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 Enterprise Business 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 ( , 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 NeedsSIOS Provides Minimize Application DowntimeHigh Availability for systems, applications AND storage Flexibility / AgilityFlexible storage options, grow/adapt as business needs change Eliminate Single Points of FailurePeer-To-Peer HA solution with minimal management overhead and proven/consistent architecture Protect Mission Critical DataEfficient data replication/rewind Reduce CostLeverage 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 vMotionHADRS vSphere Client w/ vAppKeeper Plug-in VMware HA Application Monitoring API App OS SMC vAK App vAK App vAK App vAK 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 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) 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 Protection Suite SteelEye Protection Suite SteelEye Protection Suite vAppKeeper SteelEye Protection Suite vAppKeeper (Non-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 Linux Combining High Availability with efficient Data Replication to ensure Business Continuity for your Mission Critical Apps! LifeKeeper SteelEye Data Replication SteelEye Data Replication Application Aware Agents Application Aware Agents

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.

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