SteelEye vAppKeeper
7.5Partner Training
David AbercrombieProduct Management
vAppKeeper Overview• GA – November 23, 2011• Linux-only support in 7.5• 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
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
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
vAppKeeper ArchitecturevSphere Client w/
vAppKeeper Plug-in
vMotion HA DRSVMware HA Application Monitoring API
App
OS OS OS OSSMC
vA K App
vA K App
vA K App
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HTTP
Browser-Based vAppKeeper UI
VMware Prerequisites and Platform Support • vAppKeeper requires VMware HA • High Availability is a feature in vCenter Standard
or Foundation • VMware offers several packages/bundles
Recommendation is to communicate that vAppKeeper requires VMware HA (VMware HA requires vCenter)
• vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 supported vCenter Server 4.1 u1 and higher, 5.0 ESX(i) 4.1 u1 and higher, ESXi 5.0
vAppKeeper + VMware HA = Resiliency
VMware HA• Monitors physical host for
failure• Monitors virtual machine
for failure• Can monitor VMware Tools
heartbeat to identify OS failure
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)
Minimizing Recovery TimeApplication
Failure
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Failure Identified By Application
User
T1
Application Recovered
T3
Application Failure
T0
Failure Identified By vAppKeeper
And VMware HA Triggered
T1
Application Recovered
T3
VMware HA Responds
T2
VMware HA Responds
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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
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
Cluster-Level Dashboard
Virtual Machine-Level Status
Browser-Based Interface
vAppKeeper Postioning
Customer Need Lead Solution Comment
Virtual Environment (VMware-only)Customer recovery time objectives are not met with VMware HA and all Linux workloads to be protected are deployed in a vSphere 4 environment
vAppKeeper
• vAppKeeper supports only VMware
Virtual Environment (non-VMware)Customer wishes to protect Linux-based applications in virtual environments other than VMware
SteelEye Protection Suite
• SPS for Linux can be deployed in Xen and KVM guests
Physical-to-Virtual Customer wishes to protect a Linux-based application by failing over from a physical server to a virtualized server
SteelEye Protection Suite
• Applies to:• VMware guests• Xen guests• KVM guests
Physical OnlyCustomer wishes to protect a Linux-based application deployed sole in a physical environment
SteelEye Protection Suite
SIOS Linux Solution Positioning
vAppKeeper Pricing
vAppKeeper Pricing• vAppKeeper SKUs include vAppKeeper and SMC bits
Workload value-based pricing• Standard
All ARKs except SAP and Oracle• Enterprise
All ARKs including SAP and Oracle 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
Thank You
Single-Node HA Comparison for VMware Environments
EventAbility to Respond
VMware HA Symantec Application HA 5.2
vAppKeeper 7.5
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vAppKeeper - Technical Architecture