This training build on the Veritas Sales Expert (VSE) training for InfoScale Availability and InfoScale

Storage and so we would suggest you complete those training prior to doing this training
Training Overview.

This training have been created to help you to understand customer challenges and how Veritas
InfoScale can solve those challenges. It should allow you to discuss solutions with a customer and
potentially identify additional opportunities in your discussions
What is Vertiats InfoScale Enterprise ?

A good way to describe InfoScale is saying that it is the host based virtualization software that abstracts
applications from their underlying infrastructure enabling Enterprise grade functionality around
Business continuity, Performance optimization, Orchestration and Agility across Physical, Virtual and
Cloud Environments
Introducing the InfoScale family

As discussed already in the InfoScale Storage and availability training, InfoScale Enterprise is the set that
includes all the modules of the big sets of the InfoScale products.

The basic set of the big sets is the InfoScale Foundation that is the based offering for customers that
simply ought to have an easier and but powerful way to manage their storage.

A bigger set is the InfoScale Storage. InfoScale Storage premier cross platform host based storage
management information system solution. Basically what you would need to meet your software
defined storage needs. This includes dynamic multi-pathing ,dynamic multi-pathing for VMware, Storage
Foundation, Storage Foundation cluster for systems and Vertitas Volume Replicator.

InforScale Availability is the set of the apps to keep an organization information in critical business
servers up and running on Premise and across globally dispersed data centers. It includes Veritas Cluster
servers and High Availability Disaster Recovery. It has that way to provide either resiliency to local or site
failure without using Veritas Replication.

And then InfoScale Enterprise at the end is our full application availability as software defined offering. It
includes the InfoScale Storage sets plus a few more module to optimize the Storage Management for
databases and to deploy performing in the high level storage available in Cloud and in Virtualize
environment.

Finally Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager is the graphical management tool that helps you extract
maximum value from your investment in InfoScale products
In this training we will discuss about InfoScale Enterprise mainly talking about the modules not covered
in the InfoScale Storage and InfoScale availability training.
Before we further with technical information, we will discuss about the customer business challenges
Trends

The Data Centers seems to be in a constant state of transformation. IT managers are thinking to
technologies like Cloud and the Virtualization to reduce costs and risks and improve service level and
this is changing how we think about the traditional data centers. These technologies are solving
problems; however, they are also introducing new challenges.

Challenges

IT Organisations are faced with managing more and more data that is dispersed across different virtual
and physical operating systems storage platform. And now we are seeing data moving to the Cloud too.

Another challenge is the agility to consume new technologies such as Solid State devices or managing
the movement from one operating systems to another without imparting availability of the application
or the data or the capability to move from one storage technology to another without disruption.

Finally with more critical applications to manage exploding data and the desire to move to the Cloud.
How is IT able to predict trend of service levels that are required that are required by the business.

Sure we can recover but when, Will it be in time, Will the disruption have an impact on the business that
it supports.
The key challenge we see IT professionals dealing with, when it comes to data center management
include requirements that data be available on a persistent and reliable basis.

That the storage furniture to an application meets the performance and redundancy needs for the
business and the need to deal with diverse infrastructure from the vendor and protocols and not to
mention application need perspectives.
While many organization are looking into Cloud to help them reduce cost other large enterprise
organizations are keeping their most mission critical applications in house.

InfoScale Enterprise can help customers managed their data and applications both on Premise with
Physical and Virtual Environments and in Cloud maintaining in both cases High level of Data availability
and performance at the right costs.

InfoScale Enterprise is an availability solution for Veritas Enterprise Data service Platform that provide
software defined infrastructure and management services to power your mission critical applications
Business Continuity

InfoScale Enterprise facilitates Business Continuity by allowing OS, Apps and Virtualization independent
High Availability. In the most of the cases this means elimination of the downtime that guarantees the
perfect recovery point and recovery time objectives based on the value of the business
Optimization and Efficiency

It enables application optimization, efficiency, and maximized performance irrespective of how or where
the application is hosted
Infrastructure Agility

InfoScale Enterprise is completely infrastructure agnostic. It abstract the application from the underlying
infrastructure reducing the complexity and providing mission critical app availability across physical,
virtual or major Cloud Platforms ensuring flexibility to optimize availability according to cost and control
requirements and flexibility to migrate apps and data between any of its environments.
Business Continuity

Modern enterprises today need the several applications that often run on different operating systems
and on different environments. To optimize cost and space many environments are virtualized or they
are hosted in Cloud.

However the provision and management of many these application requires different tools and making
them highly available is a challenge that often brings to over provisioning.

Many application are not Cloud ready and this limits their portability and consequently their possibility
to make them highly available.

Don’t forget this reduce Implementation and Test capabilities too.

How InfoScale Helps

InfoScale Enterprise provides an effective abstraction layer that simplifies deployment management of
each applications independently by the platform and the storage utilized. InfoScale Enterprise is OS ,
App, Hypervisor Cloud and Storage agnostic making provision easier and safer. Failors of course occurs
but InfoScale fast failure detection minimizes downtime and the automated correction prevent the
unnecessary outages, minimizing the disruption factors

How Infoscale Helps

Infoscale Enterprise provides an effective abstraction layer that simplifies deployment and management
of each application independently by the platform and the storage utilized. Infoscale enterprise is OS,
Application, Hypervisor, cloud and storage agnostic making provision easier and faster. Inforscale fast
failure detection minimizes downtime and the automated correction prevent the unnecessary outages,
minimizing the disruption factors.

Benefits of Infoscale.

Infoscale Enterprise have single Solution for all the applications and infrastructure. Recovery point (RPO)
and recovery time objective are tailorable based on the value of business to protect.

Rehearsals and fire drills are essential best practices to maintain optimum level of availability and most
of the changes on today infrastructures can be done without stopping the applications independently
from their deployment on premises, in virtual environments or in cloud.
Storage Optimization and Efficiency

Taking about storage with the growth in business modern companies require periodical upgrades of
their hardware and new system that replace obsolete and legacy environment. To increase the
performances IT administrators choose to adopt new storage technologies more performing and reliable
and in many cases optimization of storage lay out and tunable is reached after several attempts of live
systems and every different storage and infrastructure often requires different management tool and
different maintenance utilities. All create the over provisioning, the creation of storage SILOS to
maintain different types of data. Inconsistent management and tuning methods and of cause increase
of cost and the complexity of the entire infrastructure.
Infoscale Enterprise provides many features and functionalities to resolve all these problems and the
administrator can implement the storage tiering using local storage and cloud storage and take
advantage of the increase of performance offered by Smart IO support with both on premise and cloud
storage.

Flexible storage sharing and any application and storage have further to increase performance and to
reduce the cost maximizing the optimization.

Through the single performance Management Framework Infoscale all the monitoring and tiering of the
entire infrastructure.
Infrastructure Agility

As discuss trying to meet yet infrastructure closed with storage requirements and computing resources,
many companies choose to migrate application to Cloud without the facility software offered by
InfoScale Enterprise this often consist of in the lift and shift from on premise to Cloud resources.
However many applications need some structural changes to be moved to Cloud. In other cases
companies adopt virtualization instead of Cloud but this requires the utilization of specific Hypervisors to
configure high availability in virtualized environments.

In addition, migration to Cloud or to virtualized environment require the adoption of migration tools and
utilities that are developed but for specific applications making every migration complex and risky.

Of course all this generates a long learning curve and an increase cost of the new infrastructures.

High availability when implemented is provided by cloud or hypervisor and this brings complexity and
inconsistent methods
InfoScale Enterprise instead offers complete application and data portability supporting migration from

 On Premise to On Premise
 On Premise to virtual environment
 On Premise to Cloud
 Virtual Environment to Cloud

And providing disaster recovery and High availability for Containers. Thanks to InfoScale Enterprise the
durability of the application is increased and migration to new infrastructure is simplified with the
Unified Migration Framework
Let’s discuss now of the benefits that InfoScale Enterprise offers
As discussed already InfoScale Enterprise supports all in the three leading operating systems and
hypervisors with the added benefit of Cloud platforms as well. Our storage management layer extends
beyond SAN Storage to include local flash, SSD and DAS with the recent inclusion of cloud S3 Targets.
Simply put InfoScale represents the software defined infrastructure solution for their hydrid and multi
cloud data centers.
Hybrid Cluster Topologies

Since its inception InfoScale has been providing a multitude of High Availability and disaster recovery
topology options each providing a unique value depending on a number of factors most commonly
being your preferred method of replication, recovery time and or recovery point objectives. The basic
local HA architecture continues to support and multitude of mission critical workloads with having now
being adapted for use in the public cloud.

The Stretch or Metro or replicated data cluster model has grown in popularity over the years and it
affords users a combinations of HA and DR without have to re-architect any of your applications or
services. Stricter RPO and RTO expectations also have given rise to a greater number of this cluster
types. The public cloud is no exceptions as providing resiliency between availability zones is an
important consideration.
The standard are two sites DR configurations represents our most commonly deployed geographically
dispersed model allowing for application recovery across unlimited distance. It is important to
understand that it is in this model we are provided with the scenary benefits for opting for the cloud
bursting use case as opposed to only DR Targets.

Supporting customer’s Journey to Cloud

InforScale Enterprise is completely platform agnostic. It offers high performance optimisation High
Availability and Infrastructure agility indifferently in on premise data center and virtualize environment
and in Cloud too.

Now imaging a Cloud infrastructure where performance and scale using FSS and smart IO.

The data migration from on Premise to Cloud is simplified using Veritas volume replicator.
High availability and protection from disasters are guaranteed across regions of the same cloud provider
and across different providers too using global cluster and Veritas Volume Replicator.
Your infrastructure will be less locked to Datacenters and Cloud Providers, less risky, less complex, less
limited Capabilities and less expensive.
Benefits of Containers

Containers are becoming more and more popular with several companies adopting this technology to
build ship and distribute applications quicker. Containers are fasters and less resource heavy than virtual
machines as along the user is deploying a single platform sharing the operating systems.

Launching containers in seconds in comparison to minutes taken by virtual machines is a testimony to

containers performance. With more new developments going into productions with docker containers
and with the inclusion of multi-tier application in those architectures there is an eminent need to align
the agility provided by docker with enterprise storage management capabilities. InfoScale Enterprise
provides the agility needed by virtualizing the storage across the entire cluster using direct data storage.

Lets have a look at some capabilities offered by InfoScale Enterprise for Containers.
Persistent Storage Management

Persistent storage management and for those stateful containers where persistent data is needed.
Veritas InfoScale enterprise makes the volumes persistent and accessible across any server within the
cluster. Container management solution like Acuber Mates can now run their containers on any node
knowing that the persist storage will be always available.
Scale Out

Scale out solution, cost reduction is the key element and the drive solution optimization. Veritas
InfoScale Enterprise allows the usage of server sides storage adding more computed storage as needed
by using commodity servers with the local storage The acquisition costs can be reduced and scale out
solution provides the much needed agility to reduce the operational expenses.
Snapshots

Any volume provided to the containers can be snapshotted at any time and those can be copies can be
used by any other containers running in any other node within the cluster. This provides great flexibility
from the storage sides that perfectly complements the docker value proposition.
I/O Acceleration

I/O Acceleration what are the containers may need the same amount of IO and not all of them may
reside on the same kind of storage. Veritas InfoScale Enterprise can dynamically allocate and move
storage across different storage types or even cash specific containers data on SSD which bring the data
closer to the CPU thereby achieving maximum performance.
Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery data can be replicated to disaster recovery sites using traditional networks at the
application level as well as the container persistent data volume level. InfoScale Enterprise makes sure
there is no data loss upon a site failure ensuring business continuity.