Symantec ApplicationHA and Symantec VirtualStore provide customers the ability to confidently virtualize their business critical applications and minimize storage costs on the VMware platform. ApplicationHA and VirtualStore are the result of extensive collaboration between Symantec and VMware, as the companies work closely to help customers accelerate the adoption of virtualization to mainstream applications.
2. Introducing Symantec ApplicationHA & VirtualStore
• ApplicationHA
– Virtualize business-critical applications with confidence
– Monitor applications in VMs and automate recovery
– Manage within vCenter
• VirtualStore
– Reduce storage costs caused by virtual sprawl
– Provision VMs and virtual desktops faster
– Manage within vCenter
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3. The Last Mile: Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
Introducing Symantec ApplicationHA
tier3 tier2 tier1
Virtualization adoption
Virtualization widely-adopted
IIS WebLogic SQL, Oracle
for non-critical applications
Apache WebSphere SAP
Print File Exchange Increased pressure to continue
virtualizing
Business critical applications
are infrequently virtualized
Criticality of applications
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4. Why is the last mile so tough?
Need for Availability
Key challenges in managing virtualized servers1 “Customers have issues with apps failing
inside the guest… The market is lacking a
(% of respondents)
solution”
Ensuring Application Availability 51% – joint Symantec-VMware partner
Coordinating new deployments 41%
and upgrades Today’s Solutions are Not Enough
Managing unanticipated cost 42% – Protection for physical, not
increases
application failures
Overcoming existing allocation,
purchasing and budget practices 29% – Workarounds eliminate vMotion
and DRS
Compensating for the lack of
32% – Do nothing no longer is an
integrated management tools
option
How do you confidently virtualize business critical applications?
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1. Source: IDC, October 2009. Choosing Storage for Virtualized Servers. For companies with > 1,000 employees.
5. Confidently Virtualize Business Critical Applications
Extend virtualization benefits
VM1 VM2 VM1 VM2
App SQL App SQL
OS OS OS OS
VMware HA VMware HA
VMware ESX VMware ESX
• VMware HA may be good enough for
some workloads
• But, it ONLY works for physical server
failures
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6. Confidently Virtualize Business Critical Applications
Extend virtualization benefits
VM1 VM2 VM1 VM2
App SQL
App SQL
Application Application
HA HA
OS OS
OS OS
VMware HA VMware HA VMware HA
VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX
• VMware HA may be good enough for • Business critical workloads require
some workloads application monitoring and recovery
• But, it ONLY works for physical server • Coming in September – an integrated
failures HA solution for mission critical
applications by Symantec & VMware
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7. ApplicationHA: Strong VMware–Symantec Partnership
• Joint solution development • Launch at VMworld US
– Joint customer research including – Joint session at VMworld 2010 - US and
VMware customer councils EMEA
– Design and mockup reviews – vExpert briefings
– Weekly PM & Engineering sync-up. – Symantec Key Note session with VMware
on ApplicationHA
– Beta testing at VMware internal IT &
Symantec internal IT – Joint solution white papers
– Joint PR/AR activities
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8. ApplicationHA Key-Takeaways
• Addresses key challenge to “last mile” of virtualization
• Strong partnership with VMware
• Operationally simple
– Integration in vCenter and Symantec management tools
• Built off industry-leading Veritas Cluster Server technology
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10. Why is the last mile so tough?
Need for Efficient Storage Management
Key challenges in managing virtualized servers1
(% of respondents)
Today’s Solutions are Not Enough
Ensuring Application Availability 51%
– Inefficient storage use
Coordinating new deployments 41% – Poor I/O performance
and upgrades
– Limited visibility
Managing unanticipated cost 42%
increases
Overcoming existing allocation,
purchasing and budget practices 29%
Compensating for the lack of
32%
integrated management tools
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1. Source: IDC, October 2009. Choosing Storage for Virtualized Servers. For companies with > 1,000 employees.
11. Virtualization Can Create Storage Challenges
Inefficient Storage Use Poor I/O Performance
VMware
• Scaling the number of VMs means • End user experience degrades when VDI
scaling the number of VM images users log-in en masse
• Data in each image is duplicated • Improving performance is expensive and
• Growing storage capacity is expensive complicated
and complicated
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12. Optimize Your Storage in VMware Environments
VirtualStore
Improve Performance Reduce Storage Costs Manage Easily
• Scale performance easily and • Scale storage easily with • Manage storage from
cost effectively existing or commodity vCenter and eliminate the
• Provision virtual machines storage need for additional
faster • Store space optimized management tools
• Improve boot-up times for VM/VD snapshots
virtual desktops • Deploy thin provisioning and
storage tiering
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13. VirtualStore Overview
Scale-out NAS Solution for VMware
• Scalable, high performance Clustered NAS ESX Servers
solution running on Solaris, Solaris x86 or
NFS
RHEL 5
• File serving performance scales linearly
with each VirtualStore head …
• Patented cache optimization packs more
VirtualStore
virtual machines into a single NAS head to
deliver faster boot times and improved
user experience SAN
• Space optimized snapshots reduce storage
footprint by only capturing iterations to
original VM/virtual desktop image
• Supports major storage platforms to
enable commodity or multiple vendor
storage strategies
• Centrally managed through VMware
vCenter
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