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!