Optimize VMware and Hyper-V

Protection with HP and Veeam

John DeFrees, Global Alliance Solution Architect, Veeam

Markus Berber, HP LeftHand P4000 Product Marketing Manager, HP

Key takeaways from today

Virtualized environments require a new set of tools to meet today’s expectations and business priorities

Data deduplication in the HP StoreOnce Backup System optimizes backup storage utilization

Veeam Backup & Replication delivers enhanced recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTOs and RPOs)

The HP and Veeam solution offers a compelling total cost of ownership (TCO), and return on investment (ROI) that can be achieved in months – not years

This co-certified solution is optimized for VMware vSphere® and Microsoft Hyper-V® and is fully supported by HP and Veeam

Existing tools don’t always do the job

Traditional physical backup ● Agent in each VM

● Full VM recovery can be complex

● Expensive

● Does not always guarantee

recoverability

Traditional VM backup ● Backup code runs on ESX

hosts

● Significant storage requirements

● Limited recovery options

Opportunities are being missed

Virtualization provides new

opportunities to improve data

protection and disaster recovery

HP and Veeam architecture

HP and Veeam provide a co-certified, end-to-end storage

and data protection solution optimized for VMware vSphere

and Microsoft Hyper-V

P4000

A tested and proven solution

ESXi 5.0

Host

HP DL380 G7 12GB RAM

Dual 6-core CPU

Virtual machines 2008R2 DC 2008R2 Exchange 2010 2008 32-bit file server Redhat 5.x Oracle 11g w/ ASM

Veeam

Backup

Server

HP DL380 G7 12GB RAM

Dual 6-core CPU

Primary

Storage

HP P4300 2TB SAN Software rev 8.1.00.047

Backup

Storage

HP StoreOnce

D2D4312 G2 Software rev 2.2.13

Network

Switch

HP ProCurve 2824

Validation Timeline

Summer 2011 Spring 2012 Summer 2012

Compatibility & Performance testing with Veeam v5

Compatibility testing with Veeam v6

Performance testing with Veeam v6

Test Configuration

Architecture benefits

Scalability

● Storage and backup both designed for growth of the virtual environment

● Scale seamlessly without disrupting services

Improved recovery time and recovery point objectives

● Fast incremental backups with Veeam

● Fast Instant VM Recovery from StoreOnce storage

Disaster recovery

● Affordable virtualized DR with HP storage and Veeam replication

HP LeftHand P4000

Clustered scale-out architecture

Start with today’s needs ● Use storage nodes to build

clusters

● Build single tier or multiple

● Leverage all critical resources

● Industry standard platforms

Grow as needed ● Scale performance and

capacity linearly – online

Multi-tiered environments ● SSD, SAS and MDL SAS

clusters

● Migrate data online between clusters with Peer Motion

HP StoreOnce Backup System

Enhance business performance

● Instant access to backups with leading recovery performance

● Faster backups with scale-out technology ● High availability design including failover

to maximize backup efficacy

Lower operational costs

● Spend up to 95% less on new backup capacity

● 75% price and performance advantage over competing offerings

● Dynamically Scale capacity or performance up to 512TB or 40 TB/hr

StoreOnce deduplication for flexible, disk-based backup storage

Veeam Backup & Replication

Designed for virtualization

Image-based backups

Support for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V

Improves recovery time objectives

Instant VM Recovery boots VMs from backup storage

2-in-1 backup and replication with failover and failback

Improves recovery point objectives

Efficient forward or reverse incremental backups

Near-continuous data protection (near-CDP)

Storage Efficiency

Veeam deduplication: Optimized for network reduction

● Source-side deduplication

● Comparison size between 256KB and 1MB for network conditions

● Deduplication within backup jobs (one or more VMs)

StoreOnce deduplication: Optimized for storage utilization

● Target-side deduplication

● Variable boundary 4K comparison size

● Deduplication within StoreOnce volume

Complimentary technologies for maximum utilization, so enable both!

Recovery time

Veeam Instant VM Recovery

VM troubleshooting and recovery

Testing of software updates and patches

Backup testing and verification via “SureBackup”

What if you could start VMs from the backup storage when you needed to?

Instant VM Recovery with HP storage

Architecture considerations

● HP LeftHand P4000 as storage backup target for the lowest RTO

− No data rehydration required – faster recovery

− Facilitates “Universal Application Item Recovery” (object-level)

− Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots simplifies recovery from LeftHand

hardware-based snapshots lowering RTO and RPO

● HP StoreOnce storage - Best capacity utilization

− Must rehydrate data – slower recovery

● Striking a balance

− Backup critical VMs to the HP LeftHand P4000, the rest to HP StoreOnce

Testing results

Veeam v6 and StoreOnce Instant VM Recovery test

Boot Exchange in 4 minutes

On P4000

Boot Exchange in 10 minutes

On StoreOnce

Tradeoff: VM recovery time

vs. size on disk

Backup Mode

(Forward Incremental)

Storage

Optimization

(Veeam

Block Size)

Repository

Type Total

Time

Reported

full backup

size

Full backup

size on disk

(after dedupe)

Reported

incremental

backup size

Incremental

size on disk

(after dedupe)

Total

backup

size on

disk

SAN w/ physical proxy LAN CIFS –

No Compression 26:51 67.9GB 19.5GB 15.2GB .1GB 19.6GB

SAN via Hot Add

w/ virtual proxy LAN

CIFS –

No Compression 36:25 67.9GB 19.5GB 15.2GB .1GB 19.6GB

LAN through ESX host LAN CIFS –

No Compression 32:11 67.9GB 19.5GB 15.2GB .1GB 19.6GB

SAN w/ physical proxy WAN CIFS –

Low Compression 21:03 59.1GB 20.7GB 15.2GB .4GB 21.1GB

SAN w/ physical proxy LAN CIFS –

Optimal Compression 21:01 28.3GB 27.2GB 15GB 4.9GB 32.1GB

Scaling out

Easily increase all attributes of the architecture as your environment grows

• Scale-out primary storage performance and capacity with LeftHand

• Increase backup performance with distributed backup proxies

• Increase backup storage capacity with additional StoreOnce nodes

Architecture Best Practices

● Isolate the storage traffic

− 10 Gb Ethernet

● Enable Veeam compression if used as a backup target

LeftHand P4000

StoreOnce

● Increase Veeam comparison size

● Disable Veeam compression

● Multiple streams: 12 -16 = “the sweet spot”

● Manual NIC load balancing or bonding (under investigation)

Veeam Backup & Replication

● Use physical proxies for better performance (not required)

− Typically 200 – 400 VMs per physical host

● Large block: LAN; Small Block: WAN

● Don’t run more than 64 jobs at once

● Configure for direct SAN backups

− Use LeftHand hardware VSS provider for Hyper-V environments

● Configure backups for forward incremental

− Disable previous full backup chain transformations

Sample deployment: SMB

Sample deployment: Multi-site

Sample Deployment: Enterprise w/ DR

P4000 StoreVirtual

Why HP and Veeam?

Tight integration with VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V ● HP LeftHand P4000 optimized for VMware and Hyper-V shared storage

● Veeam manages the protection

● HP StoreOnce Backup System reduces backup storage requirements by up to 95%

Disaster recovery protection

Restart a VM in minutes

Recover individual objects from any virtualized application

This end-to-end solution is co-certified and fully supported by HP and Veeam

Next steps

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Replication

QUESTIONS?

Next steps

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Replication