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SteelEye vAppKeeper 7.5 Partner Training

David Abercrombie Product Management. SteelEye vAppKeeper 7.5 Partner Training. vAppKeeper Overview. GA – November 23, 2011 Goals Strengthen HA position in the market Initial release of vAppKeeper Increasing SIOS relevance in VMware environments

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SteelEye vAppKeeper 7.5 Partner Training

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  1. David Abercrombie Product Management SteelEye vAppKeeper 7.5Partner Training

  2. vAppKeeper Overview • GA – November 23, 2011 • Goals • Strengthen HA position in the market • Initial release of vAppKeeper • Increasing SIOS relevance in VMware environments • Adding application health awareness to VMware HA to improve application availability • Competes with Symantec ApplicationHA • Addressing enterprise customer HA requirements • Policy granularity and flexibility

  3. Sources of Outages – Limitations of VMware HA VMware HA strength lies in protection against hardware failures 80% of unplanned outages are the result of application failures, misconfigurations and other operational errors Application awareness is essential to maximizing application availability

  4. Benefits of vAppKeeper + VMware HA • Cost-effective high availability solution for applications that do not require multi-node clustering • No standby resources (hardware, software, etc.) necessary • Less complex to deploy and manage than multi-node clustering • Plugin allow management and monitoring through the vSphere Client • Allows customer to fully leverage VMware tools and automation without compatibility issues

  5. vAppKeeper Architecture vSphere Client w/ vAppKeeper Plug-in OS SMC App vAK App vAK App vAK App vAK HTTP OS OS OS vMotion HA DRS VMware HA Application Monitoring API Browser-Based vAppKeeper UI

  6. VMware Prerequisites and Platform Support • vAppKeeper requires VMware HA • High Availability is a feature in vCenterStandard or Foundation • VMware offers several packages/bundles • Recommendation is to communicate that vAppKeeper requires VMware HA (VMware HA requires vCenter) • vSphere 5 support • NOT SUPPORTED in the 7.5 release • Will add support by February 2012

  7. vAppKeeper + VMware HA = Resiliency • vAppKeeper • Monitors the health and applications (A) and their dependencies (D) • Withholds heartbeat to instruct VMware HA to respond to an application failure (restart, VMotion) • VMware HA • Monitors physical host for failure • Monitors virtual machine for failure • Can monitor VMware Tools heartbeat to identify OS failure

  8. Minimizing Recovery Time Failure Identified By Application User Application Failure VMware HA Responds Application Recovered VMware HA Alone VMware HA Response Time VMware HA Response Time Minutes Seconds T1 T0 T2 T3 Failure Identified By vAppKeeper And VMware HA Triggered Application Failure VMware HA Responds Application Recovered vAppKeeper + VMware HA Seconds Seconds T1 T0 T2 T3

  9. Application Recovery Kits • Same local recovery capabilities as LifeKeeper • All application and DB ARKs supported with vAppKeeper • Includes recovery logic enhancements • Multi-level policy (server- and resource-level) • Local recovery only • VMware HA recovery only • Local recovery attempt then VMware HA recovery • Notification (no local recovery or VMware HA recovery) • Temporal recovery logic • Server-level • Set recovery attempt limits within a defined time period

  10. Enterprise Management Visibility vSphere Client dashboard and granular application hierarchy views Flexible Management Options Brower-based user interface Command-line interface Multi-level policy Temporal recovery logic

  11. Cluster-Level Dashboard

  12. Virtual Machine-Level Status

  13. Browser-Based Interface

  14. vAppKeeper Postioning

  15. SIOS Linux Solution Positioning

  16. vAppKeeper Pricing

  17. vAppKeeper Pricing • vAppKeeper SKUs include vAppKeeper and SMC bits • Workload value-based pricing • Standard • All ARKs except for SAP and Oracle • Enterprise • Extract more of a premium when protecting critical applications • All ARKs including SAP and Oracle • Proposed price points • Standard - $400/VM • Enterprise - $850/VM • Bundles • 5 and 10 packs • Discount schedule: • 50 VMs – 10% - $360/VM Standard, $765/VM Enterprise • 100 VMs – 20% - $320/VM Standard, $680/VM Enterprise • 500 VMs – 30% - $280/VM Standard, $595/VM Enterprise • 1000+ VMs – Special Bid

  18. Thank You

  19. Single-Node HA Comparison for VMware Environments

  20. vAppKeeper - Technical Architecture

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