vSphere Data Protection –

What's New and Technical Walkthrough

Jeff Hunter, VMware

Vahid Fereydouny, VMware

BCO5041

#BCO5041

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Data Protection Is Part of IT Business Continuity

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VMware Dramatically Simplifies IT Business Continuity

vSphere HA

vSphere FT

vSphere

Replication

Site Recovery

Manager

vSphere

vMotion

vSphere APIs

for Data

Protection

vSphere Data

Protection

Advanced

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VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Advanced

Built on proven EMC Avamar™ technology

Minimize backup data storage requirements

Easy, wizard-driven set-up and management

Agent-less virtual machine backup and restore

Agents for granular tier-1 application protection

Backup and recovery for VMware, from VMware

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What’s New

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What’s New with VDP Advanced – Scale

Supports up to ~200 VMs per appliance

Up to 8TB of de-dup’d backup data capacity

•Deployed with 2TB

•Capacity can be added (up to 8TB total)

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What’s New with VDP Advanced – Applications

Tier 1 Application Agents – App-level backup

for Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server

•Select individual databases for backup and restore

•Application-consistent backup and restore

•Higher level of de-duplication than image-level backup

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What’s New with VDP Advanced – Upgrade

Upgrade from VDP to VDP Advanced

• In-place upgrade preserves backup data

•Capacity growth to VDP Advanced sizes

VDP

VDP

Advanced

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Versions and Packaging

vSphere Data Protection Advanced

• Included with vSOM Ent, Ent+ Acceleration Kits

•Can also be purchased separately

•Simple per-CPU licensing, just like vSphere

vSphere Data Protection

• Included with vSphere Essential Plus and higher

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Deployment

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Deployment

VMware vSphere

vCenter and SSO vSphere Web Client

App

Agents

VDP

Advanced

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Deployment

DNS host record for VDP appliance

Deploy .ova

http://<VDP ip address>:8580/vdp-configure/

•Customize appliance size, storage layout

•Option to use existing VDP storage

•Storage performance test

Reboot appliance

New

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Deployment

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Configure

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Configure

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Application Agents

SQL Server and Exchange

Application-consistent backup and restore

•SQL Server Virtual Device Interface (VDI) API

•Exchange Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

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Backup

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Application Backup

Full Server – all application databases

Selected Databases – individual databases

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Application Backup

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Application Backup – Exchange

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Application Job – SQL Server

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Application Backup – SQL Server

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Backup Retention

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Manually Start Backup Job

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Restore

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Application Restore

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Application Restore

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Application Restore

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Lock and Delete Restore Points

Lock important restore points

Restore points can be deleted to free capacity

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File Level Restore (FLR)

VM guest OS local

admin credentials

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File Level Restore (FLR)

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File Level Restore (FLR)

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File Level Restore (FLR)

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File Level Restore (FLR) – Advanced Login

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Reporting

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Reporting

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Reporting

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Reporting

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Reporting

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Reporting

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“Under The Hood”

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Backup and Maintenance Windows

Backup window

•Backup jobs should be scheduled in backup window

Maintenance window

•Scheduled integrity checks and garbage collection

• Integrity check can also be run manually

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Checkpoints and Rollback

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VDP Backup Technologies

Efficient backup mechanism

• vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP)

•Changed Block Tracking (CBT) – backup and restore

•Avamar variable-length segment size algorithm

•De-duplication across all VMs in VDP appliance

•SCSI hot-add avoids copying .vmdk across network

• Attaches .vmdk directly to appliance after snapshot

• Uses NBD if unable to utilize SCSI hot-add

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Recommendations

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Recommendations

Add DNS host record prior to deployment

Right-size VDP appliance at deployment

•Capacity can be added to VDP Advanced, not VDP

Use proper storage

•Many VDP support calls related to slow storage

Manage your snapshots

•Majority of VDP support calls related to snapshots

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Recommendations

Monitor storage capacity

•Capacity warning issued at 80%

• Look for ways to lower capacity utilization <80%

•Health check limit at 95%

• Performance issues, new backup activities suspended

•Server read-only limit at 100%

• No new data allowed

Ideal steady-state capacity is 65-75%

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Recommendations

Place VDP appliance close to protected VMs

•VDP utilizes SCSI hot-add

•Keep traffic of off network

Latest version of VMware Tools

Do not power-off the appliance

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Recommendations

One partition per .vmdk file

•FLR does not support disks with multiple partitions

Time synchronization

• “Most recent request has been rejected by the server”

•VDP plug-in not showing

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Recommendations

Avoid backups during maintenance window

•Restores can be performed any time

Make sure you are using latest version

•Example: Win 2008 R2, 2012 issue resolved

Always use fully qualified domain names

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vSphere Data Protection Advanced and VDP

Software Defined

Data Protection

Hybrid Data

Protection

Application Aware

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vSphere Data Protection 5.5 Feature Overview

Enhancing user experience and simplicity

Single VMDK Backup and restore

Detachable/Re-mountable data disks

Direct to host recovery

New Storage enhancements

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Demo

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Cloud Based Replication

VDP

Service Provider Customer Sites

VDP

Avamar Grids

Replication

over WAN

Replication

over WAN

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Bringing Enterprise Technology to all markets

VDP Advanced/VDP

Data Protection by VMware for VMware

Great Value at Affordable Price

Easy to Deploy and Manage

Best De-dup Technology Enabling Agility and

Infrastructure Efficiency

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More VDP Advanced at VMworld

VMware Support (GSS) session

•BCO4756 Technical Deep Dive and Troubleshooting

Demos

•VMware BCDR booth on show floor

BCDR sessions

•BCO5160 Part 1

•BCO5162 Part 2

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Other VMware Activities Related to This Session

HOL:

HOL-SDC-1305

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery In Action

Group Discussions:

BCO1002-GD

Data Protection and Backup with Jeff Hunter

BCO5041

THANK YOU

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Deployment New

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Deployment New

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Deployment New

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Deployment New

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Configure New

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Image Backup New

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Backup Schedule

Daily, weekly, or monthly

Specific backup job start times

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Image Restore New

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Image Restore

Restore to original or alternate location

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Direct-To-Host Image Restore New

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Replication

New

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Replication

Replicate backup data from VDP to EMC Avamar

Easily move backup data offsite for DR

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Service

Provider

Backup Data Replication

VDP

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Replication

Filter and select clients

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Replication

Backup types and limits

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Replication

Schedule

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Replication

Retention

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Replication

Initial replication sends full data set

Subsequent replication sends changes only

Replication job can be started manually

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Replication – Restore from Avamar New

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Recommendations

Schedule replication when activity is low

•Avoid replication when running backups, maintenance