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EMC for VMware Data Protection Optimized backup and recovery for virtual machines Mika Kotro Sales Development Manager EMC Deutschland GmbH


Journey to 100% Virtualization: 3 Phases

D A T A P R O T E C T I O N R E Q U I R E M E N T S I N C R E A S E

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Phase 1 IT PRODUCTION

Cost Efficiency

Phase 2 BUSINESS PRODUCTION

Quality of Service

Phase 3 IT AS A SERVICE

Business Agility

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Run IT as a business IT-owned applications Mission-critical applications

Improved IT production

Business productivity

Flexibility

Cloud Consolidation

Server utilization

Hardware costs

Operating expenses

Gold Platinum


VMware Backup Challenges Virtualization changes server, application, and information paradigm

Virtual Server A

Virtual Server B

Virtual Server C

Old Paradigm Physical environment: Low overall server utilization

and plenty of bandwidth for backup

New Paradigm Virtual environment: High overall server utilization

and little bandwidth for backup

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ESX server

Hardware Shared physical resources


The VMware Backup “Must Have” List • Must address today’s issues

– Relieve resource contention – Contain backup storage growth – Enable more-effective disaster recovery

• Must provide business value – Lower backup infrastructure costs – Improve operations – Reduce risk

• Must integrate with VMware infrastructure – VMware vStorage API for Data Protection – VMware vCenter Server

Remember We backup to be able to recover!


EMC BRS Stack – Delivering Predictable Recovery

• World’s Fastest Backup and Recovery Solution for VMware and vBlocks

• Comprehensive Physical and Virtual infrastructure recovery solution

• World’s No. 1 & Fastest Purpose built Disk Library for De-duplicated backups

NetWorker

Avamar

Data Domain


Deduplication Is the Key

• Relieve resource contention

• Contain backup storage growth

• Enable more effective disaster recovery


VMware ESX Network

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Client-Side Deduplication Moves Less Data

1. Divides data into sub-file segments

2. Determines if segments are unique or duplicate

3. Backs up only data that is unique

4. Sends data compressed and encrypted

Avamar Data Store


VMware Guest-Level Backup Traditional backup versus Avamar backup

Traditional Avamar

CPU USAGE

1:20 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 1:40 p.m.

NETWORK USAGE

1:20 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 1:40 p.m.

DISK USAGE

1:20 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 1:40 p.m.


Avamar Is Optimized for VMware • Guest-level backup

– Provides application consistency

• Image-level backup – Integrated with VMware vStorage API for Data Protection and

vCenter Server

• One-step file-level recovery from image backup

• Tight VMware vCenter Server integration – Caution : Integrates with one vCenter server currently per Avamar server

• Qualified on VCE Vblock Infrastructure Platforms in EMC test labs

• Deployable as a virtual appliance—Avamar Virtual Edition


Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware Avamar server deployed as a virtual appliance

• Leverages existing ESX servers and storage

• Replication (of applications and storage)

• Use Avamar / VE for POCs

• Up to two Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware virtual appliances per VMware ESX server for scalability

• Each Avamar Virtual Edition scales upto 2 TB

Avamar VM

Avamar VM

Avamar VM

Resource Pool

VMware Virtualization Layer

x86 Architecture


VMware Guest-Level Backup Avamar agents ensure application consistency

• Application-specific agent within each VM ensures consistent state for hot backup

• Deduplicates within and across virtual machines

• Reduces resource contention and speeds backups

• Provides file-level restore for Windows, Linux, and Solaris

• Control cost with zero-dollar agents

Avamar agents

VMware ESX


Avamar for VDI

• Avamar enables Self user restores

• Faster & low impact backup result in higher VDI density


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 Avamar Data Store

Mount

= Avamar software agent

Physical server


Avamar Integration with Data Domain High-speed, scalable Avamar backups to Data Domain systems • Selectively back up and restore specific data

types to a Data Domain system – VMware image backup – Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange,

SharePoint – Distributed Segment processing – Global De-

dupe happens

• Easy to manage – Associate Data Domain system(s) with Avamar – Select the destination of backup data via policy – Manage backups, restores, and replication

through Avamar GUI – Current Datastore capacity with Gen4 Nodes –

124TB, Extended to 285 TB with DD integration


VCE Vblock Infrastructure Platforms Achieve large-scale virtualization as quickly as possible

• Avamar uniquely scales in Vblock environments

• Fastest throughput with proxy server load balancing and Changed Block Tracking

• Flexible restore capabilities

• Bare-metal restore for entire Vblock – Cisco UCS profiles, network configuration

files, etc.

• Avamar qualified on Vblock

U S E C A S E


Backing Up 1,000 Virtual Machines 50 TB protected in 43 minutes

STEADY STATE

Proxy infrastructure: Dual-quad core,

64 GB memory

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TB Protected TB Scanned Total Time (Min)

Day 1 (250 VMs)

Day 2 (500 VMs)

Day 3 (750 VMs)

Day 4 (1,000 VMs)

Day 5 (1,000 VMs)

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Day 7 (1,000 VMs)


NetWorker and VMware Protection

• Granular and application-consistent guest-level backup

– VMs treated like physical machines – Software installed on guests – Backup sent through LAN

• CBT integration – Eliminates overheads associated with

discovery of Changed files – Optimized for file systems with large

quantities of small files

• Storage API for Data Protection (VADP) for off-host, snapshot-based backup

OFF-HOST

IN-GUEST


VMware vCenter Server Integration

• Automatically discovers virtual machines

• Notification of unprotected virtual machines

• Prevents missing backups of new virtual machines

Auto-discovery


VMware vCenter Server Integration

• See the relationship of backup with virtual machines

• Unique icons and indicators show protection type

• Interactive controls to customize and search map

• Simplifies management of large VMware environments

Visualization


Centralized Management

FILE SYSTEMS AND SERVER RECOVERY

APPLICATION SUPPORT

REMOTE AND BRANCH OFFICES

VIRTUALIZATION

SAP Oracle

Microsoft

Tape Cloud

DEDUPLICATION

EMC STORAGE PLATFORMS

Avamar Data Domain

NetWorker

Symmetrix Centera Disk Library Family VNX Family


THANK YOU


Step 2: Mount VMDK Snapshot

Step 3: Backup VMDK Snapshot

Backup Applications

for vSphere 4

Step 1: Take VMDK

Snapshot

Physical Server

Data Domain Deduplication

Storage

Backup Server integrated with vStorage API for vSphere 4

ESX

Server ESX

Server ESX

Server

EMC Data Domain Integrated VMDK and file backups

• Backup applications integrate with vSphere using vStorage API

• Proxy mounts VMDK snapshots, relieves ESX hosts & LAN of backup load

• Enables both VMDK & file level operations, block-level incremental/differentials


EMC Data Domain Booting VMs from Data Domain for DR

• Data Domain system configured as NFS data store for VMDK files • VMDK files moved in their native format – template, archive, mount, boot • Supports VMware Storage VMotion for live migration of VMDK files

Step 2: Copy VMDK Snapshot via NFS

Step 3: VMDK files are automatically replicated to

DR Site

Step 1: Take VMDK Snapshot

Data Domain Deduplication Storage

Step 4: Mount VMDK and Boot Virtual Machine

via NFS

Step 6: Migrate VMDK via Storage

VMotion

ESX Server

Step 5: Recover Files from within

Guest OS

ESX Server

ESX Server

Data Domain Deduplication Storage

Physical Server

ESX Server

ESX Server

ESX Server


Summary Accelerate the virtualization journey

Increase Consolidation

Ratios

90% Faster Backups

40x–60x Data Reduction

99% Reduction in Replication

Bandwidth

File, Image, and Site Recovery

Investment Protection

Improve Operations

Simplify Management

Lower Backup Infrastructure

Costs

Reduce Risk

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