Symantec's new releases of Veritas Operations Manager and its Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) product family help customers work smarter by taking control of storage management and eliminating manual processes. New functionality in Veritas Operations Manager, the next generation management platform for Storage Foundation HA, bridges the gap between server, database and storage administrators to increase storage utilization, scale operations, maintain compliance and help ensure uptime and availability across Unix, Linux, Windows and VMware.
Work Smarter Not Harder With Storage Foundation HA
1. Work Smarter Not Harder with
Storage Foundation HA
October 2010
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2. What we’re announcing…
• New release and upgrade for Veritas Operations Manager and
Storage Foundation HA
– Help customers work smarter, not harder
– Simplified day-to-day management of storage and server operations
– Managed through Storage Foundation HA management console, Veritas
Operations Manager
• This helps customers
– Eliminate manual processes
– Improve storage utilization
– Reduce risk
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3. Data Center Complexity Leads to Wasted Resources
and Reduced Availability
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Inefficient resource silos
Inability to track utilization
Manual processes to “keep things going”
Ever more stringent SLAs
Out of control storage costs Storage used as a “buffer” to reduce
application risk
Limited visibility
Limited skilled staff Increased risk of downtime
Costly human errors
Burdensome change management
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4. Work Smarter, Not Harder with Symantec
I consider this ‘actionable This makes failover operations
intelligence’ to prevent problems much simpler and reliable,
before they occur. something that doesn’t take a
Ph.D. to execute.
Streamline Operations
Optimize Storage
Storage Foundation High Availability
Veritas Operations Manager
Prevent Downtime
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5. Streamline Operations by reducing Storage Complexity
• Multi-tier Server environment
• Multiple tiers of storage
– Replicated or not
– Thin or not
– Various RAID level
– Diverse media types
RAID 10 RAID 5 RAID 6
• Multiple storage vendors
SSD FC SATA
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6. Focus on the Service Level Matter, Not RAID Levels
• You define the set of Storage Services
available to your applications
– Gold: EMC VMAX, Replicated, Thick
RAID 10 on SSD
– Silver: EMC VMAX, Replicated, Thin
RAID 1 on FC
– Bronze: HDS AMS, Thin RAID 6 on
SATA
GOLD SILVER BRONZE
• Automatic identification of devices
matching the Storage Services
• Create and manage file systems and host
volumes based on Storage Services
• Automatic handling of the underlying
SAN complexity
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7. Optimize Storage by identifying and reclaiming
underutilized storage
Sample Reports
Storage Utilization. View
storage waste and
reallocate based on
application needs
License Deployment.
Deployment reports based
on your environment
ensures compliance
Patches. Ensure that the
most recent patches are in
deployment
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8. Prevent downtime and instantly detect failures
• Detect failures, recover faster and use less resources.
– Storage Foundation HA relies on OS based events to immediately react to
resource failures.
– Removes the need to poll resources and reduces system resource need
by up to 95 percent.
• Prevent downtime.
– Non-disruptive testing of HA/DR configurations across physical and virtual
– Coordinated start/stop of application resources simplifying maintenance
and recovery in the event of an outage
• Patch and maintain with confidence.
– Simplified patching for existing installations and preparation for new
installs
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9. Work Smarter, Not Harder Key-Takeaways
• Addressing complexity in the data center through automation
• Improved storage utilization with increased visibility and ability
to drive up disk usage
• Reduced risk through coordinated start/stop and simplified
patching & maintenance
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