WebinarThe Five Ways Backup Design

Can Impact Virtualized Data Protection

Learn How To Meet These Challenges:

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1. The Full Backup Challenge

2. The Changed Block Backup Challenge

3. The Consolidated Full Challenge

4. The Replication Challenge

5. The Instant Recovery Challenge

About George Crump

● Founder of Storage Switzerland, and its lead analyst

● Areas of expertise include performance optimization and data protection.

● Recognized for his talks, white papers and chalktalk videos on such current technology as all-flash arrays, SSDs and software-defined storage

● He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US

ExaGrid at a Glance

7,000+Systems installed globally

345+Customer success stories and videos at ExaGrid.com

CompanyOffices across North America, Europe, APAC

ProductHighly scalable, cost-effective disk backup with deduplication system

Over 20 compatible backup applications & utilities and technology certifications

About ExaGrid Speaker

Kevin Russell, Vice President, North America Systems Engineering

Kevin has been building, coaching and mentoring high-performance systems

engineering teams for over 15 years in disciplines ranging from network

architecture, data backup solutions, virtualization and enterprise storage. Kevin

holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowling Green State University.

i 20 years, he has held multiple leadership positions with major technology companies including NetScrJunip, and Riverbed Technology. Kevin has a degree from State University in Bowling Green, OH and has co-authored a book on network security.

Polling Question

"What Do You Wish Your Virtualized Backup Would Do Better?"

A) More, Faster Backups Throughout the Day

B) Require Fewer or Zero Full Backups

C) Faster Recoveries To Original Host

D) Better "Recovery in Place" Performance

E) Better Reporting of DR Status via Replication

Polling Question

"What Do You Wish Your Virtualized Backup Would Do Better?"

The State of Virtual Backup

• Software has improved significantly over the past three years

• New features could enable the cost effective achievement of very high SLA capabilities

• But…hardware has largely remained status quo and has been leap frogged by software

Design Challenge #1 VM Backup Changed the State of Backups

Design Challenge #1 VM Backup Changed the State of Backups

● Full Backups Remain A Challenge

Deduplication and compression does not help on initial full backups

● The Change Block Backup Challenge

Small but varied I/O now bombard the backup target

● The Consolidated Full Challenge

Creating a off-host full is more time consuming than simply copying the data over the wire a second time

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Changed Block Backup Challenge

Legacy: Once a night sequential data copy

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Changed Block Backup Challenge

Now: protection several times a day, incremental update

Optimized

Native

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Consolidated Full Challenge

Legacy: Backup was a bunch of 1’s and 0’s

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Consolidated Full Challenge

Now is multiple versions of VM’s that need to be reconstituted in to a new full backup

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Consolidated Full Challenge

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Consolidated Solution

Consolidation on the backup appliance, no network hops

Design Challenge #2 VM Backup Changed Disaster Recovery

● The VM Backup App and the Backup Appliance can replicate off-site

Having the software do the replication consumes backup and DR target server resources

Having the appliance do the replication means that the backup software has no awareness of the replica copy

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Replication Challenge

DR Site

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Replication Solution

DR Site

Command Control

Design Challenge #3 VM Backup Changed Recovery

● Full Restore Challenge

Deduplication and Multiple hops can impact full recovery when moving data across the network

● The Tape Copy Challenge

VM specific backup apps are adding the ability to create tape. Deduplication can impact that process and can add multiple hops across the network

● Recovery In Place

Changes the Relationship we have with the backup appliance – It can potentially be production storage

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Restore Challenges

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Restore Challenges

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Restore Solution

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Restore Solution

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Recovery in Place Challenge

Performance degraded because of deep drives, busy controllers, deduplication and compression

Optimized

Virtualization Has Changed BackupsThe Recovery in Place Challenge

Native

Optimized

Optimizing Architectures for VM Backup

● The State of Backups Are Changing

● The State of DR is Changing

● The State of Recover is Changing

● Requires Intelligent Backup Appliances

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ExaGrid – A Better Way!

Unique Architecture• Front-end landing zone• Adaptive deduplication

• Occurs in parallel• Scale-out

• Full server appliances in a GRID

ExaGrid Solves the Problems• Fastest backups• Fastest restores, instant recoveries

& tape copies• Fixed length backup window as data grows• Eliminates obsolescence and

forklift upgrades

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Fastest Restores and Recoveries

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ExaGrid-Veeam Accelerated Agent

• Veeam to Veeam communications• Faster than CIFs

• With the landing zone further improves performance for:• Restores• Instant VM Recovery• Tape copy• Sure Backup integrity check• Virtual Lab

• Synthetic full backups on the ExaGrid• Eliminates Veeam backup server overhead and network traffic

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Thank you!

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