On Demand Webinar

Making The Always-On Data Center A Reality

In This Webinar You’ll Learn

1. Why Virtualization is Critical to the Always on Data Center

2. Why Availability is more than Backups

3. Why Disk Backup now needs to be production ready

4. How to Design and AFFORD and Always-On Data Center

For audio playback and Q&A go to:

http://bit.ly/Always-On

Our Speakers

George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

Kevin Russell, Vice President, North America Systems Engineering at ExaGrid Systems has been building, coaching and mentoring high-performing systems engineering teams for over 15 years. Prior to joining ExaGrid in 2011, Kevin¹s expertise in network architecture, data backup solutions, virtualization, and enterprise storage helped to bolster sales performance and strengthen business relationships at Riverbed Technology, Juniper Networks, and Divine Inc. Kevin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowling Green State University.

Shawn Lieu is a Solutions Architect with the Global Alliances Team at Veeam Software. He is based out of Atlanta, GA. His areas of focus include virtualization and data protection technologies. Shawn is an active member of the virtualization community where he is a member of the VMware vExperts, Cisco Champions and NetApp A-Team. He is also the co-host of Veeam Live, a live tech and virtualization show

● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:

http://storageswiss.com

Who Is Storage Switzerland?

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Veeam delivers valueVeeam Software develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection

140,000+ customers

4,000+ new customers per month

1,700 employees worldwide

100% channel engaged

8M VMs protected

# of Global 2K customers: 47%

# of Fortune 500 customers: 94%

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About ExaGrid

Established in 2002• Largest independent vendor in the space

100% focused on disk-based backup • Highly differentiated architecture• Winner of the most industry awards

Large customer base • Over 10,000 systems installed — worldwide• Over 350 published customer success stories

• More than all other vendors combined

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Agenda

• Roadblocks to the Always-On Data Center

• Three Steps to the Always-On Data Center

• Creating The Always-On Data Center

• Q&A

Polling Question

How long to recover critical servers if storage array failed?

A) 24+ Hours

B) 8+ Hours

C) 4+ Hours

D) 1 Hour

E) Less than 30 Mins

Polling Question

How long to recover critical servers if storage array failed?

Roadblocks tothe Always-On Data Center

● Cost

● Complexity● Scalability

● Belief

Always-On Data Center

3 Steps to the Always-On Data Center

● Flexible Infrastructure

● Flexible data protection software

● Flexible backup hardware

Flexible Infrastructure

● Virtualize Everything

● Enables Application Mobility

● Enables Data Mobility

● Empowers Data Protection Applications

● Empower Backup Appliances

Flexible Data Protection Software

● Virtualization Aware Data Protection Software● Consolidate Backup and Replication

● Granular Backups

● More Frequent Backups

● Online Data Access

● “Live” Protected Copies

Flexible Data Protection Hardware

● Backup Appliances Become Data Protection Appliances● Host backup software/agents

● Present production data stores

● Eventually Host VM Images?

Flexible Data Protection Hardware

● Backup Appliances Become Data Protection Appliances● Host backup software/agents

● Present production data stores

● Efficient Recovery of VM Images

Creating The Always-On Data Center

Not All Applications Are the Same

● Sub 20 Min RPO/RTP

Need Replication, Live Access

Should be less than 5% of VM population

Must be to a “live” target and maybe “warm VM”

● 20 min to 60 min

Need Recovery-in-place

Frequent Change Block Backups

Backup Storage System Able To Provide near-production performance

● 60 Min +

Less frequent CBT based on actual

Can be restored to original point instead of recovered in place

Sub-20 Min RPO/RTO Example

Sub-20 Min RPO/RTO Example

20-60 Min RPO/RTO Example

Present Data Volumes Back to Failed VMs

Availabilityfor the modern data center

Bridging The Gap

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High-speed Recoveryinstant VM recovery

vPower

migrate online

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Verified Protection & Leveraged DataSureBackup & On Demand Sandbox

VMOSAppReport

Verification job

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High-Speed Recovery

Application Item RecoveryVeeam Explorers for Microsoft Applications

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Challenges of Traditional Inline Deduplication

• Slows backup down due to

compute-intensive inline process

• Data is 100% deduplicated on disk

which slows down all requests due

to data rehydration time

• Backup window grows as data

grows since only disk capacity is

added

Backup software has a lower

deduplication rate, resulting in:• More storage• More bandwidth

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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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ExaGrid-Veeam Accelerated Data Mover

Veeam to Veeam Communications – Faster Than CIFS

With the Landing Zone Further Improves Performance for:• Restores• Instant VM recoveries – boot a VM in seconds to minutes• Tape copy• Sure Backup integrity check• Virtual Lab• Veeam backup copy and replication

Synthetic Full Backups on the ExaGrid• Eliminates Veeam backup server overhead and network traffic

Improved Copy and Replication Updates Veeam with Offsite Data

ExaGrid Repository• ExaGrid deduplication is in addition to Veeam deduplication• Allows for longer-term retention

Thank you!

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Making The Always-On Data Center A Reality

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