PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer Jim Schrand Senior Director, Product Management
Jan 15, 2015
PHD Virtual Backup for
Citrix XenServer
Jim SchrandSenior Director,
Product Management
Jim SchrandSenior Director,
Product Management
Agenda
Corporate Overview The PHD Difference Product Architecture Product Demonstration Wrap up
Key Messages
Focused on backup software for virtual server and desktop deployments on multiple hypervisors
Deliver architecture that enables valuable and unique features and benefits in both backup and restore
Compliment your investment in traditional(physical) backup solutions through our integration adapters
Financial resources to grow the business and realize our product roadmap
Company Overview
Founded in 2005 Our Solution: PHD Virtual Backup solutions have been in
the market since 2006 Over 2500 customer worldwide rely on our solutions
Acquired by Insight Venture Partners – $3B software investment fund
Citrix strategic investment in 2010
Global Partner network with over 300 partners
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Company Overview – Customer Growth
TODAY
# of Customers
500 CustomersCommercial esXpress release
1,300 Customers
2,500 Customers
“Reader’s Choice”Preferred product
Acquired by Insight Venture Partners
Citrix Investment
Sample Customer by Vertical
Financial & ServicesRetail, Manufacturing
& HealthcareTechnology &
Electronics Government
Education
Customer Driven Development
• PHD Virtual Users Group• Quarterly CEO Roundtable Webinar Series• Monthly Technology Feedback Sessions with
Product Management• Product Action Committee
Product Strategy
• Unique Architecture: Reliability, Security, Performance / Scalability, Ease of Use, Flexibility, Cost Effective
• Cross Platform Capability: One solution for all major hypervisors and virtual desktop infrastructures
• Enterprise Coexistence: Integration adapters with all leading physical backup vendors
Goal: Become the Gold Standard Solution to backup large virtual environments
PHD VBA™ Architecture OverviewPhysical Host Server
Supported HypervisorsVMware ESX
Hosted Virtual Desktops
Citr
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XenD
eskt
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Citr
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XenA
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VMw
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View
Virtual Machines
Any OS supported by
Hypervisor
PHD Virtual Backup ApplianceSureRestore™TrueDedupe™OpenRestore™
Tape
Storage Targets
SAN, NAS, Local Disks
Quantum
Symantec
Net App
HP
3rd Party Software
EnterpriseBackup
Solutions
PHD VBA™ Architecture OverviewPhysical Host Server
Supported HypervisorsVMware ESXVMware ESXi
Citrix XenServer
Hosted Virtual Desktops
Citr
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XenD
eskt
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Citr
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XenA
pp
VMw
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View
Virtual Machines
Any OS supported by
Hypervisor
PHD Virtual Backup Appliance
SAN, NAS, Local Disks
Quantum
PHD Virtual SAN
Symantec
Net App
HP
Tape
3rd Party Software
EnterpriseBackup
Solutions
SureRestore™TrueDedupe™OpenRestore™
PHD VBA™ Architecture OverviewPhysical Host Server
Supported HypervisorsVMware ESXVMware ESXi
Citrix XenServerMicrosoft Hyper-V
Oracle VM
Hosted Virtual Desktops
Citr
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XenD
eskt
op
Citr
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XenA
pp
VMw
are
View
Virtual Machines
Any OS supported by
Hypervisor
PHD Virtual Backup Appliance
Enterprise Backup API
Tape
SAN, NAS, Local Disks
EnterpriseBackup
Solutions
PHD Virtual SAN
Symantec
Net App
HP
3rd Party Software
Quantum
SureRestore™TrueDedupe™OpenRestore™
The VBA ™ Architecture Advantage
VBA ™ Architecture Delivers
Performance & Scalability
Cost
Reliability & Compliance
Flexibility & Ease of Use
Performance & Scalability
• Multiple concurrent backup and restore streams per PHD VBA™
• Dom 0 not used for I/O operations• Support for Changed Block Tracking• TrueDedupe™ Technology
Performance & ScalabilityTrueDedupe™ Technology
• Source-side, global de-duplication
• Reduces disk capacity requirements
• Reduces network bandwidth consumption
• De-dupes against real data, not an arbitrary template
Citrix XenServer Host
AppsOS
VM1
AppsOS
VM2
AppsOS
VM3
1 5 7
1 3 9
5 7 9
PHD VBA™
Blocks Compressed& De-duplicated
at Source7
95
32
14
BackupTarget
Reliability & Compliance
• Distributed architecture: No single point of failure
• Disaster recovery / High Availability options• Effective snapshot removal• Auto-discover new VMs• SureRestore™ Technology• OpenRestore™ Technology
Reliability & Compliance SureRestore™ Technology
Data Blocks Verified In-Line During
Backup
Data Blocks Checked in
Background on Backup Target
Corrupt Blocks Identified and
Flagged as BAD
BAD Blocks Replaced with Good Blocks During Next
Backup
Successful Restore Operation Completed
Reliability & Compliance OpenRestore™ Technology
• No proprietary software required to restore data from backup device
• Meet compliance requirements without ongoing license and maintenance costs
Don’t allow your data to be held hostage!
Flexibility & Ease of Use
• Integration into Citrix XenCenter
• Support for multiple hypervisor platforms
• Policy driven administration
• Deploy as an appliance• Date Smart Dynamic
Export Technology
Re-hydrate and copy backups to tape from a SMB/Windows Share
Data copied in XenServer native VHD format to allow one-step restore from tape
Data is not locked in a proprietary format
Flexibility & Ease of UseDate Smart Dynamic Export
Cost
• No additional expense for proxy server hardware and software
• Reduced storage capacity requirements with TrueDedupe™ Technology
• No ongoing licensing fees with OpenRestore™ Technology
• Policy driven administration reduces IT costs
Introducing Support for Desktop
Available Today
PHD Virtual & the Virtual Desktop
• PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp supports backup and recovery of virtual desktop machines
• PHD TrueDedupe™ delivers significant benefits in this environment– Large compression ratio due to similarity of images
• Specifically OS and applications– Reduced bandwidth requirements due to source side de-
dupe
• Restore capabilities: entire desktop image or at the file level
PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer
• Premier data protection solution for the XenServer environment– Citrix strategic investment in PHD announced
May 20, 2010
• Full integration with Citrix XenCenter• Demo will show– Installation of PHD Virtual Backup plug-in for
XenCenter– Wizard driven backup and restore– Backup and restore job monitoring
Demo
Summary
• PHD VBA™ Architecture delivers– Performance & Scalability– Reliability & Compliance– Flexibility & Ease of Use– Cost
• Endorsed by Citrix Systems and passed testing requirements of Citrix Ready program
• Full integration with XenCenter for single pane of glass management
Pricing/Licensing Options
PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer
$2,000 per host Multiple concurrent backups per host Built-in replication for DR Source-side global de-duplication Bundled with Gold Support 11 hrs, 5 days week Volume Purchase Pricing
Enterprise License Agreement
Platinum 24x7 Support
866-710-1882 (USA and Canada)+1-267-298-5320 (International)