RackWare RMM Primer

RackWare provides an intelligent Cloud Management Platform that extends across physical
and virtual environments. RackWare’s RMM software platform delivers a suite of intuitive and
automated services that provide IT resiliency and simplified migration to the cloud, while
reducing capital and operating expenses. RMM decouples the application stack from the
underlying platform allowing it to be ported to any new platform. RMM includes discovery,
analysis and automation features allowing all processes to be fast, easy and error-free.

RackWare is truly heterogeneous and agnostic supporting any combination of

physical and cloud locations, virtualized or bare metal deployments, cloud
stack and providers.

The RackWare RMM’s platform replication engine is image based and uses its own
proprietary replication and synchronization technology. This allows it to support all applications without
the complexity of understanding directory structures, deployment on the target side, and configuration
to run properly on the target side.

RMM architecture supports any origin environment and any target environment. RMM is not
dependent on any cloud services except APIs to provision VMs when performing autoprovisioning.
RMM delivers pervasive support for physical servers, any hypervisor technology, and consequently
any cloud technology.

RMM is a horizontal, low level solution that accommodates the lowest base of commonality, the OS
level. RMM is not dependent on sophisticated and complex services in target clouds and
environments. And those services don't necessarily have to match the origin side. While RMM is
compatible with and works in conjunction with various database log shipping technologies, it is not
dependent on it.

RMM has feature consistency regardless of the application or environment. Features include selective
sync, autoparking, dynamically provisioned Disaster Recover (optimizing cost), preprovisioned
Disaster Recovery (optimizing RTO), multiple recovery points (including backup use case), object
storage for lower cost storage and archiving, IP address management, and many more.

Patented “container” capture technology supports very complex

server/application environments as easily as simple ones all without any
application rewrites to accommodate divergent cloud stacks or
hypervisors.

RackWare employs a comprehensive proprietary replication technology

designed to work seamlessly with new technology including virtualization and
cloud. One major intent of Disaster Recovery Management technology is to
circumvent all the complexity and narrow silo support of traditional storage
based replication. RackWare delivers a superset of most vendors, solving both
the management burden of discover, planning, and monitoring as well as
ushering in a new, patented, replication technology.
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RMM is agentless and resides as a separate VM at the replication site.

RackWare only requires a single VM, with easily installed software on it, in the target environment.
Nothing need be deployed or installed in the origin environment. This single RMM deployment method
meets the requirements of most all applications. Some large applications with a high rate of change
and high RPO may choose to implement a RMM instance at both origin and target to manage rapid
synchronization.

RMM provides cost versus resiliency features by application with the ability to select file sync
frequency, failover provisioning options, right sizing of replicated workloads, along with policy
based automation improving IT efficiency and improved CAPEX and OPEX overhead.

RMM allows setting individual RPO and RTO for each workload with Dynamic and Pre-Provisioned
Sync. This ensures your most critical business applications are at the ready and comply with any
regulations required. Tier 2 applications that can tolerate longer RPO and RTO’s can be configured
to consume less bandwidth and cloud resources, reducing cost and overhead.

RMM is file based, which gives the ability to set granular level delta-only synchronization frequency of
different system components based on their rate of change, further reducing host resources and
optimizing WAN and cloud provider resources. RMM has a live test mode that provides real-time test
and validation of your DR site. This function ensures there will be no surprises and meets audit
requirements for compliance to regulations and SLAs. The test validation does not impact the Origin
site or users’ experience with the application.

RMM’s discovery mode provides intelligent rightsizing for replicated workloads so only
required cloud resources are provisioned eliminating extra cost of overprovisioned data center
workloads.

RMM’s powerful policy engine simplifies and automates workload discovery at origin mapping even
for the most complex database and clustered environments. At the replication site, it allocates
resources, initiates transfer and on-boarding with a 20:1 reduction in time. Once established it
maintains delta synchronization from the origin, initiates user’s failover during a fault event at origin,
and initiates fallback with the all-clear at the origin. After the fault event RMM does a spin-down and
park for the DR site resources saving unnecessary expenditure with your cloud provider.
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RMM extends the same Cloud Management functionality to support DevOps with autoscaling,
autoprovisioning, policy based spin-up/down of cloud resources, and predictive cost analysis
improving TCO across your IT environment.

RackWare helps Enterprises deliver value to their customers and remain competitive while controlling
expenses. RMM, with its automated policy engines, accelerates application development and enables
an easy path from test/development to production. It provides reporting of usage statistics and
predictive cost analysis enabling automatic metered billing and ensuring cost management.

RMM self-service portal improves access and service to application developers. Supporting highly
complex applications and environments, it delivers a high level of flexibility and granularity per
workload. It supplies provisioning and deployment models as well as golden images and templates
for intelligent infrastructure provisioning and development workflow automation tools.

RMM’s Administrative Controls have a duplicitous goal, providing developers enough freedom and
autonomy to work as they need while providing administrators the appropriate controls for security,
resource management and cost controls. Administrators manage role based access, setting policies
around user creation and read/write permissions to ensure protection of the Dev environment.

Setting resource pools, usage and resource limits, and intelligent triggers to scale up or down, park or
unpark with comprehensive monitoring helps control waisted or abused web resources.

RackWare’s Cloud Management Suite for the enterprise delivers viable, reliable, and
economical cloud computing. RackWare’s RMM enables cloud migration for all enterprise
applications without complex processes or application rewrites. RMM ensures improved
business and IT resiliency with cloud based recovery. It provides IT administrators and
developers a DevOps environment that is flexible, efficient, manageable, and secure with
accountability.

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while getting the highest performance and availability out of their cloud.
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