Symantec’s storage management and high availability offerings for Microsoft environments, adds to the ability for organizations to enhance availability and storage utilization in Windows Server physical, virtual, and private cloud environments. Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability 6.0 for Windows (comprising Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 for Windows) is designed to help organizations rapidly failover Windows Server applications, recover Windows Server Hyper-V virtual machines from site-wide failures, and leverage their existing infrastructure to improve storage efficiency and application resilience in private cloud environments.
Symantec Delivers 30x Faster Failover For Microsoft Environments
1. Symantec Delivers 30x Faster Failover for
Microsoft Environments
V. Don Angspatt
Vice President, Product Management
Storage & Availability Management Group
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2. Veritas Storage Foundation HA is the choice for
business critical Windows environments
“Customers rely on Windows Server Hyper-V for crucial
production workloads… Veritas Storage Foundation HA 6.0 for
Windows coordinates … extend(s) availability of Windows Server
Hyper-V virtual machines with capabilities such as online storage
migration and automated disaster recovery.”
- Ian Carlson, Group Product Manager,
Private Cloud & Virtualization, Microsoft Corporation
“Storage Foundation HA for Windows gives us a single view of
our Windows environment and application health and status. It
helps us to keep those applications available, better understand
their dependencies, and start and stop multi-tiered applications
and databases from a single console.”
- Saroj Yuttatri, Director
IT Operations and Services, Thai Airways
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3. Introducing Veritas Storage Foundation High
Availability 6.0 for Windows
Fast Failover Up to 30x faster failover times –
1 down to a minute
Hyper-V Automated end-to-end disaster
2 Disaster Recovery recovery for Hyper-V environments
Hyper-V Storage Enable online storage migrations
3 Live Migration with Hyper-V Live Migration
Virtual Manage a business service, not just
4 Business Service database or application components
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4. 1
Fast Failover: Detect failures faster
with asynchronous monitoring
Traditional Monitoring Framework Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF)
Veritas Cluster Server Core Veritas Cluster Server Core
Cluster Server Agent Framework Cluster Server Agent Framework
Poll based Monitoring Intelligent Monitoring
Faulted Faulted
Registering…
Faulting…
Resources Being Monitored Resources Being Monitored
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5. 1
Fast Failover: Dramatically accelerate failover
with shared volumes & multi-node access
“Traditional” failover with Volume Manager “Fast” failover with Shared Volume Manager
RW RW RO RO
• Disk Group available to target during • Disk Group available on all nodes, only RW
failover vs. RO changes during failover
• Involves importing Disk Group, re-scanning • Eliminates steps for importing Disk Group,
disks, etc. re-scanning disks, etc.
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6. Hyper-V disaster recovery:
2 Enable disaster recovery across any distance
DR App App App DR App App
VM VM1 VM1 VM2 VM VM1 VM2
VCS SQL SQL SQL
VCS SQL SQL
OS OS
OS OS OS OS OS
FOC Hyper-V FOC Hyper-V FOC Hyper-V
Windows Server 08 R2 Windows Server 08 R2 Windows Server 08 R2
Asynchronous
Replication
Primary Site DR Site
• Microsoft Failover Cluster provides local HA & Live Migration for VMs
• Veritas Cluster Server automates DR for all VMs in coordination with Failover Cluster
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7. 3
Hyper-V Storage Live Migration: Enable storage
flexibility and exploit Live Migration
VM1
APP
Hyper-v
Virtual
Machine
• Migrate from storage or VM OS
perspective vhd1 vhd2 vhd3
• Between all supported arrays vol 1 vol2
• Online – no impact on app
• Supports cluster configurations
• Supports all volume(RAID) types
Array Migration
Array Type 1 $$$ Array Type 2 $
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8. 4
Virtual Business Service: Manage availability of
business services, not components
Billing
Web Server Service Service
Group
Web
Group
Web
Veritas Operations Manager
Billing Virtual
VM VM
Business Service
Service
Application Group
App Web Service Group
app app app
IP Application
Service Group
Database Service
Group
DB Database
IP FS
Service Group
VVR
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9. Storage Foundation High Availability 6.0 for Windows
has a lot more to support private cloud build outs
• 30x faster failover - down to a minute
• End-to-end disaster recovery for Hyper-V virtual machines
• Hyper-V storage live migration
• Virtual Business Service
+
• Migrate storage online across any vendor
• Dynamically shrink or grow storage online
• Reclaim thin provisioned storage
• Provision storage quickly with storage template
• Install in under 5 minutes with keyless entry
• Pay for what you use: core based pricing model to support virtual
environments
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10. Get the private cloud you want
from the infrastructure you’ve got
Resilient, highly available
business services
Elastic optimized storage for
cloud workloads
Control and management
across heterogeneous
environments
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12. Exploit Thin Provisioning and Reclamation
• Makes NTFS thin-friendly
across physical and virtual Legacy Storage Thin Storage
environments
Data in file
system
• SmartMove – Get to thin
SmartMove
Host
• Reclamation – Stay thin Volume
• Online, non-disruptive Dedicated
in array
70% Wasted Storage 0% Wasted Storage
• Works on any storage and
any OS
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13. New in 6.0
Better Storage Visibility on Server
• AVID naming
– Consistent names across severs EMC0_0AF4 EMC0_0AF4
– Bridge gap between storage and server admins
c1t5d65
• Aggregate I/O statistics c0t5d65
c3t5d65
c4t5d65
– Group-by disk and array
• Extended attribute discovery LUN
– HW RAID AVID: 0AF4
– Thin Provisioned
– Storage based replication
– Storage based snapshot/clone
• Configuration enhancements
– Configure mult-pathing modules (DSM) without storage attached
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14. New in 6.0
Service Levels Based Storage Provisioning
• Create differentiated pools of Operate Based on
Services Levels
storage
Tier 1
• Provision based on SLAs
From vendor list
• No more manual storage
Is replicated
provisioning
• Enables cloud Is thin provisioned
• Reduces human error Where raid level is 5
Where LUN type is
Create your service catalog
with templates
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15. Reduce Storage Waste By Making Users Accountable
Veritas Operations Manager Advanced
• Define storage cost Quarterly Chargeback Report for Retail Services
using tiers Division Allocated Capacity Total Charge
(GB) ($USD)
• Aggregate by geo, Retail Banking 8,652 $ 165,963
Home Loan 5,889 $110,414
business unit or Credit Cards 3,472 $ 65,092
application Small Biz 57 $ 1,070
Total 18,070 $ 342,539
• Control private cloud
and virtualization costs Small Business
Credit Cards
Home Loans
Retail Banking
0 50 100 150 200
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