Symantec ApplicationHA, Symantec’s high availability solution for VMware virtual environments, provides customers the ability to confidently virtualize their business critical applications. The latest version of Symantec ApplicationHA extends the existing capabilities for disaster recovery with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager integration and provides a dashboard to monitor and manage hundreds of applications within VMware vCenter Server.
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Symantec ApplicationHA: Virtualize Critical Apps with Confidence and HA
1. VMware and Symantec’s strategic
partnership to deliver ApplicationHA gives
our customers the ability to react to
infrastructure and application failures
without the loss of desirable functionality
they expect. New ApplicationHA integration
with VMware vCenter Site Recovery
Manager helps ensure high availability of
applications regardless of which site is
running the virtual machine,
– Parag Patel, VP Global Strategic
Alliances at VMware
Symantec ApplicationHA:
Virtualize Business Critical Applications with Confidence
Press Briefing
Don Angspatt, VP Product Management
June 27, 2011
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2. Symantec ApplicationHA
• ApplicationHA (Launched in September 2010)
– Joint partnership with VMware to address “Application Awareness” in a
VM
– Virtualizes business-critical applications with confidence
– Monitors applications in VMs and automate recovery
– Managed within vCenter
• What’s new in this release?
– Application aware Disaster Recovery solution with VMware Site Recovery
Manager (SRM) integration
– Monitor hundreds of virtualized applications with new dashboard
– Broader application, OS, and vSphere support
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3. Application availability a key requirement for
virtualization of critical apps
Key challenges in managing virtualized servers1
(% of respondents)
tier3 tier2 tier1
Ensuring Application Availability 51%
Virtualization adoption
Coordinating new deployments 41%
IIS WebLogic SQL, Oracle and upgrades
Apache WebSphere SAP
Managing unanticipated cost
Print File Exchange 42%
increases
Overcoming existing allocation, 29%
purchasing and budget practices
Compensating for the lack of 32%
integrated management tools
Criticality of applications
• VM up ≠ Application up • Application processes up ≠ Application
functional
• VM boot up or recovered ≠ Application
started or recovered • VM boot up order ≠ Application startup
order
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1. Source: IDC, October 2009. Choosing Storage for Virtualized Servers. For companies with > 1,000 employees.
4. Current tools and processes force challenging trade-offs
Ensure everything
O/S based clustering in the guest
• Prevents use of vMotion,
DRS, DPM
• Increases cost + complexity
Minimize Ensure App Monitoring tool + scripting
Application admin
Complexity Availability
• Longer RCA and recovery time
Infrastructure admin • Burden to maintain scripts
Exploit
Virtualization
Delay virtualization
• Slows down virtualization
initiatives
• Increases operational
complexity
Virtualize everything
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5. Symantec ApplicationHA + VMware HA: Virtualize
without compromise
VM1 VM2 VM2
Symantec App c1 c1
Components c1 c3
ApplicationHA
protect c2 c3 c2 c2 c4
application Application
components Resources
OS OS OS OS
VMware HA
VMware ESX
VM
protect
infrastructure
components ESX Server
Site
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6. Coordinated recovery between ApplicationHA and
VMware HA
• App monitoring
VM1 VM2 VM1 VM2
– Show health status
– Detect app failures ORA SQL ORA SQL
• Coordinated recovery Application
HA
Application
HA
OS OS OS OS
– Restart applications
– Trigger VMware HA VMware HA VMware HA
for further recovery VMware ESX VMware ESX
– Integration via App
Monitoring API
• Protects against wide
range of failures
– Infrastructure failures – VM recovers after a server failure but app doesn’t
– VM is up but app is down – App is up but not functional
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7. What’s new in this release? June 27th Release
A Application Awareness in Disaster Recovery Solution
Site A Site B
• Provide application awareness for SRM environments
ApplicationHA ApplicationHA
• Provide application monitoring on both the protected
and the recovery sites
SRM SRM • Report application status in the audit trail
B Monitor & Control Hundreds of Applications
• Improve customer experience in large scale deployment
through providing:
• Dashboard provides overview for application health
• Resource dependency graph
• Integrated within vCenter
• Soft reboot of virtual machines
C Broader Platform and Application Support
• Improve guest platform support to include:
• SLES 11 SP1
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.x
• Win32 (Custom app support)
SLES Win32 OEL • vSphere 4.0, 4.1, 4.1 U1 support
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8. ApplicationHA-SRM Integration Value Propositions
Application Monitoring on Both Sites During Test and Real Recovery
Site B
Test Recovery
• Automatic application monitoring enabled on both sites
• Automatic establishment of communication with VMware
Site A
HA on recovery site
• Dashboard view on both sites with secured
Real Recovery communication
Application awareness in SRM audit trail
• Report application status in SRM audit trail
• Proof to auditors and/or management
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9. Dashboard for Visualizing Application Status and
Controlling Applications
Batch Operations
for Maintenance
Summary of Detailed Status
Application Health
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* ApplicationHA 5.1 SP2 feature.
10. ApplicationHA Key-Takeaways
1. Addresses key challenge to “last mile” of virtualization
2. Continued, strong partnership with VMware
3. Operationally simple
a. Integration in vCenter and Symantec management tools
4. Built off industry-leading VCS technology
5. Now provides:
a. Deeper, recovery with Site Recovery Manager (SRM) integration
b. Monitor hundreds of virtualized applications at once
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12. Platform and Application Coverage
ApplicationHA Console
• Windows Server 2008 & R2 (all x64 only)
ApplicationHA Guest
• Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2 (all • Linux x64 (RHEL 5, SLES 11 SP1*, OEL 5*)
x64) • Oracle 10gR1, 10gR2, 11gR1 , 11gR2
• SQL Server 2005*, 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2
• Exchange Server 2007, 2010 • Weblogic 9, 10
• IIS 6.0, 7.0, 7.5 • SAP Netweaver 7.0 (NW04)
• Sharepoint 2010 • IBM Websphere Application Server and MQ
• SAP Netweaver 7.0 (NW04) • IBM HTTP Server
• FileShare
• Custom Application
• PrintShare*
• ApplicationHA Console Server
• Custom Application
• Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2 (32 bit)*
• Custom Application
• FileShare
• SQL Server 2008
More applications on more platforms to be added in future releases
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* ApplicationHA 5.1 SP2 feature.
13. Symantec ApplicationHA and VMware Site Recovery
Manager Integration
VMware SRM recovers
virtual machines on a
remote site in case of
disaster.
Replication of virtual
machines enabled by
array vendors on a per
protection group level.
Recovery Plans are
configured on the
remote site for test and
real recoveries.
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* ApplicationHA 5.1 SP2 feature.