Enterprise Linux

Business Continuity Solutions

for Critical Applications

Introducing SteelEye Protection Suite

for Linux Multi-site Cluster

February 12 2009
EMEA
 Linux Product Team

Bob Williamson,
EVP of Product Management and Business
Development
bobw@steeleye.com

Dwain Sims,
Linux Product Manager
dwain.sims@steeleye.com
 About SteelEye
Technology
• Enabling our customers for business continuity
during periods of both planned and unplanned
downtime

• Delivering best-in-class integrated data and

Our Focus application availability management solutions

• Optimizing for multi-platform operation on

Windows, Linux and Virtual Machines

• Providing flexibility and scalability for data

protection, high availability clustering and wide-
area disaster recovery

• Supporting our customers and business-partners

with urgency and appreciation
 About SteelEye
Technology

Our • SMB/SME and Enterprise companies that recognize

Market the requirement to assure business continuity by
protecting their business-critical applications and
data
• ISVs, OEMs and hosted providers who deliver
business-critical products and services to the
SMB/SME and Enterprise
• Established in 1999 , 1st Linux clustering solution
Business in 2000
Background • Over 25,000 licenses installed worldwide
• Headquartered in Menlo Park, CA; offices
throughout the US as well as the UK and Japan,
competency centers in UK, France, Germany,
Nordic countries, China and Japan
• Alliance partner with Novell and Red Hat
• Strategic Relationships with IBM, Microsoft, Citrix
and SAP
 Our Expanding Family of
Solutions
DataKeeper
– Volume block-level change-only replication provides real-time
continuous data protection
– Operates stand-alone or integrates with HA Clustering
– Offsite protection of data for disaster recovery, backup
consolidation, regulatory requirements

LifeKeeper
– High-availability clustering monitors entire application
environment including servers, storage, application services,
database, network connections. Takes automated corrective
action on any failure
– Supports P2P, P2V and V2V clusters
– Out-of-the-box protection for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SAP
• Over 30 application-aware agents
– LifeKeeper Extender lets you protect any application
Some of Our Customers
Linux in the Data Center
 LifeKeeper for Linux

The Gold Standard for Linux High

Two Primary Storage
Availability
Configurations

Classic Shared Storage Clusters

– Utilizes Fibre Channel SAN or
iSCSI Shared Storage Arrays,
NAS devices
– Optimal for deployment within a
single data center
– Multiple servers can share the
same storage device
– SCSI reservations protocol
provides I/O fencing to ensure
data integrity
– Distance limited by shared
storage protocol
– Shared storage device can be
single point of failure
 LifeKeeper for Linux

The Gold Standard

Two Primary Storage for Linux High
Availability
Configurations
Shared Nothing Clusters using
SteelEye Data Replication
– Block Level, Change-only
replication
– Synchronous or
Asynchronous
– Multiple targets in separate
locations
– Compression and Bandwidth
Throttling
– CDP Features – Rewind and
Recover
– Ideal for disaster recovery
configurations
 SteelEye Data Replication for
Linux
• Built on top of optimized Linux kernel
components: md and nbd

• SteelEye developed and contributed code

into 2.6 kernel to optimize WAN replication
and reduce full resync requirements

• Less than 3% server CPU utilization during

initial sync and less than 1% during normal
operations

• Wizard-based user interface simplifies

building and management of replica mirrors

• SLES, RHEL, CentOS support

 The Best of Both Worlds?

What if there was a solution that

provided…
the Robustness and Flexibility of a Shared Storage
cluster
and the Disaster Recovery Protection of a
Replication-based cluster?
 SteelEye Protection Suite
for
•
Linux Multi-site
Combines the robustness of
Cluster
a classic shared storage
cluster with efficient data
replication to a disaster
recovery site.

• Provides all the features of

SteelEye Data Replication to
protect data in LifeKeeper
shared storage clusters

• Cascading failover across

prioritized server nodes

• Automatic replication
redirection
 SteelEye Protection Suite
for
NFS Server Use LinuxCaseMulti-site Cluster Use
Case
• Combines a local shared
storage cluster protecting an Production Disaster
Data Recovery
NFS service with one or more Center Site
replicated sites

• The primary server (P1) is P1 P2 D1

backed up by a secondary
server (P2)

• These are both backed up by a

server in the disaster recovery
site (D1) /
/ S1
S1
• NFS Shared volume (/S1) is
replicated across WAN to DR
site
 SteelEye Protection Suite
for
Linux Multi-site Cluster Use
Case
FS Server Use Case Production Disaster

with Primary Server Data

Center
Recovery
Site

Failure
P1 P2 D1
he shared storage resources
failover from the primary
server (P1) to the backup
server (P2)
/ /
S1 S1
ll clients automatically
redirect to server P2
 SteelEye Protection Suite
for
Linux Multi-site Cluster
Use
FS Server Use Case
Case Production Disaster

with Production Data Data

Center
Recovery
Site

Center Failure
irrored storage is brought into P1 P2 D1
service automatically

ll clients automatically
redirect to server D1 /
/ S1 S1
eplication pauses until
Production Site is operational,
then all changes during
downtime are merged into
 Benefits of the SteelEye
Protection Suite for Linux
Multi-site Cluster
• Leverages SteelEye’s years of experience in delivering Linux
high availability solutions expanded to include wide-area
disaster recovery

• Extends existing shared storage clusters to include wide-area

protection

• Less expensive and more flexible than storage-based

replication solutions

• No requirement that servers, storage be identical within the

cluster

• Application-agnostic. Any application can be protected with

SteelEye solutions for the most common apps available off of
the shelf.
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