vSphere Data Protection 5.5 Advanced

VMware Backup and Recovery for vSphere

Mauricio Barra, Vmware

Jeff Hunter, VMware

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The Importance of Data Protection in

vSphere Environments

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Improving BC/DR Is At The Top Of IT Initiatives

Source: Forrester “Server Virtualization Predictions For 2013”, March 2013

Source: Forrester “BC/DR Remain Priorities For 2012 But Take A Backseat To Cost-Saving And Efficiency Initiatives”, October 2011

Among top 5 technology

priorities in 2012

• 40% report High Priority

• 20% report Critical

Priority

#1 driver for

virtualization:

• 57% report it’s “very important” to adopt x86 virtualization

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Virtualization and Data Protection Go Hand in Hand

Source: ESG “2013 IT Spending Intentions Survey”, January 2013

Increased

Virtualization

More VMs and

data growth

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Backup Pain Points

Protecting Virtual Environments Created New Challenges

A data

protection

solution

designed

for

virtualized

environments

Trends

• Data Explosion

• VM Growth

• Hyper-

consolidation

• Cloud

VMware Solution

• Increasing

infrastructure

costs

• Longer backup

windows

• Longer Recovery

Time Objectives

• Complexity of VM

data services

• Expectations for

rapid provisioning

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Planned Downtime Unplanned Downtime

VMware Enables IT Business Continuity at All Levels

• vMotion

• Storage vMotion

• Fault Tolerance

• High Availability

• App HA

• Site Recovery Manager

• DR to the Cloud with SRM

• vSphere Replication

• vSphere Data Protection Advanced

• vSphere APIs for Data Protection (VADP)

Site Application Availability

Local Application Availability

Data Protection

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vSphere Data Protection Advanced VMware’s Backup and Recovery Solution for vSphere

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Introducing vSphere Data Protection 5.5 Advanced

vSphere

Data deduplicated

VDP Advanced

Efficient backup improves resources

utilization

Fast and assured recovery ensures

business continuity

Simple, integrated management

empowers the VI admin

Overview

Benefits

Backup and recovery solution for

mid-sized vSphere environments

Powered by EMC Avamar

technology

Fully integrated with VMware

vSphere

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The VMware Data Protection Journey Increasing the Pace

VDP 5.5

Advanced

VDP 5.1

vSphere 5.1 VDP 5.5

vSphere 5.5

VDR 1.0

vSphere 4.0

Virtual appliance

vSphere Client

Image-level backup

File-level restore

VDR functionality

EMC Avamar engine

Variable-length dedupe

Changed Block Restore

vSphere Web Client

All VDP features

Increased capacity

Dynamic storage

App awareness

SQL agent

Exchange agent

Replication to Avamar

.vmdk backup & restore

Direct to host restore

Flexible data placement

Scheduling granularity

All VDP features

Replication to VDP Adv

Data Domain integration

Automated verification

New SharePoint agent

Enhanced Exchange

2009 2012 Q3

VDP 5.1

Advanced

2013 Q1 2013 Q3 2013 Q4

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Core Features and Benefits

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Reliable Data Protection for the Most Trusted Platform

vSphere Data Protection

Advanced

From VMware for vSphere

Over 26,000 VMware users of VDP

Powered by EMC Avamar

Over 8,000 enterprise customers

using this technology

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4x More Storage-Efficient Using Patented Deduplication

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19

0

20

40

60

80

Others VDP Adv

TB

Backup storage required for 200 VMs

4x

variable-length dedupe

AB

VDP

VMWARE

WXY

fixed-length dedupe

ABVMWAR

EVDPWXY

VDPABWX

YVMWARE

Source: ESG Lab Validation Report – vSphere Data Protection, February 2013

"For real backups, VMware offers vSphere Data Protection […] the deduplication levels

are amazing”

Trevor Pott -The Register

VDP

Adv

Others

Data segments

Deduplicated backup data

TCO

$84,000

TCO

$23,000

~$60K savings on storage TCO

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6x Faster Recovery Through Unique Changed Block Restore

18.8

2.9 0

5

10

15

20

Others VDP/VDPA

Min

ute

s

Recovery time of a 30GB VM

6x

Source: ESG Lab Validation Report – vSphere Data Protection, February 2013

Changed Blocks

FULL IMAGE RESTORE CHANGED BLOCK TRACKING RESTORE

Full VM

“ESG Lab has validated that with VDP, IT administrators can perform full restores of VMs

from Change Block Tracking in seconds to minutes”

Tony Palmer - ESG Lab Validation

VM recovery to

production in minutes

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Simple Integrated Management Designed for the VI Admin

Simple backup job creation Simple, granular restore

End-to-end integration Simple deployment

vSphere Web Client integration

Backup job creation

Restore execution

Monitoring and reporting

Linux-based virtual appliance

~30 min to install and configure

Automatic VM discovery

Wizard-driven process

Specified schedules and

retentions

One-step recovery

End-user file-level restore

Image, databases, vmdk

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What’s New with

vSphere Data Protection 5.5 Advanced

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New & Exclusive in vSphere Data Protection 5.5 Advanced

• EMC Data Domain integration

• Network-efficient backup data replication

• Automated backup verification

• New MS SharePoint agent

• Enhanced MS Exchange agent

Enhanced

Backup

and

Recovery

Scalability

Efficiency

Disaster

recovery

Predictability

Granularity

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Integration with EMC Data Domain

Overview

Benefits

Backup to Data Domain from the

VDP Advanced user interface

DD Boost Software support

Metadata handled in VDP

Advanced virtual appliance

Increased scalability per VDP

Advanced virtual appliance

Enhanced storage efficiency

through global deduplication

Data Domain

Metadata

vSphere

DD Boost

Library

DD Boost

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Network-efficient Backup Data Replication

Overview

Benefits

Replication of deduped, encrypted

backups

Specific schedules and retentions

1:1, 1:many and many:1

topologies

Multiple choices for targets

Enable disaster recovery

WAN efficiency

Safer than shipping physical

tapes offsite

LAN/WAN

Site A

Site B

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How Network-Efficient Replication Works

A

D

C

E

A

C

B

E

A

C

B

D

CBT

De-Dup

A B

A C

A C

A

B

C

A

B

C

Only “C” data

is replicated

De-Dup

VMs

Source Target

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Multiple Replication Targets using VDP Advanced

Replicate to another VDP Advanced

virtual appliance

Replication between Data Domain

systems DD Boost

EMC Avamar From VDP Advanced appliance to

Avamar datastore

From VDP appliance to Avamar

datastore VDP

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Enabling Backup to the Cloud Services

Offsite Backup

• Store backups in the cloud and restore back to your premises

Disaster Recovery

• Restore backup data directly in the service provider cloud

Long term retention

• Archival-as-a-service ensure regulatory compliance

VMware

Service

Provider

Customer

BaaS for VDP and VDP Advanced

with VMware Service Providers

…and more to come

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VMware Solutions for Offsite Data Replication

vSphere Data Protection

Advanced vSphere Replication

Type Backup Data Replication Virtual Machine Replication

RPO 24 hours 15 minutes – 24 hours

RTO Minutes to hours per VM 3-5 minutes per VM

Retention Longer-term retention

Typically, 30 – 180 days

Near-term retention for DR

Up to 24 point-in-time replicas

Primary Use

Cases

Move backup data offsite

Moderate RTOs and RPOs

DR for individual VMs

Site-level DR with SRM

Aggressive RTOs and RPOs

Encryption Yes No

SRM

Integration No Yes

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Automated Backup Verification

Overview

Benefits

Automated restore to a “sandbox”

environment

User-defined verification

schedules

Verification status reports

Ensure backups are recoverable

Indentify data corruption at the

source

Improve RTOs

vSphere

Verification

Reports

Sandbox

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Application Awareness for the Microsoft Stack

New agent for SharePoint

Application consistency

Client-side dedupe

Enhanced agent for Exchange

Mailbox level recovery

Agent runs as a guest within the

virtual machine

VMware vSphere

VDP ADV

SQL

OS

Agent

EX

OS

SQL

OS

Agent Agent

Agents for:

New Enhanced

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Other Enhancements in VDP 5.5 Advanced (and VDP 5.5)

Emergency direct to host

restore (without vCenter)

Reduce storage consumption and

increases speed of recovery

Restore to ESXi host and protect

vCenter Server with VDP Advanced

Granular VMDK backup and

recovery

Benefit

Flexible backup data partition

placement Place backup data partitions in

better storage than appliance’s OS

New Feature

Mountable backup data partition Mount backup partitions to a new

appliance in case of loss of original

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vSphere Data Protection Advanced for Midsize Environments

VDP VDP Advanced

Scalability

• Average protected VMs per virtual appliance (1)(2) 50 VMs 200 VMs

• Max. virtual appliances per vCenter Server 10 10

Features

• Variable-length deduplication ● ●

• Changed Block Tracking backup and restore ● ●

• vSphere Web Client management ● ●

• Full VM and File-Level Recovery (FLR) ● ●

• Granular .vmdk backup and restore ● ●

• Direct-to-host emergency restore (without vCenter) ● ●

• Flexible backup data partition placement ● ●

• Mountable backup data partition ● ●

• Backup data replication EMC Avamar VDP Advanced, EMC Avamar

• Dynamic capacity expansion (up to 8TB) ●

• Exchange agent ●

• SQL Server agent ●

• SharePoint agent ●

• Backup to Data Domain Systems ●

• Automated backup verification ●

New in 5.5

Included with vSphere Ess+ & higher Licensed separately per CPU

(1) Based on 8TB appliance for VDP Advanced, 2TB appliance for VDP, 60 day retention, average VM size of 80GB and 1% daily change rate (2) Recommended max. protected VMs per appliance: 100 VMs for VDP - 400VMs for VDP Advanced

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Pricing, Packaging and Licensing

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‘Per CPU’ Licensing Model is Simple

License every CPU of hosts running

protected VMs

No need to license the replication

target

VMware vSphere

Multiple

VDP Advanced

appliances

CPU 1 CPU 2

Why if this simpler?

No limit of the number of VMs protected

on licensed hosts

Deploy as many virtual appliances as

needed (up to 10 per vCenter Server)

No charge for app-aware agents

Licensing Model Overview

Multiple protected VMs

2 CPUs = 2 Licenses

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$

Two Different Ways to Acquire VDP Advanced

$ 1 Per CPU SKU,

unlimited protected VMs

Standalone VDP Advanced (1 procs)

Included in ENT and ENT+ Acceleration Kits

2

vSOM Std AK

vCenter Std

vSOM Std (6 procs)

vSOM Ent AK

vCenter Std

vSOM Ent (6 procs)

VDP Adv (6 procs)

vSOM Ent + AK

vSOM Ent + (6 procs)

VDP Adv (6 procs)

vSphere with Operations Management AKs

VDP Advanced

included

vCenter Std

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The Ideal Backup Solution for Midsize vSphere Environments

Efficient Backup Faster Recovery

Simple Management Lowest TCO

• Variable-length dedupe

• Data Domain integration

• Client-side dedupe,

granular for Microsoft

apps

• End-to-end vSphere

Web Client management

• One-step VM recovery

• End-user File-Level

Recovery

• Changed Block Restore

• Network-efficient

backup data replication

• Automated backup

verification

• SMB price point

• Lowest CAPEX: storage

and network

• Lowest OPEX: vSphere

integration

VDP Advanced

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