EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 Feature Improvements

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1 EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 Feature Improvements NEC Corporation System Software Division August, 2013

2 EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 Enhancements Avail abili ty Virtualization Operabili ty Datamirror ing SmartFail over(*) Systemresource monitoring JavaVMmonitoring Expansionof nondisruptivefail over support (Hyper-V,KVM, vsphere5(esxi) 2012/10 Enhanced 2012/10 NEW VMwarevCenterServer Plug-inprovision Smartphone& tabletsupport Twitersupport Linkagewith systemmgmts/w (MIBsupport) Feature for remoteclustering Mirrordata bandwidthcontrol Groupdependenc y Fail uresimulation PackageProduct Processname monitoring Simpli fiedservice resourceconfiguration 2012/10 NEW EXPRESSCLUSTERX3.1 forsapnetweaver (*)Whatis SmartHA Cluster? Inadditiontofail overduetoany fail ure,itenables fail overbasedonpredictivedetectionof fail urewhic helpssystemtoachievehigherreli abili ty. Page 2 NEC Corporation 2013

3 EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 for SAP NetWeaver (1/2) 2012/10 NEW Added product lineup certified with SAP NetWeaver for exclusive use! Industry s s First (SAP HA Interface Certification) All-in-one package for clustering system implementation including all the modules and documents needed Attached configuration guide which enables trustworthy clustering setting Bundled with 1-10 years of support, enabling reliable operation for extended periods of time Product name EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 for SAP NetWeaver (with 1 Year Support) EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 for SAP NetWeaver (with 3 Years Support) EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 for SAP NetWeaver (with 5 Years Support) EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 for SAP NetWeaver (with 10 Years Support) Product package includes: Media Clustering module SAP connecting module SAP clustering guide Sample source Note - Each product(even if physical or virtual) includes a license for one node. (If you need 2 nodes, please purchase 2 products.) - To extend support period, PP support pack is required. - All the products or service marks mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners Page 3 NEC Corporation 2013

4 EXPRESSCLUSTER X 3.1 for SAP NetWeaver (2/2) 2012/10 NEW Industry s First SAP HA Interface Certified Software! Industry s s First (SAP HA Interface Certification) SAPNetWeaver ASCS ERS1 PAS Database MaxDB Failover Failover Monitor Start/Stopcombination SAPNetWeaver SAP MMC ASCS ERS2 AAS Database Easy implementation The modules needed for monitoring SAP NetWeaver is included and reduces implementation time. Included clustering guide and sample source which enables trustworthy clustering setting Light Operation Enables failover in each SAP component to minimize downtime Smooth Operability Enables to control SAP Components through SAP MMC and realizes seamless operability As communicate mutually and fit together with EXPRESSCLUSTER, it does not detect failover as trouble. Enables to operate from EXPRESSCLUSTER WebManager EXPRESSCLUSTER WebManager Page 4 NEC Corporation 2013

5 Improved Virtualization Support 2012/10 Enhanced Extendedsupportof li vemigration feature(non-disruptivefail over) Extended supportfor Server2012Hyper-V * (KVM,VMware,XenServerarealreadysupported) Server 2012 support Hyper-V,vSphere4,KVM,XenServer vsphere5 Partial network connec tion fail ure VM 1 VM 2 VM 1 VM 2 Failure VM 1 VM 2 Cluster mgmt VM Cluster mgmt VM VM 1 VM 2 Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Partial FCconnec tion fail ure EXPRESSCLUSTER monitorsphysic alresourceandgues t OS from hypervisor(hostos) Monitoring andothervmcontrolscanbedonefrom clus ter managementvm *Server2012Hyper-V slivemigrationissupportedwhenanetworkattachedstorage(nas) isusedasashareddisk. QuickMigrationissupportedincaseof usinghyper-v2.0/1.0. Page 5 NEC Corporation 2013

6 VMware vcenter Server Plug-in 2012/10 NEW Enables centralized management of the clustering status of business systems (virtual machines) One click to activate the WebManager for more details and operation Obvious where the resource is activated group1 group2 group3 group4 Monitoring status of each server is apparent The screen image shown here may not be the same as actual screen Page 6 NEC Corporation 2013

7 Smart Failover Predicts fail ureandautomaticall yjudges appropriate serverto fail overbycoll ecting/analyzing ystemresourceusage s Appli cation Decrease tendency Smartfail over Resource Usage Prediction of ail ure f Appli cation Resource Usage System ResourceAgent StandbyServer-1 Increase tendenc y now System ResourceAgent Resource Usage System ResourceAgent Active Server StandbyServer-2 Page 7 NEC Corporation 2013

8 New monitoring option System Resource Agent Reali zestableoperation byavoiding ystemresource s failure Monitorswholesystemresource Preventstroubleinadvance Monitorsresourceofeachprocess Alertsabnormalresourceusage Storessystemresourceinformation Canbeusedforsizingorreporting System resource -CPU Predictsresource -Memory shortagenear future etc small Resourceusage Big Alert Pro cess Pro cess Pro cess Now Future Resource usage Resource usage System ResourceAgent System ResourceAgent Page 8 NEC Corporation 2013

9 New monitoring option Java Resource Agent Improvesavail abili tyof app li cationserverbymonitoringof Javavirtualmachine. LoadBalancer Monitoringof JavaVM Heap Heap shortagejavaapp JavaVM Applic ationserver JavaResourceAgent Garbagecollec tion monitoring Memorypool Non-Heap Memory monitoring Threadpool Threads Threadpoolmonitoring JavaVM Applic ationserver JavaResourceAgent Linkagewithloadbalancer Enables fallback operation by detecting abnormal Fall back Recovery status which health check of load balancer (Ping/TCP/HTTP) can not detect Fail ure Normal JavaApp MajorSupportedApplic ationservers -WebOTXApplic ationserver -WebLogic Server -JBossApplic ationserver -ApacheTomcat Page 9 NEC Corporation 2013

10 Group Dependency Solaris Shortened failover time by localizing the failover unit Previous Altheresourceshouldbeinthesame failovergroup incasesystemrequiresmultipleapplications(cluster resource) tostartinfixedorder. Restartsalregisteredresourcesincaseof ailure. f Fail overgroup(unitof fail over) EXPRESSCLUSTERX3.1 Enabledtodefinegroupsbyeachapps (clusterresource), anddetermineordertostart/stop. Targetgroupwil lberestartedincaseof ailure f Separatedgroupsforeachappscanbedefined StartOrder AppAresource AppBresource AppCresource StopOrder StartOrder Group Group Group AppAresource AppBresource AppCresource StopOrder AppC Fail overtime AppB AppA Only faile dgroupwillbe restarted/switchedthus fail overtimecanbereduced! AppA Fail overtime Page 10 NEC Corporation 2013

11 Group Dependency Group start/stopcanbeconfigured romguiwhil f ebeingabletoviewthe current setings ata glance Solaris Exampleof DependencySeting StartDependency Depth0 fail over1 fail over2 Depth1 fail over3 fail over4 Depth2 fail over5 Depth3 fail over6 Page 11 NEC Corporation 2013

12 Process name monitoring Solaris Child/Grandchild process can now be monitored by EXPRESSCLUSTER Previous Process (grandchil d)of parent/chil drelation isnotmonitored. EXPRESSCLUSTER(parent)? App(Chil d) App(Grandchil Start d) EXPRESSCLUSTERX3.1 Withprocessnamemonitoringresource,structure ofappisunderstoodwhilemonitoring. E.g.1) E.g.2) EXPRESSCLUSTER(parent) App(Chil d) App(Grandchil d) APPL EXPRESSCLUSTER(parent) SetingofE.g.1) Processname APPL SetingofE.g.2) Processname APP* Wil dcard * issupported App(Chil d) App(Grandchil d1) App(Grandchil d2) App(Grandchil d3) App(Grandchil d4) App(Grandchil d5) Page 12 NEC Corporation 2013

13 Smartphone & tablet support Solaris Managing cluster systems from Android devices. *** ***** Smartphone Other Android Devices The screen image shown here may not be the same as actual screen Page 13 NEC Corporation 2013

14 Twitter support Solaris Tweets server condition in case of any failure occurrence on the server Enables system administrators to be informed about the cluster events in real-time Important notification on twitter Server stopped Search Failover Failover completed Direct Messages sent to you Tweet Favorite Following Follower List XXXXX_xxx :39 Completed failover of Server1 13th September Failure App Protected tweet or Direct Message XXXXX_xxx :38 Started failover of Server1 13th September The screen image shown here may not be the same as actual screen Page 14 NEC Corporation 2013

15 Linkage between system mgmt software (MIB support) SNMP Managerenables clustermanagement. Solaris Enables integrated managementincludingnetworkdevices etc Displaysinformation/situation fromsnmp communicationofexpresscluster EasysettingwithGUI Failure Fail over SNMPManager SNMPcommunic ation *NECMasterScopeNetworkManagercase Page 15 NEC Corporation 2013

16 Failure simulation from the management console Enables ail ure f simulation frommanagementconsolefor testingthefail over scen ario Solaris VerificationMode isadd edtothemanagementconsole Earlydiscoveryof mistakesinconfiguration,andconfirmsrecoveryof monito resource. 1.Sele ctverification mode 4.Easil ysimulatethe failu re 3.Sele ctservertouse fordummy failu re 2.Sele ctdummy failu re frommonito resource Page 16 NEC Corporation 2013

17 Easy setting of service resource Automaticall yobtainstheservicenamemanaged inservicemanagement consoleof indows W OS Previous EXPRESSCLUSTERX3.1 1.Displayservicenamefrom Connectbutton Neededtoinputservice namemanualyeverytime Servicenametoberegisteredinservice resourceshouldbespecifiedmanualy wherehumanmistakeisli kelytooccur. 2.Justselectservicename for registration fromli stbox. Page 17 NEC Corporation 2013

18 Feature for remote cluster Throughput/statusof datamirroring canbemonitored inrealtime. Byperiodicinformationcoll ection,problemssuchasperformancedegrada tionwhich wasearli erdificulttodetectcanberecognized. Amountof datamirror edamongserverscanbevisuali zed. Byexecutingcommand,suchas averagethroughput forcertain periodcanbeviewed. version File(F) Edit(E) Setting(S) Control(C) Window(W) Commandprompt Averagedatawriting quantity (MB/s) Averagemirror communic ation quantity (MB/s) Mirrordata version Averagedata transfertime Performancemonitor Bytenumberof sen t mirror data Statisticinformationwill berecordedinthelogs, andoutputcanbetakenascsv files. Page 18 NEC Corporation 2013

19 Mirror data bandwidth control (Network Shaping) Enables toli mittheavail ablebandwidthfordatamirroring Bandwidth fordatamiroringcanbeconfigureddependingonnetworkenvironment Evenwithoutdedicatedli neformiroring,theimpactcanbeminimized Networkisoccupiedif dataisbigor networkbandwidthisnarrow. Impacttoothercommunications Withoutnetworkshaping Mirrordata Withnetworkshaping Mirrordata Ensurescommunicationbandwidth *versionhasbeensupportedfrompreviousversion Page 19 NEC Corporation 2013

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