What is Big Data? How much of it do you need to protect? Can you even back it up? This Google+ Hangout will feature a panel of experts who will show you how the NetBackup platform can help you protect your big data. A special focus will be given to protecting In-Memory Databases, the newest addition to the NetBackup portfolio. NetBackup is the first and only backup vendor certified by SAP to protect HANA database. Fully integrated through the SAP backint interface, it provides a quick and easy setup for DBAs to protect HANA databases through familiar tools while seamlessly plugged into the corporate NetBackup environment.
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Better Backup for Big Data: Symantec NetBackup™ for SAP HANA
1. Better Backup for Big Data:
Symantec NetBackup™ for SAP HANA
Kyle Drake
NetBackup Sr. Principal Product Marketing Specialist
2. Agenda
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What is SAP HANA?1
Why is Backup for SAP HANA Important2
What Are the Advantages of Using NetBackup?3
Easy to Use, Easy to License4
Questions and Answers5
4. What is Big Data?
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Defined
Data sets whose size is
beyond the ability of
commonly used software
tools to capture, manage,
and process the data
within a tolerable elapsed
time.
5. What Is In-Memory Computing?
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The In-Memory Database (IMDB)
In-memory computing moves data and information sources from
remote databases into local memory so that results of analyses and
transaction are available immediately
• Answer any question immediately
– Factor x100.000 faster analytics
• Access current and complete information
– Real-time access to transactional data
• Discover deeper insights
– Eliminate aggregation to interrogate granular data
• Manage large data volumes cost effectively
– Groundbreaking in memory hardware (HW) innovations
Speed
Scale
Flexible
Graphic courtesy of IBM
6. In Memory Computing
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Why?
Reduce applications' running costs
Improve transactional applications' latency, performance, and
scalability
Boost analytical applications' response times
Dramatically shorten batch process execution times
Enable real-time, self-service analytics
7. Traditional vs. SAP In-Memory
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Simple comparison
Application
Database
Traditional SAP In-Memory
Mass data Mass data
Graphic courtesy of IBM
8. SAP HANA
• An in-memory database
• Runs on an appliance
• Is a platform
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What is it made up of?
Graphic courtesy of IBM
9. Why is Backup for SAP HANA Important?
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10. Backup for Big Data
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Is it possible?
Maybe for some,
But not for NetBackup…
11. Backup for SAP HANA
• IMDB is sensitive to outages. Data persistence in form of
backup, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) is key
to adoption
• NetBackup is the only SAP HANA certified backup and recovery
solution
• SAP HANA can stream data directly to NetBackup using the
backint process
• This integration allows NetBackup to bypass file system backups
• Competitors will claim they support SAP HANA backups
• SAP “supported” is not the same as SAP certified
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Protection for in-memory databases is key
12. Backup for SAP HANA
• NetBackup utilizes our modified SAP database agent
• The agent resides on the SAP HANA appliance
• The SAP HANA management console (HANA Studio) is where
backups are initiated
• NetBackup SAP policy is configured
• SAP HANA streams the data to NetBackup based on the
configured policy
• NetBackup manages HANA backup sets to disk, tape, or off-site
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Where NetBackup meets SAP HANA
13. Backup for SAP HANA
• DR solutions and backup solutions address different problems
• Over half of IT departments back up all IMDB data, unnecessarily
• All backed-up data falls under retention compliancy requirements
• Expensive DR is not the answer for every company or every situation
• DR replication only addresses certain types of “failures”
For complete data protection, you need
disaster recovery + backup,
delivered by NetBackup
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Backup and disaster recovery are complementary capabilities
14. What Are the Advantages of Using NetBackup?
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15. Why NetBackup is an Advantage for HANA backups?
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What value do you lose with non-certified solutions?
• SAP customers want SAP certified solutions
– Filesystem based backups are not as optimal as a stream based backups
• SAP HANA’s catalog is not aware of a filesystem based backup, only stream
based backups will be in the SAP HANA catalog (NetBackup is a stream based
backup)
• Recovery to a specific point in time using a filesystem based backup will require
significantly more manual effort than a stream based backup that uses backint
(NetBackup uses backint)
• SAP supported, but not SAP certified (NetBackup is SAP certified)
• SAP HANA replication
– “Deletions” and “Corruptions” get replicated too; therefore replication
alone does not fully “protect” the SAP HANA data. Complete data
protection requires a backup
16. Title Native tools NetBackup 7.5.0.6
Data backup Yes Yes
Backup of configuration files No Yes
Point in time recovery Yes Yes
Backup media and capacity management No Yes
Ability to encrypt data No Yes
Multi-copy No Yes
Retention management No Yes
Advantages Over Native Tools Alone
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17. Summary of Advantages
• Faster backups through live streaming
• Because of the integration, the SAP HANA Studio catalog is
always aware of the backup sets with NetBackup
• Non-certified solutions create multi-step processes and
complexity for recovery
• The NetBackup agent for SAP HANA is easy to use and configure
• Nothing new for the SAP Admin or Backup Admin to learn
• NetBackup offers the benefits of deduplication, encryption,
media management, retention management, and off site
replication with Auto Image Replication (AIR)
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Key takeaways for why NetBackup adds value over competition
19. Licensing
• Easy licensing, choice of :
– Traditional: pay per agent (application database pack)
– By front end terabyte (capacity)
The agent is simple, the integration and operation is simple,
and so is the licensing.
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How do you license NetBackup for SAP HANA
20. NetBackup for SAP HANA 20
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• Backint certification process released by SAP
Backup/recovery API for the SAP HANA database (Backint for SAP HANA (HANA-
BRINT 1.1))
• SAP blog mentioning Symantec NetBackup as certified tool:
http://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2012/12/19/backint-for-sap-
hana-certification-available-now
• Symantec Connect blog announcements:
symantecs-netbackup-platform-certified-sap-integration-sap-hanaprovides-big-
data-backup-and-recovery
symantec-cooperates-sap-simplify-big-data-backups
More information on NetBackup’s integration with SAP HANA