with Hybrid Cloud Failover Failover Replication Synchronous or Asynchronous Low Latency Block Replication Between Server Nodes

#SANLess Clustering in Azure Azure-West Failover Fault Domain Fault Domain Replication Across Fault Domains SQL 1 SQL 2 Fault Domain DC2 File Share Witness EDIT adding Availability Zone

Enabling Business Critical Applications In Physical Virtual, Cloud and Hybrid Environments FAILOVER Failover application instances across cloud availability zones, regions or hybrid cloud Site-wide, local, and regional disaster protection with minimal downtime and no data loss The flexibility and cost-savings of the cloud and the availability and features of a traditional cluster SQL SERVER SQL SERVER storage REPLICATION Copyright @ 2015 SIOS Technology Corp. All rights reserved. Copyright @ 2015 SIOS Technology Corp. All rights reserved.

SANLess MultiSite Clusters in Amazon Amazon AWS Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2 Block Replication across Fault Domains SQL1 SQL1 Availability Zone 3 DC2 File Share Witness Amazon VPC Copyright @ 2015 SIOS Technology Corp. All rights reserved.

SANLess Clustering in Azure Azure-West Failover Fault Domain Fault Domain Replication Across Fault Domains SQL 1 SQL 2 Fault Domain DC File Share Witness EDIT adding Availability Zone Copyright @ 2015 SIOS Technology Corp. All rights reserved.

High Availability Clusters in the Cloud FAILOVER Traditional failover clustering requires shared storage SAP SCS/ASCS DB SAP SCS/ASCS DB But there’s no shared storage in the cloud SQL SERVER REPLICATION SANLess Clusters provides synchronized redundant storage storage REPLICATION storage storage SIOS DataKeeper permits clusters to use cloud storage just like a SAN