protecting physical and virtual environments together
DESCRIPTION
More virtual servers are being deployed today than ever. Although this improves storage efficiencies for organizations, protecting data in mixed physical/virtual environments can be alarmingly complex and costly. Learn how to cost-effectively protect mixed environments: • Simplified, non-disruptive continuous data protection for all data • Improved data mobility by extending the value of VAAI to any storage infrastructure • Virtual storage for virtual servers • Automated recovery including P2P, V2V, P2V, V2PTRANSCRIPT
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Duane JohnsonSenior Solutions Architect
Protecting Physical and Virtual Environments
Together
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Agenda
• FalconStor Overview• Current Data Protection Issues• Unifying and Protecting Physical and Virtual
Environments• Enhancing VMware Recovery
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• 23 in country offices• 24/7 follow the sun support• Development in Asia and
US• Localized Marketing• Local Sales
World View – Local Presence
• Founded in 2000 (NASDAQ:FALC)
• Leader and innovator of: • Virtual Tape Library
(VTL) • Storage
Virtualization (NSS)• Continuous Data
Protection (CDP)
Company Snapshot
Company Overview
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Our Business is Protecting Your Business
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION & DATA MIGRATION
FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS)
DATA DEDUPLICATION
FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS)
BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY
FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP)FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS)
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Volume growing 50-60%/year, breaking backup & slowing DR
Losing information flow halts business
Storage growthoutpacing IT budget & staff
Source: IDC
Data Protection Issues Are Getting Worse
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“By 2014, 30% of organizations will have changed backup vendors due to frustration over cost, complexity, and/or capability.”*
*Source: Gartner
Backup Is Broken
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Unifying Backup and Disaster Recovery
SQLExchangeSharePoint
Backup Server
Mission Critical Apps
1000 Bootable SnapshotRecovery Points
Tape Library
Instant AvailabilityEliminate BU Window
File Server Oracle Virtual ServerPhysical Server
Many to 1 any-to-any Replication30 Min. Recovery from Site Failure
WAN
DR: P2P, P2V
ROBO
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Protecting Physical & Virtual
• FalconStor combines backup, recovery, and DR• Optimized continuous data capture with any point and
snapshot point in time recovery
Data Capture Component
Primary Storage: SAN or DAS
Physical or Virtual Application Server
WindowsUnix
Linux
8:00 9:00 10:00
Change Journal
Disk Mirror
Point in Time Snapshots
Writes
Reads and Writes
FC/iSCSI To DR site
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FalconStor’s integration with VMware
• FalconStor solutions provide VMware data protection– Integration with vStorage APIs for best
performance• 100% transactional integrity of data for fast restores • Enabling accelerated data mobility and provisioning
– Integration with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager for 1-click Disaster Recovery
– Physical-to-virtual, Physical-to-physical, and Virtual-to-virtual Recovery with FalconStor RecoverTrac™ technology
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VMware vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP)
Challenges of VMware Backup
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VMware Backup Challenges with VADP
• Lack of Application-aware Snapshots• Performance impacts• Backup scheduling • Need for additional storage• No integration with vCenter Site Recovery Manager
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VMware ESXi & ESX
Data copied to Backup Server
Backup Software triggers VMware snapshot
Snapshot is created
VADP Backup at a Glance
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How Backup Vendors Integrate with VMware
SAN Storage LUNVMDK
VMDKVMDK
Production read & write
redo-log file
Production writes & reads
Backup reads
Production reads
VMDK redo-log file
Copy accumulated writes
Production read & write
1. Normal operational mode, read/write activity to the VM.
2. After snapshot is initiated for VADP/CBT backup, all new writes go to redo-log file for the length of the backup. LUN now used for production (read/write) plus backup processing (read).
3. Upon completion of VADP/CBT backup, data accumulated in the redo-log file must be written back to the VM.
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Result: Significant Performance Impact
• Multiple VM backups overlapped• Long backup window, redo log files take space• Heavy production I/O
Production read & write
VMDK-1 redo-log file
VM1
Copy accumulated writes
redo-log file
VM2
VMDK-3 redo-log file
VM3
Backup Window
VMDK-2
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How Do FalconStor Solutions Solve VMware Backup?
FalconStor NSS
vSphere Host
Optional application-specific agent installed in virtual machines
FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) provides virtualized storage, snapshot, and replication services
Microsoft Exchange, Oracle,Microsoft SQL Server,
IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, Sybase, Informix, DB2, SAP, Pervasive SQL
OS
Virtual Machine
ApplicationApplication Snapshot
Agent
OS
Virtual Machine
Application
File system Agent
Optional File system agent installs in guest OS
Windows File System, Linux File System
Snapshot Director Virtual Appliance
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FalconStor Offers A Better Way to Recover
• FalconStor Snapshots can be used to instantly recover VMs
• Granular Recovery of VMs or single files without corruption or data loss
• Instant Recovery with no downtime
FalconStor NSS
Production vSphere Host
App
Agen
tO
S Ag
ent
VM
iSCSI/FC
App
Agen
tO
S Ag
ent
VM
Staging vSphere Host
VM
Bare-metal
Recovery
VM
Bare-metal
Recovery
Recovery Assistant VM
Single-File Recovery
Snapshot Director Virtual Appliance
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VMware vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)
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VAAI Overview
• Benefits of VAAI– Higher data mobility
• Faster Cloning• Faster formatting
– Higher VM-to-host ratio• More VM’s per cluster nodes
• Challenges of VAAI– Limited array support– Only works within the same array frame
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Improving vSphere Performance
VM VM VM
VMware vSphere v4.1/v5
VM VM VM
VMware vCenter Server
Thin/FullProvisioningVirtualization
Storage
Data integritySnapshot
Fibre iSCSI (1G/10G)
Generic StorageSSD Storage
SafeCache™ on SSD
VAAI Main Primitives1. Hardware Assisted Locking2. Full Copy3. Block Zeroing
Extend the value ofVAAI to any storageInfrastructure
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Example: Cloning VM between 2 LUNs from different SAN Arrays without FalconStor NSS
VM VM VM
VMware vSphere v4.1/v5
VM VM
VMware vCenter Server
VM
Clone
VM
Array1 (even with VAAI support)
High Read/WriteIO traffic between
vSphere server andStorage controller
Array2 (even with
VAAI support)
VMVM
WRITEREAD
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How FalconStor NSS extends the value of VAAI to any Storage
VM VM VM
VMware vSphere v4.1/v5
VM VM
VMware vCenter Server
Thin/FullProvisioningVirtualization
Storage
Data integritySnapshot
Fibre iSCSI (1G/10G)
VAAI features enabled by FalconStor NSS on any downstream storage
VM
Clone
VM
Vendor A Storage (non-VAAI support)
Vendor B Storage (non-VAAI support)
Reduced the utilization of server resources and minimized the IO traffic
between vSphere server and FalconStor NSS
FASTER VMClone/Migration Speed
FalconStor VAAI
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Disaster Recovery with VMware
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Challenges of Disaster Recovery in VMware Environments• Array-based replication requires same array model on
both sites• No support for Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Disaster
Recovery• Crash-consistent state on remote site (longer RTO)• Poor WAN bandwidth utilization
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Automate Disaster Recovery with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
VM VM VM
VMware vSphere v4/v5
VM VM VM
VMwarevCenter Server
Site RecoveryManager
FalconStorSRA
VM VM VM
VMware vSphere v4/v5
VM VM VM
VMwarevCenter Server
Site RecoveryManager
FalconStorSRA
R RR
Thin/FullProvisioningVirtualization
Storage
Data integritySnapshot
Thin/FullProvisioning
Replica
Data integritySnapshot
R R R R
Fibre iSCSI (1G/10G) Fibre iSCSI (1G/10G)VM VM VM
Generic Storage Generic Storage
Optimized Replication byMicroScan™ technology
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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Re-protection Feature Support
VM VM VM
VMware vSphere v4/v5
VM VM VM
VMwarevCenter Server
Site RecoveryManager
FalconStorSRA
VM VM VM
VMware vSphere v4/v5
VM VM VM
VMwarevCenter Server
Site RecoveryManager
FalconStorSRA
Fibre iSCSI (1G/10G) Fibre iSCSI (1G/10G)VM VM VM
Generic Storage Generic Storage
Automated Reverse Replicationfor reprotection operation
Thin/FullProvisioning
Replica
Data integritySnapshot
R R R R Thin/FullProvisioningVirtualization
Storage
Data integritySnapshot
R RR
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The FalconStor / VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Advantage
• Heterogeneous replication for VMware environments• Automation of failover and failback operations with
Site Recovery Manager• Enables VMware DR deployments on any HCL
certified storage platforms• Use current infrastructure to implement Site Recovery
Manager and DR for VMware
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Automation of Local and Disaster Recovery (V2V, P2V,
P2P, V2P)
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What about DR for Physical Servers?
• VMware’s scope is Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V)• FalconStor DR solutions do it all: V2V, V2P, P2V, and
P2P!
SAN
DR Replica Copy
Data copy to
secondary storage
Physical Servers
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Automated Recovery
Primary Site
DR Site
FalconStor CDP/ FalconStor NSS
Service-oriented Disaster Recovery
RecoverTrac technology
• One click automated site failover and failback• Native support for physical machines as
well as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
• Customized support for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Linux data disks
• P2P, P2V, V2V, V2P Recovery
RecoverTrac™™
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FalconStor CDP: RecoverTrac P2V
vCenter-NYC:
Physical “MyServer”
WANWAN-optimized
Replication
RecoverTrac: Auto Failover/Failback
DR siteLocal site
TimeMarkReplica
SFO Site NYC Site
RecoverTrac
TimeMark
Virtual“MyServer-DR”
vCenter-SFO:
Virtual“MyServer-P2V”
Enhancing Disaster Recovery with RecoverTrac™ DR Orchestration Tool
Physical “MyServer-P2P”
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Award-winning Data Protection Solutions
• RecoverTrac™ 2.5 was chosen as the winner of TechTarget’s Best of VMworld 2012 awards in the business continuity and data protection category, August 2012
• FalconStor Earns Network World Asia Information Management Award for FalconStor® VTL, June 2012
• FalconStor named to CRN’s 2012 Virtualization 100 list, May 2012
• FalconStor Named to CRN’s 2012 5-Star Partner Programs Guide, March 2012
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RecoverTrac Technology
• RecoverTrac technology automates complex, time-consuming and error-prone DR procedures
• Allows for non-disruptive seamless testing of DR plans
Automated DR
• RecoverTrac technology allows definition of all IT resources, for recovery:
• Servers• Hypervisors: VMware & Microsoft
Hyper-V• Clusters• Storage• Recover sites: local, remote, or
multiple • Associated IT inventories at
recovery sites
Service-oriented View
Remote Replication AND RecoverTrac tool are standard features of FalconStor Disaster Recovery Solutions
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Value of FalconStor Disaster Recovery Solutions
Management of data growthVirtualization, Consolidation, Tiering, Caching…
Business ContinuityHigh Availability, Clustering, Mirroring, Automated DR…
Data AssuranceSnapshots, Replication, Application-awareness, Rapid Recovery
Cost ContainmentThin Provisioning, Data Migration, WAN-optimization, Automation
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Solution Deployment Options
• All FalconStor solutions are available as software (SAK), Appliances, or Virtual Appliances
Storage Appliance• Server + storage in a single
physical device• Pre-configured amount of
storage
Gateway• Connects to external and
third-party storage devices
Virtual Appliance• Built on top of VMware
• Deploy via image to any certified server
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Next Steps
• To learn more about how to automate disaster recovery in mixed environments visit: www.falconstor.com/recovertrac
• Attend a Demo of FalconStor CDP or FalconStor NSS: www.falconstor.com/demos
• Try it today! Get a Free Virtual Appliance Download at www.falconstor.com/free-downloads
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