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Daniel Olkowski

Dell EMC Data Protection Solutions

CEE

RecoverPoint for

Virtual Machines

Daniel.Olkowski@dell.com

The most fresh version of this document:

https://inside.dell.com/docs/DOC-313291

Replicate any VMware environment
One button Disaster Recovery
Restore to any point of time
Any hardware

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RP4VM�One Slide

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AWS Block

Storage

One

button

recovery

Management

VM

VMware Environment

Data Center

Cracow

Production

RDM

VMware

Environment

Data Center

London

AWS

Local

Replica

RDM

Remote

Replica

RDM

Replica in

Cloud S3

Restore / Tests

One button orchestrated recovery
Local / Remote / Cloud
To any point of time
Independent in each location
VMs consistent

Any hardware

Any size of VM

Raw devices or virtualized disks

Replication

Disaster Recovery

Backup

Tests

Data Center migrations

VMs conversion: �VMDK <-> Raw devices

One button recovery

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Local And Remote VM Protection

Journal

Replica

RDM

WAN

Journal

Replica

VMware

ESXi

VMware

vCenter

Plug-in

RDM

VMware

ESXi

New York

London

Production

VMware

vCenter

Plug-in

RDM

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RP4VM�Use cases

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RP4VM – where to use?

Disaster Recovery

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RP4VM – where to use?

Backup

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RP4VM – where to use?

Replication

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RP4VM – where to use?

Tests

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RP4VM – where to use?

Managing�Data Centers

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RP4VM – where to use?

Cloud

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Disaster Recovery

Backup

Replication

Tests

Managing�Data Centers

Cloud

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Internal Use - Confidential

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RP4VM�Why to use?

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RP4VM – what provides?

Orchestration

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RP4VM – what provides?

Hardware independence

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RP4VM – what provides?

Any �Virtual Machines

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RP4VM Orchestration

Consistency Group -> switch

Order of VMs

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RP4VM - Backup

Any Virtual Machine

Any size
VMDK / RDM

Recovery to any moment
Immediate Recovery

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Goal of the meeting

How to get

immediate access

to applications

from any point of time

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Agenda

Granularity means money
Recover Point – why?
Architecture of Recover Point
Live demo

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RPO & RTO – Relevant for both DL & DU

Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)

Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)

RPO: Protection Interval.

Amount Of Data Lost From Failure, Measured As The Amount Of Time From A Disaster Event

RTO: Service Resumption Interval.

Targeted Amount Of Time To Restart A Business Service After A Disaster Event

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If cost of downtime

of 1 second is 1 USD...

What is the cost of downtime of 1 month?

Question

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Cost of downtime

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Not possible?�Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_RBS_Group_computer_system_problems

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Not possible?�Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_RBS_Group_computer_system_problems

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Crash summary�Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

From 19th June – 16th July

27 days

If

1 s = 1 USD

than

27 days = 2 332 800 USD

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Additional costs�Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30125728

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RP4VM

RecoverPoint

for

Virtual Machines

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Virtual Machines

Applications

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

Immediate access to my applications from any point of time

Tests
Recovery

Checking consistent recovery points

Analysis
Development

Disaster Recovery

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

No risk for my critical applications
Incomparable parameters to traditional backup solutions

Recovery time
Point to which we recover
Reliability
Ease of use

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

Solution for every VM

Type of disk

RDM (guest level only for backup solutions)
vmdk

Type of VM

Fast changing (CBT issue)
Average changing
Slow changing

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

Solution for every VM

Size of VM

Large (Snapshot issue)
Standard
Small

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

We’ve seen customers who can’t successfully use image backup (standard backup software) with 200GB SQL VMs that are churning at a 20% change rate.

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

We’ve seen customers who can’t successfully use image backup (standard backup software) with 200GB SQL VMs that are churning at a 20% change rate.

No issues with RP4VM and any VMs

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

It may happen that VMware snpashot works with a low change rate Windows file server over 16TB in size – real case.�Ususally it is an issue.

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

General rule of thumb is that caution needs to be used (and testing) with standard backup software and workloads over 15% daily change rate, on slow / legacy / NAS storage, or above 4-6TB in disk storage size.

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

General rule of thumb is that caution needs to be used (and testing) with standard backup software and workloads over 15% daily change rate, on slow / legacy / NAS storage, or above 4-6TB in disk storage size.

No issues with RP4VM and any VMs

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

Solution for any environment

Disk array does not matter
Can be local disk in standalone server

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

Better TCO than traditional protection

No additional network
No additional hardware
Required only small additional storage for protection

Can be my own storage
Requires about 150% additional storage
Amount of additional storage depends on

Application dynamics
History length

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

Better TCO than traditional protection

No additional network
No additional hardware
Required only small additional storage for protection

Can be my own storage
Requires about 110% - 150% additional storage
Amount of additional storage depends on

Application dynamics
History length

Why not the following?

RP4VM for critical applications
Avamar/VDP + Data Domain for rest of VMware?

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Enables Operational AND Disaster Recovery To Any Point In Time

100% Software
Protects At VM-level Granularity
Storage Agnostic: SAN/vSAN/NAS/DAS
Built-in Orchestration And Automation
VMware vCenter Integration
Local Or Remote Replication, Sync Or Async

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Huge value for:

Application owners
Database administrators
VMware DBs

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Where to position?

Application owners
Database administrators
VMware DBs

RP4VM

is

a huge differentiator

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RecoverPoint Product Family

POWERED BY THE SAME TECHNOLOGY !

RecoverPoint

EMC Unisphere Management

Embedded Array Splitter

VNX

Protects Storage Array LUNs

For Storage Admins

RecoverPoint for

Virtual Machines

VMware vCenter Plug-in

Embedded Hypervisor Splitter

Storage Agnostic

SAN/vSAN/NAS/DAS

Protects VMs

For vAdmins

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EMC RecoverPoint: Trusted Solution

OVER 250M

RUN HOURS

OVER 20,000

DEPLOYED

OVER 1 EB of Protected Data

85% EMC TOP

200 CUSTOMERS

OVER 9000

CUSTOMERS

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The RecoverPoint Effect

Automatically collects ALL images

CONTINUOUS

INDIVIDUAL IMAGE

Manually capture individual images

With RecoverPoint

Without RecoverPoint

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Replication

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Designed For Fast, Easy Deployment

RecoverPoint For VMs Uses Wizard-driven Installation Tools To Allow For Quick And Easy Deployment

RAPID DOWNLOAD TO INSTALLATION !

VMware Environment

Site A

Site B

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Management

Empowering vAdmins To Protect And Recover VMs

Discover
Configure
Monitor
Manage
Protect
Orchestrate

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Automatic Provisioning

Reducing Time And Complexity

Discover VMDKs And VM Configurations
Create Protection Policy Templates
Provision VMDKs & Journals
Create Replica VMs At Remote Site

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Wizard-Driven Workflows…

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Automated DR Orchestration

Simplifying Data Protection

Protect And Recover

Single VM
Multiple VMs In A Single Consistency Group
Multiple VMs Across Consistency Groups (Group Set)

Ensure Write-order Fidelity Spanning Multiple VMs, Across Multiple ESXi Clusters

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Dynamic Resources

Making Changes On The Fly

Make Changes To Underlying ESXi Infrastructure
Add/Remove VMDKs From Protected VMs And The System Will Auto-provision VMDKs On The Target Side
Perform Any vMotion For Protected VMs Or Storage vMotion

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RP for VMs - Software Components

ESXi Splitters

vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB)
Utilize Software iSCSI adapters to communicate with vRPAs

Virtual RecoverPoint Appliances

vRPA delivered in an OVA format
2-8 Virtual Appliances per Cluster

RecoverPoint for VMs Plugin for vSphere Web Client

Full integration with VMware vCenter Web Client

ESXi Splitter

RP for VMs vCenter Web Client Plugin

vRPA

Plugin

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RecoverPoint for VMs - I/O Flow

VM sends write to VMDK
ESXi Splitter intercepts write and sends to Virtual Appliance via Software iSCSI adapter
Virtual Appliance acknowledges the write
ESXi Splitter sends write to VMDK
VMDK (via Storage) acknowledges the write
Splitter acknowledges the write to the VM

ESXi Splitter

VMDK

ESXi Host(s)

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Topologies – RP for VMs Local Protection

Local Protection of VMs within the same ESXi cluster

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Topologies – RP for VMs Local Protection

Local Protection of VM from/to different ESXi cluster

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Topologies –RP for VMs Remote Protection

Remote Protection of VMs to a remote site

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Licensing Model

VM-based Licensing Model

Minimum Of 15 VMs
Total Number Of Protected VMs

Discounts Based On Volume
No Transfer Of Licenses Between RecoverPoint And RecoverPoint For VMs

Tiered structure based on # of Protected VMs
15 – 99
100 – 249
250 – 499
500 – 999
1,000 – 1,999
2000+

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Data Protection Suite for VMware

Avamar

Fastest VMware backup/recovery software with features like immediate VM repairing, automated solving issues in VMware environment, browsing image backups and much more…

RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (RP4VM)

Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery software that allows you to start production or test your virtual environment from any previous point of time in local or Disaster Recovery location (click for more)

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Data Protection Suite for VMware

Data Protection Advisor (DPA)

DPA provides over 280 pre-defined reports about backups, recoveries, SLA, chargeback, risk, root cause of problems, and much, much more.

Data Protection Search

Search allows to immediately find words or phrases in backuped documents and quickly restore quired files

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Data Protection Suite for VMware

More info about DPS for VMware

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VNX has 15 RP4VM licenses

Every VNX Essentials license has 15 license of RP4VM bundled

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Software Try & Buy

DOWNLOAD FULLY FUNCTIONAL EMC

RECOVERPOINT FOR VMs SOFTWARE

AT NO CHARGE WITH NO TIME LIMIT

Download Now

File type: *.zip

File Size: 2.1 GB

Release: November 2014

Version: 4.2.0.0

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Software Try & Buy

vLab has RP4VM
If you do not have access send me mail and I provide you the link

Demo

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

Any point of time for my applications

Tests
Recovery

Checking right time
Adding records after recovery

Analysis

Immediate

Restore
Tests

Disaster Recovery

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

No risk for my critical applications
Incomparable parameters to traditional backup solutions

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

Solution for every VM

Type of disk

RDM (guest level only for backup solutions)
vmdk

Type of VM

Fast changing (CBT issue)
Average changing
Slow changing

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

Solution for every VM

Size of VM

Large (Snapshot issue)
Standard
Slow

Solution for any environment

Disk array does not matter
Can be local disk in standalone server

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Why?

Better TCO than traditional protection

No additional network
No additional hardware
Additional storage for protection

Can be my own storage
Requires about 110% - 150% additional storage
Amount of additional storage depends on

Application dynamic
History length

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Enables Operational AND Disaster Recovery To Any Point In Time

100% Software
Protects At VM-level Granularity
Storage Agnostic: SAN/vSAN/NAS/DAS
Built-in Orchestration And Automation
VMware vCenter Integration
Local Or Remote Replication, Sync Or Async

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Enables Operational AND Disaster Recovery To Any Point In Time

Consistency Group – unique approach on the market including backup products

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RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines

Materiały po polsku

https://backuprecoveryman.pl/przeglad-materialow-po-polsku-dotyczacych-backupu-odtwarzania-archiwizacji/

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How to test it myself?

Democenter.dell.com

VxRail remote lab

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Lab

VM protection

Ransomware attack

Disaster Recovery

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Summary�RP4VM

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What

Continuous data protection software

Built from: splitter, virtual appliance, vCenter plugin

Protects at VM level granularity

Recovery to any point in time

Local and/or remote replication

Remote replication sync/async based on specified RPO

Storage system and application agnostic

Includes DR orchestration engine

LAN

SDS

vCenter

SDS

DataCenter A

VM

vRPA

sp

SDS

LAN

DataCenter B

vCenter

LAN

WAN

vRPA

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When

Complements backup

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Avoidance

Test/dev, backup of very big and/or very fast changing VMs

DR to Cloud

Easy Data Center migration

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Questions…

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