Data Center Virtualization

Skip FarmerDistinguished Systems Engineer

Agenda

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V-Ray Technology 1

Application Protection2

VM Intelligent Policy (VIP)3

Reporting4

Summary and Q&A5

Imagine having to do your job without being able to see your tools.Working in virtual darkness.

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No visibility.

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With a lot of money at stake.

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It’s what IT departments are forced to do when they virtualize business-critical applications without production quality data

protection technology.

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Introducing V-Ray technology from Symantec. An entirely new dimension in virtualization.

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Don’t Let Poor Visibility and Silos Slow You Down and Cost You More Time, Resources, and Storage

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• V-Ray – a group of Symantec technologies with: – Patented visibility into virtual

machines and applications

– Transparent backup and recovery across physical and virtual environments

– Third-generation granular recovery

Unified Protection, File & Application Recovery, Deduplication, & Automated Protection

VMware? Hyper V? Both?

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VMware? Hyper V? Both?

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VM2 VM1

x86OS

Disk Tape

VMware? Hyper V? Both?

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VM2 VM1

x86OS

Disk Tape

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V-Ray Visibility into the VM Image for Fast and Efficient Backup & RecoveryNetBackup Seamlessly Integrates with VMware vStorage APIs

SAN/LANESX

ESXDatastore

BackupDestination

• VM image (vmdk) moves directly to the backup destination (disk or tape) in a single step

• Snapshot and deduplication process done off-host• Change nothing! Use existing HW and procedures

NetBackup Server

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Single File Discovery

SANESX

Why Is Our Single File Restore Different?

ESXDatastore

Backup ServerVCB Framework

BackupDest

Backup Server

• NetBackup discovers single files before vmdk data is written to backup target

• This allows us to:• Backup to any storage technology• Restore from any storage technology

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V-Ray Visibility to Protect VMs “On the Fly”Wherever They May Reside

VMs VMs

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• Automatically discover and protect VMs as they move, change or come online

− Filter VMs by physical and logical attributes

− Balance the backup load across ESX servers

− No editing of the backup policy required

− vMotion, Storage vMotion and DRS aware

VM Intelligent Policy (VIP)

Available with NetBackup 7.1

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ESX Server Load – Client Backups vs. Off-host w/VADPSt

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NetBackup 7 for VM

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Off-host Backup

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New Virtualization Policy Types

New VMware & Hyper-V Policy Types

• 3 separate policies for 3 different uses – no more overloading– FlashBackup-Windows

– VMware

– Hyper-V

• Can now create, manage, and report on “real” policy types

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VMware Policy Type• New VMware policy type – not FlashBackup-Windows• New VMware tab

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VMware Tab• All VMware settings consolidated on new tab

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Fewer VMware Advanced Settings

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Hyper-V Policy Type• New Hyper-V policy type – not FlashBackup-Windows• New Hyper-V tab

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Hyper-V Tab• All Hyper-V settings consolidated on new tab

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Fewer Hyper-V Advanced Settings

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Application Protection

Application Protection in VMs• Easy checkbox setup• Automatic application discovery via VM intelligent policy• Application-consistent VM backup• Optional database transaction log truncation• Any-level Recovery: VM, Files, Databases, Items

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Application Protection - Details• Supported VMs: Windows Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server• SYMC VSS Provider required for log-truncation (optional)• NetBackup Windows Client in VM provides

– Application cataloging and optional log-truncation

– Application granular recovery (same NFS client GRT requirement)

• NetBackup for VMware provides VM backup• Types of recovery from VM backup

• Available for VMware (Hyper-V support in a TBD future release)

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Recovery Exchange SharePoint SQL Server Media

VM Any

File Any

Database Not Tape

Item n/a Not Tape

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VM Intelligent Policy Improvements

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New vCenter Fields

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• New query builder variables, including:– Datastore Cluster: part of Storage Dynamic Resource Scheduling (SDRS)

– Custom VM Attributes: user-defined vCenter variables

Resource Limits• New limits related to Datastores, DS Clusters, and NAS DS

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VIP Customer Requested Enhancements

You asked, We listened

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Media Server Load-Balancing• VMware policy now leverages media server load-balancing• Adds redundancy; eliminates backup host single-point-of-failure

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Media Server Load-Balancing - Overview

Shared Storage Pools

Tape

MSDP

OST DevicesOff Host Dedupe

ESX/i Hosts

Backup Hosts - Windows Media Servers

Shared Backup Storage

VM backups jobs automatically select the least busy media server.

This provides the best possible backup performance,

and scheduled jobs run even if a media server is down.

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VM Disk Exclusion• Exclude boot disk

– When VM is provisioned from template (e.g. WS2008 R2 template)

• Exclude data disks– When data is protected via agent in-the-guest (e.g. Oracle)

• Supported for Windows, Redhat, SuSE VMs

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Post Backup Events into vCenter Server• NetBackup option to log events into vCenter

– Backup Success

– Backup Failed

– Snapshot Delete Failed

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vCenter UI - Backup Failed Event

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OpsCenter

Reporting for Your Backup Environment

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OpsCenter Makes Backup Better

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Monitor

Report

Alert

Search & Hold

New!

RestoreNew!

File Restore Using OpsCenter Operational Restore

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Quickly find files across multiple clients and multiple domains

Built into NetBackup 7.5 - no additional infrastructure or license key required

Ability to restore from multiple sources and to alternate locations without leaving OpsCenter

• Disaster Recovery Drills• Restore from Snapshots

Restore cart allows user to batch up restore job for future processing

Virtual Client Summary Report

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Summary

NetBackup & Backup Exec Powered By V-RayIndustry 1st “End-to-End” VMware & Deduplication Solutions

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Virtualized InfrastructurePhysical Infrastructure

NetBackupBackup Exec

“End-to-End” Scalable Global Deduplication

Built-In Client Dedupe Virtual/Physical

VMsVMsVMsVMs

Built-In Media Server DedupeOn your equipment or Symantec Appliances

Scalable Global Dedupe Across Symantec Dedupe Appliance

Unified Data Protection16TB – 192TBNBU 5200 Series NBU 5000 Series

BE Appliance Series

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Deduplicate Everywhere with NetBackup V-RayYet Manage Centrally As It’s Built Right In

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Client Servers

Built-In Dedupe at the client

Media Server

Built-In Dedupe at the media server

Target Device

Dedupe to a targetbackend storage target

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Questions & Answers

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Thank you!

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