Backup Solution for Microsoft Hyper-V

About Vembu Technologies

● Founded in 2004

● Private Company

● Profitable since 2006

● HQ in Chennai, India

● 4000+ Channel Partners

● Reached more than 60,000 businesses

● 70 % of our customers are from North America, 20% from Europe and the

rest 10% from APAC

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Modules

● Introduction

● Architecture

● Deployment

● How it Works ?

● Disaster Recovery Scenarios

● Pricing

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Introduction

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Vembu BDR Suite

● Vembu BDR suite is the one stop solution to all your backup and DR needs- Catering every requirement of small, medium and enterprise businesses.

Vembu BDR Suite

VMBackup

Image Backup

NetworkBackup

OnlineBackup

- Backup & Replication for VMware and Hyper-V

- Backup and Bare-metal recovery for Physical Windows Server & Desktops

- Backup solution for file/folders, applications like exchange, SQL, SharePoint, AD, MySQL etc.,

- Backup solution for file/folders, applications like exchange, SQL, SharePoint, AD, Outlook and etc. directly to Vembu Cloud

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Why Vembu VMBackup?

Challenges ● Backing up a Virtual & Physical server typically is more expensive and difficult to

manage● As we all know that it requires a fundamentally different approach

Solution● Vembu VMBackup is exclusively designed for Virtual & Physical Environments

by the experts in the industry● Vembu fills a purpose here to be the best of breed technology in providing

manageable solution in affordable cost for both physical and virtual servers along with the applications that resides in the system and also optional Cloud Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Challenges

● Major-Everyday challenges faced by IT administrators with Microsoft Hyper-V Data centers

○ How I can ensure the Business Continuity ?

○ How fast I can recover the data center during disaster?

○ How can I avoid data loss during DR?

○ How can I rely on my backups ?

○ How can I modify the resources of the VMs without disturbing the production environment

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Understanding RPO & RTO

RTO (Recovery Time Objective)Time duration to recover a backed up machine after disaster

Until which point in time you can recover the machine data after disaster.RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

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Back to Business in less than 60 seconds

vembu offers industry best RTO which is less than 15 minutes.

Instant Virtual Machine Recovery

Instant File-Level Recovery

Explorer for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQL and Active Directory

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Recovery Point Objective

Vembu offers near continuous data protection without affecting the production data center.

● Automated Backup & Replication scheduling

● Backup frequencies starts from 15 mins

● So you can assure RPO less than 15 mins

● Image level backup

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Backup Verification

Backup data should be recoverable. If not, it is worthless. Vembu provides ability to run automatic backup verification for all backed up VMs

● Backup verification can be automated to run post completion of every backup schedule or once in a day.

● In the process, booting of backed up Virtual Machine will be carried out and screenshot of boot screen will be captured. This screenshot details will be sent to administrators via email.

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VembuHIVE File System

VembuHIVE™ is an efficient cloud file system designed for large-scale backup and disaster recovery application with support for advanced use-cases. VembuHIVE™ can be defined as a File System for File Systems.

● In-built version control

● In-build Compression & Deduplication

● Encryption

● In-built error correction

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Virtual Lab

Vembu is the only Backup & DR solution that offer its customers:

● To create virtual lab on major hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM.

● To instantly create a virtual lab for testing backed up Virtual/physical machines

without requiring added storage and leaves production data center

undisrupted.

● To keep the persistent copies for future use or terminate it.

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Other Advantages of Hyper-V Backup

Host level Hyper-V backup is designed to protect Microsoft Hyper-V Servers

CBT enabled incremental ensures high performance incremental backup

Application-aware image processing for the VMs running Microsoft application

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Architecture

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Architecture - VM Backup

● Vembu VMBackup Client/Proxy is a transport software, which sits on the source Hyper-V Server and

used to process the VM data.

● Vembu VMBackup Client works as a proxy between Hyper-V Server and Vembu BDR Backup Server

● Vembu VMBackup Client/Proxy backs up the VM data from the storage location and compresses,

encrypts and delivers it to the Vembu BDR Backup server’s storage repository.

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Deployment

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Physical or Virtual ?

● Vembu BDR Backup Server, OffsiteDR Server and VMBackup Client can be installed on

physical or virtual machines

● It depends size of the environment

● Small business may use virtual machine for Vembu BDR backup server and OffsiteDR

server

● Recommending physical machine for Vembu BDR backup server and OffsiteDR server

to get instant boot feature

● Physical server will obtain additional hardware costs

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On-premises Deployment

● Setup DR site in your local environment and backup via LAN connections

● Backup VMs, Physical Machines applications to the local storage repositories

LAN

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Hybrid Deployment - Scenario 1

● Setup DR site in your local environment and backup via LAN connections and send another copy of backup data to Vembu Cloud via WAN connection by signing up Vembu CloudDR service

WAN

LAN

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Hybrid Deployment - Scenario 2

● Setup DR site in your local environment and backup via LAN connections and send

another copy of backup data to your Own Cloud via LAN/WAN connection by

deploying Vembu OffsiteDR Server

LAN/WANLAN

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Remote office/Branch office

● Setup Vembu BDR Backup

Server and Vembu

OffsiteDR Server in both

Remote office and Branch

office and sync backup

data between both the

locations

Site 2

Site 1

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Backup Server Clustering

● You can easily scale up the backup server when backup load increases

● Backup requests will be equally shared between each backup servers

Backup Server Cluster

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How it works ?

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Hyper-V Backup

● Backup multiple VMs in single backup job or option to create multiple backup jobs

with group of VMs

● Vembu CBT Driver for high performance incremental backups

● Hot Backup ensures zero VM downtime

● Supports Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2.

● Support for Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes

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Full Backup

● During initial full backup from host machine, Microsoft VSS services initiates the snapshot in the configured guest machine through “Hyper-V integration services”.

● Once the snapshot completes, Vembu VMBackup Client/Proxy will read VHD files and transfer the data to the storage repository

BackupRequest

VSS SnapshotInitiation

VM added ascomponent to VSS Squeezing I/Os

All applicationsinside VM come to

consistent state

VM Backing Up(Reading .

vhd/vhdx file)

VSS SnapshotInitiation

Backup SuccessAcknowledgementFULL BACKUP

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● After full backup, Vembu VMBackup CBT driver starts tracking VHD files associated with the guest machine.

● All changes in VHD files are efficiently tracked by the driver. ● When a incremental is scheduled, the block level changes alone will get backed up. This

improves the incremental performance and consistency of backup.

Changed Block Tracking

Capturing I/O &Logging the changes

to Bitmap file

Capturing I/O &Logging the changes

to Bitmap file

Vembu CBT willstart tracking

(Bitmap file Creation)

Full/Incrementalbackup done

Using copied Bitmapfile changed blockswill be backed up

Vembu CBT DriveTracking

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Basic Retention (Forever Incremental)

● Vembu VMBackup will merge the incrementals based on the number of daily restore points we choose to keep. So you can run forever incremental with only one full backup.

● Normally hourly incrementals will be merged daily and based on the restore points, it will only retain last ‘n’ number of restore points. Rest of the daily merged incrementals will be merged with the earlier incremental backup.

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Advance Retention - GFS Merge● Provides ability to specify retention policy for merging

multiple recovery points via GFS

(grandfather/father/son) settings.

● Enabling above options will reduce the time taken to

restore backed up machines and most importantly

reduce the size of merged image files in the storage

location.

● Generally, daily merge is known as ‘son’, weekly merge is

known as ‘father’ and monthly merge is known as

‘grandfather’.

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Application Aware Process● Application-aware process is to create consistent

database snapshots by quiescing the applications using Microsoft VSS

● This option allows you to stop the backup if any one of application writers (Eg: MS Exchange Writer) were in an unstable state or if VSS writers were not processed successfully after the snapshot.

● Along with application consistency, it will truncate the logs based on the configuration.

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Managing Backup Jobs

● Automates the backup process by scheduling from the window provided, later the incrementals will run forever without any manual scheduling.

● configure backup window settings, if you don’t want to run incrementals during non working hours and weekends

● Bandwidth Throttling feature enables the user to limit the bandwidth used by the backup process from the client machine. If you don’t want to spend your entire bandwidth on backups, use this feature to control or limit the bandwidth.

● Additionally you can specify the maximum number of full backups that need to be stored in the server.

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Disaster Recovery Scenarios...

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Instant VM Boot on MS Hyper-V

● Instantly boot the backed up VM on native or remote Microsoft Hyper-V

VM

Vembu Virtual Drive

Hyper-V

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Instant VM Boot on ESXi Host

● Instantly boot the backed up VM on any ESXi host

● Share the Vembu Virtual Drive by using NFS Share and mount it on Datastore

● Then create a VM on ESXi host and select the VMDK

VM

Vembu Virtual Drive

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Instant VM Boot on KVM

● Instantly boot the backed up VM on native or remote KVM

VM

Vembu Virtual Drive

KVM

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Restore VM to Hyper-V

● Restore the backed up VM permanently to a Hyper-V host (V2V)

VM

Hyper-V

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Restore VM to ESXi Host (V2V)

● Restore the backed up VM permanently to same or different ESXi host

VM

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Restore VM to KVM (V2V)

● Restore the backed up VM permanently to a KVM host (V2V)

VM

KVM

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File Level Restore

● Restore files/folders from the backed up VM instantly without restoring the backed

up VM

Vembu Virtual Drive

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Vembu Universal Explorer

● Vembu Explorers helps you to restore Exchange mails, SQL database/tables, SharePoint documents and AD Users/Roles instantly

Vembu Virtual Drive

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Vembu Virtual Drive

● Vembu Virtual Drive will be available in Vembu BDR Backup Server machine and for every VM, it will create a VHD, VHDX, VMDK, Flat-VMDK and RAW files instantly

● For every incremental schedule, full virtual hard disk files will be created without using any additional storage

Vembu Virtual Drive

VMDKVHD/VHDXRAW

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Pricing

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Pricing

● Vembu charges for Hyper-V backup based on CPU-

Socket count

● If an Hyper-V Server is deployed on a machine which

have two CPU-Sockets, you need to buy two “Hyper-

V Image Backup” licenses and backup unlimited VMs

● The licenses have to be renewed every year

● License cost includes unlimited product upgrade

and 24/7 email & telephone support

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