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The Data Provisioning, Protection and Recovery Solutions for VMware Almost All Inclusive Slide Deck

Duane JohnsonStorage Architect / Solutions Ambassador

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FalconStor Recovery Solutions for VMware

These features are representative of feature areas under development. Feature commitments must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.

FalconStor Contact Info

• Duane Johnson – Storage Architect– 917.578.6578– [email protected]

• Eric Nadel – Territory Account Manager– 201.562.6587– [email protected]

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FalconStor at a Glance

• Leading provider of data protection software– Ranked #5 in Forbes 2008 Fastest-Growing

Tech Companies – Over 4,000 enterprise and 30,000 SMB

sites around the world– 70% VTL market share

• Company operations– Headquarters, R&D and Customer Support –

Melville , NY– 23 in-country offices– 535 Employees 64% Technical

• Global channel and 24x7 support Infrastructure• Financially Sound/Strong Growth public company

(NASDAQ: FALC)




TOTALLY Open™ Software

FalconStor is the leading provider of TOTALLY Open™ Data Protection

VirtualizeReplicate

Protect

Recover Data Mobility




FalconStor Solutions

Virtual Tape Library (VTL)Disk-based Library for Backup Optimization

Continuous Data Protector™ (CDP)Disk-based Data Protection with Instant Recovery

Network Storage Server (NSS)Intelligent Storage Virtualization, Provisioning, Mobility

File-interface Deduplication System (FDS)Dramatically Reducing Data Across The Enterprise




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Continuous Data Protector

Network Storage Server

Storage Virtualization

Primary Storage

• Storage Virtualization• Instant Recoverability• Cost Effective

Replication• Data Migration• VMware Certified

Virtual Tape Library

Leader in VTL

• Disk seen as Tape• Fast, Reliable Backup• Integrated

Deduplication• Physical Tape Export• Data Replication

VTL Repository

Backup Server

Tape Library

Primary Storage

• Continuous Backup• Continuous Availability• Continuous

Recoverability• Continuous Replication• Continuous Protection

Continuous Backup

File DeduplicationSystem

Data Reducer

Dedupe Repository

BackupStorage

VTLRepository

• File Deduplication• 95% File Reduction• File Archive• LAN Backup to NAS• Replication for DR

D2D Backup Applications

File Archive




NSS CDP

FDS VTL

FalconStor Virtual Appliances for VMware

• FalconStor is the only VMware Partner to deliver a comprehensive suite of data protection virtual appliances




Storage Magazine's 2008 Products of the Year

• Silver award for Backup and disaster recovery software and services

• Second only to VMware Site Recovery Manager

• Awarded based on the value that NSS brings to backup and DR for VMware

• Demonstrates the importance of Backup and DR in Virtual environments



About Storage Virtualization




Basic Storage Virtualization

Physical LUN

Slicing Combining

Virtual Drives

Virtual Drive

Physical LUNs




How FalconStor Storage Virtualization Works

• Quickly create virtual volumes from physical disk resources– Physical LUN and virtual

devices up to 16TB– Expand volumes as

needed• Store VMDK files on

virtual volumes• Securely assign

volumes to servers through NSS interface

Virtual disks

Physical disks

FC or iSCSI




Thin Provisioning:Better Storage Utilization

• Create a virtual volume to match size of data provisioning request

• Allocate a smaller amount of actual physical disk space

• Additional physical space allocated automatically as needed

• Reduces wasteful over provisioning of storage

• Saves disk space and power consumption

Data

Virtual

Thin provisioned SAN volume

Physical

A Green feature

Application server sees

virtual volume size

200GB

800GB

“800 GB”




Storage Virtualization Benefits

• Provides a quick and easy way to provision and share storage resources as needed

• Works with and across any type of storage (SAS, SATA, SSD...) and any brand

• Shared storage enables VMware advanced features (VMotion, VMware HA, Distributed Resource Scheduler)

• Allows easy growth of virtual resources• Space savings through thin provisioning



Recovery Challenges in a

Virtualized Environment




Disaster Recovery Challenges

• Organizations face an urgent need for effective, efficient disaster recovery

• Traditional DR solutions are complex, expensive, slow and prone to failure

• Due to costs, DR plans are often limited in scope and do not protect all corporate IT assets

• Difficult to perform DR rehearsals, test plan verification

* Reported by Eagle Rock Alliance Ltd., “ONLINE SURVEY RESULTS 2001 COST OF DOWNTIME”




The Current VMware Backup Landscape

• 80% of VMware users are using backup to tape

• 24% of VMware users are using VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)

• Of the major VMware products (ESX, Vmotion, vCenter Server, etc.) VCB has the lowest satisfaction rating and the lowest perceived return on investment*

* All statistics from VMware customer survey data from July-August 2008




Virtualization Changes Server, Application, and Information Paradigm… Innovative Storage Service Needed to Deliver Greater Consolidation, Value

Low overall server utilization:CPU cycle available to server-based applications such as Backup agent, Replication…

High overall server utilization:Not much CPU/IO bandwidth left for host-based applications: Backup Agent. Replication…

Server virtualization was introduced to save money and/or improve service levels, so what are the plans to address recovery?




The problem, simply put

“Backups hit the most vulnerable points with VMware: its narrow ability to handle excessive disk and network I/O... A backup load is one of the worst loads for a VMware server to accommodate.”

-- Ashley D’CostaFrom Three VMware data backup and restore methods

SearchDataBackup.com, 4/11/08




DR Challenges in Virtual Environments

• Physical server resources, disk and network I/O tend to be highly utilized– This is by design – Impacts backup processing

• Backing up active VMDK files leads to crash-consistent data (at best) or lost/corrupted data (at worst)

• Coordinating VM shutdown with snapshots and backups takes sophisticated scripting ability

• Relationships between physical disks and VMDK files requires careful coordination Physical Storage

BU Agent BU Agent

BU Agent BU Agent




What to look for in a DR solution for VMware

Time to recovery• How long until systems are back online?• How quickly will my business be restarted?

Application/transactional consistency• Are applications ready to start when I need them?• Do I have to wait out lengthy consistency checks?

System Manageability• Can I keep track of all the parts of my DR operation?




What to look for in a DR solution for VMware

WAN bandwidth utilization

• Is bandwidth utilization efficient to reduce costs?

Freedom of choice• Can I use different vendor disk arrays and/or different storage

protocols at the recovery site?

DR plan testing

• Can my DR plan be easily tested to make sure that it works?

Failback

• Can I reverse the data flow to rebuild the primary site?



Data Integrity and System Recovery




Enhancing Data Protection

What can we do to enhance data protection?




VMware Recovery with FalconStor Software

• FalconStor software provides a set of tools to enhance VMware data protection– 100% transactional integrity of data for fast

restores – WAN-optimized data replication to reduce

bandwidth use by 90% or more– Integration with VMware Site Recovery Manager

(SRM)– Physical-to-virtual support with SRM




Application-centric Protection

Why is application integration important?

Because when you recover, you want your data to look like this

And not like this




Giving Names to Eggs

CrashConsistentData

TransactionallyComplete

Data




FalconStor Application Snapshot Director for VMware• The Application Snapshot Director for VMware designed

to ensure transactional integrity of data– Data is not in a crash consistent state (it is 100%

transactionally consistent)– No need for lengthy system/DB checking

• Coordinates snapshot process between VMware and FalconStor application-specific and file system-specific snapshot agents

• Runs on the ESX server• Integrates with Site Recovery Manager




What is VMware Site Recovery Manager?

• VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a new product for disaster recovery that does the following:– Simplifies and automates key disaster recovery workflows:

setup, testing, failover, failback– Simplifies and centralizes management of recovery plans

• This combination of disaster recovery automation with the capabilities of VMware Infrastructure reduces time to recover, risk, complexity and cost

• However, SRM by itself does not address:– Application/transactional integrity– WAN bandwidth utilization– Flexibility in choosing a disk array vendor




The VMware and FalconStor Solution

Industry Standard Disk Array

VirtualCenter

Virtual Machines

Production Site Disaster Recovery Site

Standby virtual machines

Application Snapshot Agents

Site Recovery ManagerStorage

Replication Adapter

VMware InfrastructureApplication Snapshot Director

ESX Servers

Site Recovery Manager with

Storage Replication Adapter

FalconStor Application Snapshot Agents

FalconStor Application Snapshot Director

FC or iSCSI


VMware Infrastructure

Virtual Machines

VirtualCenter

ESX Servers


Replication Adapter

Application Snapshot Director


FC or iSCSI

FalconStor NSS and Thin Replication

FalconStor Network Storage Server




FalconStor Network Storage Server

• FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) creates virtual storage volumes across any physical disk resources– Physical LUN and virtual devices

up to 16TB each

• Expand volumes as needed• Securely assigns volumes to

servers • FC, iSCSI and InfiniBand

supported

Storage Replication

Adapter



Virtual Machines

VirtualCenter

ESX Servers

Site Recovery Manager



FC or iSCSI




FalconStor Storage Replication Adapter

• FalconStor Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) coordinates virtual storage with VMware

• Virtual disk assignments automatically correlated with associated virtual machines

• Knowledge used to properly match machines with storage after disaster

Storage Replication

Adapter



Virtual Machines

VirtualCenter

ESX Servers




FC or iSCSI




FalconStor Application Protection Agents

• Application and File System specific agents place systems into proper backup mode– Unmatched range of

application support– Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft

SQL, Oracle, Sybase, Windows File system, etc.

• Runs within the virtual machine



Virtual Machines

VirtualCenter

ESX Servers


Replication Adapter


FC or iSCSI





FalconStor Application Snapshot Directorfor VMware

• FalconStor Application Snapshot Director (ASD) coordinates snapshot process between VMware ESX and application snapshot agents

• Ensures transactional integrity of data and fast recovery– Data is not in a crash consistent

state– No need for lengthy system/DB

checkingIndustry Standard Disk Array


Virtual Machines

VirtualCenter

ESX Servers


Storage Replication

Adapter


FC or iSCSI





FalconStor Thin ReplicationProduction Site Disaster Recovery Site

• Thin Replication uses the least possible amount of WAN bandwidth

• Lowers DR bandwidth cost

• Includes data encryption Industry Standard Disk Array


Virtual Machines

VirtualCenter

ESX Servers


Replication Adapter



FC or iSCSI



Virtual Machines

VirtualCenter

ESX Servers


Replication Adapter



FC or iSCSI

FalconStor NSS and Thin Replication




Rapid Disaster Recovery

FalconStor Storage

ESXServers

VirtualCenter

Virtual Machines

Disaster Recovery



Replication Adapter


• In the event of a disaster1. SRM communicates to

the FalconStor SRA2. SRA communicates with

FalconStor NSS to assign disks

3. Disks are assigned to the correct VMs and systems can start

• ASD and application agents insure immediate system startup

1.

2.

3.




Disaster Recovery Testing

FalconStor Storage

ESX Servers

VirtualCenter

Virtual Machines

Disaster Recovery



Replication Adapter


• DR scenarios can be tested at any time1. SRM communicates to

the FalconStor SRA2. SRA communicates

with FalconStor NSS to create a snapshot

3. Snapshot disk is assigned to the correct VM and system can start and validate recovery

1.

2.

3.




FalconStor Replication FailbackProduction Site Disaster Recovery Site

• After rebuild of production site, FalconStor re-synchs data from recovery site back to the primary

• Full rebuild or accumulated changes



Virtual Machines

VirtualCenter

ESX Servers


Replication Adapter



FC or iSCSI



Virtual Machines

VirtualCenter

ESX Servers


Replication Adapter



FC or iSCSI

FalconStor Replication Failback



Physical-to-Virtual Support with SRM




Extending the Game

• FalconStor can support Physical-to-Virtual recovery with Site Recovery Manager

SAN

Raw device mapping

Data copy to

secondary storage

Physical Servers



WAN Optimization




Achieving Efficient Data Replication

Deploy sub-block replication to move your data




MicroScan WAN optimization

• Applications and file systems write far more data to disk than actual changes

• NSS scans the changes at a 512 byte level and replicates only the changed data– Avoids constant re-

sending of duplicate data

512 byte

= empty disk sector

= data written by application or file system

= sector with actual data change

A typical 8k write of data. Many systems send all 8k or more. NSS sends only the

truly changed sectors.

512 byte

Disk sectors




MicroScan WAN Savings Example

• Actual user production data for Microsoft Exchange replication– 1300 users, hourly replication from CA to PA– High random-write nature of Exchange is well suited to MicroScan

removal of duplicate data• Average WAN traffic reduction of 97% with no additional

network equipment needed

Storage GroupExchange

Sectors ChangedNSS

Sectors ReplicatedAverage

Percent ReplicatedAverageSavings

SG1 11,045,655 291,794 2.64% 97.36%

SG2 10,228,363 250,180 2.45% 97.55%

SG3 12,809,355 301,842 2.36% 97.64%

SG4 10,587,042 330,289 3.12% 96.88%

AVERAGE 11,167,604 293,526 2.64% 97.36%




Solution Delivery

• FalconStor SRA will be distributed within VMware SRM offering without additional costs– Also available as a free plug-in download online from

FalconStor.com• FalconStor will provide free activation of

FalconStor SRA to its customers who purchase– FalconStor NSS Appliances– FalconStor MicroScan for Thin Replication– FalconStor Application Snapshot Director for ESX




The FalconStor Value

• Application and VMware agent support to ensure that replication volumes are transactionally consistent– Servers at the DR site boot immediately without the need

for lengthy data integrity checks• A bandwidth saving method for WAN data replication• Freedom to use whatever storage and storage

protocols meet your cost and performance needs• Testability to ensure it works when you really need it• Failback to rebuild your primary data sets• Management tools to keep track of systems and

storage



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