SteelEye Solutions Extend Citrix XenServer. Bob Williamson

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1 SteelEye Solutions Extend Citrix XenServer Bob Williamson

2 DataKeeper Expanding SteelEye Family of Protection Solutions Real-time continuous data protection with full rewind capability Optimized WAN replication for complete disaster recovery LifeKeeper Monitors application environment including servers, storage, application services, database, network connections. Takes automated corrective action on any failure Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer Real-time replication of XenServer Virtual Machines for Disaster Recovery

3 Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer Background Leverages SteelEye Data Replication for Linux within XenServer hypervisor to provide highly optimized replication of VMs Developed in cooperation with XenSource and then Citrix Citrix Ready Certified Support for XenServer ahead of VMware due to open architecture and opportunities to expand into Cloud architecture

4 Business Challenge Migration of business-critical workloads into VMs is accelerating Consolidation can increase vulnerability to and severity of workload outages Protection against infrastructure failure is critical What happens if: Application within VM fails? FC SAN fails? Data center loses power or network connectivity?

5 Two Levels of Protection Protection for XenServer Environments Application - Level SteelEye LifeKeeper runs within guest OS to detect, failover and correct individual resources Virtual Machine-Level Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer replicates VMs in real-time across LANs or WANs provides copies of VMs for rapid restart

6 Protection for XenServer Environments Application Level SteelEye LifeKeeper runs within guest OS to monitor and recover individual resources and applications Failover applications among any combination of physical/virtual servers

7 Virtual Machine Level SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer Runs on all editions of Citrix XenServer Uses SteelEye Data Replication within Dom 0 to replicate VMs over LAN or WAN Replicates at the Storage Repository level Protection for XenServer Environments Full support for Server Pools, including live VM migration Allows management of VMs through the XenCenter GUI The figure below shows two SteelEye-replicated SRs in the server pool thermopylae, which are shared between the two servers in the pool, leonidas and xerxes.

8 Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer Selectively replicate VMs Maintain all flexibility of the XenServer resource pool Use XenCenter to manage VMs Integrates with XenServer HA No limitations on hardware configurations, distance or requirement for dedicated replication channel Priced per server, regardless of number of VMs being replicated

9 Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer Simple 3 Step Recovery Process 1. XenCenter Console and SteelEye UI alert admin to failure condition 2. Admin brings VMs at DR site into service using XenCenter 3. Clients connect to VM at DR site VMs are running at DR site in under 3 minutes

10 XenServer 5.5 Support Optimized Resync Citrix ported SteelEye code from kernel into XenServer kernel Tighter Integration with XenCenter Use new API to integrate mirror creation into XenCenter Investigation of StorageLink interfaces for mirror creation Support for XenServer stand-alone and Citrix Essentials for XenServer

11 Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer Value Proposition - XenServer presents open cost-effective alternative to VMware - SteelEye XenServer Protection Suite provides complete disaster recovery for XenServer deployments - Monitoring of applications within guest OS allows deeper intelligence of overall system health