1 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Backup Challenges in VMware Environments

2 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Agenda  VMware backup challenges  Benefits of deduplication  EMC backup solutions

3 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Today’s Data Protection Challenges  IDC: forecasts 10x data growth in the next 3 Years –10 TB production data will grow to 100 TB –Your 40TBs/month of backups turns into 400 TB per month –Including your monthly backups, this will grow to over 1.5 PB in backup storage –This is a two-fold problem:  Inability to meet your SLAs for backup and recovery  Storage and associated operational costs increasing faster than available budgets  Forrester: 65% of companies will adopt server virtualization by 2009 –Backup bottleneck limiting customers from further server consolidation  ESG: 47% of companies consider improving ROBO backup a high priority –Cost of people and equipment at each location –Bandwidth too costly for centralized backup with traditional methods –Risk that backups not happening at all  ESG: up to 14% of backups are incomplete –Data is unprotected, your business is at risk

4 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. /Database File Servers ROBO VMware NFS/iSCSI/FC The Backup Challenge Tape Backup VMWARE - Test/Dev - RTO/RPO - Growth - Static Data - Dense Files - Server Contention - Network Contention - Limited Resources - Limited Bandwidth - Backup window - Backup reliability

5 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. CHALLENGES New Backup Challenges Little idle CPU, memory bandwidth, and I/O capacity for backup Virtual Server A Virtual Server B Virtual Server C Old Paradigm Physical Environment: Low overall server utilization and plenty of bandwidth for backup New Paradigm Virtual Environment: High overall server utilization and little bandwidth for backup 20 percent resource utilization80 percent resource utilization 100% 80 % 40% 0% 60% 20% CPU Utilization 100% 80 % 40% 0% 60% 20% CPU Utilization Server AServer BServer C ESXServer Hardware Shared Physical Resources

6 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Resource Pool VMware Virtualization Layer x86 Architecture ~200% weekly per virtual machine Disk/Tape CHALLENGES New Backup Challenges Increasing amounts of data that has to be protected  Traditional backup is very inefficient—does nothing to eliminate redundant data  Redundant data along with weekly full and daily incrementals results in up to 200% of primary data being backed up per week  Does nothing to solve network, backup server, or disk bottlenecks OS Backup Server

7 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. De-Duplication – Why the hype? Data De-Duplication is a ‘white-hot’ technology Why ? Because it has such a powerful value proposition: Reduced Storage Reduced Infrastructure Costs Much Faster Backups Efficient Replication for DR All of which adds up to a compelling TCO & ROI De-Dupe Defined: “Identification of unique ‘chunks’ in a set of data, enabling the elimination of duplicates when stored or moved.” “De-dupe is a feature not a product. It is just one feature--albeit an important one--of disk-based platforms.”

8 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Data Center Only unique data segments are backed up  First Instance Data Deduplication: How it Works Simple Example of Global, Source Data Deduplication Remote Site 2  Modified Instance New data segment identified and backed up Remote Site 1  Duplicate Instance Data already backed up, so only unique IDs stored (20 byte pointers) EMC BACKUP SOLUTIONS Deduplication Server (stored backup data) A B C D A B C D E E

9 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. DE-DUPLICATION AT TARGETDE-DUPLICATION AT SOURCE Where Can Data De-duplication Occur?  Source –Client software agents identify repeated sub-file data segments at the source –Only new, unique segments are transferred across the network during backup operations –Benefits: shorter backup window, lower bandwidth requirements Target  Backup application sends native data to a target storage device  Data is de-duplicated once it reaches the target & can happen during or after backup  Benefits: transparency to backup application, “plug and play” experience Network ‘One size’ definitely does NOT fit all!

10 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC Avamar Transforms backup and recovery with global, source-based deduplication  Source-based, global data deduplication –Reduces data at source (client) and globally (backend disk)  Fast, daily full backups –Up to 10x faster daily full backups  Integrated high availability and reliability –RAIN for high availability and fault tolerance  Flexible deployment options –Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware –Avamar Data Store –Avamar Software EMC BACKUP SOLUTIONS Avamar Software Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware Avamar VM Resource Pool VMware Virtualization Layer x86 Architecture Avamar VM Avamar VM Avamar Data Store

11 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Avamar Backup Solutions for VMware EMC BACKUP SOLUTIONS VMware Guest OS Backup Avamar client software runs directly on each virtual machine Avamar client software runs on the proxy server vStorage APIs for Data Protection Physical Server Virtual Machines SAN Storage vStorage API proxy server with Avamar agent Avamar server Centralized Data Mover = Avamar Software Agent Resource Pool VMware Virtualization Layer x86 Architecture = Avamar Software Agent

12 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Avamar Backup for VMware Guest OS Source-based De-duplication vs. Traditional Backup Network Usage CPU Usage Disk Usage Traditional Avamar

13 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC BACKUP SOLUTIONS Avamar moves ~2% weekly Traditional moves ~200% weekly Resource Pool VMware Virtualization Layer x86 Architecture Resource Pool VMware Virtualization Layer x86 Architecture Avamar: Optimized Backup for VMware Infrastructure  Daily full backups and one-step recovery  Maintains effective consolidation ratios without overtaxing CPU utilization  Enables greater server consolidation Avamar efficiently protects virtual machines Up to… –95 percent reduction in data moved –90 percent reduction in backup times –50 percent reduction in disk impact –95 percent reduction in NIC usage –80 percent reduction in CPU usage –50 percent reduction in memory usage

14 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Avamar Backup for VMware Guests  Avamar agent resides inside each virtual machine  Deduplicates data within the virtual machine, as if they were physical servers  Moves minimal backup data –Reduces resource contention and accelerates backups  Provides file-level restore for Windows, Linux, and Solaris EMC BACKUP SOLUTIONS Resource Pool VMware Virtualization Layer x86 Architecture

15 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Avamar and vStorage APIs for Data Protection  Avamar agent resides on the proxy server  Deduplicates within and across VMDK files  Supports both file (Windows only) and image-level backup  Avamar replication provides disaster recovery for backed up VMDKs EMC BACKUP SOLUTIONS Physical Server Virtual Machines SAN Storage vStorage API proxy server with Avamar agent Avamar server Centralized Data Mover = Avamar Software Agent

16 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Extend VMware to Remote Facility Data Protection Backup and recovery and DR deployed as a virtual appliance EMC BACKUP SOLUTIONS Exchange File and Print DNS Backup Server Tape Library Tape Media Offsite Tape Storage Traditional Data Protection Avamar Virtual Edition Resource Pool ESX Server Hardware Avamar VM

17 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware Backup and recovery and DR deployed as a virtual appliance  Industry’s first deduplication virtual appliance for backup, recovery, and disaster recovery  Leverages existing ESX servers and storage  Replication (of applications and storage) eliminates shipping tapes  Facilitates rapid, cost-effective deployment and ROI  Supports VMotion for deployment flexibility  Up to two Avamar Virtual Edition virtual appliances per ESX server for scalability EMC BACKUP SOLUTIONS Avamar VM Resource Pool VMware Virtualization Layer x86 Architecture Avamar VM Avamar VM

18 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Replication for Remote Facilities Disaster Recovery EMC BACKUP SOLUTIONS Avamar Virtual Edition Distributed Remote Facility with VMware Resource Pool ESX Server Hardware Avamar VM = Avamar Software Agent Avamar Virtual Edition Resource Pool ESX Server Hardware Avamar VM Replication for Disaster Recovery Avamar Data Store

19 © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Avamar Success Story: Corporate Express Time shortened, costs reduced for backup in VMware deployment Before Avamar  Storage demands were rapidly increasing  Tape library was reaching slot capacity and upgrading was not ideal due to age and maintenance costs  Needed to control costs and simplify data management  Backup and disaster recovery was time consuming With Avamar  Reduced stored data by more than 50%, from 92 TB to 44 TB  Achieved significant financial savings  Enabled disk-based backups to be completed in 30 minutes, compare to 6 hours in the past for tape  Reduced restoration times for business-critical data from 24 hours to minutes EMC BACKUP SOLUTIONS “We were blown away by the simplicity of the management interface and the comprehensive capabilities offered by Avamar. After carrying out a proof of concept, we clearly understood the benefits Avamar would bring to our business.” —Mark Jones Technology Infrastructure Mgr.