Collax final summercamp 2011

High Availability for the SMBs

Boris Nalbach

Chief Technical Officer

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Collax Introduction

Storage

Archiving

IT-Management / Monitoring

Databases

Web- and Application-Server

Software Development Kit

Appliances

Network

Communication

Security

Virtualization / High-Availability

Compliance

Green-IT

Backup / Restore

The power of Open Source with unachieved ease-of-use

Enterprise Technologypowerful, secure, cost efficient, simple

Ready to useEase of installation, configuration, maintenance, lifecycle mgmt

We focus on SMBs and Distributed Branch Offices

Server à la carte:

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Collaboration is the Centre of a Business

E-Mail and Collaboration form the backbone of a business

What would happen if this system went down?– Business virtually stops– Loss of revenue– Loss of image

What can be done to prevent this from happening:– For large enterprise:

• High Availability and Clustering – High Cost €€€€€

• Spare Hot-Standby Machines – Waste of good equipment €€€€€

– For a smaller business:• Is there a solution?????

Maybe Collax has a solution…

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What is the challenge?

Availability

MTTF A =

MTTF + MTTR

MTTF: mean time to failureMTTR: mean time to repair

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Collax High Availability

Collax has always built server solutions small & medium businesses

We identified the need for server solutions that can not go down

And responded by building a full Cluster and High Availability solution specifically for small businesses

Collax makes it easy to turn any server solution into anUnbreakable Server

Let’s see how this came about…

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High Availability for Smaller BusinessesTraditionally High Availability has been seen as:– Expensive– Complicated– Hard to manage– For the Larger Enterprise only– Needs application support

Collax brings High Availability to the Small & Medium Businesses– Inexpensive– Simple to install, configure and manage– Simple to migrate

Two benefits in one:– Solid virtualization– Reliable High Availability

Highly Available Zarafa Server with ease

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Collax V-Family

Collax V-Cube– KVM Hypervisor 64bit– leading 3rd generation virtualization technology– Core-4 virtualization

Collax Inter-V– Combine multiple Hypervisors to a Cluster

Collax V-Store– Most economical highly-available Shared Storage

Turns your Zarafa server into an unbreakable solution simply!

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Collax V-Family Technology

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Cluster Communication / Messaging

Collax Platform Server – 64bit

Stonith Cluster Resource Mgmt Daemon

Cluster Information Base

Local Resource Mgmt Daemon

PolicyEngine

Collax Integration Framework & GUI

Resource Agents

Hypervisor - KVM

VM VM VM VM

ClusteredLogical Volume

Mgmt

Resource Agents

Embedded SAN Clu

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Cluster FSVirt BD Virt BDA sample of

Open Source componentsused by V-Family

Linux ;-)KVMQemulibvirt

PacemakerOpenAISCorosyncOCFS2DRBDDLM

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How to… Collax Virtual Node

First Build a Collaboration Node– Choose appropriate Hardware

– Install the V-Family

– Create, from a template, a Collax Platform Server Virtual Machine

– Plug in the Zarafa module

– Enhance the Virtual server as required with other plug-in modules

Super Efficient Virtualization Dynamic allocation of disk, memory… Monitoring, Alerting etc.

Hardware

Additional Server Functions

Zarafa

Archive + Mobile + Backup + Fax/SMS…

Business Scalable

Solid Function Rich Foundation

Grow with demandPortable/Independent

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Super Efficient Virtualization High Availability & Storage Modules

Additional Server Functions

Super Efficient Virtualization High Availability & Storage Modules

Hardware

Additional Server Functions

Zarafa

Archive + Mobile + Backup …

How to… Collax High Availability

Create Second Node:– Choose appropriate Hardware

– Install the V-Family

– No need to install Zarafa again!

Add High Availability module to Nodes– Collax Inter-V provides the ability to failover

Hardware

Additional Server Functions

Super Efficient Virtualization Dynamic allocation of disk, memory… Monitoring, Alerting etc.

Hardware

Additional Server Functions

Zarafa

Archive + Mobile + Backup + Fax/SMS…

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Super Efficient Virtualization High Availability & Storage Modules

Additional Server Functions

Super Efficient Virtualization High Availability & Storage Modules

Hardware

Additional Server Functions

Zarafa

Archive + Mobile + Backup …

How to… Collax High Availability

For HA to work we need Shared Storage

Typically implemented by a SAN

Should be HA as well, to avoid single-point-of-failure

$$$$$$$, big time!

Or ….

Hardware

Additional Server Functions

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Collax V-Store – HA SAN

Collax V-Store is a High-Availability Shared Storage device

based on Embedded SAN technology

designed to fulfil the SAN requirements of a HA solution

designed to be economical both in price and hardware use

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Collax V-Store – HA SAN

Embedded SAN– High Availability

– “Virtual Raid-1” • High Performance Replication of Virtual storage between 2 Cluster nodes

– Integrated in the cluster framework and management

– Integrated in the Collax V-Cube storage virtualization

– Unified Storage (block device and file system)

– Uses commodity hardware components

– Transaction security

– Replaces the need for a HA SAN

Exceptional TCO and ROI

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Why Collax High Availability

It is the most economical High Availability solution available

It is simple to setup– No customization – Zarafa out of a box– All Plug-in structure – Click enhancements

• e.g. Archiving, Security, Backup etc.

– Migrate existing Zarafa Servers – P2V Tools– Scalable by using 1 node for Zarafa, 1 node for MySQL

Full Flexibility– Automatic failover– Manual Live-Migration of Virtual Machines for maintenance

• No downtime

– Full compliment of virtualization tools – local and remote– Ultra efficient Virtualization platform

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What was the challenge?

Availability ?

MTTF A =

MTTF + MTTR

MTTF: mean time to failureMTTR: mean time to repair

8760h A = = 0.999996 !!

8760h + 2min

Availability !

What is the result?

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What to know more?

To discuss this topic more and see the product live,come see us at our booth outside

– How this can work for youSales - Michael Woelm

To discuss the technical implications of anything mentioned come talk to our CTO

– The products that can do thisBoris Nalbach

To talk about bits and bytes we also have one of our Product Managers

– Technical TalkFrank Fehrenbach

If you do not have time– Pick up a brochure or contact us www.collax.com

Thank you

Contact:

Collax GmbHGutenbergstraße 1

85737 Ismaning

P: +49 (0) 89-99 01 57-0F: +49 (0) 89-99 01 57-11

[email protected]

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Coffee Break Statement - Alternative

Collax: Flexible Server Solutions for the SMB market

Collax Servers let you:– Be fast – by being simple to implement

– Be flexible – by letting you change your mind at any time

– Be economical – by efficiently using what you have

– Be dependable – by recovering automatically from outages

Collax Servers for Infrastructure, High Availability and Collaboration

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Collax Server Solutions – High Availability

Collax V-Family– Create an unbreakable server with ease

Collax V-Cube– Virtualization Server

• Full Virtualization for the SMB market• Virtualize your existing Zarafa Server with ease

Collax Inter-V– High Availability add-on to a Collax V-Cube

• Automatic failover• Dynamic Architecture

Collax V-Store– Complete HA SAN for Cluster solution

• HA SAN for a fraction of the cost• No additional Hardware requirements

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Collax Server Solutions – All-in-One

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Collax Groupware Suite– All-In-One Zarafa based Server with all the extras in a

single installation:• E-Mail server Fax/SMS Installer• Full Infrastructure E-Mail Archive Security

Collax Security Gateway– Complete security solution that protects your whole

company and optimises your network:• Advanced Firewall Network Mgt Anti-Spam• Firewall Matrix SSL VPN+ Anti-Virus• Internet Protection Remote Mgt Multi-WAN

Collax Business Server– Full Business infrastructure in one server install

• File Server E-Mail Server Firewall• Internet Protection Anti-Spam Anti-Virus• Network Management VPN (IPSec) Web Application Server