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Ibm Powerha: This Is Power On A Smarter Planet
Ibm Powerha: This Is Power On A Smarter Planet
IBM PowerHA
This is Power on a Smarter Planet
Steven Finnes
PowerHA Product Offering Manager
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Clustering for HA and DR
Application
Application
System 1 System 2
Availability
Critical
workloads
Single
Server
Technology
Master
SAP
Standby Site 1 Site 2
PowerHA SAP
PowerHA
N2-1
9 3 3 9 10 2 10 2
PowerHA
8 4 4 8 9 3 3 9
7 5 567 8 4 4 8
6 7 5 5
6 67
Log
LVM Mirror
Volume D4 D2-4 D2-5
D5
SWAP S1 D6 D2-6
S2
Metro Mirror
HyperSwap S3
S1
D2
SYNC D1
Data Data Sync S1 S2 D3
Volumes FlashCopy Volumes Mirror Up to 100 KMs
VG
TRADITIONAL PowerHA V7
Unicast Clustering
HP – Continuous Access
Cross Site Mirroring (single site stretch cluster) NA LVM mirroring with CAA
Active-Active HyperSwap & single node HyperSwap NA Options for continuous app and storage availability
Two site linked cluster operator managed failover NA Operator decides whether or not to failover
Live Cache SAP hot standby NA Fast failover for APO SCM
Smart Assists for LiveCache and Netweaver NA Faster, customizable deployment
Stretched Cluster
– Supports unicast (default) or multicast
Repository
Repository Disk
Disk communications
– Triple redundant heartbeat
– Campus/Metro deployments
Two-Site
Two-Site Stretched
Stretched Cluster
Cluster
Linked Cluster
– Enables two sites with independent
networks (campus or cross country)
– Suitable for campus, metro and cross
country deployments
Two-Site
Two-Site Linked
Linked Cluster
Cluster
Single Data Centers Two Data Centers Single Data Centers Two Data Centers
Applications remain active Systems remain active Applications remain active
Rapid Systems Disaster
Recovery with “seconds” of
Data Loss
Continuous access to data in Multi-site workloads can Continuous access to data in
the event of a storage withstand site and/or storage the event of a storage Disaster recovery for out of
subsystem outage failures subsystem outage region interruptions
PowerHA-Standard Edition PowerHA Enterprise Edition PowerHA-Entertprise Edition PowerHA Enterprise Edition
GLVM, Metro Mirror, GLVM/PPRC/SVC/SRDF/TrueCopy
LVM Mirroring DS8800 and Metro Mirror
SRDF,TrueCopy RPO secs & RTO <1 hr
RPO=0, RTO ~ 0 RPO=0, RTO ~ 0
RPO=0 & RTO<1 hr
Repository
Repository Disk
Disk HyperSwap
Two-Site
Two-Site Stretched
Stretched Cluster
Cluster
PowerHA V7.1 Standard Enterprise
Stretched Cluster
Linked Clusters
Two-Site
Two-Site Linked
Linked Cluster
Cluster HyperSwap NA
Future
Future capability
capability
*
X
Two site cluster Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Two site cluster
Split Merge
Split/Merge Policies
– Administrator prompts
– Cluster will wait for Admin inputs
– Optional Policy: After N prompts allow auto-
recovery
– Custom action scripts can invoked at the
time of split or merge as well site down
Defaults
– Number of prompts (N)=infinite
– Interval between notifications: once in 30 X
seconds and then increasing in frequency
– Auto-Recovery after N prompts
cluster split
Common At:
• Banking Institutions
SAN interconnection links • Hospitals
• Power Companies
Storage
Storage Area
Area Network
Network • Universities
LVM Mirror
Location
Location A
A Location B
Loss of a Storage Subsystem will only make mirrors go stale but you would continue to operate
without a fallover
Site A Site B
Heartbeat Links
Mirror Pool A
Data VG Import
Definition
Volume
Group Mirror Pool B
Application/LVM/Middleware Application/LVM/Middleware
/dev/hdiskX
Site 1 Site 2
HyperSwap coordination across hosts and sites N1 N2 N3 N4
– Planned or unplanned HyperSwap
– Multi host synchronization
Consistency group management across DS8K
systems
Typical swap times less than few seconds
S2
HyperSwap Support for critical system disks S1 S3
– Rootvg
– Paging device
– Dump Devices
– Repository disk
Disk Grouping Support
– Groups disks and establish consistency groups
Support for both AIX LVM and Raw disks Site 3
– Disk or VG preparation
– Disk Error handling
SCSI
– Oracle can be deployed with LVM or ASM disks
VIOS: NPIV only. No vSCSI support
Shared Disk
Requires DS8800 or above storage Tie Breaker
Site 1 Site 2
N1 N2 N3 N4
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Administrator can turn on/off “auto resync”
S1 S2
1 2
3
Replication links failed and then recovered Primary stays active and secondary is
synchronized
1
Secondary Storage failed. Later on Secondary Storage Primary stays active and secondary is
2 Recovered synchronized
Primary Storage Fails HyperSwap occurs to Secondary
3 Primary Storage Recovers Resync from Site 2 to Site 1 is initiated
Active
Active Nodes
Nodes PowerHA Cluster Passive
Passive Nodes
Nodes
• Active-Passive Sites
– Active-Active workload within a site
– Active-Passive across sites
– Storage continuous availability across sites
Metro
Metro Mirror
Mirror
Oracle
Oracle RAC
RAC Oracle
Oracle RAC
RAC
Site A Site B
Metro
Metro Mirror
Mirror
Oracle
Oracle RAC
RAC
Site A Site B
Application
Hypervisor Hypervisor
Inactive Pool
CoD Spare Pool
PowerHA Cluster
• PowerHA and AIX are priced per processor core (license only the cores being used in the cluster)
• Taking advantage of the DLPAR technology in the example topology:
– Assume 770 cluster, 7 AIX and 7 PowerHA
– PowerHA price: 5,000/core = $35,000…..75,000 – 35,000 = savings: $40,000
– AIX price: 2145/core + 530/core = 2675/core = $40,125 – $21,400…..savings: $18,725
– Total savings….$58,725
© Copyright IBM Corporation 2014
Session summary
PowerHA V7 is integrated
CAA for robust integrated management
Industry unique capabilities
PowerHA V7 is multi-site
Industry exclusive capabilities
Stretch clustering and Linked clustering
HyperSwap for continuously available configurations
PowerHA is economical
DLPAR and Enterprise Pools – minimize redundant resource
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/tutorials/au-ibm-powerha-system-mirror/
Redbooks
•
SG24-
7841
•
SG24-
7845
•
SG24-
7739
PowerHA SystemMirror Life Cycle
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
* * * * * *
* * * * * *
TBD
PowerHA V7.1 TL3
Std/Ent
12/13* 4/2017
* * * * * *
PowerHA V7.1 TL2
Std/Ent * * * * * *
11/12 4/2016
V7.1
* * * *
PowerHA V7.1 TL1
* * * * * *
Std
12/11 4/2015
* * * *
PowerHA V7.1 TL0
Std
* * * * *
9/10 9/2014
* * * *
PowerHA V6.1
Std/Ent
* * *
10/09 4/2015
EOS
*
PowerHA V5.5
11/08 4/2012
EOS
Current PowerHA Releases - New software enhancements, new system and I/O support
PowerHA Service Packs - Software updates, new system and I/O support updates
Contacts:
code
1.Linda Hoben – Opportunity Manager hoben@us.ibm.com 1-720-395-0556
2.Stephen Brandenburg – Opportunity Manager sbranden@us.ibm.com 1-301-240-2182
SAP liveCache HotStandby plan, Deploy PowerHA Smart Assist based liveCache Hotstandby solution design, and deployment
Pre Sales Offering: Education and assistance to plan for SAP solutions with PowerHA
PowerHA cluster HA management of SAP
PowerHA HA management of Sybase Plan, deploy Sybase ASE HA management by PowerHA Clustering
Duration: Depending on the ordered modules and amount of instances. Estimate will be provided upon request.
PowerHA SystemMirror References
• IBM PowerHA SystemMirror7.1.3 for AIX Best Practices & Reference
Architectures
SG24-8167-00 (Not available for download yet)
• PowerHA Website
– www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/availability/
• Availability Factory
– Contact your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner and they will contact us via e-mail (hacoc@us.ibm.com) to learn more.
• IBM Technology Service Offering for PowerHA SystemMirror XD deployment
– http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/offering/its/a1000032
• Redbooks
– SG24-7841 IBM PowerHA Enterprise Edition Implementation Guide
– SG24- 7845 IBM PowerHA V7.1
– IBM PowerHA SystemMirror7.1.3 for AIX Best Practices & Reference Architectures SG24-8167-00 (stay tuned…not available yet)
– IBM PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1.2 Enterprise Edition for AIX - SG24-8106-00 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248106.html?Open
– Deploying PowerHA Solution with AIX HyperSwap - REDP-4954-00 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp4954.html?Open
– PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Base Pubs http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.aix.powerha.navigation
%2Fpowerha_pdf.htm
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