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EMC Backup/Recovery Best Practices for VMware

Improve VMware Operations with Optimized Protection

Ed Walsh Chris HornSr. vSpecialist Sr. ManagerEMC BRS Integration LabTwitter: @vEddieW Twitter: @Chris_HornE-Mail: [email protected]: [email protected]

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Source: ESG Research Report, 2012 IT Spending Intentions Survey January 2012


Backup/Recovery Features for VMware

•Backup & Recovery solution aware of, and integrate with, app’s & VMware– vCenter, VDAP, CBT API’s– Microsoft VSS, Oracle RMAN

•Optimize for Recovery as well as Backup

• Secure Backup & Recovery data inflight, and at rest

• File, VM, Image level Recovery flexibility

• Leverage disk as storage media

• Data De-duplication of all backups

“Data growth continues to expose the inefficiencies of some backup approaches, and server virtualization is creating new problems for traditional data protection methods, as well as new opportunities to protect data.”

ESG Navigating VMware Backup

and Recovery Approaches and

Solutions August 2011


Integration with VMware vCenter

• Manage data protection, and contain VM sprawl

• Browse to VMware vCenter via the backup UI

• Auto-discover VMs and their associated groups

• View VM protection status (guest/image/none)

• Enable change block tracking on VMsSingle point of management for VMware backup

options


VMware Image-Level Backup

• Deduplication within and across VMDK files

• Changed Block Tracking (CBT) reduces backup time and minimizes recovery time

• File-level recovery from image backup (Windows)

• Flexible restore to original, existing, or new virtual machine

• Proxy server load balancing for superior throughput

Avamar integration with VMware vStorage API for Data Protection

Resource Pool

VMware Virtualization Layer

x86 Architecture

Physical server

Virtual machines

Storage

Mount

= Avamar Proxy VM

Physical server


CBT Blocks

Faster Restores for VMDK

VMImageProxy

LAN-free

LAN-free

LAN/WAN

LAN/WAN

LAN/WANLAN-free

CBT Blocks

CHANGED BLOCK TRACKING (CBT) BACKUP

STANDARD RESTORE

CBT RESTORE

VMImageProxy

VMImageProxy

Unique Blocks

Whole VMWhole VM

CBT Blocks

• Changed block backup– Minimizes backup

times

• Changed block restore– Transfer delta blocks

between backup set and virtual machine

– Accelerates image restores

Avamar full-image recovery is faster and more reliable


Proxy CPU Utilization Over Time for Image Backup of 40 GB Virtual Machine

VM Version 7CBT Backup

VMware vSphere Change Block TrackingAvamar full-image backup is faster and more reliable

9:15 a.m. 9:25 a.m. 9:35 a.m. 9:45 a.m.

VM Version 7Backup

VM Version 4Initial Backup


Key Drivers for VMware Protection

Service Level Policy

• Recovery-point objective (RPO): How recent is the point in time for your recovery?

• Recovery-time objective (RTO): How fast can you restart a failed application?

• Backup Retention (BR): How long do you need to be able to restore the point in copy?

SLP - RPO+RTO+BR = cost + acceptable business risk

Backup & Recovery Cost Drivers

RTORPO

MINMINDAYS DAYSSECSECHRS HRS

Event

TIME


Next Generation VMware Data ProtectionVMWorld 2012 Backup & Recovery Solutions

• vSphere Data Protector (VDP) Review• Update VMware vCloud Director backup & recovery • VMware Data Director Backup & Recovery Solution


vSphere Data Protection (VDP)


vSphere Data Protection (VDP)vSphere Data Protection (VDP)

• Definition– Leverages Avamar De-duplication Technology– New backup functionality built into VMware’s new vSphere Web Client– Full image backup/recovery; end user file-level restore for

Linux/Windows– Scales to 2TB of deduplicated backup storage– included with vSphere Essentials+ and above

• Positioning– Targeted at the SMB market segment– A good starting point for VMware backup and recovery– Migration from VDP to Avamar via Professional Services

• Availability– Initial release bundled with vSphere 5.1 (Aug 2012)– Follow-on releases to coincide with VMware release cycles


vSphere Data Protection (VDP)Technical Details

• Scalability (maximums)– 100 VMs per appliance– 10 appliances per vCenter Server– 2 TB of de-duplicated storage

• Appliances deployed with .5 TB, 1 TB, or 2 TB

• Other Facts– Average deduplication rates in the range of 20:1– Supports vRDM’s– Can run 8 concurrent backup jobs – proxies are built in to VDP

appliance– Leverages CBT for restore


VMware VDP Demo


VMware vCloud Director Backup Best Practices


VMware vCloud Director

vCloud requires new resource abstractions

Secure Private Cloud

Organization: Marketing Organization: Finance

Organization VDCs CatalogsOrganization VDCs Catalogs

VMware vSphere

VMware vCenter Server

Resource Pools Datastores Port Groups

(Gold

)

(Bro

nze)

Provider Virtual Datacenters

(Silver)

Users & Policies Users & Policies


vCloud Component Needing Protection

• Image Recovery of Data Drive for VM/vApp

• Image Recovery of Entire VM/vAPP

• FLR Recovery from Image Backup

• vCloud DB Protection (Oracle Plugin)

• vSphere DB Protection (SQL Plugin)


VMware vCloud Director Backup Automation


VMware vCloud Director Protection Demo


vFabric Data Director Protection Solution


vFabric Data Director with DD BoostTechnical Details

• Benefits– vFabric Data Director “cloudifies” the world of databases– version 2.0 supports Postgress and Oracle– elastic resource pools of all the resources database need

(CPU, memory, storage)– self-service provisioning from templates simple and easy– creating test/dev copies and backup/restore self-service and

easy

• Backup/Restore– by integrating EMC Data Domain boost natively with vFabric

Data Director – we can improve backup speed by 3x or more, and Data Domain is an ideal backup target (since vFabric Data Director creates backups to a datastore – you can use an NFS datastore exported by Data Domain and leverage killer inline dedupe)


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Applic

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Clie

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NetWorker

TSM, CommVault, VEEAM & Backup

Exec

DD Boost DD Boost

Universal Backup & Recovery Storage Appliance

OracleRMAN

NEW

Greenplum

DD Boost

NEW

QuestvRanger

DD Boost

NEW

NetBackup

DD Boost

Enhanced

Avamar

DD Boost

Enhanced

DD Boost DD Boost

DD Boost

DD Boost Ecosystem


VMware vFabric Data Director Backup Demo


VMware Protection Black Hole

• VMware Optimized Protection Requirements:– VMware API Support

• Simplify Management• Optimize Performance• Maximize Reliability• Maximize Scalability

– Storage Optimization• Data De-Duplication

– VMware & Application Integration• vCD• SQLServer, Oracle,

SharePoint, and Exchange, …

VMware Protection Requirements Are Unique


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