VMworld Europe 2013
Mauricio Barra, VMware
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Jeff Hunter, VMware
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Improving BC/DR Is At The Top Of IT Initiatives
Source: Forrester âServer Virtualization Predictions For 2013â, March 2013
Source: Forrester âBC/DR Remain Priorities For 2012 But Take A Backseat To Cost-Saving And Efficiency Initiativesâ, October 2011
Among top 5 technology
priorities in 2012
âą 40% report High Priority
âą 20% report Critical
Priority
#1 driver for
virtualization:
âą 57% report itâs âvery
importantâ to adopt x86
virtualization
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Virtualization and Data Protection Go Hand in Hand
Source: ESG â2013 IT Spending Intentions Surveyâ, 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
âą Data Explosion
âą VM Growth
âą Hyper-
consolidation
âą Cloud
VMware Solution
âą Increasing
infrastructure
costs
âą Longer backup
windows
âą Longer Recovery
Time Objectives
âą Complexity of VM
data services
âą Expectations for
rapid provisioning
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Planned Downtime Unplanned Downtime
VMware Enables IT Business Continuity at All Levels
âą vMotion
âą Storage vMotion
âą Fault Tolerance
âą High Availability
âą App HA
âą Site Recovery Manager
âą DR to the Cloud with SRM
âą vSphere Replication
âą vSphere Data Protection Advanced
âą vSphere APIs for Data Protection (VADP)
Site Application Availability
Local Application Availability
Data Protection
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Reliable Data Protection for the Most Trusted Platform
vSphere Data Protection
Advanced
ï§ From VMware for vSphere
ï§ Over 26,000 VMware users of VDP
ï§ Powered by EMC Avamar
ï§ Over 8,000 enterprise customers
using this technology
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4x More Storage-Efficient Using Patented Deduplication
71
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 â vSphere Data Protection, February 2013
"For real backups, VMware offers vSphere Data Protection [âŠ] the deduplication levels
are amazingâ
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
Minutes
Recovery time of a 30GB VM
6x
Source: ESG Lab Validation Report â vSphere Data Protection, February 2013
Changed Blocks
FULL IMAGE RESTORE CHANGED BLOCK TRACKING RESTORE
Full VM
âESG Lab has validated that with VDP, IT administrators can perform full restores of VMs
from Change Block Tracking in seconds to minutesâ
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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New & Exclusive in vSphere Data Protection 5.5 Advanced
âąEMC Data Domain integration
âąNetwork-efficient backup data replication
âąAutomated backup verification
âąNew MS SharePoint agent
âąEnhanced MS Exchange agent
Enhanced
Backup
and
Recovery
Scalability
Efficiency
Disaster
recovery
Predictability
Granularity
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Integration with EMC Data Domain
Overview
Benefits
ï§ Backup to Data Domain from the
VDP Advanced user interface
ï§ DD Boost Software support
ï§ Metadata handled in VDP
Advanced virtual appliance
ï§ Increased scalability per VDP
Advanced virtual appliance
ï§ 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
ï§ Replication of deduped, encrypted
backups
ï§ Specific schedules and retentions
ï§ 1:1, 1:many and many:1
topologies
ï§ Multiple choices for targets
ï§ Enable disaster recovery
ï§ WAN efficiency
ï§ 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 âCâ 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
ï§ Offsite Backup
âą Store backups in the cloud and
restore back to your premises
ï§ Disaster Recovery
âą Restore backup data directly in
the service provider cloud
ï§ Long term retention
âą Archival-as-a-service ensure
regulatory compliance
VMware
Service
Provider
Customer
BaaS for VDP and VDP Advanced
with VMware Service Providers
âŠand 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 â 24 hours
RTO Minutes to hours per VM 3-5 minutes per VM
Retention
Longer-term retention
Typically, 30 â 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
ï§ Automated restore to a âsandboxâ
environment
ï§ User-defined verification
schedules
ï§ Verification status reports
ï§ Ensure backups are recoverable
ï§ Indentify data corruption at the
source
ï§ Improve RTOs
vSphere
Verification
Reports
Sandbox
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Application Awareness for the Microsoft Stack
ï§ New agent for SharePoint
ï§ Application consistency
ï§ Client-side dedupe
ï§ Enhanced agent for Exchange
ï§ 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:
NewEnhanced
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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 applianceâs 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
âą Average protected VMs per virtual appliance (1)(2)
50 VMs 200 VMs
âą Max. virtual appliances per vCenter Server 10 10
Features
âą Variable-length deduplication â â
âą Changed Block Tracking backup and restore â â
âą vSphere Web Client management â â
âą Full VM and File-Level Recovery (FLR) â â
âą Granular .vmdk backup and restore â â
âą Direct-to-host emergency restore (without vCenter) â â
âą Flexible backup data partition placement â â
âą Mountable backup data partition â â
âą Backup data replication EMC Avamar VDP Advanced, EMC Avamar
âą Dynamic capacity expansion (up to 8TB) â
âą Exchange agent â
âą SQL Server agent â
âą SharePoint agent â
âą Backup to Data Domain Systems â
âą Automated backup verification â
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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âPer CPUâ Licensing Model is Simple
ï§ License every CPU of hosts running
protected VMs
ï§ No need to license the replication
target
VMware vSphere
Multiple
VDP Advanced
appliances
CPU 1 CPU 2
Why if this simpler?
ï§ No limit of the number of VMs protected
on licensed hosts
ï§ Deploy as many virtual appliances as
needed (up to 10 per vCenter Server)
ï§ 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 Kits2
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
âą Variable-length dedupe
âą Data Domain integration
âą Client-side dedupe,
granular for Microsoft
apps
âą End-to-end vSphere
Web Client management
âą One-step VM recovery
âą End-user File-Level
Recovery
âą Changed Block Restore
âą Network-efficient
backup data replication
âą Automated backup
verification
âą SMB price point
âą Lowest CAPEX: storage
and network
âą Lowest OPEX: vSphere
integration
VDP Advanced