Disaster Recovery, Local Operational Recovery, and High Availability
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InMage provides a single solution for disaster recovery, local operational recovery, and high availability for SAP. It leverages continuous data protection and heterogeneous replication to meet stringent recovery requirements. InMage supports automated recovery of entire SAP environments, including data and applications, on Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms to enable remote or local recovery that is faster and more reliable than conventional backup methods.
Disaster Recovery, Local Operational Recovery, and High Availability
- 1. Data Sheet InMage for SaP Disaster Recovery, Local Operational Recovery, and high availability • A single solution which combines As a business intelligence solution, SAP provides the foundation on which enterprises worldwide rely to track and manage their customers and business. For many of these remote disaster recovery, local enterprises, SAP provides business critical application services on which they depend operational recovery, and every day. Any outages can potentially impact revenue generation or customer service, application failover/failback as well as back end planning activities that impact daily operations. To ensure that the for SAP on a single, centrally business can continue to operate efficiently, enterprises must be able to rapidly and reli- ably recover SAP services and data to meet everything from daily operational recovery to managed platform remote disaster recovery requirements. • Leverages next generation data Conventional data protection approaches are based around periodic backups. Regard- protection technologies to meet less of whether they are based on tape or disk, the use of discrete backups as recovery the most stringent recovery points lead inevitably to data loss on recovery in SAP environments. Data loss means business impacts, as well as additional administrative overhead incurred in attempting to requirements re-create lost data (if it can in fact be recovered at all). The explosive data growth rates being experienced by most SAP environments further complicates the matter, since • Supports comprehensive and 12 hours of lost data now equates to significantly more lost information than it did just automated recovery for SAP one year ago. Additionally, business and regulatory mandates are driving increasingly configurations based on Windows, stringent recovery requirements, both locally for backup as well as remotely for disaster Linux, or Unix platforms running recovery, and conventional data protection approaches just aren’t keeping up. physical server, virtual server, or InMage: A Comprehensive Recovery Solution for All Your SAP Needs mixed environments InMage for SAP provides a software-based solution • Replaces multiple existing products InMage provides auto- that leverages next generation recovery technologies to provide a simpler and lower cost like continuous data protection (CDP), heterogeneous mated recovery of SAP asynchronous replication, application failover/failback, SAP recovery solution that works the environments. and WAN optimization to ensure rapid, reliable recov- same across all platforms ery for SAP environments both locally and remotely. InMage’s unique hybrid recovery architecture provides an extremely low overhead approach to providing application-consistent recovery in SAP environments, making it ideal for both physical and virtual server environments. Automated recovery of SAP environments (not just data) can be configured to meet either remote or local requirements as well, going above and beyond the protection offered by multiple sepa- rate conventional backup, log shipping, file-based replication, and clustering products. Scalable, Cost-Effective Data and Application Recovery Locally and Remotely InMage for SAP leverages CDP technology to capture writes in real time as they occur across back end database servers in an SAP environment. These writes are kept in the appropriate order as they are recorded in a disk-based journal which can be kept on server targets locally, remotely, or in multiple locations simultaneously. When data recovery is required, the administrator selects the desired recovery point from a continuum which includes any previous points in time, choosing from points which include not only the most recent point in time but prior application-consistent recovery points as well, and performs the type of recovery required – file level or system level, local (for operational recoveries) or remote (for disaster recoveries).
- 2. LOCAL SITE InMage for SAP enables the implementa- tion of cost-effective DR configurations Production Server Source(s) that leverage asynchronous, IP-based replication to support long distance DR Sources can be either solutions. All replication is performed at SAP Application physical or virtual machines Servers the block-level, capturing changes from the database back end and replicating them to one or more defined recovery server tar- A single CX can simutaneously SAP Database REMOTE SITE provide the recovery foundation gets. All network traffic is WAN optimized Backend for an SAP environment by technology built into InMage, keeping bandwidth requirements to a minimum. InMage CX This results in a fully functional, exact rep- LAN WA N lica of the source SAP environment’s data on the target side that requires no manual Remote Recovery All transmission occurs across updating (to reflect system configuration, cost-effective IP networks Server Target(s) database schema, security changes, etc.), Targets can be either and supports fully automated SAP physical or virtual machines Local Recovery environment recovery (leading to much Server Target(s) shorter RTOs). Figure 1. Data is granularly collected from all servers in an SAP configuration and sent to a local CX, which can then store the data locally Comprehensive recovery capabilities can Data taps and/or remotely (using InMage’s asynchronous replication). include the ability to fail over the SAP data- base back end and any or all of the applica- tion servers to a remote site at the push Application Awareness Flexibility to Support of a button, automatically updating AD and Supports Fast, Reliable, and Heterogeneous Environments DNS entries as the failover occurs. This al- Comprehensive Recoveries lows dependent applications to continue to InMage supports operate transparently after the failover. This InMage for SAP includes SAP-specific InMage accom- heterogeneous fully automated recovery capability not functionality that speeds deployment and servers, including enables recovery capabilities that are tai- modates hetero- Windows, Linux, only speeds the recovery of SAP services when it is required, but can also be used lored for SAP environments but managed geneous servers and Unix, as well to simplify DR testing by providing non- through the centralized InMage manage- as heteroge- ment paradigm. SAP-specific functionality and all storage neous storage disruptive, one-button SAP central instance failover. Failover/failback can be defined at includes installation templates, AppShot architectures. and storage the database server or the named instance creation and usage, and automated SAP architectures level, providing additional flexibility in failover/failback processes. Out-of-the-box, (DAS, SAN, NAS, iSCSI, FC, etc.). All data accommodating existing configurations. InMage supports Windows, Linux, and movement occurs across cost-effective Unix-based SAP installations, along IP-based networks. InMage is ideal for Eliminate Backups While with the key databases on each of Windows-based SAP environments with Improving Recovery those platforms. its support for Windows VSS and SQL databases, and it provides that same Using CDP technology, InMage captures As InMage captures SAP data, it tracks support for popular platforms in Linux and changes to SAP data continuously as they and labels it so that administrators can Unix environments, such as Red Hat and/ occur, completely moving away from the retroactively select AppShots from which or SuSE and Oracle, or Solaris and Oracle. “periodic” nature of conventional backup. to base recovery operations. InMage can InMage also supports mixed physical and InMage doesn’t shorten the backup use application snapshot APIs, such as the virtual machine environments, and offers window, it completely eliminates it. And it Windows Volume Shadowcopy Services the industry’s best application-consistent does so in a way which actually improves (VSS) API, Oracle RMAN, and others in a recovery capabilities for virtual machine data and application recovery capabilities. very unique way to mark AppShots environments with a very low overhead InMage’s CDP foundation allows the selec- with lower overhead than any other appli- solution that works the same across tion of the optimal recovery point for any cation-consistent snapshotting solution VMware, Citrix XenServer, and Microsoft failure scenario, making recoveries simple, on the market. Hyper-V environments. fast, and reliable. 3255-1 Scott Boulevard, Suite 104, Santa Clara, CA 95054 | 1.800.646.3617 | p: 408.200.3840 | f: 408.588.1590 | info@inmage.com www.inmage.com 2010V1 Copyright 2010, InMage Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This document is provided for information purposes only, and the contents hereof are subject to change without notice. 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