Increasing Manageability and Availability for SANs:
SANPoint Foundation Suite HA
Presentation Outline
Business and Customer Issues
High Availability Trends
What is SANPoint Foundation Suite HA?
SANPoint Foundation Suite HA: How does it work?
Target Markets
Summary
Data Management Challenges
Volume of data generated by each new major application has expanded exponentially
Need to be assured that data is protected, recoverable and always available
Everyone in the enterprise needs information access to perform their jobs
Disparate, non-integrated computing platforms need to share information
IT Challenges/Trends
Managing data with fewer IT resources
Managing hardware and software changes on a daily basis
Delivering timing system and application performance
Companies are approaching performance and scalability limits with existing infrastructure
High Availability Trends
Storage Area Networks (SANs)• Centralized management
• Provides scalable growth to meet increasing storage demands
• Reduces administrative overhead
• Increases application availability
• Off-host backup
• Storage and server consolidation
Clustered Environments• Ideal for fast application failover in the event of hardware
failure
• Offers load balancing to maximize compute power throughout the cluster
Why Should You Care About SANs?
72%
66%
66%
63%
63%
59%
50%
48%Desire to Pool Tape
Bandwidth Constraints for LAN Backups
Desire to Pool Disks
Share Storage Resources
Manage Distributed Storage
Higher Data Availability
Faster Data Access
Scalability Requirements
Source: Enterprise Management Associates 2/2000
Moving from host to SAN-based data
Today’s data is host-based, even if stored in SAN-based storage
Moving control of that data from host to host exacts an unacceptable penalty
SAN-aware data storage will enable:• Improved HA architectures• Framework for existing applications• Infrastructure for new parallel applications• Simplified content/media serving
VERITAS is introducing a new solution for SAN data sharing
Introducing: VERITAS SANPoint Foundation Suite™ HA
SANPoint Foundation Suite HA
Transparent data sharing
Centralized management
Fast application failover
Reduced downtime for maintenance
Built in integrity (locking)
Fully integrated solution for high availability environments such as SANs
and clustering
SANPoint Foundation Suite HA
Integration of • Cluster File System• Cluster Volume Manager• VERITAS Cluster Server
VERITAS Cluster Volume Manager
VERITAS Cluster File System
VERITAS Cluster Server
Single File System Image
Optimized for SAN environment
Cluster File System
VxFS - core file systemAvailability ScalabilityManageability
Cluster File System
GlobalLock
Manager
GlobalAtomic
Broadcast
Clustermembership
Cachecoherency
Low LatencyTransport
Private Ethernetor Fibre Channel
Built on the availability, scalability and manageability of VxFS
• Common single file system on shared storage
• Highly available
• Application transparent
Cluster Volume Manager
Critical for shared data Critical for shared data enviromentsenviroments
All nodes see the same volumes
Nodes exchange meta-data info
Supports all VxVM capabilities
CVM CVM CVM
Host B Host C Host D
CVM
Host A
SAN
ClusterFile System
VERITAS Cluster Server
To the Cluster File System:• Provides high availability• Provides messaging services
HA application clustering
Future versions of SANPoint Foundation Suite will be available with lite or limited functionality version of VCS
Target Environments
Target CustomerTarget Customer
SAN Environments• Storage Consolidation• Off-host Backup
Existing VERITAS Foundation Suite and VCS customers• Highly Competitive Environments• High Growth Industries• Mission Critical Application Deployments• Shrinking IT Resources
Target 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
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
The SolutionProvide a data virtualization layer that meets eBusiness needs• Quick and non-disruptive migration
• Data• Storage
• Lower admin costs• Don’t move data• Don’t install SW• Simple load balancing
Increase manageability due to flexible deployment of multiple apps
Content management• File sharing
eBusiness: Web Servers(Read-mostly)
Shared nothing environment:
• Web database is replicated on two disks - one for each web server
• Double the disk space; regular copy operations required
• Alternative - NFS server
The Solution:• No web database replication
required• Save disk space; no
synchronization problems• No NFS server required
WebData
WebWebServersServers
WebData
WebData
WebWebServersServers
Messaging Solutions
Partitioned operation:• Flat files• Manually partitioned data• Load balancing difficult
The Solution:• Single data repository• Any to any connection• External load balancing• Optimized server usage
A-ZData
G-MData
A-FData
N-SData
T-ZData
Email ServersEmail Servers Email ServersEmail Servers
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
Off-Host Processing
Easy implementation of off-host processing with FastResync
Data
IncomingTransactions
Data WarehouseExtraction
Data Data
DailyMirror
HourlyMirror
CRM
ClusterVolumeManager
SharedData
Database ServersDatabase Servers
Backup Server
Off-host Backup
IncrementalBackupBackup
Application
Oracle
Cluster File System
live data
NetBackup
ApplicationServer
Shared disks
Hot Backup
split mirror
High Availability for Databases
Oracle Failover:• Detect failure• Import disk group• Replay file system log• Mount file system• Initiate Oracle• Oracle logs• Fail over IP addresses
The Solution:• Faster failover• Eliminate DG import & FS mount• Oracle fast recovery mode
Payroll Sales
InventoryAccounts
Sales
Inventory
Hot Standby
File Serving
The appliance problem:• “I loved my first appliance server, I hated my
20th”
Appliance Server
File Serving
The network appliance problem:• “I loved my first network appliance server, I
hated my 20th”
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance ServerAppliance
Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
Appliance Server
File Serving
The Solution:• 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
More Information
Near-term Product Announcement
SANPoint Foundation Suite HA 2001-05• FCS – May 2001 • Solaris 8 only (HP-UX targeted by Q4 2001) and
supports 8 node clusters• Available on Tier 1-4 systems
Sales Materials
Datasheet
Business and Technical White Paper
FAQ
Overview presentation
Competitive positioning
Hardware support matrix
SPFS HA packaging
The first release of SPFS HA is an edition integrating the following point products:• VxFS/VxCFS 3.4 patch 1• VxVM/VxCVM: 3.1.1• VCS 1.3 (for GAB/LLT/GLM)
Supported Arrays
SPFS HA only supports arrays which can support fibre channel technology
SPFS HA will only support switched fibre channel fabric
SPFS HA will support the V3 storage appliance
EMC Symmetrix 3830
Clariion
HDS FC 7700E, 5800FC
SUN A5x00, T3
Host Bus Adapters & Switches
Supports Fibre channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) cards from JNI (1063) and Emulex 8000
JNI supports IP and DLPI over Fibre channel and SPFS HA uses a single HBA for both disk I/O and cluster messaging (heartbeat) traffic
Supports Brocade Silkworm (2800) channel switches
Summary
Three directions for SANPoint products
Help IT manage increasing complexity of SAN configurations• Improving SAN management
Enable simplified and global approaches to storage management• Improving storage management
Enabling applications to leverage the capabilities of the hardware topologies• Enabling new application architectures
VERITAS is providing solutions to leverage data access in SAN environments
Why VERITAS and SANs?
We Deliver on Heterogeneous SANs• VERITAS qualifies all major storage and fabric vendors
on all open system platforms in mixed vendor topologies
Data Center Quality SAN Products• All SAN solutions are designed and tested to scale as
your SAN grows in TBs , servers, fabric complexity
Track Record of Success• More SAN installations than any other software vendor
Investment in the Future• SANs are a top priority for new technology development • VERITAS works actively to set the standards for SAN
applications and management
Thank you!
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