Building a cost effective DR solution using Platespin Forge

Presented by:Lam Kok Wah, Regional Sales Manager, Asia West

Presentation Overview

• About PlateSpin• Technology Overview• State of Disaster Recovery• Introducing PlateSpin Forge• Product Benefits and Features• Q & A

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About PlateSpin, A Novell Company

Global Independent Software Vendor

Three Lead Product Families

Workload Management

Solutions

•PlateSpin PowerConvert

•PlateSpin PowerRecon

•PlateSpin Forge

•Server Consolidation

•Disaster Recovery

•End of Lease Hardware Upgrades

•Data Center Relocation

Global Vendor• Headquartered in Toronto, Canada• Customers and Resellers Globally• 6,000+ Satisfied Customers

Three Product Families

• PlateSpin PowerConvert• PlateSpin PowerRecon• PlateSpin Forge

Data Center ManagementSolutions

• Server Consolidation• Disaster Recovery• Hardware Migration• Data Center Site Moves

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Technology Overview

What is a Server Workload?

• The data, apps and OS that reside on a physical or virtual host

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Workload Profiling

• The workload profile captures information about the encapsulated data, applications and operating systems residing on a physical or virtual host

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Workload Portability

• Workload Portability™ enables server workloads to be migrated within and across different data center infrastructures

PhysicalServers

VirtualMachines

BladeServers

ImageArchives

WorkloadDecoupled

From Hardware

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• Server Consolidation• Data Center Relocation• Hardware Migration

Relocation

Protection

Optimization & Management

Provisioning

• Image Restore• Consolidated Recovery

• Infrastructure Optimization• VM Management

• Server Provisioning• Test Lab

Solutions for the Data Center

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The State of Disaster Recovery

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Allocating DR Budget

FAULT TOLERANT

HIGH AVAILABILITY

DISASTER RECOVERY

TIER 1

DISASTER RECOVERY

TIER 2

COST

RPO/RTO

BUDGET

BUDGET

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The Collision of DR and HA

• Fast RTO and RPO• Local Automated Failover• Duplicate Resources• Costly and Complex

• Slow RTO and RPO• Geographically Dispersed• Over Commitment of

Recovery Resources

High Availability Disaster Recovery

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What the Next Generation Brings

Higher GB/$

LowerBandwidthConstraints

Virtualization

WholeWorkloadProtection

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Where Consolidated Recovery Fits?

Solution Cost RPO RTO TTO Notes

Server Clustering $$$$$$ Near Zero

Near Zero

Near zero(Impacts production data, adds risk)

Duplicate hardware

Complicated setup

Consolidated Recovery $$$$ Minutes Minutes Minutes

(No impact on production data)

Rapid and flexible restore

Easy setup and testing

Image Capture $$$ 24 Hr Hours Hours (Requires additional hardware) Limited restore flexibility

Tape/Manual Rebuild $ 24 Hr+ Days Days

(Impractical)

Difficult to administer and test

Slow, prone to errors

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Introducing PlateSpin Forge

PlateSpin Forge – What is it?

World’s first disaster recovery hardware appliance with embedded virtualization

Protects up to 25 workloads out of the box

PlateSpin Forge Includes:• Storage• Replication Software• Remote Management Interface• Hypervisor

Plug In and Protect DR Solution for :• Medium enterprises• Branch or field use for large enterprises• Hosted recovery

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Where Does Forge Fit?

Forge provides affordable protection for your lower & middle tier workloads

FaultTolerant

HighAvailability

DisasterRecoveryTier 1

DisasterRecoveryTier 2

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Product Architecture

ComputerResources

StorageResources

NetworkResources

Hypervisor

PlateSpinManagement

VM

Replication Repository

RecoveryWorkload

1

RecoveryWorkload

2

RecoveryWorkload

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RecoveryWorkload

25

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Product Features and Benefits

Consolidate Recovery

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Simplify Testing

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Rapid Failover and Flexible Failback

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Gain Visibility

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SAN Integration

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Multiple Recovery Points

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Central Management Console

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Questions?