Data Protection and Recovery Solutions for VMware

© FalconStor Software 2011 · All Rights Reserved

David ShyuFalconStor Software

[email protected]

Data Protection and Recovery Solutions

for VMware

Usage rightsCopyright © 2011 FalconStor Software · All Rights Reserved

Data Protection & Recovery for VMware Environments2

Agenda

• Data Protection in VMware Environments– Data Protection demonstration

• Data integrity and system recovery• Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Site Recovery

Manager– Site Recovery Manager demonstration– Physical to Virtual support with Site Recovery Manager

• WAN optimization

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Data Protection and Recovery for VMware Environments

Data Protection for Virtual Environments



The True Value

Lies in the Heart of the Enterprise



Efficient Data Management is Mission Critical

Operating Systems may change and evolveApplication vendors may come and goServers are being virtualized and democratizedData is persistent and the immutable and ever-present corporate asset

Data is the Vital Center



Energy Space Cooling Management

Server Sprawl



Server Consolidation




Average Large Enterprise 3.5 PetabytesAverage Medium Enterprise 350 Terabytes

Virtual Server – Physical Bottleneck



Backup is Broken

• Production system impact• Shrinking backup window• Complex tape management processes• High costs of replication and/or tape shipment• Storage vendor lock-in• RTO from 2 to 24 hours• RPO 18+ hours• Cost, cost, cost!

CPU load impact



• Server Virtualization

• Poor data lifecycle management

Exploding Storage Growth Rethinking

Data Protection

Customer Challenges




Transforming the once a day process into a continuous process

Virtual Server – Backup Transformation



Unified Backup and RecoveryInstant Data Availability



Data Protection Demo



Data Integrity and System Recovery

Enhancing Data Protection in VMware Environments



VMware Recovery with FalconStor Software• FalconStor software provides a set of tools to

enhance VMware data protection– 100% transactional integrity of data for fast restores – WAN-optimized data replication to reduce

bandwidth use by 90% or more– Integration with VMware vCenter Site Recovery

Manager – Physical-to-virtual, Physical-to-physical, and

Virtual-to-virtual with FalconStor RecoverTrac™ technology



Continuous Data Protection and Snapshots

• Continuous data capture with multiple options for historical views – Up to 255 snapshots per volume

• Snapshots can be scheduled as well as created manually• Create readable/writeable view from any point in time• Tape and backup license savings = ROI less than 18 months

Hourly Snapshots: 24

Daily Snapshots: 30

Weekly Snapshots: 4

Example



Application-centric Protection

Why is application integration important?

Because when you recover, you want your data to look like this

And not like this

Crash Consistent Data

Transactionally Complete Data



FalconStor Snapshot Director for VMware

• FalconStor Snapshot Director for VMware is designed to ensure transactional integrity of data– Data is not in a crash consistent state (it is 100%

transactionally consistent)– No need for lengthy system/DB checking

• Coordinates snapshot process between VMware and FalconStor application-specific and file system-specific snapshot agents

• Runs on the ESX server• Integrates with Site Recovery Manager



Where Do the Pieces Fit?

FalconStor CDP

ESX server

Application Snapshot Director is a separate virtual machine

Application-specific agents install within the virtual machine

FalconStor CDP or FalconStor NSS provides virtualized storage and replication services

VMware Service Console

Microsoft Exchange, OracleMicrosoft SQL Server

IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, Sybase, Informix, DB2, SAP, Pervasive SQL

Application Snapshot

Agent

OS

Virtual Machine

Application

File system Agent


Agent

OS

Virtual Machine

Application

File system Agent


Agent

OS

Virtual Machine

Application

File system Agent

File system agent installs on the hosted OS

Windows File System, Linux File System

Snapshot Director Virtual Appliance



2

1

Snapshot Sequence of Events

1. SD puts the application into a hot backup modei. Application holds up

processing, flushes cache

2. Application agent informs file system agenti. Agent ensures file system

cache flushed to disk

3. SD initiates VMware snapshot

4. Transactionally complete snapshot taken across the virtual LUN

5. All systems releasedFalconStor CDP

ESX server


Agent

OS

Virtual Machine

Application

File system Agent


Agent

OS

Virtual Machine

Application

File system Agent


Agent

OS

Virtual Machine

Application

File system Agent

3

4

VMware Service Console

Snapshot Director Virtual Appliance



Storage Virtualization and Site Recovery Manager



The Importance of Site Recovery Manager

• VMware Site Recovery Manager is a critical disaster recovery tool

• Provides automation of DR processes

• Provides automation of DR testing

• Provides reporting for proof of compliance



Challenges for Site Recovery Manager Implementation• Site Recovery Manager does not move data by itself, it

requires array-level data replication• Limited number of disk vendor certifications for Site

Recovery Manager• Vendor Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) is platform

specific– Need the same hardware on both primary and remote sites– Limited product certifications

• Need to change the underplaying infrastructure at the primary site, the secondary site, or both

• Breaks the virtualization promise of platform independence



Integration with Site Recovery Manager

• FalconStor Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) integrates FalconStor replication with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

• FalconStor CDP or FalconStor NSS provides replication engine

• Virtual disk assignments are automatically coordinated with associated virtual machines with the help of FalconStor SRA

• Disaster recovery scenarios can be tested at any time– A TimeView™ snapshot image is created and mounted to a virtual

machine being tested– The virtual machine is started– Recovery is validated and the TimeView image is removed



Key Components of Site Recovery Manager integration with FalconStor DR Solutions

FalconStor CDP

Storage Replication

Adapter

Site Recovery Manager

VMware Virtual CenterFalconStor Storage Replication Adapter coordinates with Site Recovery Manager, installs in Virtual Center

FalconStor CDP or FalconStor NSS provides replication services coordinated with Site Recovery Manager


Agent

OS

Virtual Machine

Application

File system Agent


Agent

OS

Virtual Machine

Application

File system Agent


Agent

OS

Virtual Machine

Application

File system Agent

Application and file system agentsESX

Service Console

Snapshot Director Snapshot Director



FalconStor Storage Virtualization Device

• FalconStor CDP and FalconStor NSS are certified for vCenter Site Recovery Manager

• Allows any storage on VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) to be used with Site Recovery Manager– In effect, FalconStor DR solutions extend Site Recovery

Manager certification to connected disk

• Increases storage array flexibility for VMware Site Recovery Manager, brings support to existing SAN

• Allows Site Recovery Manager testing without breaking the replication stream



Heterogeneous SAN Replication Any-to-Any Disk – Freedom from Vendor Lock-in



Heterogeneous Replication – Any to Any Disk

VMware vCenter Server with Site

Recovery ManagerVMware vCenter Server with Site

Recovery Manager

Heterogeneous Replication

With Auto-failback Support

Managementdata

Any storageDisk Vendor A

Any storageDisk Vendor B

Primary Site Remote Site



Site Recovery ManagerDemonstration



The FalconStor Site Recovery Manager Advantage• Provide Heterogeneous Replication for VMware

environments• Full Automation of failover and failback operations with

vCenter Site Recovery Manager• Enables VMware DR deployments on any HCL certified

storage platforms• Enable customers to use their current infrastructure to

implement Site Recovery Manager and DR for VMware• Provides cost effective DR strategy implementation• Disaster Recovery solutions that protect infrastructure

investment and provide flexibility



Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Support with Site Recovery

Manager

Complete Automated Disaster Recovery



Extending the SRM Game with RecoverTrac

• SRM’s scope is Virtual-to-Virtual (V2)• FalconStor extends SRM’s scope to P2V!

SAN

Raw device mapping

Data copy to

secondary storage

Physical Servers



RecoverTrac Value-Add

• SRM = V2V DR • SRM + RecoverTrac = (V2V + P2V) DR

• RecoverTrac also offers:• P2P, P2V, V2V “Local Recovery”• P2P, P2V “DR Recovery”

Remote Replication AND RecoverTrac tool are standard features of FalconStor CDP



FalconStor CDP: RecoverTrac P2V

vCenter-NYC:

Physical “MyServer”

WANWAN-optimized Replication

RecoverTrac: Auto Failover/Failback

DR siteLocal site

TimeMarkReplica

CDP1SFO Site

CDP2NYC Site

RecovrTrac

TimeMark

Virtual “MyServer-DR”

vCenter-SFO:

Virtual “MyServer-P2V”

Enhancing Disaster Recovery with RecoverTrac™ DR Orchestration Tool

Physical “MyServer-P2P”



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 CDP



Heterogeneous Replication w/ RecoverTrac: Any to Any Disk, any to any Machine, any to any Hypervisor

Heterogeneous Replication

Any storageDisk Vendor A

Any storageDisk Vendor B

Primary SiteRemote Site



WAN Optimization



Achieving Efficient Data Replication

Deploy sub-block replication to move your data



MicroScan™ WAN Optimization

• Applications and file systems write far more data to disk than actual changes

• FalconStor solution scans the changes at a 512 byte disk-sector level and replicates only the changed data– Avoids constant re-

sending of duplicate data

512 byte = empty disk sector

= data written by application or file system

= sector with actual data change

A typical 8k write of data. Many systems send all 8k or more. FalconStor CDP and FalconStor NSS send

only the truly changed sectors.

512 byte

Disk sectors



Replication Savings and ROI

Data WAN link

Normal Replication

Time

WithMicroScan

WAN needed without MicroScan to replicate in 10.7

hours

MicroScan Annual WAN Cost Savings

1.2TB T3 68 hours 10.7 hours 2 x OC3 $600,000

Note: 84% replication reduction on customers data type (database, email, documents, images)

16TB vs. 101TB required at DR site for storing 83 days worth of recovery points on disk:

WAN Savings:

Storage Capacity Savings: 630%

16TB

101TB

Tier 1 storage @ 40K per TB fully burdened cost x 101TB = 4.04 MillionTier 2 storage @ 20K per TB fully burdened cost x 16TB = 320K

MonolithicModular

Storage Cost Savings: $3,720,000 Year 1



Solution Deployment Options

• All FalconStor solutions are available in three forms

Virtual Appliance Storage ApplianceGateway Appliance or

Software Kit• Built on top of

VMware ESX• Deploy via image to

any certified server

• Server+storage in a single physical device

• Pre-configured amount of storage

• End user chooses server hardware

• Connects to third-party storage

devices

CDP



Summary

• FalconStor has the most complete set of VMware data protection products in the industry

• FalconStor CDP provides zero-impact VMware backup• Data integrity agents ensure 100% data consistency • Full integration with vCenter Site Recovery Manager• Fully automated Disaster Recovery• Optimized WAN replication

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