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The Backup Exec Product Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Backup Exec 2012 V-Ray Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Backup to Virtual (B2V) and Convert to Virtual (P2V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Backup Exec 2012 and Off-Site Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

New Backup Exec 2012 User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Simplified Disaster Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Symantec Backup Exec™ V-Ray Edition:

The Backup Exec Product Family

Key Benefits

• V-Ray Edition protects VMware and

Microsoft Hyper-V as well as all of the

supported applications deployed in your

virtual environment

• The V-Ray Edition has the ability to

protect itself and duplicate your backup

data to tape or disk for redundant copies

• Symantec’s V-Ray technology provides

the visibility needed to see inside VMs

and understand how to protect them

• Integrated deduplication can copy

deduplication backup data from one

media server directly to another

• With the New Backup Exec 2012 user

interface you can create complete

backup rotations in as little as three

clicks

• Extend V-Ray to protect your physical

systems and use the new P2V and B2V

Conversions to perform Physical to

Virtual migrations while creating a

backup at the same time

• New Backup Exec technologies enable

offsite disaster recovery protection and

Bare Metal Recovery to dissimilar

hardware

• Instant ROI through reduced

administration of backups and increased

reliability

• Utilizing the market-leading Backup Exec

family of products means users can have

high confidence in their backup and

recovery services

The Symantec Backup Exec product family offers market-leading backup and disaster recovery

solutions for critical customer IT resources. This includes Backup Exec 2012, Symantec System

Recovery 2011, the BE 3600 Appliance, a virtual only V-Ray Edition, Capacity licensing, BE.Cloud

and the Small Business Edition.

Backup Exec 2012

Symantec Backup Exec 2012 has dramatically re-engineered its range of offerings and user

interface to deliver even more comprehensive and reliable backup and recovery for any IT

environment. The new, modern range of Backup Exec solutions are designed to adapt for any

business. Organizations can easily protect increasing amounts of data, in either virtual or

physical, environments with integrated VMware and Hyper-V protection, while reducing storage

and management costs through integrated deduplication and archiving technology; reduce

customer business downtime through integrated bare metal and dissimilar hardware recovery

features and backup to virtual (B2V) and convert to virtual (P2V) capabilities, and ensure critical

information on virtual or physical systems is always protected and can be restored in seconds.

Key Features

• Market-leading data and application protection for physical and virtual server environments

• A redesigned administration console eliminate complexity and reduce time managing backups

• Support for the latest virtual platforms, such as Hyper-V 2008 R2 and vSphere 5.0

• First-to-market granular recovery for virtual applications from a single-pass backup

• Block-level data deduplication reduces storage costs associated with backup processes

• Integrated bare metal and dissimilar hardware recovery make disaster recovery painless

• B2V and P2V features leverage virtual technology for migration and virtual fail over

• Backup Exec 3600 Appliance offers the reliability of Backup Exec software on optimized

hardware

These powerful capabilities in Backup Exec 2012 allow Businesses to protect more customer

data while reducing storage and management costs, optimize network utilization across physical and virtual environments, automate storage

management savings with efficient archiving and backup, and enable all types of recovery for both virtual and physical resources, all through

a single product and console.

Backup Exec 2012 V-Ray Edition

Extensive virtualization is just a fact of life in IT today. Driving down cost and increasing IT agility are the primary drivers behind going

"virtual". With an increasing number of complex workloads wrapped up in virtual machines (VMs), enterprises are challenged to maintain the

same degree of security and protection from a physical environment and also leverage benefits brought by virtualization. Attaining the

service levels for these business systems requires a high degree of visibility into virtual environments. Without this visibility, VM managers

have no way to answer crucial questions such as:

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• How can I protect both my virtualized and physical environments?

• How quickly can I recover or discover data within my virtualized environments?

• Am I running VM backups on huge amounts of wasteful redundant data?

• How many virtual machines are running in my environment?

V-Ray visibility is delivered across all of Symantec's products for virtual environments: security, storage, backup, etc. because virtual

machines should be protected as well as physical machines. Symantec's V-Ray technology provides the visibility needed to peer inside VMs

and understand how to protect these systems and run them at the highest possible service level.

Figure 1: V-Ray Edition Overview

Virtualization has become the primary computing environment for the market segments serviced by Backup Exec. Although Symantec is the

longest standing technical partner with VMware and has had virtualization backup capabilities built into Backup Exec since the 12.5 launch,

Backup Exec has not had a single virtualization only solution designed for those organizations that are completely “virtual”. Why would you

need one when so many organizations have both physical and virtual backup requirements, a solution Backup Exec offers today? We are now

seeing an increase in “virtual only” environments so Backup Exec 2012 offers organizations the ability purchase a single solution for virtual

and physical data protection and with the V-Ray Edition for both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, the ability to purchase a “virtual” edition.

Symantec Backup Exec™ 2012 V-Ray Edition is designed to completely protect VMware or Hyper-V virtual environments including critical

virtualized applications. With agent-less or agent-based virtual protection, the V-Ray Edition lets organizations optimize protection for virtual

machine performance and recoverability. The V-Ray Edition gives you granular recovery of entire virtual machines, single files, Active

Directory® objects, Exchange emails, SQL databases or SharePoint® documents from a single-pass backup. Backup Exec 2012 V-Ray Edition is

part of Symantec’s leading portfolio for virtualized environments. With integrated deduplication and site-to-site replication, the V-Ray Edition

is easy to use, providing complete protection for VMware and Hyper-V environments.

Included in the V-Ray Edition:

• Backup Exec Media Server

• Agent for VMware and Hyper-V

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• Agent for Applications and Databases

⁃ Exchange

⁃ SQL

⁃ SharePoint

⁃ Active Directory

⁃ Oracle

⁃ Lotus Domino

⁃ Enterprise Vault

• Deduplication Option

Today’s systems deliver more processing power by offering multiple ‘cores’ in a single CPU; a core being an independent processor. That

single CPU is installed on the system motherboard into a socket. So a CPU installed to a single socket supplies the processing power of

multiple processors. The number of cores in a multi-core CPU comes in pairs, with 2-6 cores being typical for entry level servers and 8+ being

typical for more enterprise worthy systems. The current industry standard for the ratio of VM’s per core is 4. For example, a single socket

processor with 6 cores is expected to supply processing power for up to 24 virtual machines (6 cores multiplied by 4 virtual machines per

core).

Currently VMware segments their support for multi-core processors at 6 cores. For systems with CPU’s that contain 6 cores or less a lower

price is offered than the price for 8+ core CPU’s. The Backup Exec 2012 V-Ray Editions follows this same licensing practice and offer a ‘Tier A’

license for each socket that has 6 cores or less and ‘Tier B’ licenses for each socket that has 8 cores or more. The license metric will apply to

occupied sockets (sockets that have a CPU installed to that socket). For example: If a system has 2 sockets for 6-core CPU’s but only one

6-core CPU is installed then only one “Tier A” V-Ray Edition license will be required.

The Backup Exec V-Ray Edition is licensed to protect all virtual machines running on the licensed ESX(i) and Hyper-V hosts and the huge

advantage here is that the Backup Exec Media Server and Deduplication Option can be installed on a physical system thereby giving it the

ability to protect itself AND duplicate the data to tape. The Backup Exec Media Server and Deduplication Option included in the V-Ray Edition

can also be used to protect a customer’s physical systems, simply purchase the additional agents and option to extend the V-Ray Edition for

a unified solution.

Backup to Virtual (B2V) and Convert to Virtual (P2V)

Modern businesses are based upon servers – powerful computing systems that host and manage business-critical applications and data.

Servers are the lifeblood of business today, without which businesses could not function at a very basic level in our modern industry. Some

examples of critical applications found on these servers are Exchange, SQL, and Active Directory. Because servers host business-critical

applications and priceless customer and corporate data assets, managing and protecting servers is the primary concern of IT professionals

across the globe.

Backup Exec 2012 continues to invest in virtualization technology. Two key new features included in the new Backup Exec 2012 SBE product

help administrators solve the problem of moving physical servers to a virtual environment and also give administrators unique tools for

leveraging virtualization technology for disaster recovery.

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These features are the ability to perform automated conversions of physical servers to a virtual machine replica (P2V), perform automated

conversions of physical servers – using existing backup sets – to a virtual machine replica (B2V), and perform “ad hoc” or on demand

conversions of physical server backups to a virtual machine replica.

Convert to Virtual (P2V)

The new Backup Exec 2012 P2V feature allows administrators to configure protection policies for physical servers that protect the server by:

1. Storing backup data to the Backup Exec server

2. Creating a virtual machine replica of the server on an available VMware or Hyper-V host

For protection policies configured with a P2V task, the backup operation and the virtual machine replica operation occur in parallel, or at the

same time.

Backup to Virtual (B2V)

A Backup Exec 2012 protection policy configured with a B2V task is similar to a protection policy configured with a P2V task. However, B2V

policies run the backup and virtual machine replica operations serially, meaning the backup operation runs first, and the virtual replica

portion runs immediately afterwards or on a different schedule.

Figure 2: Convert Physical to Virtual and Figure 3: Backup to Virtual

Backup Exec 2012 and Off-Site Replication

Backup Exec 2012 includes an Off-Site Replication feature (Optimized Duplication), a combination of Backup Exec’s powerful data

deduplication capabilities with the ability to copy backup data from one media server directly to another.

Optimized duplication technology can be used in Backup Exec 2012 environments to copy deduplicated backup sets from one Backup Exec

media server to another, or from one OpenStorage (OST)-compatible appliance to another (including Symantec appliances). This process

allows backup data to be recoverable at different locations, eliminating a single backup server as a single point of failure; offering

deduplicated Granular Recovery without the need to “re-hydrate” the data – eliminating shipping tapes to different locations.

When backup sets are transferred using optimized duplication, the data is copied in its deduplicated form, greatly reducing the amount of

data being moved and reducing the amount of network bandwidth required.

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Figure 4: Optimized Duplication Process Diagram

For more information about Backup Exec 2012’s powerful Off-Site Replication capabilities and its uses, including offsite disaster recovery

and remote office protection, please refer to the Backup Exec Optimized Duplication white paper available for download at

www.backupexec.com. Additional documentation resources as well as free trial editions of Backup Exec are also available at this site.

New Backup Exec 2012 User Interface

The new user interface has been designed with simplicity in mind. It conveys the information required more simply and concisely by providing

users with just the things they need with reduced and consolidated options and choices. The aim was to create a user experience that is more

intuitive so that anyone should be able to be productive within a short time.

Figure 5: New Backup Exec User Interface

The management of your data protection requirements has been changed to focus on the resources to be protected and the elimination of

backup policies and complexity. Getting systems protected by simply adding stages and just showing relevant options enable almost anyone

to set Backup Exec 2012 Small Business Edition.

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Simplified Disaster Recovery

To help businesses prepare for and overcome the problem of server failure and downtime, Symantec has introduced Backup Exec 2012 with

integrated bare metal recovery and dissimilar hardware recovery – also known as hardware discovery - capabilities. These new features make

full server recovery easy, and offer it as a built-in element of Backup Exec 2012 data and application protection practices.

Now, using Backup Exec 2012, a single protection policy for server can protect it against all types of disaster or failure, and enable all of the

following types of recovery:

• Server Recovery

• Bare metal recovery

• Dissimilar hardware recovery

• Application Recovery (agent for Microsoft Applications and Databases included)

• Granular Application Recovery (agent for Microsoft Applications and Databases included)

• Granular File and Folder Recovery

• Full Virtual Machine Recovery (Hyper-V only)

The core technology that enables the bare metal and dissimilar hardware restore capabilities within Backup Exec 2012 is called Simplified

Disaster Recovery. This technology ensures that key system-level elements of a server are captured and stored as part of a backup operation.

When a bare metal or dissimilar hardware restore operation is performed, this system-level information is used to rebuild the failed server

and restore it to a functional state. Some of these critical system components include: System volume, Boot volume, Services volumes, and

System state components.

In Backup Exec 2012, the Simplified Disaster Recovery feature is enabled by default for every new backup policy that is created. It is

represented within the Backup Exec 2012 user interface as a part of the backup selections screen through a ribbon titled “Simplified Disaster

Recovery”

Rapid Recovery for what you need when you need it:

• Makes applications, files, and server recovery easy

• Avoid costly downtime with fast, easy recovery

• Microsoft Applications and Hyper-V restore

Summary

Targeted at organizations at the upper end of the small business to mid-market segment, the V-Ray Edition includes agents and options that

deliver comprehensive protection for a customer’s virtual environment. The V-Ray Edition includes unlimited use of Backup Exec Media

Servers, the Agent for Applications and Databases as well as the Deduplication Option in a virtual environment. A customer will be able to

protect all virtualized instances of all applications and databases supported by Backup Exec without regard to over deployment of agents

within the virtual environment.

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www.backupexec.com BE Home Page

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www.symantec.com/business/products/newfeatures.jsp?pcid=pcat_business_cont&pvid=57_1 What’s New in BE 2012

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About Symantec

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consumers and organizations secure and manage

their information-driven world. Our software and

services protect against more risks at more points,

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