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HIGH STAKES HIGH AVAILABILITY STORMAGIC WEBINAR SERIES Bruce Kornfeld, CMO, StorMagic Mark Christie, Senior Systems Engineer, StorMagic Huub Lambooy, Director of Technology, The Maho Group SIMPLIFYING STORAGE AT THE EDGE INTRODUCING STORMAGIC


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SIMPLIFYING STORAGE AT THE EDGE

HIGH STAKES HIGH AVAILABILITY

STORMAGIC WEBINAR SERIES

Bruce Kornfeld, CMO, StorMagic Mark Christie, Senior Systems Engineer, StorMagic Huub Lambooy, Director of Technology, The Maho Group

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INTRODUCING STORMAGIC

SIMPLIFYING STORAGE AT THE EDGE

  • Storage software focus
  • Eliminate external SANs by virtualizing internal server

storage

  • Enable hyperconverged infrastructure
  • Multi-site enterprises and SMEs

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SvSAN SOLVES PAIN AT THE EDGE

  • Virtualizes disk, flash and memory
  • Software only: runs on any

hardware

  • Start with 2 node clusters with no

single point of failure

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SIMPLE

Set and forget

COST EFFECTIVE

Lightest footprint, lowest cost

FLEXIBLE

Today’s needs, future proofed

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A HIGHLY AVAILABLE CONFIGURATION

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  • What is high availability?
  • Compute
  • Network
  • Storage
  • Cost vs. benefit
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POWER SUPPLIES

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  • Environment power
  • Node power resiliency
  • How to be green?
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DISK TOPOLOGY

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  • Disk resiliency
  • Hardware or software
  • Storage types
  • HDD
  • SSD
  • Memory
  • Failure rates of HDDs vs

SSDs

  • Commodity or enterprise
  • Drive writes per day
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NETWORK TOPOLOGY

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  • Speed 1Gb vs. 10Gb
  • Switched vs. direct connect
  • SvSAN enables flexibility in

network architecture

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SERVER CONFIGURATION

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  • Single socket vs. dual socket
  • Guest VM resiliency
  • Cost vs. benefit
  • Can I be green?
  • StorMagic witness manages

quorum

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STRETCH CLUSTERS

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  • Benefits of a stretch cluster
  • Power
  • Fire
  • Disaster
  • Requirements
  • Synchronous: ≥1Gb
  • Latency: ≤30ms
  • Maximum 4,400km apart!
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STRETCH CLUSTERS

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  • Benefits of a stretch cluster
  • Power
  • Fire
  • Disaster
  • Requirements
  • Synchronous: ≥1Gb
  • Latency: ≤30ms
  • Maximum 4,400km apart!
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FAULT TOLERANCE

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  • High availability vs. fault

tolerance

  • SvSAN enables datacentre

features for the edge

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THE MAHO GROUP

Huub Lambooy, Director of Technology

Insights and experiences from an SvSAN deployment at a Caribbean hotel and resort company

END USER EXPERIENCE

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BUSINESS CHALLENGE

  • The Maho Group – leading leisure and resort firm in the Caribbean
  • Resorts, hotels, casinos and residential developments
  • IT team responsible for services to 25-30 buildings
  • Regular power outages, even with triple protection on equipment

such as generators, etc

  • Susceptible to tropical storms and hurricanes

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END USER EXPERIENCE

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END USER EXPERIENCE

SOLUTION

  • Wanted virtualized servers but couldn’t afford external SAN
  • Ambition to reduce downtime through high availability and redundancy
  • Solution would be responsible for:
  • Property and casino management systems (PMS)
  • Firewalls and remote desktop services
  • Deployed in 2012 on Dell servers, mostly hard disks with one SSD per server
  • Utilized stretch cluster capability by deploying across two buildings

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Building 1 Building 2

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WHY STORMAGIC?

  • Reliable, resilient solution – completely eliminated unplanned

downtime

  • Avoided having to purchase external SANs, saving a significant

amount of money

  • Allowed for improvements in business efficiency
  • Non-disruptive maintenance on hardware, software and firmware

has removed the need to schedule application downtime

  • Consistent, confidence-inspiring support
  • Aided the design, performance testing and configuration

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END USER EXPERIENCE

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Q&A AND NEXT STEPS

  • Schedule a live demo

Email: sales@stormagic.com

  • Request a quote

Visit: stormagic.com/request-a-quote/

  • Download a free trial of SvSAN

Visit: stormagic.com/trial/

  • Further information and documentation

Visit: stormagic.com

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