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Session Four: Accelerate Your Journey with Backup Built for VMware


Agenda • Virtualization trend and benefits

• Must-have list

• Deduplication

• Avamar is optimized for VMware backup & recovery

• Backup & recovery for large scale virtualized environments

• ESG Analyst video clip

• Summary


Virtualization Puts New Demands on Data Protection

D A T A P R O T E C T I O N R E Q U I R E M E N T S I N C R E A S E

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Phase 1 IT PRODUCTION

Cost Efficiency

Phase 2 BUSINESS PRODUCTION

Quality of Service

Phase 3 IT AS A SERVICE

Business Agility

15%

30%

85%

70%

Run IT as a business IT-owned applications Mission-critical applications

Improved IT production

Business productivity

Flexibility

Cloud Consolidation

Server utilization

Hardware costs

Operating expenses

Gold Platinum


Phase1

Phase2 Phase3

Reactive approach Backup

optimization

Phase1

Phase2 Phase3

Backup optimization

Proactive Companies Save Time and Money Proactive approach accelerates virtualization


“Data protection paradigms and architectures (especially backup and recovery) must change in order to adapt to virtualized environments.”

“IDC’s Worldwide Storage for the Virtualized Environment Taxonomy, 2009” (Doc #221325), Benjamin Woo, Laura DuBois, Noemi Greyzdorf, December 2009

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The VMware Backup “Must Have” List • Must address today’s issues

– Relieve resource contention – Contain backup storage growth – Enable more-effective disaster recovery

• Must provide business value – Lower backup infrastructure costs – Improve operations – Reduce risk

• Must integrate with VMware infrastructure – VMware vStorage API for Data Protection – VMware vCenter Server


Deduplication Is the Key

• Relieve resource contention

• Contain backup storage growth

• Enable more effective disaster recovery


VMware ESX Network

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C C

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C B

A C B

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Client-Side Deduplication Moves Less Data

1. Divides data into sub-file variable length segments

2. Determines if segments are unique or duplicate

3. Backs up only data that is unique

4. Sends data compressed and encrypted

Avamar Data Store


Avamar Deduplication backup software and system

• End-to-end, software/hardware solution

• Improves backup window, less network load – Client-side deduplication

• Integrated high availability and reliability

• Flexible deployment options – Standalone – Integrated with Data Domain and NetWorker

Full backups every time and one-step recovery

Higher backup success rate and reliability

Increased ROI, lower TCO, less risk

Avamar VM


Avamar Is Optimized for VMware • Guest-level backup

– Provides application consistency

• Image-level backup – Integrated with VMware vStorage API for Data Protection and

vCenter Server

• One-step file-level recovery from image backup

• Tight VMware vCenter Server integration

• Qualified on VCE Vblock Infrastructure Platforms in EMC test labs

• Deployable as a virtual appliance—Avamar Virtual Edition


VMware Guest-Level Backup Avamar agents ensure application consistency

• Application-specific agent within each VM ensures consistent state for hot backup

• Deduplicates within and across virtual machines

• Reduces resource contention and speeds backups

• Provides file-level restore for Windows, Linux, and Solaris

• Control cost with zero-dollar agents

Avamar agents

VMware ESX


VMware Backup Performance Avamar backup versus traditional backup

Full Backup • Single ESX Server

– 12 Virtual Machines • 100 GB per machine • 5% Change Rate

– Turn-on CPU throttling and save ESX CPU • Minimize CPU

utilized by ESX

CPU

Network

Disk

Traditional vs. Avamar Backup

Duration of Backup 36 Min.

56 Min. Saved From Traditional

No I/O Added

CPU

Avamar With and Without Throttle

Duration of Backup With Avamar

12 Min 1Hr 20 Min Saved


VMware Image-Level Backup

• Deduplication within and across VMDK files

• Changed Block Tracking (CBT) reduces backup time and minimizes recovery time

• File-level recovery from image backup (Windows)

• Flexible restore to original, existing, or new virtual machine

• Proxy server load balancing for superior throughput

Avamar integration with VMware vStorage API for Data Protection

Resource Pool

VMware Virtualization Layer

x86 Architecture

Physical server

Virtual machines

Storage Avamar Data Store

Mount

= Avamar software agent

Physical server


CBT Blocks

Faster Restores for VMDK

• Changed Block Restore – Use Changed Block Tracking

to transfer delta blocks between backup set and virtual machine

– Accelerates image restores

• Backup and restore to/from NFS and iSCSI SAN storage

VM Image Proxy

LAN-free

LAN-free

LAN/WAN

LAN/WAN

LAN/WAN LAN-free CBT Blocks

CHANGED BLOCK TRACKING (CBT) BACKUP

STANDARD RESTORE

CBT RESTORE

VM Image Proxy

VM Image Proxy

Unique Blocks

Whole VM Whole VM

CBT Blocks


ESX SERVER N ESX SERVER 1

Proxy Server Load Balancing

• Automatic and transparent

• Simplifies management

• Faster backup and recovery

Proxy VM

A B C E F D

= Data

VMware ESX Server Cluster

Proxy VM

VMware vCenter Server

Avamar Data Store

. . .


Integration with VMware vCenter Server • Manage data protection and contain

virtual machine sprawl

• Browse to VMware vCenter Server through the Avamar GUI

• Auto-discover virtual machines and their associated groups

• Monitor backup/restore operations in the Activity Monitor

• View VM protection status (guest/image/none)

Single point of management for VMware backup options


Integration with Data Domain High-speed, scalable Avamar backups to Data Domain systems

• Selectively back up and restore specific data types to a Data Domain system

– VMware image backup – Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange,

SharePoint

• Easy to manage – Associate Data Domain system(s) with Avamar – Select the destination of backup data via policy – Manage backups, restores, and replication

through Avamar GUI


Solution Sizing: Variables to Consider

• Number of virtual machines

• Data size of each virtual machine

• Aggregate daily change rate

• Backup window – Initial full backup and subsequent

• Underlying storage read performance – Connectivity, drive type and I/O


Backing Up 1,000 Virtual Machines 50 TB protected in 43 minutes

STEADY STATE

Proxy infrastructure: Dual-quad core,

64 GB memory

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Day 1 (250 VMs) Day 2 (500 VMs) Day 3 (750 VMs) Day 4 (1000 VMs)

Day 5 (1000 VMs)

Day 6 (1000 VMs)

Day 7 (1000 VMs)

TB Protected TB Scanned Total Time (Min)

Day 1 (250 VMs)

Day 2 (500 VMs)

Day 3 (750 VMs)

Day 4 (1,000 VMs)

Day 5 (1,000 VMs)

Day 6 (1,000 VMs)

Day 7 (1,000 VMs)


Customer Case Study: Health Quest • 12+ hour backups

• Frequent backup failures and downtime

• Long and inconsistent restores

Placed the VMware deployment on hold until backup issues were resolved

• Only Avamar could deliver – Eliminated tape and saved $1M over three years – 96 percent reduction in backup data – Increased VM-to-ESX server ratio – Improved service level agreements for backup and

recovery

U S E C A S E

“Our weekly full backups for our virtual environment were bringing our VMware servers to a crawl. With Avamar, we don’t even notice when backups run. From a TCO and management perspective, Avamar was an absolute home run.”

Michael Close, Sr. DBA and backup administrator, Health Quest

2 DATA CENTERS

210 VIRTUAL MACHINES

BACKUP EXEC + TAPE


Avamar for VMware Unlike anything else in the industry

• Maximize virtualization investments – Support for latest VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection – Tight VMware vCenter Server integration

• Deduplicated guest and image level, daily full backups – Shorten backup and recovery time – One-step full recovery – Improve bandwidth efficiency – Simplify data protection management – Shrink storage requirements – Lower costs

• Scalability, high availability, and reliability

• Replication and disaster recovery

• EMC’s backup and recovery solution portfolio


Avamar Disk Library for Mainframe

EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions

NetWorker Data Protection Advisor

Data Domain


Summary Accelerate the virtualization journey

Increase Consolidation

Ratios

90% Faster Backups

40x–60x Data Reduction

99% Reduction in Replication

Bandwidth

File, Image, and Site Recovery

Investment Protection

Improve Operations

Simplify Management

Lower Backup Infrastructure

Costs

Reduce Risk


Accelerate Your Virtualization Journey Now

• Next Steps – Assessments – Workshop

• Contact Your EMC Account Rep or Partner

• Visit – emc.com/backuptothefuture – emc.com/avamar


THANK YOU

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