Blue Chip & Quest

Quest vRanger 5.0

Paul Martin – Questpaul.martin@quest.com

Richard Bessant – Blue ChipRichard.bessant@bluechip.uk.com

Who is Blue Chip...?

Established in 1992, Blue Chip is one of the UK's leading providers of business IT infrastructure solutions. We provide systems design, procurement, implementation, support, training and infrastructure outsourcing services to organisations across the UK.

As your solutions partner, Blue Chip will ensure that your organisation keeps pace with the ever changing demands of technology lifecycle management. The result is that your organisation can evolve into an innovative business that is fully enabled by technology.

Key Facts and Figures

Locations in Poole, Bedford, Southampton and Leeds

The South's Largest VUE & Prometric Training Centre, capacity for 100+ delegates a week.

£3million worth of dedicated facilities – training, hosting and offices

140+ staff, 75% of whom are technical resources

600+ clients varying in size between 5-5000 users

CRN and CNA 2008 Award winners

Supporting in excess of 60,000 PC‘s

Key Areas... Technology, Services and Training

Virtualisation – VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenDesktop

Unified Communications –Microsoft Lync 2010, Cisco UC Manager

Technical Training - Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, Mac OSX, UNIX, Linux, Citrix, ITIL, PRINCE2

Mobility and Wireless – Cisco, Microsoft, Citrix, Blackberry

Resourcing & Outsourcing - Fully managed services, TUPE agreements, contract, project management

Service Desk and Support - 24/7 Service Desk, SLAs, system monitoring, warranty management

Proactive Maintenance – Scheduled administration and system monitoring

Storage and Data Archiving –Symantec Enterprise Vault, EMC

High Availability Solutions – VMware, Microsoft, HP, EMC

Security & Unified Threat Management – Fortinet and Cisco

Business Management Applications – Microsoft Dynamics NAV and CRM inc. CRM 2011 Online

vRanger 5.0 – New features• Integrated Backup and Replication

• Simple job management• Simultaneously backup and replicate the same VM

• Cataloging – speed up restores by searching for files to restore• Launch file level restore from the search results!

• Linux FLR• Restore individual files from Linux virtual machines

• Support for NFS repositories• Store savepoints on NFS storage• Mount Data Domain appliances using NFS protocol

• LAN-free restore

vReplicator Integration• New Features

– Single UI for backup, restore and Replication– Email on success and failure– Pick Target VM to sync with from job creation– UI shows per task throughput– Resource Manager applies to backup, restore and replication– VM locking is internal to the vRanger service, external vzmutex can be turned off in

service config file.• Re-sync Improvements

– The following actions will NOT cause a re-sync• Upgrading vReplicator 3.0.3 to vRanger 5 • Restarting the vRanger service• Replication pass fails in the middle

vReplicator • AES-256 Encryption• 64-bit Platform Support• DPP Base• Shared Console with

vRanger

• 3 different license options

Catalog• Capturing the changed file set based on blocks that have changed.• Process is in parallel to the backup task• No guest credentials are needed for the source VM’s• The catalog data is stored into its own DB• Only indexes files that have been modified since the Full or last backup.• Catalog Data is purged when normal savepoint expires• Supports Windows guests

– All versions of windows with basic disks and MFT disks• No GPT support at this time

vRanger Pro 5 Catalog• Patent-pending• Efficient – created in

parallel to the backup• Fast – one-step

recovery using a single management console interface

• Seamless – VM/FLR and Object restore are automated from the saveset

Linux FLR• Supported File systems, EXT2,3, and 4, RiserFS.• Uses new Virtual Appliance to perform FLR• Linux FLR Tools are uploaded to the VA via SFTP• Restore Path

1. vRanger to VA via CIFS

2. VA to repository via repository protocol.

• VA restores files to a Windows box– Move files manually after restore

Installing VA for FLR on Linux• Download VA from OVF or Download vmdk file• Deploy from vCenter• Add IP and credentials in vRanger

Now you are able to perform FLR on Linux!

Repository Support• NFS

– Not using VMware’s VMFS/NFS, no need to setup NFS mounts on your hosts.– Does Support Windows to NFS

• We can backup from ESXi network and Fiber to NFS

– Compression and Encryption support– NFS share must have a sub folder

• FTP– Backup from ESXi network and Fiber to FTP– Compression and Encryption support

• Don’t forget the CIFS and SFTP

Other features• Change Block Tracking (CBT)

– Dramatically faster incremental & differential backups– Queries vStorage API

• Active Block Mapping (ABM)– Skip deleted data on Windows file systems – faster full, incremental & differential

backups– Patent-pending from Vizioncore– Queries Windows file system

• Object-Level Restore (OLR) for Microsoft Exchange– Requires Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange (RME)– First Agent-less OLR on Images

• Vizioncore VSS – 4.2.3 , 4.5 & 5.0– Free Download from Vizioncore.com Download Page

• Custom Backup Groups • AES-256 Encrypted Archives • Support of Thin Disk Provisioning

Performance Results: vRanger Pro• LAN Backups

– 4.5 with CBT: 47% faster– 4.5 with ABM: 49% faster– 4.5 with CBT & ABM: 57% faster

• Fiber Backups– 4.5 with CBT: 66% faster

• Restore: 90% faster– Empty blocks are no longer written

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Align VMs to 64K partition boundaries

• Properly aligned VMs can deliver up to 15% increases in I/O performance and significantly improved VM throughput

• Aswell as speeding up backups

Fibre Backup & Fibre Restore

Multiple Locations

Recovery Manager for Exchange

Introducing Recovery Manager for Exchange (RME)

• Works with multiple backup formats

• ‘Discovery’ – advanced search capabilities

• ‘Recovery’ – granular recovery of Exchange objects

Making it possible – Vizioncore VSS• Fixes the native VMware VSS problems

– No more time-lag– Capabilities to flush log files– Provides application-consistent queiscing across all relevant

Windows platforms

The vR-RME Workflow

1: Install & configure Vizioncore VSS

2: (Backup)

3: File-Level Restore

4: RME to recover objects

A File Level Restore (FLR) is performed from vRanger

• Mounts the Exchange server at an image level• Need the Exch. directory or indiv. files (.edb, .stm, log)• Must restore to a read/write location

4. Use RME to restore• Add a new source storage – “offline Exchange database”

– select the appropriate.edb and .stm files– “hard repair” option un-checked

• After the new source storage has been successfully added, – use RME mailbox or message restore wizards

Calender @ http://vizioncore.com/company/events/webinar_calendar

Resources @ http://vcommunity.vizioncore.com/

Training @ http://training.vizioncore.com/

Questions

Thank you

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