Update Your Disaster Recovery Plans with Virtualization

Update Your Disaster Recovery Plans with Virtualization

Jason Dea

Product Marketing Manager

August 2011

© 2011 NetIQ Corporation. All rights reserved.2

Agenda

The need for disaster recovery (DR)

The challenge of managing today’s data center

Virtualization and disaster recovery

PlateSpin® Protect and PlateSpin Forge®

The Need for Disaster Recovery


Why Downtime Matters

*September 2, 2010 , Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are top IT Priorities for 2010 and 2011 - Forrester

Total economic damage from disaster in 2009*

Economic impact felt in the U.S. from disasters in 2009*

$10.8 Billion

$41.3 Billion


Becoming a Priority

• Better able to identify and quantify risk

• Better understanding of economic impact

• Less tolerance for downtime and data loss

of enterprises have indicated that improving disaster recovery capabilities is a high priority*

78% Critical Priority 30% - High Priority 48%

*Jan. 25, 2010 – The State of Enterprise IT: 2009 to 2010 - Forrester


Define Your Objectives

• Time between declaration and service availability

• Time to restore services to useable state

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

• Data in system lost at disaster time• Amount of data entered since last backup

Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

• Time required to test recovery plans• Resources used for testing

Test Time Objective (TTO)

The Challenge of Today’s Data Center


Path to the Modern Data Center

PhysicalVirtualMulti-siteMulti-OS

Commodity x86WindowsLinux

Single platformSingle vendor

Mainframe

Client- Server

Cloud


New Technology, New Management

Yesterday’s Options


Backup Your Data

• Focus is on protecting data– Tape backup

– Imaging

• Poor performance– Slow RTO, RPO (days)

• Hidden costs– How do we get the data back

in to a useable state?

– How long to rebuild server?


Double Infrastructure

• Focus is on protecting application

– Clustering

– Like-for-like infrastructure

• Performance, but at what price?

– Near-zero RTO, RPO

• High cost– Duplicate infrastructure

– Management complexity

Virtualize Disaster Recovery


Best of Both with Virtualization

• Backup to virtual machine– Offline image

– Same workflow

• Improved performance– One-click RTO

– Incremental snapshots


Best of Both with Virtualization

• Virtual backup hardware– Eliminate rebuild process

– Duplicate hardware virtually

• Low cost– Virtual infrastructure

– Easy management


Update Your DR with Virtualization

One virtual server host can protect several

servers in production

Eliminate the multi-platform

problem

Simplify testing as virtual

machines can be isolated


Consolidated Recovery

Solution

• Replicate workload into an offline virtual machine

• One-click failover

• One-click test restore

• Flexible failback

Virtual production servers

Virtual recovery hosts

Physical production servers

Physical production servers

PlateSpin® DR Products


PlateSpin® Protect

Backup to virtual machines

Incrementalreplication

Whole-workload protection for all server workloads.

Easy to testOne-click

failover

Physicalservers

Virtualhosts

Bladeservers

Imagearchives

Workload decoupledfrom hardware


PlateSpin Forge®

Protects up to 25 workloads

PlateSpin Forge includes:• Storage• Replication software• Hypervisor

Plug-in and protect solution for :• Medium enterprises• Branch use for large enterprises

World’s first disaster recovery hardware appliance with virtualization

Reduce Infrastructure, Reduce Cost


The Solution in the Physical World

Wide Area Network

25 Servers $125,000

50 licenses for clustering $99,950

25 Backup licenses $23,975

Total $248,925


ROI with PlateSpin®

PlateSpin Forge® 525 $57,745

Priority support $14,400

Peace of mind priceless

Total $72,145

Wide Area Network

Potential Cost Savings

$177K!

Virtual DR, Real Benefits


Back to Business As Usual

Recovery workload runs on virtual infrastructure

Failback to dissimilar hardware

Failback with sync to repaired hardware

Internal web server

Repaired Email server

Virtual recovery(remote site)

New web server


Trust Your Plans

Rapidly test recovery workloads

Testing logged for reporting and compliance

Isolated testing of recovery workloads

Internal web server

Email server



Have Full Control

Demonstrate policy compliance

Actionable alerts

Failure notification

Internal web server

Email server


Smart phone


Protect All Your Workloads

.Net Application server

LAMP server


Block-based replication

Block-based replication

Windows or Linux

Physical or Virtual

UniversalSolution

Real World Results


Customer Successes

Nichols College

“Disaster recovery solutions can be very complex ... PlateSpin Forge is very straightforward. There’s just one piece of hardware to manage. It’s low maintenance, and has low overhead. Without it, we certainly would have spent more money on another disaster recovery solution that would have required more resources to support it.”

http://www.novell.com/success/nichols_college.html

Reed Smith LLP

"With PlateSpin Protect, we can recover multiple sites with the same set of hardware quite easily, in a matter of minutes."

http://www.novell.com/success/reed_smith.html


Thank you.

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