20120824 RL BR HP Integrated Data Protection VMware Web

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IntegratedData Protectionfor VMwareinfrastructureFast, ecient, and reliable protection for

mission-critical information in vSphere

and vCloud Director



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Table of contents

3 Executive summary

3 Data Protection challenges in increasingly virtualized data centers

3 HP Data Protector: simplifying backup and recovery through advanced integration

3 Maximize backup eciency with HP StoreOnce Federated deduplication

4 Eliminate existing protection gaps with one-touch protection

4 Instant recovery through array-based snapshot protection

5 Granular recovery extension for VMware

5 Enabling data protection in vCloud Director environments

6 Conclusion



Executive summaryToday’s organizations are embracing virtual and cloud infrastructure

as new models for the ecient delivery of IT services. These new

approaches help IT eciently meet the accelerated demands of

their business. However, additional challenges are emerging in

how to ensure the right protection of data and applications inthese environments. IT organizations are nding it dicult to meet

stringent business SLAs for mission-critical data recovery in virtual

data center environments. HP Data Protector, an enterprise-class

backup and recovery solution, helps organizations meet these

challenges with fully-automated, policy-based protection for

VMware based cloud environments.

Data protection challenges inincreasingly virtualized data centersWith over 50 percent of workloads now deployed in virtualized

infrastructure, IT organizations are increasingly leveraging mission

critical applications in these virtual environments to maximizeresource utilization and reduce overall cost of operations. VMware,

the leading vendor in virtualization, oers advanced tools to

manage, monitor, and maintain virtual server environments as

the typical IT operation grows in size and complexity. The success

of virtualization is the basis of a new model for the delivery of

IT services— infrastructure-as-a -service (IaaS). In addition to

the standardization that comes with virtualization, IaaS enables

workload provisioning and consumption in a matter of minutes.

While these new deployment models enable IT to meet the

accelerated demands of business users, the typical backup

and recovery challenges are even more pronounced in these

environments and must be addressed. These challenges exist mainly

around the impact of backup and recovery processes on productionenvironments. In additional to these traditional challenges, a

large virtual environment can have thousands of virtual machines

running the same operating system (e.g., Microsoft® Windows or

Linux). The duplication of information within virtualized data stores

drives enormous consumption of backup storage resources and

associated capital expenditures. Additionally, virtual data centers

are inherently dynamic; there is always a r isk that not all mission

critical information is adequately protected—a result of backupadministrators being unaware of all the changes occurr ing in these

environments.

HP Data Protector: Simplifying backupand recovery through advancedintegrationThe potential growth in deployment of virtualization in data

centers puts data protection at center stage as a key challenge.

HP Data Protector, the agship enterprise on-premise backup and

recovery software, addresses the challenges of enterprise class

data protection in virtual environments. HP Data Protector fullyintegrates with VADP (VMware API for Data Protection), empowering

you to easily deploy and execute advanced backup and recovery

processes for your virtual environments. Advanced snapshot

functionality provides zero impact protection of mission-critical

applications to meet even the most demanding business SLAs.

Powered by HP StoreOnce, HP Data Protector oers federated

deduplication that maximizes storage eciency and recovery

performance in virtualized environments across premise-based and

cloud infrastructure.

Maximize backup efciency with HP StoreOnce Federateddeduplication

Powered by the industry’s most powerful deduplication technology,

HP StoreOnce, HP Data Protector delivers high-performance andresource-ecient data protection that improves storage util ization

Figure 1: HP StoreOnce Federated Deduplication can be deployed anywhere – at an app lication source, a backupserver, or a target appliance such as StoreOnce Backup appliance B6200 o r HP Data Protector software store



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across the virtual data center while reducing the overall cost. The

combined HP Data Protector software and HP StoreOnce Backup

appliance solution enables federated deduplication, which gives

you the exibility of tri-location deduplication: at the application

source, backup server, or backup target device (See Figure 1). A

federated approach to deduplication supports the compelling notion

that your organization should only have to deduplicate informationonce—and to do so eciently. Integration with HP StoreOnce

Catalyst interface enables HP Data Protector to centrally manage

low-bandwidth data replication across multiple virtual data centers

for disaster recovery.

Typical virtual data centers have hundreds of virtual machines, and

many are based on similar VM templates. This scenario creates very

high levels of redundant information across virtual machines. HP

StoreOnce utilizes innovative and powerful techniques to minimize

the amount of information stored in the backup target, and this

capability reduces the cost of storage in virtual data centers.

Additionally, because HP StoreOnce is application-agnostic, it

provides deduplication support for a wide array of mission-critical

applications.

Eliminate existing protection gaps with one-touchprotection

HP Data Protector software automates the protection of VMware

environments via its one-touch backup policy conguration. VMware

administrators can easily add, create, or change their virtual data

centers to suit the needs of a dynamic enterprise environment.

However, they often fail to communicate these changes to

the backup administrator, leaving vSphere or vCloud Director

environments unprotected. HP Data Protector addresses this issue:

one click allows you to select the entire virtual environment and

automatically identify and apply your backup policies to new virtual

machines as they come online or failover (See Figure 2).

In addition, Data Protector can be congured to automatically tune

backup performance for vSphere and vCloud Direc tor by determining

the most ecient way to back up data. Data Protector provides a

variety of one-touch options that allow the backup administrator totune their backup conguration policy to suit individual performance

and availability needs. This capability guarantees that when new

virtual machines or vApps are created, they will be immediately

added to a protection policy, which means no virtual server goes

unprotected.

Instant recovery through array-based snapshot protection

HP Data Protector simplies application protection in both physical

and virtual environments through its integrated application

extensions, Zero Downtime Backup, and Instant Recovery. Through a

single, highly-ecient application agent, HP Data Protector provides

down-to-the-second recovery for all mission critical applications,

including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL server, Microsoft

SharePoint, Oracle, and SAP. Zero Downtime Backup allows you totake advantage of array-based snapshots to back up the virtual

environment at any time with zero impact to the production

environment. In VMware environments, all supported applications

running in a VM can be protected as frequently as required, because

all backups are processed by the storage array. HP Data Protector

maintains snapshots on the disk array for use by HP Data Protector

Instant Recovery, which allows you to stage application-consistent

snapshots and recover data and applications in seconds—

automating the entire process to meet even the most demanding

recovery time objectives.

Figure 2: One click allows you to select the entire virtual environment and automatically

identify and apply your backup p olicies to new virtual machines as t hey come online or failover



HP Data Protector provides snapshot support for both HP and non-

HP arrays, including the HP StorageWorks P2000, P4000, EVA, and

P3000, HP 3PAR, EMC CLARiiON, EMC Symmetrix DMX, and Network

Appliance.

Granular Recovery Extension for VMware

HP Data Protector Granular Recovery Extension (GRE) promotes self-service recovery by empowering VMware administrators to recover

single items without burdening the backup administrator. VMware

administrators can manage their own recovery requests, eliminating

the need for a backup administrator or helpdesk support person

to assist in recovering single items (for example single les within

a virtual disk le or VMDK le) in their vSphere environment. The

GRE for VMware enables VMware administrators to recover single

les, directories, and VMs directly from the vSphere console without

requiring any access or knowledge about HP Data Protector (See

Figure 3); the vSphere administrator merely needs rights granted to

restore their VMs. Data Protector GRE capability helps improve end-

user productivity by enabling IT to meet recovery SLAs in VMware

environments without increasing cost.

Enabling data protection in vCloudDirector environmentsHP Data Protector delivers fully automated, policy-based protection

for a spectrum of congurations within VMware vCloud Director

environments, enabling service providers to oer exible protection

options within a single multitenant cloud environment (See Figure

4). With one-touch protection, you can eliminate existing protection

gaps and reduce the risk of data loss exposure as business critical

backup policies are automatically applied to new virtual machines

and vApps within a highly dynamic virtual data center. This capability

simplies IT management responsibilities by eliminating the need

for continuous monitoring and tracking. Additionally, organizations

can maximize storage eciency for VM backup by leveraging

HP Data Protectors ability to deduplicate data anywhere—at

the application source, backup server, or target appliance—and

centrally manage the deduplicated data movement across the

enterprise for disaster recovery.

From a VMware administrator perspective, this integration provides

the ability to browse the vCloud Director setup and conguration

within the HP Data Protector management interface. This enables

organizations that have a more complex environment, perhaps with

multiple vCenter servers, to manage protection across management

instances.

Figure 3: Application Admin recovery of single items. Data Protecto r supports this for

VMware, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft E xchange 2010

Figure 4: Integrated, policy-driven protection for vCloud Director environment



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ConclusionWe are moving into the next phase of data center modernization

where organizations are embracing infrastructure-as-a-service as

a new model to deliver IT as a service to business users. VMware

technologies such as vCloud Director are the leading solutions in

this space.

Organizations that are embracing data center virtualization

aggressively can now leverage HP Data Protector, the industry’s

most advanced backup solution, to guard against data loss or

corruption and deliver automated, intelligent protection that

addresses the dynamic nature of VM and vApp provisioning with

vCloud Director.

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