Complete Data Protection Solutions in a Virtualized EnvironmentCommVault Galaxy Backup and Recovery Featuring VCB Support

Bob Smolenyak

Field Marketing Manager

Linux OS - Service Console

Linux OS - Service Console

Linux OS - Service Console

VMware Environment Infrastructure

VMware ESX Server

Physical Hardware

VM Config

Guest OS

Virtual Machine 2

Guest OSApplication

Virtual Machine 1

Guest OS

Virtual Machine 3

VMware ESX Server

Physical Hardware

VM Config

Guest OS

Virtual Machine 5

VM Config

Guest OSApplication

Virtual Machine 4

VM Config

Guest OS

Virtual Machine 6

VMware ESX Server

Physical Hardware

Guest OS

Virtual Machine 7

Guest OS

Virtual Machine 8

Windows OS

VMware Virtual Center Management Server

SQL DB

• Oracle• MS SQL Server• MSDE• Centralized mgmt

• Operational automation• Resource optimization• High availability

VMotion Technology

VM Config

VM Config

VM Config

VM Config

Consolidated Backup LoadsVirtualization Challenge #1

Resource Utilization

Production >

Backup >

Optimizing Backup

Loading: Distributed processing with Client agents

Balancing: Using Gridstor with Intelligent datapaths

Shared Drives: Multi-streaming, Multi-plexing

SAN

LAN

Media Agent / Backup Server

Production Servers

Datapaths

Challenge #1Consolidating the servers onto a shared

virtualized infrastructure may overwhelm the resource loads when normal backup is run

Consolidated Restore/RetentionVirtualization Challenge #2

File Server Windows

System State

Virtual Machine 1 VM Config

Challenge #2A combined DR and File-level protection

strategy may be required to meet your SLA requirements

Full-Disk ImageThe full contents of the virtual machine containerProvides full VM system recoveryPeriodic change rate…when configuration or updates are applied to OSRetained for shorter cycles (DR policy)

Incremental File ProtectionDaily capture of file-level changes within Guest OS viewProvide file versioning and single item browse & search restoreRetain for longer cycles (months) – can be impacted by compliance requirements

Consolidated Restore/RetentionVirtualization Challenge #3 Unified Data Protection

Protection of the Virtual Center and ESX Virtual Machines environment

Consolidated policy management, scheduling and reporting

Data retention policies with compliance audit

Unified Product Portfolio for combined management of protection, archive and recovery

Easy to deploy and maintain, simpler to administer

Challenge #3With potentially 100’s of servers targeted for virtual consolidation in many

leading environments, the challenge shifts to needed effective centralized policy management to reduce Administration

VMware Consolidated Backup Optimized Data Protection For Virtualized Data

Resource loading > use data movement across the SAN, use off-host machines to process the backup, minimize operational impact on ESX

Match Disk-Image / DR protection with single file retention/ restore

Minimize the complexity of managing very large scale environments

Answer: CommVault VCB-enabled backup policies

VMware Consolidated Backup Optimized Data Protection For Virtualized Data

File Server Windows

System State

Virtual Machine 1 VM Config

VCB Enabled Backup Policies

Reduced backup load on ESX operations

SAN based data-movement

DR and File-level protection

• Crash-consistent DR Disk Image

• File-level for Windows Guest OS

Provides file versioning and single item browse & search restore

Comply with security, retention or compliance requirements related to your Data Protection strategy

VMware: VCB-File Level Backups

Use-Case The Environment

Enable frequent file-level backups of NTFS volumes in Windows Guest OS virtual machines

Use Full, differential or incremental methods

Minimize load on ESX operations and network

ESX 3.0 Enterprise SAN External Windows 2003 server to act as “VCB Proxy”VM Guest OS - Windows

The Solution Benefits

Galaxy Backup policies configured with VCB-File option

Galaxy ProxyHost client to retain backup ownership at VM client

Optional data compression or encryption

File-level retention with versioning Simplified browse, search and retrievalEnsures full data integrity on restore (ACLs, Metadata)Transparent to VMotion

VMware: VCB-Full Image Backups

Use-Case The EnvironmentPeriodic full disk-image backup for DR recovery

Crash-consistent file set

Minimize load on ESX operations and network

ESX 3.0 Enterprise SAN External Windows 2003 server to act as “VCB Proxy”Any Guest OS

The Solution BenefitsGalaxy Backup policies configured with VCB-Full option

DR backups consolidated on the “VCB Proxy” client

Cross-platform restore to ESX

Optional data compression or encryption

Consolidate DR protection copies Compress file set to improve media utilizationSimple browse and restore to ESX target for vcbRestore

Data Protection Methods with ESX

Server 3.0

VMWare ESX Server

VM Config

Guest OS

Virtual Machine 3

Physical Hardware

VM Config

Guest OS

Virtual Machine 2

VM Config

Guest OS

Application

Virtual Machine 1

1) Local iDataAgent Application-Aware Backup

Volumes\Directories\

Files

App Server Windows

System State

VM 1 VM Config

Volumes\Directories\

FilesAppl

icat

ion

Backup Restore• Local iDA (any Galaxy

supported App/OS)• Application

Consistent Backup• Network-based

• Browse & Restore with in-place to local client

• Cross-server restore• Application context

Volumes\Directories\

Files

File Server Linux

System State

VM 2 VM Config

Volumes\Directories\

Files

2) VCB-Proxy File-Level Backup Backup Restore• Windows ProxyHost

Client• VCB-File-Level • SAN-based, Off-Host• Full, Diff, Incremental

• Single file restore• Browse & Restore

with in-place to local client

• Cross-server restore

Volumes\Directories\

Files

File Server Windows OS

System State

VM 3 VM Config

Volumes\Directories\

Files

3) VCB-Proxy Full-Image VM Backup for DRBackup Restore• Any Guest Host OS• VCB-VM Image• SAN-based, Off-Host• Full only

• Restore Full Image files to ESX Service Console for import

ESX 3.0 Backup Protection Methods

ESG on the CommVault VMware Solution

"VMware implementations are booming, with one of the few things holding back production rollouts being the ability to have tightly integrated backup and recovery capabilities of virtual machines, no matter where they are or where they move to. CommVault support for VMware goes far beyond just backup and puts disaster recovery right into the hands of the VMware administrator -enabling them to bring up a virtual machine anywhere and keep all the associated data instantly recoverable. It's really smart stuff."

Steve Duplessie, founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Customer Case Study: Ricoh

“Ricoh has been a CommVault customer for four years, and has trusted CommVault Galaxy to backup more than 200 servers in our distributed systems environment, which includes many VMware systems. As we harden our DR plan, we are looking to take advantage of the benefits of an integrated VMware and CommVault solution. CommVault's products together with their DR best practice recommendations will allow us to maintain a competitive advantage as we move to consolidate backups and streamline operations using VCB.”

Dave Caporaso, Manager - Technical Services, Ricoh CorporationRicoh used the CommVault “DR Best Practices Guide for VMware” as a starting point

What’s New: VCB Solution OverviewHow it Changes Protection OptionsProtection Level Required

Without VCB With VCBRequires SANGuest Windows FS (File-Level)

Crash-Consistent Client Protection

Use Linux iDA on ESX Console

Use VCB Proxy to capture the virtual machine Full Image snapshot (Any Guest OS)Use ESX Linux iDA to act as restore target

File-level File System Protection

Use local FS agent with LAN-based backup/restore

Use VCB Proxy with Galaxy Windows FS iDA to mount the snapshot and make a granular backupUse ProxyHost on VM Client to simplify management

Application Object-Level Protection

Use a local Application agent to ensure application-consistent data protection

Certified Support

CommVault Backup Support VMware Certification LevelGalaxy 5.0 ESX Server 2.5.x

Galaxy 5.9 ESX Server 2.5.xESX Server 3.0

Galaxy 6.1 ESX Server 3.0

Listed on our new VMware partner pageEasy to findLinked to the VMware certification listsProvides a place where VMware links to CommVault

Listed on VMware certification lists at:http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx_backup_guide.pdfhttp://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_backup_guide.pdf

VMware Server and GSX Server are also supported

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