Veeam Backup & Replication and Nimble Storage CS-Series

Speed up backup & recovery with flash-optimized storage

Ben Pierson, Inside Systems Engineer, Veeam SoftwareNicholas Schoonover, Technical Marketing, Nimble Storage

Veeam Backup & Replication and Nimble Storage CS-Series

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Nimble Storage Company Snapshot• Founded in January 2008; started shipping in August 2010• Headquartered in San Jose, CA; operations in US, Canada, Europe, and Australia• Over 250 employees

Rapidly growing installed base of over 600 customers and 1100 deployments

Partner eco-system expanding quickly, with over 200 VARs

Strong alliances with VMware, Microsoft and Cisco

Leadership team brings deep industry expertise and business building experience


Storage Architectures–The Engine Powering Storage

Architected to use disk only; overlaying flash on top results in partial solution

Today’s Storage Architectures

Purpose-built, Performance Hybrid

Designed from the ground up to leverage the best of flash and disk

Eliminates compromise between performance, capacity, and data management


Engineered for Efficiency

Scale just performance, just capacity, or both

Scale-out cluster eliminates storage silos

Scale with zero downtime

Scaling at the Lowest Incremental Cost

DATA PROTECTION

PERFORMANCE

CAPACITY

SCALING

CASL

High capacity disk Always-on compression High ratio of usable

to raw capacity

2-5x More Usable Capacity/$ Responsive flash cache

accelerates reads with no RAID overhead

Serialized writes eliminate need for high RPM spindles

2-5x More Performance/$

Thin snapshots with no performance penalty

Retention for months, not days WAN-efficient replication

Instant Backups & Restores

Scale just performance, just capacity, or both

Scale-out cluster eliminates storage silos

Scale with zero downtime

Scaling at the Lowest Incremental Cost

DATA PROTECTION

PERFORMANCE

CAPACITY

SCALING

CASL


2-5x better performance / $ 2-5x better capacity / $ ~ 4x reduction in footprint, power and cooling

UNIVERSAL COMPRESSION: 30-75% SAVINGS Variable-size blocks enable

fast inline compression

Elimination of read-modify-write penalty allows compression of all applications

WRITE-OPTIMIZED LAYOUT: 100x FASTER WRITES Guaranteed coalescing of random

writes to sequential stripes; eliminates dependency on spindle speed

Coalesced writes to flash increase lifespan by 500%

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Cache populated intelligently on first write, instantly on cache miss

Metadata in cache accelerates all accesses

DYNAMIC CACHING: 50x FASTER READS

Accelerating Applications with CASL


Nimble CS-Series Storage Solution Consolidate 4x more–high perf and efficiency

● Compact 3U chassis Instant snapshot and restore

● 1000’s of efficient snapshots ● VSS / VMware integration● WAN-efficient replication

Scale-to-fit architecture● Scale-up/scale-capacity/scale-out as needed

All-inclusive enterprise features● Cloning, thin provisioning, replication, etc.● Simple management for storage, backup, DR

CS210 CS220 / CS220G

CS240 / CS240G

CS260 / CS260G

CS420 / CS420G

CS440 / CS440G

CS460 / CS460G

Base array raw

capacity 8TB 12TB 24TB 36TB 12TB 24TB 36TB

Flash 160GB 320GB 640GB 1200GB 640GB 640GB 1200GB

Network 4 x 1GbE 6 x 1GbE or 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE (G models)

Controllers Dual hot-swappable controllers in active-passive configurations with mirrored NVRAM


Scale To Fit with CASLSCALE COMPUTE/CACHE

Scale IOPS and reduce latency by scaling cache and/or compute

SCALE CAPACITY

Scale capacity alone using expansion shelves

SCALE-OUT CLUSTER

Scale performance and capacity by adding nodes while managing centrally

Scale flexibly and non-disruptively at the lowest incremental cost.


Veeam is Modern Data ProtectionBuilt for VirtualizationVeeam is

Built for Virtualization


What is Modern Data Protection?

Veeam Backup & Replication- Fast, reliable recovery…LOW RTOs- Hyper-V and VMware …1 console- Replicate VMs off-premise …Included- Deduplication, Compression …Included- Exchange & SharePoint recovery…Included

VM Recovery in minutes from backups that work


vPower …Recover VMs in Minutes

• Exclusive patented Veeam technology

• Runs the VM directly from the backup file

• Publishes the contents of the backup file as a datastore a host can connect to

“This is why I love Veeam.They take all the virtualization technology pieces on the table andput them together into a functioning business solution.”

– Brett WestoverIT Administrator

Therapeutic Research Center


Running VMs from backups

When you need to… vPower enables…

Quickly restart failed VMs Instant VM Recovery

Verify the recoverability of backups and eliminate failed restores SureBackup

Restore application data,without agents or special backups

U-AIRUniversal Application-Item Recovery

Test patches, troubleshootproblems, or create a training lab On-Demand Sandbox


Instant VM Recovery

Fast:restart a VM directly froma backup in 2 minutes

Readily available:uses existing backups and backup storage

Buys you time:users keep workingwhile you troubleshoot


How it works

Compressed/DeduplicatedBackup FilevPower

Backup storageProduction storage

Back to work in 2 minutes!

Migrate online

Hypervisor


SureBackup

• Verify the recoverabilityof every backup– Every virtual machine– Every restore point

• No increase in backup time, additional hardware or staff

• Leverages vPower and Virtual Lab

Check all

Check some

Checksum


How it works

Compressed/DeduplicatedBackup FilevPower

Backup storageProduction storage

Hypervisor

VM

OS

App

Report

Verification Job


Veeam Replication

Host-based replication– HA and DR: replicate onsite for high availability, offsite for DR– WAN support: numerous optimizations for efficient WAN replication– Multiple restore points: protects against corruption

Assisted failover– Failover individual VMs– Automatically re-IP after failover

Real failback– Delta sync– 1-click and confirm – for one or several VMs– Automatically re-IP after failback


Veeam Explorer for Microsoft ExchangeExchange Item Recovery in Minutes! NO additional licensing, NO charge


Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange and SharePointNo extra cost, no agents, no additional licensingSupported platforms: Exchange Server 2010 & 2013, SharePoint 2010SharePoint 2013 coming soon

Licensing• Available in all editions, including Free Edition

• All editions: Export to .PST, export to .MSG, send as attachment

• Enterprise Edition: Also includes restore to original mailbox store


Return on investment Reduce costs for data protection

Eliminate downtime– Prolonged recoveries (for example, rebuild vs. restore, instant recovery)– Failed recoveries

Maximize server consolidation and savings:– Less Equipment– Less Power– Less cooling– Less floor space– Less Management

Keep your job (and your sanity): priceless


Challenges• Business challenges

• Consolidating demanding applications such as Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint increases the need for higher storage performance

• Infrequent backups or none at all, leaving important business data unprotected

• Cost-prohibitive Disaster Recovery solutions

• Technical challenges• Long backup windows impacting availability of business-critical

applications and services• Complex, time-consuming, and costly to manage mixed-environment

backups • Limited array capacity preventing more frequent RPO’s


Joint Solution Overview• Nimble’s high-performance storage is a perfect complement to Veeam

Backup & Replication

• Cost-effectively retain months’ worth of snapshots on a single Nimble array, with restores performed in seconds

• Use Veeam to archive backups for longer retention periods, while retaining flexible and granular recovery options

• Replicate for disaster recovery protection

• Reduce costs and protect virtualization investments while simplifying their backup process and environment


Veeam and Nimble Storage• Veeam and Nimble provide an optimized, end-to-end

storage and data protection solution for virtual environments providing:• Flash-optimized hybrid storage performance• Instant backups and recovery• Capacity efficiency with compression and backup de-duplication• WAN-efficient replication for offsite DR• Lower costs than traditional solutions

• Ideal for performance-intensive applications• Highly dense Microsoft Exchange deployments with item-level recovery• Tackle VDI boot & login storms while maintaining data protection per VM,

desktop, file or application item


Technical details• Configuration

• No additional software updates to install

• Supported versions• All CS-Series arrays • Veeam Backup & Replication• iSCSI SAN


Best practices• Backup

• Nimble for primary storage and short to mid-term snapshots• Veeam for longer term archival backup • Repurpose legacy storage as backup target

• Restoration• Nimble for quick restoration within 60-90 days• Veeam for item-level recovery and long-term restoration


More information• www.nimblestorage.com• http://go.veeam.com/nimble-storage-and-veeam.html

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