Disaster Recovery Automated Disaster Recovery for Your SAP Software Environment VMware Recovery and NetApp Storage and Data Management Solutions
Given the complexity of today s IT environments and the business risks of downtime, data loss, and failure, no one can afford to operate without a robust and well-tested disaster recovery (DR) plan for critical systems. However, maintaining an idle data center is not an economically viable option. Further, testing of the DR plan can be costly, complex, and disruptive. Now, VMware and NetApp have teamed up with SAP to take the risk, worry, and complexity out of DR for your SAP software landscape by providing a solution that makes disaster recovery manageable, reliable, repeatable, and cost effective. Your company is a best-run business that relies on its SAP software implementation. You cannot accept prolonged downtime and data loss for your SAP applications. If disaster strikes your primary data center, you need to recover very quickly. You need to be sure that your DR procedures work when they are most needed. And it is simply not cost effective to maintain an idle data center replicating your primary site on standby, solely for a contingency. Be Prepared Now, a joint solution based on VMware Site Recovery Manager and NetApp SnapMirror, coupled with NetApp management software enables the automated, cost-effective, reliable recovery of a virtualized SAP server and storage landscape at the secondary site without affecting the primary site. You can harness the flexibility offered by Site Recovery Manager with the simplicity and security of the NetApp data management architecture. The result is a DR and backup solution for your SAP software landscape that offers database-consistent recovery, ease of testing DR procedures, and unmatched flexibility and availability. In addition, both companies will offer an improved customer experience with the virtualization escalation team, a new joint customer support group. NetApp SnapMirror replicates your VMware-virtualized SAP software landscape to your DR site, providing the highest possible data availability.
Virtualizing and Replicating Your SAP Software Landscape Taking the Risk Out of Disaster Recovery Site Recovery Manager is a groundbreaking product for disaster recovery that uses virtualization to provide pioneering DR management and automation for the virtual data center. It leverages storage replication software and VMware Infrastructure, which virtualizes your SAP software landscape to increase flexibility, availability, utilization, and service levels for all of your SAP software environments. netapp SnapMirror replicates your VMware-virtualized SAP software landscape to your DR site, providing the highest possible data availability. Site Recovery Manager, integrated with the NetApp storage architecture, then automates the failover of your critical SAP applications in case of a disaster and allows you to test your DR framework regularly even daily if you wish. The result: you ll sleep better with the confidence that your organization can weather a disaster and quickly be back up and running with full access to mission-critical data. Site Recovery Manager enables organizations to take the risk and worry out of disaster recovery yet another reason why the VMware virtualization platform is the safest option for data center applications. Best of all, you can make full use of the systems in your DR site for other purposes. In case of a disaster, those applications can be automatically suspended if desired. And the hardware infrastructure in the DR site does not have to match the primary site, either. See Figure 1 for a view of the high-level architecture of the solution. Production Site Recovery VirtualCenter SRM Manager service SRM VirtualCenter VMware Infrastructure Servers NetApp Arrays Figure 1: Replicating Your Landscape at the DR Site State-of-the-Art Replication with NetApp Exceptionally powerful, yet easy to use and administer, NetApp SnapMirror software delivers the DR and data distribution solution that today s global enterprises need. By replicating data at high speeds over a LAN or a WAN, SnapMirror software provides the highest possible data availability and fastest recovery for SAP applications. SnapMirror also facilitates reverse synchronization, so that you can get back to your primary site easily after disaster recovery. SnapMirror continually updates the mirrored data to keep it current. When used in conjunction with NetApp FlexClone copies, your DR hardware can be used for remote tape backup, read-only data distribution, testing on Protected virtual machines Replication SnapMirror DR Site VMware Infrastructure Servers NetApp Arrays nonproduction storage systems, online data migration, and frequent testing of your DR plan, without disrupting your primary DR capabilities. By making your DR infrastructure part of your working SAP software landscape, you can accelerate projects and reduce risk. SnapMirror technology can mirror data to one or more NetApp storage systems at the same time. Deploy SnapMirror across all of your NetApp storage systems and get consistent SAP data recovery at any location with minimal management and resources. When combined with NetApp s bestin-class storage, business application, and database management software, SnapMirror gives you the complete end-to-end data management solution that allows you get the most value from your investment.
Accelerate Recovery with Automated Processes Centralized Plans Simplify Management Traditional DR solutions leave many organizations unable to meet recovery time and recovery point objectives. The slow and often manual recovery processes common in traditional DR solutions are prone to errors and result in frequent failures. Site Recovery Manager automates the recovery process to enable it to be executed rapidly and accurately. Centralized DR plans simplify the creation and ongoing management of the DR framework. They are easy to manage, store, and document and can be executed with a mouse click. Additionally, Site Recovery Manager is tightly integrated with VMware Infrastructure, so you can create, manage, and update your recovery plans for your SAP software landscape from the same place that you manage your virtual infrastructure. VMware and NetApp have teamed up with SAP to provide a solution that makes disaster recovery manageable, reliable, repeatable, and cost effective.
Enable Reliable Recovery with Easier Testing Testing disaster recovery plans for your SAP software landscape and helping to enable them to be executed correctly are critical to making recovery reliable. However, testing is difficult with traditional solutions because of the high cost, complexity, and disruption associated with the process. Another challenge is helping to enable staff to be trained and prepared to execute the complex and often manual process of recovery. Site Recovery Manager helps you overcome these obstacles by enabling realistic, frequent tests of recovery plans and eliminating common causes of failures during recovery. Figure 2 shows the testing of a recovery plan. The upper left screen displays the status of the primary site and a view of one SAP application. While the primary site is active, a DR test is executed in the secondary site (shown in the lower right screen). Critical steps are automated, greatly simplifying test execution and improving reliability in the case of an actual disaster. Figure 3 shows the result of the recovery test provided in Figure 2. The replicated virtual machines with their respective SAP applications have been recovered, and the recovered SAP software landscape is available for tests in an isolated network, shielded from the production site. Figure 2: Testing a Recovery Plan Figure 3: Results of Running a Recovery Plan
The lower right screen now shows the recovered IDES application the DR plan has been successfully tested. Note that in this example no data was lost. The sales orders in the recovered SAP application match those of the production system, shown in the upper left window, since no sales orders were entered since the last replication. Since Site Recovery Manager leverages VMware Infrastructure, hardware independence is built in, helping enable successful recovery even when recovery hardware is not identical to production hardware. This is illustrated by the fact that the production systems in the primary site, IDES-prd and SCM-prd, are distributed across two physical servers but are colocated in the DR site (see right-hand screen in Figure 3). Also, in the DR site one still sees an SCM sandbox (SCM-sbx) system running, which illustrates that the DR site can be efficiently made use of in standard operation. Centralized DR plans simplify the creation and ongoing management of the DR framework. They are easy to manage, store, and document and can be executed with a mouse click. Built in the SAP Co-Innovation Lab NetApp and VMware joined forces with SAP to test the solution in the SAP co-innovation Lab, working together to build a fully integrated and ready-todeploy disaster recovery solution for SAP software environments. The solution is now available for demonstrations. Find Out More For more information, please visit www.netapp.com/us/solutions /applications/sap, www.vmware.com/sap, or http://coil.sap.com or contact your SAP representative. NetApp, the NetApp logo, Go further, faster, FlexClone, and SnapMirror are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp Inc. in the United States and /or other countries. SAP is a registered trademark of SAP AG. VMware is a registered trademark of VMware Inc. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.
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