Webinar Replay 0921 Sean Clark Vmware Dr Expert Checklist

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VMware Disaster RecoveryExpert Checklist for VMware DR Planning

Sean Clark

Twitter: @vSeanClark

Blog: seanclark.us

VMware vExpert, VCP
http://go.veeam.com/v6-backup-replication


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Administrative points on this webinar

Questions

Can use the virtual Q&A panel. This webinar is recorded and available for replay after a few days.

At the end of the webinar, we can raise virtual hand for dialog questions.

Stick around until the end of the webinar!

Winners will receive a choice of books!

Overview of Veeam


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About Veeam

Veeam Software develops innovative products

for virtual infrastructure managementand data protection.

Reduce costs, mitigate risk, and fully realize the promiseof virtualization with Veeam.


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DR Planning Sanity Check

Intro

Assessing DR Needs Design for VMware DR

Strategic Design

Back to Rick


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May 2011 Tornado - Joplin, MO


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Japan Tsunami - March 2011


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It will never happen to us...

We dont live in tsunami affected area.

Tornados have never hit our town. Paying for your recovery site doesnt increase our

revenues.

You have backups on tape so were okay.

Its okay, we have RAID.

Whos afraid of the big bad wolf?


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But beware the Humans!

Source: 2008 Accenture Survey
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Phased Approach

Assessment - Gathering key requirements for DR

solution Design - Creating a DR plan to meet business and

technical requirements

Deploy - Stand up necessary infrastructure. Install,

configure and test solution Manage - Regularly test your DR plan as frequently as

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DR Planning should be Business Focused

Key BIA activities

1. Identify critical business systems2. Identify system resource dependencies

3. Identify key support personnel or teams

4. Estimate disruption impact

5. Determine resource recovery priority

Free BIA template put out by the Centers for DiseaseControl (CDC)
http://www2.cdc.gov/cdcup/library/templates/CDC_UP_Business_Impact_Analysis_Template.dochttp://www2.cdc.gov/cdcup/library/templates/CDC_UP_Business_Impact_Analysis_Template.doc


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BIA Template


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Determine RPO and RTO

RPO -> Recovery Point Objective

How many hours of data loss tolerated How much data doesnt need re-entered

Affects BRTO Business Recovery Time Objective

RTO -> Recovery Time Objective How many hours after disaster declaration that service must be restored

Relates directly to ease of recovery and DR test

Guides specific DR designs


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Use Cases Drive RPO and RTO

Understand your business

Education K-12 RPO of 24-48 hours acceptable

RTO of days-week probably acceptable

Accounting firm

Tax Season - RPO/RTO of < 1 hour After Tax Season RPO/RTO of 24-48 hours

Healthcare Patient care systems RPO/RTO of near-zero

but budget dictates how low you can go

Back office systems RPO/RTO of 24-48 hours Budget will dictate how low you can go


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Understand your Budget

How big is your stack of chips?

Create some wiggle room in the budget Consolidate DR in one system

Re-use DR for Test/Dev

Sacrificial lambs

Communicate vision 100% virtualized

Completely test-driven DR

Executive Champion C-level decoder ring built in


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Understand App Dependencies

AD, DNS, DHCP, Firewall

Mission critical apps Physical server dependencies?

UNIX or mainframe?

Database consistency VSS?

Stateless app servers Redeploy in Disaster

Protect the deployment systems

Client access Consider VDI solutions for DR

access Protect VDI infrastructure but

redeploy desktops


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Automate Data Collection

Veeam Reporter

Document virtual environment automatically Base for DR documentation

Veeam Monitor Determine resources needed to power DR

Veeam Backup and Replication POC Data change rate

Evaluate WAN performance

Test a product that can meet needs

VMware Partners have tools/scripts to assess

environment


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Analyze Resource Requirements

Compute Size to handle protected workloads

Size for some performance degradation or none

Storage Daily change rate Separate swap/page files or note

Network Can your WAN handle it? Can budget pay for added bandwidth? Truck full O tapes may be more economical

WAN acceleration Can shorten backup windows HyperIp from Netex Free 2Mb/s subscription for Veeam customers


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Design for Easiest Restore


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Co-Lo, self-host or dare we say.Cloud?

Server hardware

Roll over old ESX servers into DR Invest in beefy servers to reduce licensing

Storage Local storage for DR is cheaper

Works with Veeam

Network Invest in bandwidth to facilitate replication

Fall back to tapes/disks in a truck

DR in the cloud or self-host

Self-host is cheaper than co-lo if you have the facilities Why pay for DR infrastructure if not using?


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Test-driven DR plan

TTD or Test-Driven Development works for software so

why not DR? Design with testing in mind

Veeam SureBackup recovery verification

Enables continuous testing


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DR magic brought to you by the letters

VMs make DR easy (easier)!

V and M


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Why make DR harder than it has to be?

Im all for challenges but.


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100% Virtualization Soapbox

Consolidate platforms

Virtualized x86 is winning the battle on cost Add DR simplicity and accelerate the trend

Get critical servers on VMs for DR

Consider nuclear option: 1 VM per ESX

SureBackup and On Demand Sandboxing not possiblewith other platforms


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More reasons to go All-in with Virtual DR

VMware vSphere 5

32 vCPU, 1TB RAM Storage DRS

No workloads are off-limits

Veeam vPower v6 Enterprise scalability

Dynamic scale-out capability

1-click File Restore

Advanced Replication

Advanced application integration


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Questions and Answers Winners receive a choice of the following books

Thank you for attending!

Resources: Twitter @Veeam Blog: http://www.veeam.com/blog Eval: Veeam.com
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