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Continuous Availability for Critical SharePoint Environments

Continuous Availability for Critical SharePoint Environments. SharePoint User Group July 8 th , 2010. Arthur Cafiero Sr. Systems Engineer. About Neverfail. Neverfail: An Established, Global, Software Company Company Founded in 1993

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Continuous Availability for Critical SharePoint Environments

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  1. Continuous Availability for Critical SharePoint Environments SharePoint User Group July 8th, 2010 Arthur Cafiero Sr. Systems Engineer

  2. About Neverfail • Neverfail: An Established, Global, Software Company • Company Founded in 1993 • Provides Continuous Availability for Windows Based Applications • 4,000+ Customers, across 40 countries • SMB to Global Enterprise (Across most Industry Verticals) • Extensive Reseller Coverage • Offices in US, UK, Dubai, Germany, Netherlands & Australia • >400% Growth Over Last 3 years • Strategic Partners • Microsoft, VMware, Cisco, Research In Motion • OEM agreements: VMware (vCenter Server Heartbeat) Cisco, Honeywell • Technology Alliances • Microsoft SQL Server “Always On” • Recommended Solutions for SharePoint & ClusterProtector • Recommended Solution by RIM

  3. SharePoint: A Mission Critical Platform SharePoint use is driving the growth of content management environments SOX, HIPPA and LEDES have also driven the need for comprehensive content management SharePoint is becoming the de facto standard for content management environments Because SharePoint has become mission critical, 24X7 availability has become a priority

  4. Why do Applications Fail?

  5. The State Of The Market Days Hours Minutes Seconds Mostly Manual, Recovery-Based Strategy RTO/RPO is the language Hours Tape Disk Snapshot CDP Snapshot Disk Tape Business Recovery Time Data Recovery Point Eliminating The Availability Gap Through Integration and Automation

  6. The Ecosystem - Data Into Information USERS APPLICATIONS HARDWARE & OS NETWORK CONNECTIVITY DATA

  7. The Market Evolution of Continuous Availability Continuous Availability No User or Application Downtime, Local and Remote Availability, Business and Application-Awareness Business Centric Availability Centric Clustering Active/Passive, Active/Active, Multi-node, Fault Tolerance, High Availability Application Centric Disaster Recovery Snapshot, Asynchronous Replication, CDP, ManualFailover Data Centric Recovery Centric Backup & Restore File, Block, Full, Incremental, On-site, Off-site

  8. Business-Centric Management & Protection SharePoint Farm Traditionally, servers of like functionality are grouped together for availability & protection, leading to multiple, standalone availability solutions and incomplete protection for the Business Application Web Server Web Server Load Balancing Neverfail takes a Business-Centric approach and manages and protects the complete SharePoint 2010 Farm ????? Complete Protection for Business Applications MS Clustering Database Mirroring Application Server Application Server Database Server Database Server

  9. Typical Neverfail for SharePoint Implementation Data Center Production servers SharePoint Front-End (NF Passive) SQL NF Passive Search Index (NF Passive) SharePoint Front-End SQL Search Index NF NF NF NF NF NF Second network • “Shared nothing” environment ensures continuous availability • Passive servers can be placed in a remote DR facility • Can also be configured for Passive servers in a LAN and Tertiary servers over a WAN • Servers can be Physical or Virtual

  10. SharePoint 2010 Support • SharePoint 2010 Editions • Foundation • Standard & Enterprise • SharePoint Application Services • Out-of-box support Web Server Extensions • Microsoft Office Web Apps • Microsoft Search Server Express 2010 • Microsoft Project Server 2010

  11. Neverfail for SharePoint 2010 • Simplify Administration Tasks • Auto deploy components installed on Active to the Passive Server • Web parts • Templates • Web Server Extensions etc • Warn when SP service packs differ between Active and Passive • Services Level reporting of response times on SharePoint Sites • Business Application Failover • Co-ordinated failover with loss of a single server • Site failover with loss of complete site • Site maintenance • Provide health checks to ensure that Exchange is available and can be contacted from the SharePoint Server 

  12. Summary 80% of unplanned downtime is caused by people, process or the application itself Reducing RTO is key Monitoring the APPLICATION is as important as the hardware and data Managing the “application farm” provides the best protection from extended downtime or degraded performance There is a need for BOTH local and remote protection using physical and/or virtual environments The goal.. Keep users seamlessly connected to the application, regardless of the failure or failover location

  13. Questions?

  14. Flexible Deployment Scenarios HA Deployment CP Deployment HA & DR Deployment Virtualization DR Deployment Compression & De-duplication Neverfail Channel Disaster Recovery Site Production Site • Flexible, P2P, P2V , V2P or V2V operation • Local and remote deployment • Shared nothing architecture • Specific Microsoft Cluster, Hyper-V and vSphere Options

  15. Neverfail Topologies – Failover/Failback (Detailed) STEP 1 Install second server with second network card STEP 3 Run Setup to clone the Windows O/S, applications and data STEP 4 Start Neverfail and sleep easy at night FAILOVER Neverfail will detect failure and can automatically failover DISASTER RECOVERY Move secondary to offsite location for full DR support SWITCHBACK Fix failure and Neverfail will re-synchronize primary and switch back STEP 2 Run SCOPE * as a health check *Server Check Optimization & Performance Evaluation Neverfail Channel Active Passive LAN

  16. Neverfail High Level Architecture New! Database Neverfail Admin Email Web Files Collaboration Custom Apps Remote Users Neverfail-Continuous Availability Director Scope Collect & Analyze Proactive Reliability Health Check System Optimization Capacity Planning Application Plug-in Modules MS Exchange MS File Server RIM BES MS SQL MS Mobile Custom… MS SharePoint Lotus Domino Any App… MS IIS Right Fax Any Data… 3rd Party Adaptors MSCS WSFC VMware HA/FT Hyper-V Application-Aware Management Framework (AMF) Data Replication CDP Rollback Application Settings Registry Settings Continuity Detect & Correct Failover Failback Auto or manual WANSmart Acceleration Compression De-Duplication Link Down Buffering Monitoring Server Network Application Performance User Transparent Failover/Failback,Application-Aware, CDP, Replication Physical / Clustered Systems Disaster Recovery Virtual Systems Cloud

  17. Step 1: Reduce TCO for HA servers Data Center Production servers HA servers Virtual Host SharePoint Front-End (NF Passive) SharePoint Front-End SQL Search Index NF SQL (NF Passive) NF NF NF NF Search Index (NF Passive) Second network NF • Consolidating all passive servers onto one or more host servers using virtualization reduces deployment and management costs for High Availability • Immediate BC protection including planned maintenance

  18. Step 2: P2V Migration with no Downtime Data Center Virtual Host SharePoint Front-End (NF Passive) SharePoint Front-End SQL Search Index (NF Passive) NF SQL (NF Passive) SQL (NF Passive) NF NF NF NF Second network Search Index NF • Reduce the risk of P2V migration by using Neverfail to switch applications (in this case SharePoint) from physical to virtual without end user interruption • Can switch back with a single click or can set application rules to happen automatically if failure

  19. Step 3: Validate ability to run multiple apps on a Virtual Host Data Center SharePoint Front-End (NF Passive) Virtual Host SQL (NF Active) Search Index (NF Passive) SharePoint Front-End NF SQL (NF Passive) NF NF NF NF Search Index Second network NF • Test the ability to run multiple critical applications on single host with virtualization • More effective workload testing without downtime, emergency switchback available

  20. Step 4: Move to full V2V with load balancing Data Center Virtual Host Virtual Host SharePoint Front-End (NF Passive) SharePoint Front-End NF NF SQL (NF Passive) SQL NF NF Search Index (NF Passive) Search Index NF NF Second network • Having validated migration and multi VM support can now migrate all physical servers to virtual machines • Not only will virtualization allow optimum use of individual hosts, applications can now be load balanced to make optimum use of all hardware • Neverfail’s architecture means that all system components (hardware, network, applications) are fully protected against any failure

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