1. SteelEye Protection Suite for Linux
The Gold Standard for High Availability
and Data Replication
Tony Tomarchio

2. Agenda Today’s Agenda About SIOS/SteelEye
Importance of High Availability
SIOS/SteelEye Product Offerings
SPS For Linux
Product Overview
Key Capabilities, Features and Benefits
Architecture/Deployment Examples
Customer Case Studies
Demo
Next Steps

3. 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

4. Credit Card / Sales Authorization
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
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5. Why HA: Pain Points / Challenges
Business Needs
SPS for Linux Provides
Minimize Application Downtime
High Availability for systems, applications AND storage
Flexibility / Agility
Flexible storage options, grow/adapt as business needs change
Eliminate Single Points of Failure
Peer-To-Peer HA solution with minimal management overhead and proven/consistent architecture
Protect Mission Critical Data
Efficient data replication/rewind
Reduce Cost
Leverage existing servers, storage and networking
Improve Service Levels to customers while reducing Total Cost of Ownership!

6. SIOS Family of Offerings
SIOS / Steeleye Solutions are
Cross Platform – Support for
Linux
Windows
Virtual Environments
Flexible, yet Enterprise Class
Flexible storage choices (Shared Storage, NAS, iSCSI, Data Replication)
Single and/or Multi-Site protection
Supports Physical-to-Physical (P2P), Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) and Virtual- to-Virtual (V2V) clusters
Able to protect ANY application
Supports over 30 of the most common apps off the shelf
Protect your own custom applications with ease

7. SIOS Family of Offerings
Best-In-Class Solutions for High Availability, Data Replication and Disaster Recovery
SteelEye LifeKeeper
Provides heartbeat monitoring and automated failover for systems and applications – Locally, LAN or WAN
Application-Aware Availability – detects application issues, not just system failures
Distributed, Resource driven clusters. No single Point-Of-Failures
SteelEye DataKeeper / Data Replication
Real-Time, High Performance Volume replication
Synchronous and Asynchronous
Integrated with HA solutions or operate standalone

8. SPS for Linux - Overview
SteelEye Protection Suite for Linux
SteelEye
Data Replication
LifeKeeper
Application
Aware
Agents
Combining High Availability with efficient Data Replication to ensure Business Continuity for your Mission Critical Apps!

9. SPS for Linux
Features and Benefits

10. 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.

11. SPS for Linux - Highlights
SteelEye Protection Suite for Linux is:
Multi-Distro capable: Supports Enterprise Linux distributions such as
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL)
Community ENTerprise Operating System (CentOS)
Asianux

12. Scalable Availability
We have a solution for all requirements
Adapt clusters over time to meet evolving business requirements:
What is your Recovery Time Objective?
What is your Recovery Point Objective?
What is your budget and available resources?
Hybrid Shared Storage Cluster with WAN replication
N-Node WAN Failover Cluster with Data Replication
Two Node LAN Failover Cluster with Data Replication
Changed format
Two Node LAN Failover Cluster with Shared Storage
All configurations supported across both physical and virtual servers
Single Node Monitoring & Recovery

13. Out of the Box Linux Knowledge
Services
Applications
Apache
Samba
NFS
LVM
SW Raid (md)
SAP
WebSphere MQ
Any Custom App
Protect
Any
Application
Oracle
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Sybase
DB2
Informix
DMMP
NAS
EMC PowerPath
Hitachi HDLM
IBM SDD
Data Replication
Databases
Storage

14. Key Features and Benefits
Deployment
Options
2 to 32 nodes, Active/Active, Active/Passive, Cascading/Prioritized Failover, Nto1, 1toN, Physical and Virtual
Support for Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI, NAS, Host-based Replication, Array Based Replication or a combination
Storage
Ensure data integrity with SCSI reservations. No need for external STONITH devices.
I/O Fencing
Monitor the status of protected servers, communication paths, resources and applications via the GUI, CLI or SMTP / SNMP alerts.
Monitor
Consistent
Architecture
Proven, reliable product architecture. Ability to perform rolling upgrade of clusters in place – without downtime

15. SteelEye Data Replication (SDR)
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
File system agnostic – handles in-use/missing files
Very low overhead – only changes are replicated
3 Modes: Synchronous, Asynchronous or Periodic
Prevents full re-syncs via Intent Logging and bitmap support
Bandwidth Throttling and 9 Levels of Compression
Utilize available bandwidth without the need for expensive hardware accelerators/devices
Continuous Data Protection with Data Rewind and Recovery Wizard

16. Easy to Learn and Use Simplified User Interface
Monitor and Administer your clusters via a single, intuitive interface
Wizard-based setup
Java-Based UI can be run as an application or browser based applet
Command Line Interface (CLI) and SDK for integration and extension

17. Architecture/Deployment
Thank You!
SPS for Linux
Architecture/Deployment
Examples

18. Customer Example 1
Large Telco & Cable Provider: Content Distribution Service
“Classic” Shared Storage Cluster: leveraging Fibre Channel SAN storage.
Customer deployed 17-node clusters across approx. 48 different content distribution locations
Protecting Application Servers and Database in each cluster
SCSI reservations provide I/O fencing to ensure data integrity – prevent “rogue operator” scenario
Provides Cascading and prioritized failover of services
Note: many types of storage and multipath solutions supported.

19. Customer Example 2
Central Bank Protecting and Replicating Payment Processing
“Shared Nothing” Cluster using SteelEye Data Replication
Hundreds of remote sites aggregating data back to a central location
Protecting Oracle Databases and Custom Applications
Eliminates the expense and single point of failure of shared storage
Ideal for Disaster Recovery configurations:
Automated failover protection of replicated data between datacenters

20. Customer Example 3
Government customer protecting onboard combat systems
Customer deployed a “Multi-Site” Cluster – Best of Both Worlds:
Robustness of a classic shared storage cluster
Efficient data replication to a disaster recovery site.
Protecting NFS services mission-critical combat systems depend upon.
Supports cascading/prioritized failover with replication redirection
Less expensive and more flexible than storage-based replication solutions. Customer needed to re-use existing mixed hardware/storage.

21. SPS For Linux
Demo

22. Key Takeaways SteelEye Protection Suite:
Best-In-Class Solution for High Availability, Data Replication and Disaster Recovery
Scalable to meet your evolving business needs
Protection for All Key Elements in the Stack: OS, App, DB, Storage, etc
Application Aware Agents
Flexible Storage Configurations
Advanced I/O Fencing
Easy to Use, Wizard-driven UI for configuration and management
Architectural Consistency – proven for 10+ years!
1) Our ability to manage availability for all key elements in the stack (OS, HW, Apps, DBs etc.)  This follows the weakest link in the chain logic.  If a key element has only 95% availability than the highest overall availability the system can have is 95% (even if every other component is 99.99%).  There is also a compounding effect.  If every element in a system has 99% availability, and there are 5 key elements in the system (server, OS, storage, app, DB) than the overall system only has 95% availability (.99x.99x.99x.99x.99),  Most people do not think of this so they undervalue our ARKs and extensions ) Ease of Use - GUI based interface that supports the creation, change and management of clusters through the GUI.  This increases productivity, assures fewer mistakes are made (HA is not a good area to be making mistakes) and allows effective continuity management by lesser skilled staff (using GUI rather than scripting to manage availability) ) Proven and stable architecture - SteelEye has used the same HA architecture for 10+ years and for 10,000+ applications all over the world and across every industry.  This is important as it reduces the cost of maintenance and ownership (vs. alternative solutions that change their HA architecture every few years) and reduces risks for customers as SteelEye solutions are proven in the real world for 10 years not just in a design lab before the latest release ) Proprietary I/O Fencing technology enables simplified HA solutions and eliminates the need for expensive STONITH devices and quorum servers.

23. Thank You! For More Information on SPS for Linux:
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