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Alain Salesse

Solutions Architect

March 2017

Micro Focus Disaster Recovery

Solution Overview

#MFSummit2017

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• Introduction to PlateSpin

• What is disaster recovery and why it

matters

• PlateSpin DR solutions

• Q&A

Agenda

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PlateSpin Product Family

PlateSpin Recon PlateSpin Migrate

Transformation Manager Protect / Forge

Physical and virtual analysis

Virtualization planning & modeling

Resource reclamation

Disaster recovery planning

Workload Migration

Anywhere-to-Anywhere

Physical, Virtual, Cloud

Windows and Linux

Cost-effective Disaster Recovery

Software or Hardware appliance

Easy setup, rapid recovery

Physical and virtual workloads

Leverage virtual infrastructure

Planning & execution tool for

large-scale data center transformation

& workload migration projects

Support for all workload migration types

Increases transformation speed and success

ratio drives down cost of transformation

projects

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Introduction to Disaster Recovery

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What is Disaster Recovery?

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Replication of entire server workloads

Failover of workloads during an outage

Failback of workloads after the outage

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• A workload is the operating system,

applications, data and configuration

that reside on a physical server or

virtual machine.

• A single entity, portable

between physical and virtual

platforms

What is a workload?

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Data

Applications

Operating System

Workload

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Top causes of business disruption

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Network

Failure16%

Hardware

Failure31%

Software

Failure15%

Power

Failure43%

Human

Error13%

Source: Forrester - Disaster Recovery Journal, November 2013. Global Disaster Recovery Preparedness Online Survey

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However, the threat landscape is evolving…

• “Cybercrime represents the fastest

growing cause of data center

outages” – Ponemon Institute

• “2016 has been the year of

ransomware” – ZDNet

• “File-encrypting malware can cost

individuals anywhere between

$200 and $10,000 each time” –

FBI

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DR is the last defence against ransomware

“Back up data regularly. Verify

the integrity of those backups

and test the restoration

process to ensure it is working”

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Source: US Government interagency technical guidance document

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Lost business

revenue and

opportunities

Lost employee

productivity and

morale

The cost of downtime has increased 38 percent since 2010

The impact of a major outage

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Source: Forrester - Winter 2014, The State of IT Resiliency and Preparedness

Ponemon Institute – January 2016, Cost of Data Center Outages

The average cost

of downtime per

minute

$9k

Lost customer

confidence and

business reputation

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Organisations are ill-prepared for a disaster

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Source: 2014 study by the Disaster Preparedness Council

40%

Organisations

whose DR plan

failed to work when

they needed it

Organisations

without a fully

documented DR

plan

60%

Organisations

failing their own

disaster recovery

tests

65%

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What is RTO?

Recovery Time Objective

• The target, maximum allowable

time to recover from an outage.

• An RTO of four hours means

systems have to be back up and

operational no more than four

hours after an outage.

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What is RPO?

Recovery Point Objective

• A measure of maximum acceptable

data loss in terms of time (minutes,

hours, days).

• An RPO of four hours means that the

most recent backup has to be no

more than four hours old at the time

of an outage.

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Service availability tiers

Availability %Downtime per

YearDowntime per

MonthTypical

RPO/RTO

90“one nine”

36.5 days 72 hours

12-24 hours

95 18.25 days 36 hours

99“two nines”

3.65 days 7.2 hours

15-60 minutes99.9

“three nines”8.76 hours 43.8 minutes

99.99“four nines”

52.56 minutes 4.32 minutes

<5 minutes99.999

“five nines”5.26 minutes 25.9 seconds

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Tier

3

2

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Business expectations of DR

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Source: Gartner

Zero17%

Less than 1 hour32%

Between 1 and 4 hours

40%

Tier

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Tier 2

Tier

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More

than 4

hours

11%Audience polling shows that 72% of

the enterprises surveyed have RTO

for their most mission-critical

applications and services between

one and four hours

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Disaster recovery solutions

Availability %Typical

RTO/RPO Solution Relative cost

90“one nine”

12-24 hours

95

99“two nines”

15-60 minutes ?99.9 “three nines”

99.99“four nines”

<5 minutes99.999

“five nines”

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Tier

3

2

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PlateSpin Virtualized

Disaster Recovery

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Low

Cost

• Leverages virtual

infrastructure as a recovery

platform

• Bridges the gap between

expensive high availability

and inadequate backup

solutions

• Delivers mirroring-like RTO

and RPO performance at a

price point approaching tape

Disaster Recovery with virtualisation

PlateSpinTape Clustering

High

Performance

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PlateSpin Disaster Recovery in action

Copy

Replicate

Failover

Failback

Test

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PlateSpin

DR

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PlateSpin Disaster Recovery in action

Copy

Replicate

Failover

Failback

Test

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PlateSpin

DR

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PlateSpin Disaster Recovery in action

Copy

Replicate

Failover

Failback

Test

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PlateSpin

DR

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PlateSpin Disaster Recovery in action

Copy

Replicate

Failover

Failback

Test

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PlateSpin

DR

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Benefits of PlateSpin virtualised recovery

Rapid failover and failback

• Warm standby VMs provide very fast

recovery

• Restore to bare metal, repaired server

or virtual platform

• Use hypervisor snapshots for point-in-

time recovery

Safe sandbox testing

• Test at any time without affecting the

production environment

• Test upgrades/patches/changes

Heterogeneous workload protection

• Protect physical and virtual Windows and

Linux with the same solution

Simple licensing

• No OS or application licenses required

on recovery workloads

(depends on vendor T&Cs)

Cost effective

• Utilise existing VMware infrastructure

• No need for expensive, application-level

high availability

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PlateSpin disaster recovery portfolio

• Sophisticated software

solution

• Leverages capacity in existing

VMware virtual infrastructure

• All-in-one hardware appliance

• 5 year hardware support

• No virtual infrastructure

required; no expertise needed

in virtualization

PlateSpin Protect

• Delivers mirroring-like RTO and RPO performance at a price point

approaching tape

• Protect up to 40 or more physical and virtual workloads per server

• Be protected in hours not days

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PlateSpin Forge

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Licensing

• Perpetual license locked to a

single named workload

• Allows a single workload to be

protected

• Maintenance needs to be

renewed on a yearly basis

• Sold per appliance with

licenses to protect 10, 25 or

40 workloads

• Additional workload licenses

available in 5-packs

• Maintenance included for

3 or 5 years

PlateSpin Protect

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PlateSpin Forge

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Forge 700 Forge 900 (in development)

Dell PowerEdge R730xd with VMware ESXi 5.5

2 x 10-core processors

Xeon E5-2630v4 3.1GHz

2 x 20-core processors

Xeon E5-2698v4 2.2GHz

128GB RAM (upgradeable) 512GB RAM (upgradeable)

20TB SATA storage RAID 6 20TB SSD storage RAID 6

6 x Gigabit Ethernet

PlateSpin Forge technical specs

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All-in-one disaster recovery appliance that includes server hardware,

hypervisor, management software plus hardware and software support

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Why use PlateSpin Disaster Recovery?

PlateSpin DR solutions are designed to minimise

Risk Test your recovery plan quickly and

easily any time

Cost No need for dedicated infrastructure

or lots of network bandwidth

Time Implement protection in hours

not days

Complexity One simple recovery solution for

Windows, Linux, physical and virtual

Inconsistency Eliminate under- and overprotection,

and protect everything well

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