Go From Backup Pain to Gain Keys to Better Backup and Disaster Recovery in a Virtual World

Doug Hazelman, VP of Product Strategy, Veeam Software

Marc Crespi, VP of Product Management, ExaGrid

Jeff Zerwer, IT Lead, Fona International

The Challenges

51

87

$417,391

Percent of CIOs say recovery times from large-scale disaster are

growing with the number of business-critical servers in the enterprise

Cost savings per hour in case of outages for enterprises that deploy

server replication

Percent of IT pros say virtualized server backups do not meet or only

partially meet business goals for restores and recovery

Agenda

Barriers to virtualization ● Backup and restoration concerns among top barriers to virtualization penetration

Issues with traditional backup ● More VMware administrators choosing disk backup systems over tape

ExaGrid overview ● Disk-based backup with deduplication

Veeam Backup & Replication ● Fully leverage your virtualized environment

Integrated solution ● Use Veeam Backup & Replication with ExaGrid’s disk backup for optimal results

Challenges of Server Virtualization

Monitor, manage backups on growing # of VMs

Issues when managing multiple guest OS’s ● More data to store = each change means entire vmdk file is backed up

● Eg: 10 guest OS instances x 50GB = backing up 500GB of virtual images daily

Lack ability to see down to individual VMs

Determine how backups are running and adjust if problems

These challenges are driving a need for better tools

to reliably and easily back up and restore virtual machines

The Backup and Recovery Problem

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VMware

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The Backup and Recovery Problem

Backup

Server

Offsite Tapes

Tape Library

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Email

servers

Database

servers

File

servers

VMware

servers

App.

servers

Slow backups

Long restores/recovery times

Tape failures, management burden

Slow, unreliable offsite DR

Challenging virtual backup & recovery

Most Significant Backup, Recovery Challenges

Source: CIO Pulse Survey: (May 2012): 1269 IT professionals

43%

43%

43%

48%

48%

51%

54%

Lack of smooth scalability as data grows, andassociated costs

Obsolescence of backup systems as data grows

Movement to virtualized servers putting pressure onVM backup and recovery

Total cost of ownership (TCO) of backup solutions

Long restore/recovery times

Growing business requirements for more reliable,efficient disaster recovery

Long backup windows - backups taking too long

Extremely/very challenging

Time to Resume Operations After an Incident

Less than 1 hour 16%

1-3 hours 37%

4-10 hours 29%

11-24 hours 10%

1-3 days 6%

More than 3 days 2%

Average of 7 Hours

Disk Backup with Deduplication. What if you had…

20:1 to 100:1 reduction in backup storage

50-90% faster backup times

<5 minutes to restore a VM or file

98% reduction in replication bandwidth

0 forklift upgrades or models obsoleted

Fast, efficient offsite disaster recovery

Reliability, elimination of backup failures

Investment protection as data grows

Backup Window and Recovery Problems…

The only disk backup with

deduplication that permanently

protects your budget

Up-front price comparable to tape, and protection over time by

avoiding costly forklift upgrades

• Permanently shorten your backup

window as data grows

• Instantly recover VMs and files

• Protect your IT budget over time

ExaGrid and Veeam Solution

Core Components: ● Backup storage - ExaGrid disk backup appliance

● Management - Veeam Backup & Replication

What’s Unique: ● Restore a VM in seconds to minutes

● Confirm 100% restorability of critical apps

Key Benefits: ● Reliable backup and restoration

● Advanced deduplication and data replication for

off-site protection

Implementation – Simple and Flexible

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RMAN, TAR

Email Servers Database Servers File Servers VMware Servers App. Servers

Backup

Server

ExaGrid Primary

Backup Site

SAN Storage

DAS Storage

Remote Offices

NAS Storage

MAN/WAN

Offsite Tapes

Tape Library

Gigabit/10 Gigabit

Ethernet

Optional Remote or

DR Site ExaGrid MAN/WAN

ExaGrid’s Advantage Over Conventional Disk

Number of Backup Jobs

Capacity used by conventional

disk backup product

TB

Stored

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Storage

Savings

50

40

30

20

10

50 TB of backup data Stored in 3.5 TB with deduplication

Conventional Disk

3-10X faster than tape

● Backup directly to disk

● Unique landing zone architecture

● Post-process zone-level data deduplication

● Shortest possible backup window

● Most reliable backups and restores

Post-Process Provides Fastest Backups

ExaGrid

Tape

Media

Server

Shortest Backup Window

Long Backup

Window

Architected for Fastest Restore

Latest backup stored in complete form

Ready for instant restore—as fast as minutes

Instant VM Recovery

Supports SureBackup

Efficient restore of earlier versions

Optimized recovery of deduplicated data

Seamless to backup application

Can restore from any historical version

Deduplicated

Data and

Long-term

Retention

Latest

backup

retained

for fast

restores

ExaGrid

Post-Processing

Media

Server

Inline

Solutions

Landing Zone

Repository

10TB

Most recent backup

2:1 Compression

High speed cache.

Most recent backup in

complete form for

Instant VM Recovery

5 TB

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5 TB

Tiny byte-level deltas

for history

10TB

500 GB

10TB

5 TB

10 TB

Intact VMs for

InstantRestoreTM

5 TB

200 GB 200 GB 200 GB 200 GB

50TB backed up to

5.8 TB repository

space

Backup 1

Backup 2

Backup 3

Backup 4

Backup 5

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10 TB

10 TB

10 TB

10 TB

5.8 TB

ExaGrid

Only ExaGrid Delivers Restores in Minutes

Only ExaGrid Delivers Restores in Minutes

Only ExaGrid Delivers SureBackups in Minutes

See It in Action: ExaGrid vs. Other Appliances

Scalability to Support Data Growth

ExaGrid ● Capacities: 1TB-130TB in

single GRID

● Upgrade: Pay as you grow,

not up front; no forklift

upgrades

● Grown in cost-effective

increments

Single controller ● Forklift upgrades from

model to model

● Capacity and performance

limited by model

□ Low-risk easy integration with existing processes

□ Shortest backup times (30-90% faster than tape)

□ Unique support for Instant VM Recovery and

SureBackup

□ Most scalable architecture to support data growth

□ WAN-efficient elimination of offsite tape: “Instant DR”

□ Most comprehensive management and reporting

□ Built-in redundancy with simple automated operation

ExaGrid Appliance: Disk at the Cost of Tape

Easy to use, plug-and-play disk backup and dedupe appliances

1 TB 5 TB

2 TB 7 TB

3 TB 10 TB

4 TB 13 TB

Scalable from 1-130 TB

in a single GRID

Systems:

The Veeam and ExaGrid Solution

SQL Dumps

RMAN, TAR

Email Servers Database Servers File Servers VMware Servers App. Servers

Backup

Server

ExaGrid Primary

Backup Site

SAN Storage

DAS Storage

Remote Offices

NAS Storage

MAN/WAN

Offsite Tapes

Tape Library

Gigabit/10 Gigabit

Ethernet

Optional Remote or

DR Site ExaGrid MAN/WAN

“A major reason that

organizations still hit these

bumps on the backup and

recovery road: They use the

same products for both physical

and virtual server backup, when

we all know that virtualization

requires a fundamentally

different approach.”

– SearchServerVirtualization.com

Existing tools aren’t doing the job

Traditional backup

● Agent in each VM

● Full VM recovery is complex

● Expensive

● Does not guarantee recoverability

Typical VM backup

● Backup code runs on hosts

● Significant storage requirements

● Limited recovery options

● Does not guarantee recoverability

The right tool for the job.

Built specifically for virtualization

Addresses unique requirements

● Fewer spare resources

● More data

● Dynamic environment

Leverages unique opportunities

● Whole VM restore

● Unified data protection

● Backups as datastores

Backup

Fast ● Disk-based backup

● Forever incremental

● Changed block tracking 20x faster

● VeeamZIP for easy ad-hoc backups

Efficient ● Offloads processing from hosts and VMs

● Excludes unnecessary data, and deduplicates and compresses the rest

● Generates no special metadata

● Accesses SAN storage directly

Reliable ● No more babysitting backup jobs

● Performs advanced application-aware processing

● Automatically verifies recoverability of backups

NEW!

SureBackup

Verify the recoverability of every backup

● Every virtual machine

● Every restore point

Does not affect backup windows or require

additional hardware and staff

Leverages vPower and Virtual Lab

Check all

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Compressed/

Deduplicated

Backup File

How it Works

VMware vPower

vPower NFS

Backup storage

VM

OS

App

Report

Verification Job

VMware datastores

Why Replication?

Virtualization enables cost-effective replication

● Inexpensive standby hosts

● Dissimilar storage

● VM-level (not application-specific)

Virtualization enables unified data protection

● Image-based incremental backup

● Image-based incremental replication

● Only difference is the target

It’s not just a commercial bundling of products…

it’s a cohesive data protection strategy

2-in-1: Backup and Replication

Host-based replication

● Replicate onsite for HA, offsite for DR

● Numerous optimizations for efficient replication across the WAN

● Replica rollback to protect against corruption of source

Assisted failover

● Fail over individual VMs

● Re-IP after failover

Real failback

● Delta sync

● 1-click and confirm—for one or several VMs

● Re-IP after failback

vPower

Exclusive patent-pending Veeam technology

Publishes the contents of the backup file as a datastore the

host can connect to

● Compressed, deduplicated, incremental

Runs the VM directly from the backup file on ExaGrid’s

landing zone

● Without making any changes to the backup file

“This is why I love Veeam. They take all the virtualization technology pieces

on the table and put them together into a functioning business solution.”

– Brett Westover IT Administrator

Therapeutic Research Center

Instant VM Recovery

Fast

Readily available

Buys you time

Running VMs from Backups

Quickly restart a failed VM

Test VM backups

Restore data from applications running on the VM

Create VMs for testing and troubleshooting

1-Click File Restore

Enhancement to existing IFLR

IFLR = file-level recovery from an image-level backup

Restore directly from search: 10:1 reduction in number of

steps

Delegated, agentless, secure

1-Click File Restore

Right-click

to restore one…

Find the

file

… or several files

Web-

based

1-Click File Restore

Restore directly to original location

● Uses guest interaction APIs

● Does not require:

Direct network connection to VM

User permissions on host or VM

Agent in host or VM

Delegate file restores

● “File Restore Operator” role

● Delegated operator does not need permissions on backup files, the host or the VM

● Secure: files restored directly to original location

● Can be restricted to certain file types (.docx, .xlsx, etc.)

The Right Tool for VMware and Hyper-V

Backup and Data Protection

Free Edition

Same download and install as Veeam Backup &

Replication

● Operates without a license key

● To upgrade to full version, simply install a license key

No limit on number of hosts or VMs

Subset of functionality

● Full backups of individual VMs only—no scheduled, incremental or

multi-VM backups

● No VM replication

● No vPower capabilities

Full comparison available at veeam.com

NEW!

VeeamZIP

Ad-hoc VM backups

● Easy: no complicated configuration, no need to power off the VM

● Compact: compressed, deduplicated, thin-provisioning maintained

● Portable: encapsulates all virtual disks and configuration settings

Small shops: free image-based VM backup

Others: complement to existing backup tool

● Ad-hoc backups: before applying updates

● Archive: before decommissioning

● Copy: to test lab, training center, demo environment, client environment, etc.

ExaGrid/Veeam: Making Your Backups & DR Better

• Post-process for fastest backups and shortest backup windows

• Only system that scales with full servers to eliminate backup window expansion

Fastest backups, with no exploding backup windows

• Restore a VM in as fast as minutes

• Confirm 100% restorability of critical apps

• Instant restores from last full copy on disk—fastest full system restores, fastest tape copy

• Fast, reliable WAN-efficient offsite disaster recovery

Instantaneous VM and file restores, more reliable recovery

• Best price in the industry up-front

• Budget protected over time via modular expansion, no forklift upgrades or obsolescence

Lowest total costs for your organization

FONA: IT Situation and Issues to Address

About FONA

● Creates and manufactures flavors for largest food, beverage, pharmaceutical

companies in the world

Environment

● 95% of servers are virtual

● Using Veeam Backup & Replication

● Backed up to NAS

Problem:

● First day at FONA, NAS broke down

● Redirected to tape, but backups running outside of window; needed new solution

● Considered systems from ExaGrid, EMC Data Domain and Dell

FONA Environment

SQL Dumps

RMAN, TAR

Email Servers Database Servers File Servers VMware Servers App. Servers

Backup

Server

ExaGrid Primary

Backup Site

SAN Storage

DAS Storage

NAS Storage

Offsite Tapes

Tape Library

Gigabit/10 Gigabit

Ethernet

Remote DR Site

MAN/WAN

Environment ● ExaGrid at primary site and secondary site

● Systems now at multiple locations

Backups and Restores

Installation and operation

● ExaGrid integrated seamlessly with Veeam

− Veeam sees ExaGrid as disk storage

● Maintenance free operation

− Intuitive GUI, everything on one page

− No need to touch ExaGrid system since set-up

− Gets alerts through Veeam

Support

Solution and Lessons Learned

Next Steps

• Schedule 5-minute call to discuss your current environment, backup/DR challenges and issues

• Determine if disk backup with deduplication or VM backup & replication software is a match for your needs

5-minute

Phone Call

• Schedule 20-30 minute phone call: review/discuss current environment, challenges and issues

• Complete site survey • Get technology suggestions, pricing proposal to

permanently eliminate backup headaches

Free Backup & Recovery Assessment

• Visit http://www.veeam.com/exagrid_and_veeam.html • Learn more about how ExaGrid and Veeam take VM

backup to a whole new level • Register for your FREE 60-day trial of Veeam Backup &

Replication (STANDARD TRIAL IS 30-DAYS)

Test-Drive Veeam

Thank You!

Questions?

Next Steps

• Schedule 5-minute call to discuss your current environment, backup/DR challenges and issues

• Determine if disk backup with deduplication or VM backup & replication software is a match for your needs

5-minute

Phone Call

• Schedule 20-30 minute phone call: review/discuss current environment, challenges and issues

• Complete site survey • Get technology suggestions, pricing proposal to

permanently eliminate backup headaches

Free Backup & Recovery Assessment

• Visit http://www.veeam.com/exagrid_and_veeam.html • Learn more about how ExaGrid and Veeam take VM

backup to a whole new level • Register for your FREE 60-day trial of Veeam Backup &

Replication (STANDARD TRIAL IS 30-DAYS)

Test-Drive Veeam