recovery as a service: should you move your disaster recovery to the cloud?
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Recovery As A Service:
Should you move your Disaster
Recovery to the cloud?
Steve Stavridis Product Marketing Manager - [email protected]: @sstavridis
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Agenda
1. Intro to Disaster Recovery (DR)2. Virtual Disaster Recovery3. Taking Disaster Recovery to the Cloud4. Recovery as a Service (RaaS) Options5. How NetIQ enables RaaS?
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Definition: Server Workload
Server workload:
• the contents of a server, including the operating system, applications and data
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What is Workload Protection?
Workload protection means:
1. Backup of entire server workloads,
2. Recovery of workloads to virtual machines during an outage, and
3. Restore of workloads to their original production locations after the outage.
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Key Disaster Recovery Concepts
RPO: Recovery Point Objective
•A measure of maximum acceptable data loss in terms of time (minutes, hours, days).
RTO: Recovery Time Objective
•The target maximum allowable time to recover from an outage.
Availability tiers: 99.9%, 99.99%, Five 9’s, etc.
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Key Disaster Recovery Concepts:
Availability Maximum Allowable Downtime per Year
Maximum Allowable Downtime per Month
Cost Products TypicalRPO/RTO
90% (“one nine”) 36.5 days 72 hours
95% 18.25 days 36 hours 12-24 hours
99% (“two nines”) 3.65 days 7.2 hours
99.5% 1.83 days 3.6 hours 15 minutes to4 hours
99.9% (“three nines”) 8.76 hours 43.2 minutes
99.99% (“four nines”) 52.56 minutes 4.32 minutes <5 minutes
99.999% (“five nines”) 5.26 minutes 25.9 seconds
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Downtime and Availability
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Traditional Disaster Recovery
Best Worst RPO/RTO
Cost
Offsite ReplicationExpensive; requires a secondary site, redundant hardware (which is idle / under-utilized most of the time)
Local ReplicationOnly good for individual server failure. No protection against site failures.
Vaulting (tape, imaging)Recovery can take days or weeks. Difficult to test.
$
$$$$
Virtual Disaster Recovery
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Get Back to Business As Usual Faster
Recovery workload runs
on virtual infrastructure
Failback to dissimilar hardware
Failback with sync to repaired hardware
Internal web server
Repaired Email server
Virtual recovery(remote site)
New web server
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Trust Your Plans
Rapidly test recovery
workloads
Testing logged for reporting
and compliance
Isolated testing of recovery workloads
Internal web server
Email server
Virtual recovery(remote site)
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Maintain Control
Demonstrate policy
compliance
Actionable alerts
Failure notification
Internal web server
Email server
Virtual recovery(remote site)
Smart phone
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Protect All Your Workloads
.Net Application server
LAMP server
Virtual recovery(remote site)
File-based replication
Block-based replication
Windows or Linux
Physical or Virtual
UniversalSolution
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Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Delivery
Do-It-Yourself: Configure & manage your own solution using public cloud resources
Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service: Prepackaged pay-as-you-go recovery services to the cloud with specified RPO & RTO SLAs
Cloud-to-Cloud Disaster Recovery: Failover from one cloud environment to another
Source: Forrester (March 2012)
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Storage as a Service
Fixed per-gigabyte cost
Off-site cloud-based storage
Scale up or down on demand
Service provider handles hardware maintenance, backups
Data only, not workloadsStatic storage can’t run
server workloads If a local outage occurs,
data needs to be copied to recovery environment first
Advantages
Disadvantages
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Recovery as a Service (RaaS)
Fixed per-gigabyte costOff-site cloud-based
storageScale up or down on
demandService provider
handles hardware maintenance, backups
Protect whole workloads, not just data
Replicate to the cloud, recover and run in the cloud
Live restore back to repaired data center
Advantages
RaaS = Storage as a Service + IaaS
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Cloud Based Workload RecoveryThe benefits of offsite disaster recovery
at a fraction of the priceOffsite Replication Cloud Recovery
Recovery Minutes-Hours Minutes-Hours
Cost High:• Disaster Recovery site
purchase / lease• Redundant hardware• Software licenses• Setup & monitoring
Fixed monthly price
Maintenance
Hardware upgrades, maintenance contracts
None (done on the MSP side)
Flexibility New workloads need to wait for hardware orders(or keep extra idle hardware)
Scale up or down on demand
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RaaS vs. Traditional Disaster Recovery
Best Worst RPO/RTO
Cost
$
$$$$
Offsite Protection
Local Protection
Vaulting
RaaS
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Private/Hybrid RaaS
• Dedicated backup hardware at service provider premise
• Scale by adding hardware
• Hardware owned, managed, maintained by customer or service provider
• Replicate workloads directly to offsite facility
• Run recovery workloads in dedicated environment
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Public RaaS
Shared backup hardware at service provider premise
Scale using service provider’s resource pool
Hardware owned, managed, maintained by service provider
Replicate workloads directly to offsite facility
Run recovery workloads in shared environment
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Cloud-Based DR Resources & Service Providers
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rackspace
Carpathia Hosting
Microsoft Windows Azure / Geminaire
RackSpace
CA
Vodacom
Bluefire
Hosting.com
Infoplex
Do-It-Yourself DR as a Service
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Software based workload protection for Windows/Linux workloads
NetIQ PlateSpin Protect
Backup to virtual machines
Incrementalreplication
Easy to testOne-click
failover
Physicalservers
Virtualhosts
Bladeservers
Image archives
Workload decoupledfrom hardware
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Protects up to 25 workloads
PlateSpin Forge includes:• Storage• Replication software• Hypervisor
Plug-in & protect solution for:
• Medium enterprises• Branch use for large enterprises
World’s first disaster recovery hardware appliance with virtualization
NetIQ PlateSpin ForgeAll in one Disaster Recovery appliance for
Windows/Linux workloads
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Should you move your DR to the Cloud?Review your existing DR plan•How well does it map to the RTO/RPO requirements for servers/applications?
Rethink how you are doing DR today• A good starting place to consider RaaS:
• The “other” or 80% category (under-insured servers)
•Start small with RaaS• Choose a few servers and test to see if it makes sense
Building DR as a service offerings?•NetIQ can help
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Thank You!
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