Enabling Fast Recovery of Your Virtual

Environments:

NetBackup, Backup Exec & VCS for

VMware

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Agenda

NetBackup 6.5 for VMWare2

Backup Exec & Backup Exec System Recovery for VMWare3

Veritas Cluster Server for VMWare4

Symantec and Virtualization1

3

Symantec and Virtualization

Storage &

Server Mgmt

Data

ProtectionSecurity &

Compliance

Disaster

Recovery

• Storage Virtualization

• Server Virtualization

• Endpoint Virtualization

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NetBackup 6.5 for

VMWare

Not all VMs are Created Equal

Mission-Critical

VMs

• Unique Server Image

• Large data sets

• SAN/NAS attached

• App integration

Departmental

Application VMs

• Unique Server Image

• Outside datacenter

• Local storage

File/Print

VMs

• Standard image

• Large data sets

• Granular recovery

important

Commodity

Server VMs

• Standard image

• Less-important data

• Best-efforts recovery

is sufficient

Remote Office

VMs

• Geo dispersion

• Some critical apps

• Granular restores

Typical Virtual Machine Types:

Protection and Recovery Considerations:

• Backup: client or off-host

• Storage: direct-attached or SAN/NAS

• Protection: data or VM + data

• Location: static or “mobile” VMs

• Recovery: VM, files, application, all

• DR: local or remote recovery

• Vaulting: replication or tape shipping

VMware

Granular

Recovery

Backup Server & Storage

VM

— or —

object

Auto-Discovery and

Flexible Recovery

ESX Server

Backup Server

& Storage

VM Discovery viaVirtual Center

Automated Restorevia VMware Converter

ESX Server

Deduplication

ESX Server

DD D

A

Replication

Datacenter

VaultBackup Server

& Storage

ESX Server

C C

A

C

Deduplication

Client-Based Backup

ESX Server

DD D

A

VMware VCB

Off-Host Backup

ESX Server

A

Backup Server

& Storage

Shared

Storage

Introducing NetBackup for VMware

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NetBackup for

Flexible Virtual Machine protection methods….

…coupled with unique enabling technologies

6.5.2 VMware

Incrementals

VM Protection Approaches

VM Client-Based Data Backup (Normal Backup Client or Deduplication Client)

ESX Server

Client and Application Agent

Inside VM

C C

A

Backup Server

and Storage

C

Simple

Leverages DB agents

High overhead with normal client

Low overhead with dedupe client

Off-Host Backup via VMware VCB (Data, or Data + VMDK)

ESX Server

A

Backup Server

and Storage

Shared

Storage

Low overhead on ESX Server

Auto-discovery and configuration

Flexible recovery options

Individual file and/or VMDK options

Requires SAN infrastructure–

CA Application Agent Client

Protecting the Virtualized Enterprise

With NetBackup for VMware

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Mission-Critical

VMs

Departmental

Application VMs

File/Print

VMs

Commodity

Server VMs

Remote Office

VMs

Datacenter

Backup Infrastructure

Backup Proxy

Media Servers

Core VMware Cluster

Remote

Offices

Vault /

DR Site

VCB

Backup

Standard

Client

Backup

Dedupe

Client

Backup

Dedupe

Client Backup

w Replication

Backup Image

Replication

VMware Granular

Recovery

PureDisk

Deep Dive: Core VMware SAN Cluster

Backup with NetBackup and VCB

Datacenter

Core VMware Cluster

Backup Infrastructure

Backup Proxy

Media ServersPureDisk

or VTL or tape

VMware

Proxy

VMware

Proxy

VMware SAN

Storage

Features:

• Full integration w/ VMware VCB for

off-host backup (no scripts!)

• VM auto-discovery and configuration

• Single-pass backup with granular

recovery: recover VMs or files!

• Optional media server-based

deduplication with PureDisk

Requirements:

• Requires shared SAN storage

• Windows media servers

• App/DB agent support in 6.5.4

VCB

Deep Dive: VCB and Granular Recovery

File Recovery

Image Recovery

VMDK

VMware ESX VMware ESX

NetBackup

Media

Server

Primary

Shared StorageBackup Storage

VMDK

VMDK

VMDK

VMDK

VMDK

VMDK

VMware

Proxy

Driver

NetBackup

Enterprise Client

PureDisk

Plug-in

NetBackup

Media

Server

VMware

Proxy

Driver

NetBackup

Enterprise Client

PureDisk

Plug-in

VMware ESXVMware ESX

Backup

Disk

TapePureDisk

1Backup policy alerts

NetBackup that it is time to

do a virtual machine backup

2NetBackup instructs

VMware to snapshot the

virtual machine

3The new VMDK snapshot is

mounted to the NetBackup

Server via the proxy driver

4Backup is then performed to

any NetBackup storage

device (disk, tape, PureDisk)

5The VMDK snapshot is

deleted

6The backup image is then

mapped for file-level

recovery

VMDKVMDK

7Virtual Machines can then be

restored from image

backups for DR

8Or, single files can be

recovered to any location

VMDK

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Backup Exec 12.5

& Backup Exec 8.5

for VMWare

Backup Exec 12.5: NEW Comprehensive Data

Protection for VMware

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Easily restore an entire

guest machine…

Fast Recovery

Backup Exec 12.5 & Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5

Backup Exec 12.5: NEW Comprehensive Data

Protection for VMware

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…and granular files or

folders from a single

image-level backup

Fast Recovery

Backup Exec 12.5 & Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5

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Physical System

Conversion Process

1Take

Recovery

Point

2Convert (P2V)

Recovery

Point to Virtual

3Load System

In a Virtual

Environment

4Use in Production

Or for Test

Purposes

5Convert Back

To Physical

If Desired (V2P)

Powerful P2V and V2P Conversion

VMware

Supports:

VMware ESX Server

VMware Server

VMware Workstation

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Veritas Cluster

Server for VMWare

Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)

• World’s #1 Multi-platform High Availability Solution

– Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, VMware

– Mixed physical and virtual environments

– Proven protection for production applications (10+ year track record)

• Provides rich application awareness and automation

– Out-of the box support for major apps like Oracle, SAP, Exchange

– Fast deployment, easy upkeep

• Protects from local, metropolitan, and regional outages

– Tight HA/DR integration with major data replication vendors

• Single pane-of-glass control across clustering environment

– Centralized management and reporting

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Hardware

VMware ESX Server Console OS

Veritas Cluster Server

App Agent

App1

VirtualMachine1

App3

VirtualMachine3

App Agent

App2

VirtualMachine2

Hardware

VMware ESXServer Console OS

VCS

Local

Cluster

Heartbeat

Shared

Storage

Global

Cluster

Heartbeat

Primary Site

ESX Server Node A

Secondary Site

ESX Server Node C

Hardware

VMware ESX ServerConsole OS

VCS

No TargetVirtual

MachinesRequired

Primary Site

ESX Server Node B

DR Agent DR Agent

Hardware-Based

Data Replication

VCS in Action

No TargetVirtual

MachinesRequired

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Hardware

VMware ESX Server Console OS

Veritas Cluster Server

App Agent

App1

VirtualMachine1

App3

VirtualMachine3

App Agent

App2

VirtualMachine2

Hardware

VMware ESXServer Console OS

VCS

Local

Cluster

Heartbeat

Shared

Storage

Global

Cluster

Heartbeat

Primary Site

ESX Server Node A

Secondary Site

ESX Server Node C

Hardware

VMware ESX ServerConsole OS

VCS

No TargetVirtual

MachinesRequired

Primary Site

ESX Server Node B

DR Agent

App3

VirtualMachine3

DR Agent

Hardware-Based

Data Replication

VCS in Action

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Hardware

VMware ESX Console OS

Veritas Cluster Server

App Agent

App1

VirtualMachine1

App3

VirtualMachine3

App Agent

App2

VirtualMachine2

Hardware

VMware ESXConsole OS

VCS

No TargetVirtual

MachinesRequired

Local

Cluster

Heartbeat

Shared

Storage

Global

Cluster

Heartbeat

Primary Site

ESX Node A

Secondary Site

ESX Node C

Hardware

VMware ESXConsole OS

VCS

No TargetVirtual

MachinesRequired

Primary Site

ESX Node B

App Agent

App1

VirtualMachine1

App Agent

App2

VirtualMachine2

DR Agent DR Agent

Hardware-Based

Data Replication

VCS in Action

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VCS FireDrill Allows Frequent Zero

Downtime Testing of DR Plans

VCSProd SG

Primary Site Secondary Site

Prod SG

Storage Snapshot

Initiate Fire DrillMount Snapshot

Array

replication

Launch VM & applicationReset

VCS for VMware Platform Support

• Supports Virtual Infrastructure 3.0,3.0.1 & 3.0.2,3.5

• Guest O/S support

– RHEL version 4 w/update3 (32 and 64 bit versions)

– SLES version 9 with SP3 (32 and 64 bit versions)

– SLES 10 with SP1 (32 and 64 bit versions)

– Windows 2003 Standard or Enterprise with SP1 (32 bit and 64 bit versions)

– Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server w/Sp4

– Windows Server 2008

– Solaris 10 (x86)

• Replication support

– Hitachi TrueCopy

– Hitachi Universal Replicator

– EMC Clariion MIrrorView

– EMC SRDF

– IBM MetroMirror

VCS for VMware Application Support

Application support

– Oracle 10g on Linux

– SAP on Linux

– Exchange 2003, 2007 on Windows

– Microsoft SQLServer 2000 & 2005 on Windows

– WebSphere on Windows

– Microsoft IIS on Windows

– Apache 1.2, 2.0 and 2.2 on Linux

– IBM HTTP Server 1.3 and 2.0 on Linux

– WebLogic on Linux

– SharePoint on Windows

– Generic Application Agent & custom agent framework available for custom applications

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