cpap.com's backup and dr solution
DESCRIPTION
CPAP.com is a rapidly growing business dedicated to providing online purchases of affordable sleep apnea equipment. When one of their critical servers went down, the entire business unit was disabled, but its new approach to backup and disaster recovery was able to recover its database and website server in 45 minutes. The alternative would have been to rebuild the VM's and restore the mySQL database, which could have taken a day or more. Join this webinar to learn more about backup and disaster recovery best practices that have been implemented by CPAP.comTRANSCRIPT
CPAP.com's Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution
Featuring:
Jayson Galloway from CPAP.com
Jim Noonan from PHD Virtual
Agenda
• Introduction of Speakers• CPAP.com’s Backup & DR Solution• Backup & ReliableDR Demo• Q&A
Speakers
Jayson GallowayCPAP.com
IT Administrator
Jim Noonan PHD Virtual
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CPAP.com’s Virtual Environment
• Primary and Secondary sites• 62 VMs in Primary and 12 in Secondary• 5 Host servers 3 Primary and 2 Secondary• Hypervisors
– VMware ESXi 5.5– Citrix XenServer
• Primary Site Storage– EMC VNX 5300– Nexenta ZFS Server for backups– 10gbe SAN connections
• Secondary Site Storage– Nexenta ZFS Server– MD3000i for backups
CPAP.com’s Backup and DR Environment
• Primary site– PHDVBA backed to Nexenta
• Secondary site– PHDVBA backed to MD3000i
• Reliable DR– 10mb connection– Running a mix of live and CRP jobs
• Servers needing immediate DR run as often as every 15 minutes• CRP is used for servers that only need a daily DR• All servers tested for boot and start of daemons• Network change scripts run to verify connectivity
• Backup archiving– For servers only needing an offsite copy with no testing we push from site to site with
the PHDVB archive function
IT Department
• 3 people in IT Department serving 110 users
Objectives
• Consistent experience in the backup environment across Hypervisors
Other Vendors/Solutions Considered
• Veeam– More expensive
• Vmware Data Protection– Decent software but not flexible
PHD Virtual
• Discovered while researching Veeam.• Many good reviews• Working with the sales and engineering team
was a breeze• During implementation any issue we found was
dealt with quickly and successfully– This went so far as getting the coding group into a
Linux issue for RDR checks
PHD Virtual
• The level of support was and continues to be phenomenal
Reasons Why PHD was Chosen
• Cost, much more reasonable• RDR, replication and testing of mission critical VM’s• Set it and forget it unless you need to change or add
something.
Metrics and Results
• Dedupe Ratio of 20:1 on the primary site and 34:1 on the secondary
• 31 TB of backups stored in only 1.5TB of space– This includes the retention policies we have to
comply with HIPAA
Backup Report
Features Evaluation
• Replication
• Instant VM Recovery
• Instant and Rollback Recovery
• Virtual full backups and easy to set retention policy
Features Evaluation
• CBT backup• VBAs are easy to setup• RDR (automated testing every 15 minutes)
Recovery Story
Database and website server recovery in 45 minutes
***versus***
Rebuilding VM’s and Restoring mySQL database which could have taken a day or more
DR Testing
DR Assurance
Backup & Recovery
ReplicationManual
FullyAutomated
Procedures
Data
Service
Transforming Recovery
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IT PROCESS RECOVERY PLANFOCUS
RecoveryInstant
RollbackItem
ScalableEfficient
App AwareCompliant
Assured DR
PHD Virtual Backup & Replication• Supports VMware & Citrix
• Installs and configures in 10 minutes and requires no training
• Instant VM Recovery enables customers to get back up and running in minutes
• Performs 3 to 5 times faster on incremental backups
• Uses less storage than any competitor
• Unique Virtual Backup Appliance plugs into the Hypervisor; scales quicker and easier
• Requires no physical machines, 3rd party OS or software
Info-Tech Research: Highest rated product among 14 evaluated 2013 report
Backup Storage
Primary Storage
The VBA Architecture Advantage
Virtual Backup Appliance100% Virtual FootprintNo Physical Servers
No Additional Software
Backup / Proxy ServerPhysical Server
Operating SystemBackup Software
SAN Attach (HBA)Maintenance
Backup Storage
Primary Storage
VIRTUAL BACKUP APPLIANCE
OTHER PRODUCTS
VS.
Backup / Proxy Server
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PHD Virtual CloudHook
What is it?– Separately licensed feature in
PHDVB 6.2 that allows a VBA to connect to cloud storage for backup and archive
Why it is important? Offsite storage of backups is complex and costly!
– Provides an easy to use, scalable, low-cost offsite storage option
– Flexibility to choose from several different popular cloud platforms
– Decreases risk of losing data in an outage
– Frees up time to focus on higher priority projects
Disaster Recovery Assurance
Old solutions to DR preparedness are complex, costly & time consuming
– Testing takes significant manual effort and time – Many DR testing methods are not reliable.
– Many DR testing solutions are expensive• Gartner Group $30k-$40k up to $100k per test
PHD Virtual Disaster Recovery Assurance– Aligns IT with, and supports, business continuity planning– Guarantees failover of virtualized applications across clouds– Provides 100% automated DR exercising– Enforces recovery point objectives – Tracks recovery time objectives
PHD Virtual Backup & Replication
DEMO
Questions & Answers
www.phdvirtual.com
+1-267-298-5320 or Toll Free 866-710-1882