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Continuous Availability for the Agile Enterprise David Edborg Technical Marketing Data Protection Group
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. Topics Moving Beyond Disaster Recovery Moving Beyond HA Moving To CA –Continuous Availability 2
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. Data growth rates continue to accelerate IDC WW Storage Systems Tracker 2008 3 The continuing challenge to IT everywhere… DO MORE WITH LESS…
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 4 Macro Challenges to DP & DR Methods Explosion of apps, servers, and data overwhelms IT –Too much recover –All data federation near impossible to capture
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 5 Macro Challenges to DP & DR Methods Compliance requirements demand more from IT –Restore and retention requirements are driven from outside the organization
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 6 Macro Challenges to DP & DR Methods Remote and regional offices accentuate the challenges –No IT personnel in most remote locations
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 7 Macro Challenges to DP & DR Methods Together the risk/cost is enormous in: Time Money People $
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 8 Technology Trends Impact Traditional DP & DR Methods Physical Server Virtualization & Consolidation –Limited aggregate throughput –Complicated backup mgmt –Outage scope creep XX XX XX
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 9 What If ???
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 10 What If???? You Could Eliminate DR? You Could Transform HA to CA? –Move your N+1 to 2N Data Center B FAS or Vseries Disks LAN/SAN Data Center A
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 11 But How Do You Eliminate Fail-Over? A lot of technologies exist to eliminate/minimize fail-over of most applications 3-Tier Architectures Global Name Spaces Data Center BData Center A Presentation Layer Application Layer Database Layer Standby Active SnapMirror™
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. SnapMirror ® Transparent Failover for Windows File Sharing Primary Data Center DR Site FAS NearStore ® Virtual File Manager Global Namespace Users and Applications “Namespace” isolates users from hardware In the event of a disaster, VFM redirects users to the secondary storage Auto synchronization As qtrees and shares are added to primary, no additional steps required to keep the secondary synchronized
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. Closing Thoughts 13 The Recovery Continuum It isn’t backup or disaster recovery, your services should always be on and accessible Continuous (Near Continuous) Availability is key If a user can always find their application or data, there is no (almost) need to fail-over A lot of the components are already in place in many organizations It’s a matter of how you deploy them
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© 2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 14 Thank You
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