vPower Networking Deep Dive

Rick Vanover vExpert, VCP, MCITP

Product Strategy Specialist – Veeam Software

Twitter: @RickVanover

Blog: http://www.veeam.com/blog

Administrative points on this webinar

About this material ● This will be deep technical content related to networking and Veeam

Backup & Replication.

● This will show version 6 of Veeam Backup & Replication!

● Mix of PowerPoint and demos: Something for everyone

● General product demos are available at:

− http://www.veeam.com/product-demo.html

● More featured webinars are available at:

− http://www.veeam.com/videos.html

Questions ● Attendees can use the virtual Q&A panel.

● This webinar is recorded and available for replay after a few days.

● Stick around until the end of the webinar!

− Winners will receive a choice of books!

Agenda and Objectives

Background on Veeam Backup & Replication and vPower

Define network elements

● vPower NFS datastore

● Proxy appliance for networking

● How they are used

− SureBackup

− Instant VM Recovery

− Virtual Lab / Sandbox

Demos ● vPower, Instant VM Recovery, etc.

Veeam Backup & Replication

Breakthrough technology

Publishes the backup as a regular VMDK file ● Compressed, deduplicated, incremental

Runs a VM directly from the backup file ● Runs on regular backup storage

● Does not make any changes to the backup file

Automatically manages an isolated virtual lab ● Workflow engine manages requests

● Proxy appliance provides access into the isolated environment

“This is why I love Veeam. They take all the virtualization

technology pieces on the table and put them together into a

functioning business solution.” – Brett Westover

IT Administrator Therapeutic Research Center

What is vPower networking and who is it for?

This material is targeted to System Admins, VMware

administrators, and the “do it all” IT staff who has to also

deal with networking.

vPower “networking” is simply a proprietary NFS

datastore ● Not your typical NFS datastore

● Reads and writes are handled in a special manner

How it works

Proxy appliance will keep on demand sandbox off of the production network.

VMProxy

appliance

VMAdmin

console

Multiple VMs staged in virtual lab running from backup file.

The production Veeam Backup server can launch an on-demand sandbox.

vPower NFS Datastore

Provides a “window” into the backup repository ● Backup file integrity must be preserved

Windows service running on Veeam Server or proxies

vPower NFS Datastore

Mounted to FQDN of Veeam Backup & Replication

server (or proxy)

Recommended to provision vPower NFS datastore to

one host or provision one function per host if more are

needed

vPower NFS Datastore - Writes

vPower NFS Datastore - Reads

vPower NFS Datastore

Each repository can leverage a vPower NFS datastore,

a specific proxy is designated to provide it.

Instant VM Recovery

Fast: starts VM directly

from backup file

Readily available: uses existing backups

and backup storage

Buys you time: users keep working

while you troubleshoot

the problem

jr_on_the_cloud: Did a VM restore using Veeam yesterday.

Worked perfectly and was very easy. Impressed!

How it works

Instant Recovery

X

Demo

Instant VM Recovery vPower NFS datastore provisioning to ESXi host

What happens to a VM with vPower

The recovery point is enumerated from the vPower NFS

datastore ● VM inventoried to vSphere

● VM powered on

vPower NFS appears as read/write to ESX(i) ● Backup file integrity must be preserved

− Redirected writes (virtual lab, SureBackup)

− vPower handle them directly (Instant VM Recovery)

VMworld session available for replay! ● SPO3981 Veeam Backup & Replication: A Look Under the Hood

− Can be played online at VMworld.com

SureBackup, Virtual Lab, U-AIR

How do they leverage the vPower NFS datastore?

Masquerade IP addressing is the secret sauce

● Like NAT of cable router, except the perspective is reversed

− Let select traffic in, and nothing out (demo forthcoming)

● IP tables are built in wizard and create a runtime environment

for virtual lab proxy appliance (non-persistent)

● vPower (virtual lab, SureBackup) VMs are implicitly firewalled

● Virtual lab VM handles all inbound

− Only outbound is Internet for updates, optionally, and that

web traffic is proxied

Critical step of virtual lab

Networking and isolation from production

VMs in virtual lab (and U-AIR restore) can listen to and

accept connections ● Non-persistent network proxy appliance (virtual lab)

● Cannot interact with application in production

● No USN interference for Windows systems

● No application interference (data moving from one system to another)

Virtual lab network proxy appliance is where static

routes are sent to the masquerade IP address ● For external access, U-AIR application will make static route

Virtual Lab ready

Demo

Configure vPower Task

Application Group

Virtual Lab element

SureBackup job

View routing of existing SureBackup job

Additional Veeam Resources

Veeam forums and Veeam support ● Chances are, you are not the first!

Product demos ● http://www.veeam.com/product-demo.html?ad=menu

Version 6 webinar series ● http://vee.am/v6Series

VMworld SPO3981 Veeam Backup & Replication: A Look Under the Hood

Replay at: http://www.vmworld.com

Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide and Release Notes ● User Guide: http://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_5_0_2_user_guide_pg.pdf

● Release notes: http://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_ad_air_5_0_2_release_notes_rn.pdf

Questions and Answers Winners receive their choice from the following books

Thank you for attending!

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