The document discusses Collax's high availability solutions for small and medium businesses. It introduces the Collax V-Family products that allow users to create unbreakable server clusters with features like virtualization, high availability, and shared storage. The solutions make high availability affordable and simple to implement for SMBs by automating failover and eliminating the need for expensive dedicated hardware.

1. High Availability for the SMBs Boris Nalbach Chief Technical Officer

2. Collax Introduction Storage Archiving IT-Management / Monitoring Databases Web- and Application-Server Software Development Kit Appliances Network Communication Security Virtualization / High-Availability Compliance Green-IT Backup / Restore The power of Open Source with unachieved ease-of-use Enterprise Technology powerful, secure, cost efficient, simple Ready to use Ease of installation, configuration, maintenance, lifecycle mgmt We focus on SMBs and Distributed Branch Offices Server à la carte:

3. Collaboration is the Centre of a Business E-Mail and Collaboration form the backbone of a business What would happen if this system went down? Business virtually stops Loss of revenue Loss of image What can be done to prevent this from happening: For large enterprise: High Availability and Clustering High Cost €€€€€ Spare Hot-Standby Machines Waste of good equipment €€€€€ For a smaller business: Is there a solution????? Maybe Collax has a solution…

4. What is the challenge? Availability MTTF: mean time to failure MTTR: mean time to repair MTTF A = MTTF + MTTR

5. Collax High Availability Collax has always built server solutions small & medium businesses We identified the need for server solutions that can not go down And responded by building a full Cluster and High Availability solution specifically for small businesses Collax makes it easy to turn any server solution into an Unbreakable Server Let’s see how this came about…

6. High Availability for Smaller Businesses Traditionally High Availability has been seen as: Expensive Complicated Hard to manage For the Larger Enterprise only Needs application support Collax brings High Availability to the Small & Medium Businesses Inexpensive Simple to install, configure and manage Simple to migrate Two benefits in one: Solid virtualization Reliable High Availability Highly Available Zarafa Server with ease

7. Collax V-Family Collax V-Cube KVM Hypervisor 64bit leading 3rd generation virtualization technology Core-4 virtualization Collax Inter-V Combine multiple Hypervisors to a Cluster Collax V-Store Most economical highly-available Shared Storage Turns your Zarafa server into an unbreakable solution simply!

8. Collax V-Family Technology … … Cluster Communication / Messaging Collax Platform Server – 64bit Stonith Cluster Resource Mgmt Daemon Cluster Information Base Local Resource Mgmt Daemon Policy Engine Collax Integration Framework & GUI Resource Agents Hypervisor - KVM VM VM VM VM Clustered Logical Volume Mgmt Resource Agents Embedded SAN Cluster Networking Cluster FS Virt BD Virt BD A sample of Open Source components used by V-Family Linux ;-) KVM Qemu libvirt Pacemaker OpenAIS Corosync OCFS2 DRBD DLM

9. How to… Collax Virtual Node First Build a Collaboration Node Choose appropriate Hardware Install the V-Family Create, from a template, a Collax Platform Server Virtual Machine Plug in the Zarafa module Enhance the Virtual server as required with other plug-in modules Hardware Super Efficient Virtualization Dynamic allocation of disk, memory… Monitoring, Alerting etc. Additional Server Functions Zarafa Archive + Mobile + Backup + Fax/SMS… Business Scalable Solid Function Rich Foundation Grow with demand Portable/Independent

10. How to… Collax High Availability Create Second Node: Choose appropriate Hardware Install the V-Family No need to install Zarafa again! Add High Availability module to Nodes Collax Inter-V provides the ability to failover Hardware Super Efficient Virtualization High Availability & Storage Modules Additional Server Functions Super Efficient Virtualization High Availability & Storage Modules Hardware Additional Server Functions Zarafa Archive + Mobile + Backup … Additional Server Functions Super Efficient Virtualization Dynamic allocation of disk, memory… Monitoring, Alerting etc. Hardware Additional Server Functions Zarafa Archive + Mobile + Backup + Fax/SMS…

11. How to… Collax High Availability For HA to work we need Shared Storage Typically implemented by a SAN Should be HA as well, to avoid single-point-of-failure $$$$$$$, big time! Or …. Hardware Super Efficient Virtualization High Availability & Storage Modules Additional Server Functions Super Efficient Virtualization High Availability & Storage Modules Hardware Additional Server Functions Zarafa Archive + Mobile + Backup … Additional Server Functions

12. Collax V-Store – HA SAN Collax V-Store is a High-Availability Shared Storage device based on Embedded SAN technology designed to fulfil the SAN requirements of a HA solution designed to be economical both in price and hardware use

13. Collax V-Store – HA SAN Embedded SAN High Availability “ Virtual Raid-1” High Performance Replication of Virtual storage between 2 Cluster nodes Integrated in the cluster framework and management Integrated in the Collax V-Cube storage virtualization Unified Storage (block device and file system) Uses commodity hardware components Transaction security Replaces the need for a HA SAN Exceptional TCO and ROI

14. Why Collax High Availability It is the most economical High Availability solution available It is simple to setup No customization – Zarafa out of a box All Plug-in structure – Click enhancements e.g. Archiving, Security, Backup etc. Migrate existing Zarafa Servers – P2V Tools Scalable by using 1 node for Zarafa, 1 node for MySQL Full Flexibility Automatic failover Manual Live-Migration of Virtual Machines for maintenance No downtime Full compliment of virtualization tools – local and remote Ultra efficient Virtualization platform

15. What was the challenge? Availability ? MTTF: mean time to failure MTTR: mean time to repair Availability ! What is the result? MTTF A = MTTF + MTTR 8760h A = = 0.999996 !! 8760h + 2min

16. What to know more? To discuss this topic more and see the product live, come see us at our booth outside How this can work for you Sales - Michael Woelm To discuss the technical implications of anything mentioned come talk to our CTO The products that can do this Boris Nalbach To talk about bits and bytes we also have one of our Product Managers Technical Talk Frank Fehrenbach If you do not have time Pick up a brochure or contact us www.collax.com

17. Thank you Contact: Collax GmbH Gutenbergstraße 1 85737 Ismaning P: +49 (0) 89-99 01 57-0 F: +49 (0) 89-99 01 57-11 [email_address] www.collax.com

19. Coffee Break Statement

20. Coffee Break Statement - Alternative Collax: Flexible Server Solutions for the SMB market Collax Servers let you: Be fast – by being simple to implement Be flexible – by letting you change your mind at any time Be economical – by efficiently using what you have Be dependable – by recovering automatically from outages Collax Servers for Infrastructure, High Availability and Collaboration

21. 2 Extra Slides

22. Collax Server Solutions – High Availability Collax V-Family Create an unbreakable server with ease Collax V-Cube Virtualization Server Full Virtualization for the SMB market Virtualize your existing Zarafa Server with ease Collax Inter-V High Availability add-on to a Collax V-Cube Automatic failover Dynamic Architecture Collax V-Store Complete HA SAN for Cluster solution HA SAN for a fraction of the cost No additional Hardware requirements .

23. Collax Server Solutions – All-in-One Collax Groupware Suite All-In-One Zarafa based Server with all the extras in a single installation: E-Mail server Fax/SMS Installer Full Infrastructure E-Mail Archive Security Collax Security Gateway Complete security solution that protects your whole company and optimises your network: Advanced Firewall Network Mgt Anti-Spam Firewall Matrix SSL VPN + Anti-Virus Internet Protection Remote Mgt Multi-WAN Collax Business Server Full Business infrastructure in one server install File Server E-Mail Server Firewall Internet Protection Anti-Spam Anti-Virus Network Management VPN (IPSec) Web Application Server .