Backup and Recovery in the Virtual Age

Scott Baker and Bahar Shah

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Trends

• Server virtualization is the single biggest game-changing trend in IT today

• Virtual environments are becoming the norm rather than the exception

• Cloud enabled disaster recovery

• Cloud resident servers

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Virtualization is growing exponentially in the SMB segment, especially in Mid-Market

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“Virtualization growing exponentially”

• >50% MM business at 75%-100% levels • Businesses running 10-12 virtual

machines/physical server • ~40% to be at 100% level in 2 years

Percentage of Servers Virtualized - Midmarket

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Challenges

• VM sprawl

• Low tolerance for downtime

• Data redundancy

• Higher storage cost

• Protection and Monitoring

• Low visibility into VM contents

• Existing investments into physical infrastructure

• Licensing

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Agent for Applications and Databases Deduplication Option

Agent for VMware and Hyper-V

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Protection For Virtualized Infrastructures

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Advanced VMware and Hyper-V Support

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Single pass backup, all recovery options

Data reduction technologies

Virtual machine protection

• Optimized data deduplication • Block optimization • Changed Block Tracking • Incremental, differential backups

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Virtual Servers & Machines

vSphere Hyper-V

• Full virtual machine recovery • Application recovery • Granular application recovery • Granular file/folder recovery • Redirected recovery

• Image-level virtual machine protection • Direct backup; no proxy server • Application protection through Volume Shadow Copy

Service (VSS) • Dynamic Inclusion

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VMware and Hyper-V Enhanced Deduplication

• Block Optimization

– Backup process ignores empty space within a VHD

• Change Block Tracking

– Enables differential and incremental backups

• VMDK and VHD Stream Handler

– Increases deduplication efficiency, especially across virtual machines

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VHD Backup With Deduplication Stream Handler

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Application GRT For Virtual Machine Image Backups Application GRT automatically enabled unless manually disabled on VMware/ Hyper-V Settings

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Data and Application Protection, Recovery

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Restore granular Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, and Active Directory data in seconds: • Individual mailboxes • E-mails • Private or public

Folders • Calendar items • Tasks • User accounts or

attributes • SQL databases

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Single-pass Backup of Virtual Guest Systems

VMware Server Running Application Servers

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Granular Recovery for Physical, Virtual Applications

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Unite Physical and Virtual Environment Protection

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– Reduce cost and management of multiple products–Complete data, application, and system protection for physical and virtual environments from a single console.

– Reduce cost of multiple agents–Backup unlimited Windows and Linux Guest virtual machines to disk or tape with a single agent.

– Reduce storage resources – Advanced deduplication for physical and virtual backups; granular file and application recovery from a single online, image-level backup.

One vendor, one backup, one console.

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Physical Virtual

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New! Backup and Convert to Virtual

Convert to Virtual (P2V) – Parallel data streams

– One stream to media server

– Other stream to hypervisor

– Result is full virtual machine (not just the virtual disk)

Convert Stream

Backup to Virtual (B2V) – Serial data streams – Backup stream to media

server – Conversion job runs after or

on different schedule – Result is full virtual machine

(not just the virtual disk)

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Server Hypervisor

Parallel Data Streams

Backup Stream Convert Stream

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Server Hypervisor

Serial Data Streams

Backup Stream

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Symantec Backup Exec™ Management Plug-in 2.0 for VMware • Lightweight plug-in to monitor

your backups within VMware vCenter™ or vSphere Client

• Includes Virtual Machine-Validator: For true verification of VMware backups

• Resource centric views of virtual machines: For a more manageable monitoring view

• Works with core Backup Exec VMware features

– Single pass backup GRT

– Virtual machine auto-discovery

– Template backups

• No incremental charge for customers with virtual agents

• Backup Exec Monitor • Virtual Machine Validator • Predictive Recovery for VMware applications

Management Plug-in Download Location

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Monitor Your Backups Within vCenter or vSphere Client

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Consolidated protection status view of all virtual

machines

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Virtual Machine Validator for VMware

• Feature of Free Management Plug-in for VMware

• Enables Launching of Virtual Machine Backup Sets from Storage for Validation

• Requires VMware Workstation

• Requires GRT-enabled Backups Stored to B2D or Deduplication Folder

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VMware Workstation

Validation

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ApplicationHA + Backup Exec

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Application

Restart

Virtual Machine

Reboot

Virtual Machine

Image Recovery

Escalation of Remediation Mechanism

• High availability of virtualized applications

• Covers wide range of failures from logical errors to OS corruptions

• Restore an entire guest machine in just two simple steps

Reduced Restore Time

• Single pass backup

• Protects virtual machines from a central console

• Unlimited guest machine protection with a single license

Simplified Management

• Reduces the cost of virtual machine infrastructure

• Deduplication across virtual environments

• Reduce backup capacity and storage costs

Reduce Storage Costs

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Taking Application Availability to a New Level via Integration with Backup Exec

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ApplicationHA – Backup Exec Virtual Machine Auto Recovery

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vCenter Server

vSphere Client

VMware ESX

VMware HA

VMware ESX

VMware HA

VM1

OS

ApplicationHA Console

Application HA

VM2

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SQL

Application HA

VM3

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Application HA

BE Media Server

ApplicationHA Tab

BackUp Exec Client

Backup Exec UI

VM 2 Backup

VM 3 Backup

VM 1 Backup

Configuration 1. Backup Exec virtual

machine backup and ApplicationHA monitoring configured separately.

2. Enable Auto Recovery from within Backup Exec tab

Authenticated and encrypted communication

Remediation Escalation Path 1. Application restart

2. Virtual machine restart

3. Virtual machine image recovery

Auto Recovery Enabled

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Symantec Backup Exec Training Offerings • Overview

– To make sure that your team can get the most from your purchase of Backup Exec, Symantec Education provides training on

• Configuring, Monitoring, and Managing Backup Exec

• Backup Exec Agents

• Backup Exec Options

– Symantec Education can help your team get the most from your backup investment and optimize your backup for performance and recoverability.

• For more information on Backup Exec training offerings, Visit: http://go.symantec.com/education_be

Both instructor-led training and virtual training are available, and you can gain industry recognized expertise through the Symantec Certification Program. An eLibrary subscription is also a cost-effective way to keep skills sharp, gain new knowledge, and address common issues. For more information: please contact your local Symantec Education office.

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Thank you!

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Bahar Shah – Backup Exec Development Manager

Scott Baker– Backup Exec Product Manager