IBM Enterprise 2014 - BMR / DR Planning for Linux with Storix Software

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BMR and DR Planning for AIX and Linux with Storix Software

Scott Figgins – Field Technical Consultant Ingram Micro

October 2014


Disaster Recovery for AIX and Linux

Agenda for this Session

Discuss types of Disasters (Human / Natural / Other)Discuss Vendors recommended methods for backing up and

recovering systems and dataDiscuss the benefits of using Storix with IBM Power Systems Power 8 ScaleOut Line up – Server / Client / ApplianceQ&A

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What is Disaster Recovery?



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Two Categories of IT Disasters

Natural Disasters – Hurricanes, Floods, Tornadoes, Wild Fires, Earthquakes

Man-Made Disasters – Floods, Fires, Intrusions, Malicious Code



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Companies that had a major loss of business data, 43% never reopen and 29% close within two years.

Source: Business continuity statistics: where myth meets fact. Continuity Central. 24 April 2009.



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Disaster Recovery Terminology and How to measure it.

Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD). The MTD represents the total amount of time the system owner/authorizing official is willing to accept for a mission/business process outage or disruption and includes all impact considerations.

Recovery Time Objective (RTO). RTO defines the maximum amount of time that a system resource can remain unavailable before there is an unacceptable impact on other system resources. Recovery Point Objective (RPO). The RPO represents the point in time, prior to a disruption or system outage, to which mission/business process data can be recovered (given the most recent backup copy of the data) after an outage.



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Linux System Recovery Tools



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Source: RHEL 6 Documentation

“Should you even bother with operating system backups? If the installation process is relatively easy, and if the application of bugfixes and customizations are well documented and easily reproducible, reinstalling the operating system may be a viable option.”

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Documentation



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Source: SLES 11 Documentation

“Open source tools for backing up data on Linux include tar, cpio, and rsync. See the man pages for these tools for more information.” - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Documentation



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System Recovery Tools



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• Founded in 1999 by the author of IBM’s sysback

• Bare-metal recovery for Linux since 2002

• TSM Integration since 2007

• Bare-metal recovery for Solaris since 2008



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Storix is the trusted expert in Linux/UNIX backup and system recovery solutions for over 2,000 global customers



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Adaptable System Recovery




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Source: If applicable, describe source origin

Disk Images vs. File-based ASR



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VM Snapshots are Disk Images



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Guest



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Recover to dissimilar hardwareP2V, V2P, or V2V



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System provisioning from a ”golden image”Network settings updated during cloning



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Centralized Backup Management




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More than a bare-metal backup utilityComplete backup management

X-Based GUI

Web Interface

Menu-driven Recovery



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AdministratorBackup Server

Boot Server

Clients



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Administrator

Clients

Backup ServerBoot Server




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Administrator

Clients





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Administrator

Clients





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Administrator

Clients Clients

SW Datacenter NE Datacenter

Backup Server Backup Server

Manage Multiple Sites



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Clients

Production Offsite DR

Production Server Offsite Server

Offsite RecoveryStaging



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Clients






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Clients




Recovery Targets

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Storix License and Support


✔ Workstation Edition – (standalone)

✔ Network Edition – (more than one system)

✔ TSM Edition – (Write backups directly to TSM)

✔ Purchase as many as you need

✔ Physical and Virtual Systems

✔ AIX, Linux, PowerLinux, & Solaris



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Storix License and Support


✔ Documentation– Quickstart, Users Guide, Recovery Guides

✔ Online Help Desk – Create and respond to tickets 24/7

✔ Phone Support – 7am – 5pm Pacific Time

✔ Emergency Disaster Recovery Support – On Call 24/7



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POWER8 roll-out is leading with scale-out (1-2S) systems Expanded Linux focus: Ubuntu, KVM, and Open Stack Scale-up POWER8 (>2S) systems will be rolled out over time PCI Gen3 right out of POWER8 processor OpenPOWER Innovations

1 & 2 Sockets

Power SystemsS812L

Power SystemsS822L

Power SystemsS822

Power SystemsS814

Power SystemsS824L

Power SystemsS824

1-socket, 2U Linux Only PowerVM &

PowerKVM


PowerKVM


PowerKVM

2-socket, 2U All Operating Systems PowerVM only



New IBM Power Systems based POWER8



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Q & AWhere is my mksysb for Linux?



Backup Slides

Ingram Micro

Field Technical Consultants

Scott Figgins– BM Power & Storage East Region

[email protected] 386.871.3975Cheryl Thompson–IBM Power & Storage Central Region

[email protected] 210.275.0091Korey Johnson–IBM Power and Storage West Region

[email protected] 404.840.6195

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