DR Mon (Disaster Recovery Monitor)
Business Continuity can be defined as the
ability to maintain
business operations and performance under virtually any condition along
with the
ability to recover from any potential disaster.
Rrootshell provides comprehensive Business
Continuity solutions
for Virtualized Datacenters by enabling High Availability (HA),
Disaster
Recovery (DR) and Performance Management using its unique application
performance centric approach. Rrootshell’s solutions use active-active
configurations that can automatically and dynamically reprovision
applications
based on the real-time data on application resource utilization thereby
maximizing uptime and infrastructure minimizing costs.
High
Availability (HA)
In this network communications era, the
world expects High
Availability in the form of always on services. Service disruptions are
now
headline news material. More importantly, downtime has a direct
financial impact
to business. Even conservative market research estimates for the
average cost
of each hour of unplanned downtime for "mission critical"
applications start in the high tens of thousands of dollars. The impact
to
e-commerce and cloud computing related services is higher.
The
Rrootshell HA Solution
The Rrootshell HA solution comprehensively
incorporates server, storage
and network virtualization technologies, to provide an Active-Active HA
implementation that manages resources end-to-end to ensure availability
and
resilience in a single package.
Key Highlights
- Multi-site,
multi-technology integration with tiered HA and DR architecture
provides comprehensive replication and recovery for heterogeneous
storage and Server Infrastructures
- Application-Centric HA with end-to-end
(Server, Storage and SAN) failover capability
- Active-Active solution reduces costs by
eliminating the need for passive nodes
Disaster Recovery (DR)
According to
a recent Forrester
Research survey, 27% of global companies have declared at least 1
disaster in
the past 5 years. Disruptions resulting from these disasters can have a
serious
impact on business including revenue and productivity loss, damage to
business
reputation or even compliance, SLA
related penalties.
Businesses
do understand
the need for DR but the complexity involved in choosing a DR solution
that
balances the needs of business with a manageable process that can be
implemented and validated at a reasonable price, represents a
formidable
challenge to any IT staff. Consequently, many DR plans, products and
implementations end up as shelf-ware and prove ineffective in the case
of a
real disaster. Additionally, typical passive node clustering solutions
that
just waitidly to takeover in case of a DR event are simply not cost
effective
and efficient.
The Rrootshell DR Solution
The Rrootshell DR
solution comprehensively incorporates server, storage and network
virtualization technologies, to provide an Active-Active DR
strategy that works end-to-end to continuously ensure that all the
various DR
sites are synchronized at any given time. The system is designed to
failover
correctly based on RTO and RPO requirements when application
performance falls
below established parameters. This approach allows the DR planning to
be
incorporated into the application and into IT resource allocation
planning,
design and implementation phases to ensure that the appropriate
failovers occur
to restore the application to its expected state when a disaster
strikes.
Key Highlights
- Multi-site,
multi-technology integration with tiered DR architecture provides
comprehensive replication and recovery for heterogeneous storage and
Server Infrastructures
- Application-Centric DR with
end-to-end (Server, Storage and SAN) failover capability
- Active-Active solution
reduces costs by eliminating the need for passive nodes
- Enables testing and
validation of DR configuration beforehand
Performance
Optimization
In a shared computing, network
and storage environment, business applications often contend for same
resources
which, if not properly managed, can result in poor response times
leading to
user frustration and productivity loss. Experience shows that:
- 75% of performance issues
are the result of poorly distributed workloads, or disruptive workloads
or inappropriate application
of technology or changing application requirements
- 15% are resource sizing
related issues
- 5% are due to a expectation
mismatch between users and technology capabilities
- 5% are break-fix and other
fault management related issues
While there are many solutions
available for individually managing Server, Network and Storage
resources,
optimizing application performance requires a comprehensive
approach.
Diagnosing and optimizing application performance requires analysis and
correlation
of configuration and performance data across all IT resources. This is
labor-intensive and requires multi-domain expertise which is not easily
available.
The
Rrootshell Performance Optimization Solution
The Rrootshell performance
optimization solution is designed to help optimize application
performance by
continually monitoring and dynamically reallocating Server, Storage and
Network
resources according to defined business criteria and priorities. The
Rrootshell
performance optimization solution essentially encapsulates knowledge
and best
practices from multiple domains and provides a framework that
orchestrates and
automates otherwise disjointed processes that are also labor intensive.
Key
Highlights
- Application to spindle
configuration and performance metric collection and storage facilitates
remote analysis
- On-demand performance
diagnosis using stored history eliminates the need for reproducing
faults for root-cause analysis
- Business priority and
workload analysis is used for recommending reconfiguration of IOPs and
throughput
- Workload analysis is used
for bandwidth calculation for replication
