Veeam Backup & Replication v7: A VMware Architect’s Favorite Features
Veeam Backup & Replication v7 Deep Dive
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Veeam Backup & Replication v7 Deep Dive
Anton Gostev, Veeam SoftwareDoug Hazelman, Veeam Software
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What doesVeeam do?
Image-based backup and replication for virtual machines
Agent-free
Storage-agnostic
Forever incremental
Instant recovery on any level
Who are ourcustomers?
75,000+ organizations
88% of Fortune 500
40% of Global 2000
All industries
All sizes
VMware and Hyper-V
Who is Veeam?What makes usspecial?
Strong R&D with history of industry leading innovation
We build, not buy or OEM
Our products just work
We provide fanatical support
We listen to our customers
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5 years of innovation
• 2-in-1: backupand replication
• Instant File-Level Recovery
• Built-in deduplication
• Synthetic full backups
• Replication multiple restore points
v1
v2• ESXi support
with VCB• Fastest VCB
performance• Advanced VSS
support
v4• Centralized
management• Support for
vStorage APIs• Support for CBT• Support for thin-
provisioned disks• Near-CDP• Replication
to ESXi
v3• Instant File-Level
Recovery for Linux• ESXi support
without VCB
v5• vPower• Instant VM
Recovery• SureBackup• U-AIR• On-Demand
Sandbox• Instant indexing
6.0• Enterprise
scalability• Advanced
replication• Hyper-V support• 1-Click File
Restore
6.1• VeeamZIP• vPower for
Hyper-V• Veeam
BackupFree Edition
6.5• Veeam Explorer
for Microsoft Exchange
• Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots
• New hypervisorsupport: vSphere 5.1and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
• Archive backupsto the cloud
Q1 08 Q3 08 Q1 09 Q4 09 Q4 10 Q4 11 Q2 12 Q4 12Q1 13
Cloud Edition
Q3 13
7.0• Built-In WAN
Acceleration• High performance
Backup from Storage Snapshots
• Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint
• Virtual Lab for Replicas
• Virtual Lab for Hyper-V
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The Veeam way:
Solve backup problemsProblem Veeam solution
Untested and unrecoverable backups SureBackup
Downtime during restore Instant VM Recovery
Backups take too much space Built-in deduplication
Getting backups offsite Built-in WAN Acceleration
Impact from VM backup Backup from Storage Snapshots
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2 disruptive innovations
Built-in WAN Acceleration
Backup fromStorage Snapshots
What is v7?
7 market-leading features
Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint
Virtual Lab for Hyper-V
Self-Service Recovery
Native tape support
VMware vCloud Director Integration
vSphere Web Client plug-in
VirtualLab for Replicas
75+ other newfeatures andenhancements
Backup Copy jobs
Parallel processing
64-bit data movers
Hardware accelerated compressionVeeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange 2013RESTful APIand more!
The new major release of Veeam Backup & Replication
http://go.veeam.com/v7
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Do you copy your backups?
No14%
1 copy34%
2+ copies52%
Backup copiesOn-site
12%
Off-site88%
LOCATION
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How do you get backups offsite?
The 3-2-1 rule3 copies2 different media1 offsite
WAN43%
Tape34%
Rotated drives23%
OFFSITE Transport
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Introducing:
Built-in WAN AccelerationWhat is WAN Acceleration?The appliance … that speeds up the time it takes for information to flow back and forth across the WAN by using compression and data deduplication techniques to reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted. Basically, an accelerator works by caching duplicate files or parts of files so they can be referenced instead of having to be sent across the WAN again.
What is not WAN Acceleration?Delta transfer, deduplication, traffic compression, TCP/IP optimizations, backup seeding is not WAN acceleration… don’t be mislead by marketing!Only true WAN acceleration can provide up to 50x reduction in data transfer (comparing to simply copying backup files).
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Built-in WAN Acceleration
HowWhat you expect…
Variable-block size data fingerprintingGlobal cacheTraffic compressionTCP/IP optimizations: multi-threading, latency
Resume on disconnect
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Built-in WAN Acceleration
Howand more…
Infinite cache(backup repositories)
Cache content awareness(OS data blocks)
Forever incremental backup health check
No competition for cache between workloadsComprehensivemonitoring and reporting(Veeam Backup Management Suite)
What you expect…Variable-block size data fingerprintingGlobal cacheTraffic compressionTCP/IP optimizations: multi-threading, latency
Resume on disconnect
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Built-in WAN Acceleration
Howso it’s…
Powerful: up to 50x faster
Easy-to-use:integrated solution
Affordable: one purchase
What you expect…Variable-block size data fingerprintingGlobal cacheTraffic compressionTCP/IP optimizations: multi-threading, latency
Resume on disconnect
and more…Infinite cache(backup repositories)
Cache content awareness(OS data blocks)
Forever incremental backup health check
No competition for cache between workloadsComprehensivemonitoring and reporting(Veeam Backup Management Suite)
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Built-in WAN Acceleration
How It Works
Primary backup repository
Source siteWAN accelerator 50x faster Target site
WAN accelerator
Off-site backup repository
Cache Cache
Read
Write
Popu
late
FingerprintsWe can see the future!
WAN optimized TCP/IP
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Built-in WAN Acceleration
PerformanceScale
Up to 100 Mbps per pair: should be able to saturate 10 Mbps WAN links with basic hardware
Primary bottleneck: WAN accelerator’s cache storage speed, fast SSD cache is the king
Recommendations
SSD cache: the most important piece, makes huge difference!
Decent primary backup storage: incremental runs performance
Decent target backup storage: lookup, full backup file transformation, GFS processing and health check performance
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Built-in WAN Acceleration
When to use?
Links between 50 Mbps and 100 MbpsHDD cache: use for workloads with high change rates on small blocks (Exchange, SQL, other databases)SSD cache: use for any workloads
Links < 50 MbpsAlways use, unless VM change rate is minimal
Links > 100 MbpsUse when primarily concern is bandwidth savings rather than data transfer timeConsider deploying multiple WAN Accelerator pairs
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Built-in WAN Acceleration
Deployment ConsiderationsNetwork infrastructure
No changes required (transport port is configurable)
Global network traffic throttling rules still apply
One to many deployment scenarios
Single WAN accelerator in HQ, multiple WAN accelerators at branches: acceleration works both ways
Existing general purpose WAN accelerators
Configure Veeam traffic bypass in the settings, get best of both worlds!
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Built-in WAN Acceleration
Example
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Built-in WAN Acceleration
WherePart of new Backup Copy jobOptional, direct transfer also available
vNext: ReplicationCan seed replicas from backup copies in 7.0
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Backup Copy Job
What is Backup Copy job?Efficiently “copy” backups onsite and offsite
Forever incremental: synthetic full backups managed at target, validation (and remediation) built-in
Selective: specify VMs, frequency and retention
Simple: eliminates need for multiple backup jobs, scripted file copies and storage-based file replication
Do not take the name literally! It’s NOT about copying backup files, but rather VMs and restore points.
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Backup Copy Job
ArchivingAutomatically maintain backup archivesaka GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) retention
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Backup Copy Job
Reference ArchitectureOptimize your backup infrastructure forfast backups and restores, and low cost
Use fast storage for primary backups and restores
Control costs by limiting the number of restore points
Keep restore points archive on lower cost (per TB) storage
Productionstorage
Primarybackup storage
Secondary backup storage (onsite)
Secondary backup storage (offsite)
Backup
Backup Copy
Backup CopySecureconnection
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Disruptive innovationBuilt-in WAN Acceleration
High Performance Backup from Storage Snapshots
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Backup from Storage Snapshots
WhyReduce impact on production VMs and storage
Improve RPOs – for both backups and replicas
Leverage storage capabilities
Luca Dell’Oca @dellock6
After 3 days of backup runs I should say it: @veeam VBR7 + parallel processing + SAN snapshots is deadly combination
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Backup from Storage Snapshots
Why
> 1 hour
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Backup from Storage Snapshots
How It Works
Backup
Productionstorage
LUN
Backup server
Production host
Temporary host
MountSnapshot
Backup
Store
Backup repository
Direct from snapshot:No datastore mountNo VMFS resignaturingNo temp VM registrationNo host configuration cleanup
Leveraging VMware CBTUp to 20x fasterpatent pending
How you think it
worksHow Veeam Works
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Backups from Storage Snapshots
HowDirect storage access (no proxying through ESXi)
No mount, resignature, VM registration, or clean up
Using VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT)
Easy to setupA single checkbox!
Instant VMware snapshot commit
Up to 20x faster than the competition
Result
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Backup from Storage Snapshots
WhereHP StoreVirtual VSA
HP StoreVirtual (LeftHand, P4000)
HP StoreServ (3PAR)
Development underway for additional vendors
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Native tape support
Support for virtual tape libraries (VTLs), tape libraries and standalone drive, LTO3 and later
Tracks files, VMs and restore points on tape to simplify restore
Coordinated withVM backup jobs
File-level backup and restore FREE
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Backup and Recovery for vCloud DirectorFull backup and recovery capabilities:
See your vCloud world in B&R
Backup all vApp vCloud metadata
Restore entire vApps and individual VMs into vApps
Migrate vApps within and between vCloud Director instances
Advanced monitoring and reporting of vCD infrastructure with suite
VeeamZIP for vCloud VMs includes vApp metadata FREE
Requires VMware vCloud Director 5.1
“After some quick and brief tests, it looks like you have a better tool than VMware vCloud Connector for moving around workloads”
Solutions ArchitectVMware
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Virtual Lab for Replicas Automatically test recoverability of your replicas
Put your DR site to work
On-Demand Sandbox for testing, training and troubleshooting
Agent-free recovery of application objects (U-AIR)
Difference vs. virtual lab for backups:
Full storage performance (no vPower NFS)
Support for multi-host virtual labs (requires DVS)
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vSphere Web Client plug-inAt-a-glance view of backup infrastructure status and trends directly in vSphere web clientIdentify unprotected VMs and simplify capacity planning with Veeam Backup Management Suite
Overview of backup
infrastructure
Daily backup activity
Backup repositor
y statistics
Summary of backup job
status
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Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint
Fast, easy, and agent-free restore of Microsoft SharePoint items FREE
• Instant visibility and browsing of SharePoint databases
• Advanced search for specific items (e-discovery)
• Quick recovery and export
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Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange
Fast, easy and agent-free restore of Microsoft Exchange items FREE
• Support for Exchange 2013 NEW
• Restore to Office 365 NEW
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Processing Engine Enhancements
Honestly, I’m as excited about these “under the hood” improvements just about as much as the everything else combined.
It seemed too good to be true.
We are seeing almost unbelievable improvements on large VMs.
The scale [v7 provides] that we’re seeing in testing is pretty amazing.
In my opinion [parallel processing] may very well be the biggest feature of this release.
Very, very impressed with [CPU usage reduction] on backup proxy servers.
VMs with multiple disks process a few TIMES faster, so snapshots don’t grow large and snapshot commit is no longer a pain in the … !
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Top 3
Parallel processing (and better than you ever expected)
Data mover improvements (64-bit, memory)
New compression algorithm (hardware accelerated)
Tom SightlerSolutions ArchitectVeeam Software
By far, the most impressive part of the testing was the performance of the backup engine. The partner had installed on a fairly old 4 core physical server that did not have direct SAN access, so backups were over network mode via 2 bonded 1GbE links. v6 did about 20 MB/s with CPU load around ~40% in this lab. v7 absolutely blew thru the backups, running at an average transfer rate of 200MB/s while task manager showed only ~5% CPU usage. It seemed too good to be true. We were effectively storage bottlenecked with NBD mode.
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Veeam Backup & Replication v7 Deep Dive
Anton Gostev, Veeam SoftwareDoug Hazelman, Veeam Software
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