1. Server Virtualization Backups, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Steve Evans http://SerkTools.com

2. Microsoft MVP, Directory Services Blog – http://SerkTools.comhttp://SerkTools.com Twitter - @scevans SerkTools ( http://SerkTools.com) http://SerkTools.com – Content Creation/Delivery Screencast, Whitepapers, Blogging, Events – Consulting Microsoft IT Infrastructure (Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, Identity, etc) Steve Evans

3. Agenda High Availability SnapshotsBackupBare Metal Restore

4. Stand Alone Application Data Free Simple Good Enough?

5. Application Redundancy Application Data Application Data AD/DNS/SMTP Protocol Support Perfect!

6. Load Balancer Application Data Application Data Load Balancer Web/RDS App Support Helps

7. Fail Over Clustering Application Data Application Data File Services/SQL Shared Storage Complicated

8. Live Migrate Guest Level Clustering Application Agnostic Simplified Guests

9. Agenda High Availability Snapshots BackupBare Metal Restore

10. Anatomy of a Snapshot Physical Volume VHD AVHD (0) AVHD (1) AVHD (2) AVHD (3) ?????

11. Virtual Machine Snapshots Not for Disaster Recovery Performance Concerns Great for roll- back plan

12. Agenda High AvailabilitySnapshots Backup Bare Metal Restore

13. WSB/DPM 2007 – Direct Guest Hyper-V Windows 2003+ SQL Server 2005+ 1.NTFS becomes consistent 2.SQL becomes consistent 3.Backup Snapped Disk DPM Agent

14. WSB/DPM 2007 – VSS Enabled Guests Hyper-V Windows 2003+ SQL Server 2005+ 1.Host talks to VSS Writers on Guests 2.NTFS becomes consistent 3.SQL becomes consistent 4.Backup Snapped Disk NO DPM Agent DPM Agent

15. WSB/DPM 2007 – Non-VSS Guests Hyper-V NT 4.0 1.Suspend Guest OS 2.Snap Host Disk with VSS 3.Resume Guest OS 4.Backup Snapped Disk

16. Host Level Backups: Advantages Backup is Comprehensive – Bare Metal Recovery – Virtual Networks not included Licensing Costs – WSB Free Though Single Solution for all OSs Simple(ish)

17. Host Level Backups: Disadvantages Natively No Restore Granularity Natively Does Not Support Multiple Snapshots Guest will enter Saved State If: – No VSS Support (Windows 2000, NT, Non- Windows) – Integration Services not installed – Volume Backup Component disabled Be Aware of Non-VSS Aware Apps (eg Oracle) Guest can not use dynamic disks

18. Enable Hyper-V VSS Backup reg ADD HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WindowsServerBack up\Application Support\{66841CD4- 6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE} /V Application Identifier /T Reg_SZ /D Hyper-V /F

19. Windows Server Backup: Hyper-V Restore

20. DPM 2007 Advantages VM Level Restore Granularity Integrated Physical/Guest Level/Host Level Solution Server Management Suite – License for every OS on a physical machine: Operations Manager Configuration Manager Data Protection Manager Virtual Machine Manager

21. DPM 2010 & Hyper-V R2 Restore VMs to Alternate Hosts Individual file-item restore – Files only though, SQL/Exchange/etc not covered

22. Agenda High AvailabilitySnapshotsBackup Bare Metal Restore

23. Restore Host Level Backup Deploy from Template – Group Policy Configuration Windows Firewall Services Scheduled Tasks File System ACLs Folder Shares Etc

24. Microsoft MVP, Directory Services Blog – http://SerkTools.comhttp://SerkTools.com Twitter - @scevans SerkTools ( http://SerkTools.com) http://SerkTools.com – Content Creation/Delivery Screencast, Whitepapers, Blogging, Events – Consulting Microsoft IT Infrastructure (Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, Identity, etc) Steve Evans