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Virtual Server Backup, Replication & Recovery
August 27, 2012Gaylord National
Room: National Harbor 12,13Washington, DC
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Speakers:
• Jeff Silverman, Kraft Kenney, Moderator • Jim McCue, Rodey Law Firm• Steven Cotes, Perkins Coie• Roy Koh, Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter
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Industry Trends
Use of server virtualization continues to increase…
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Industry Trends
…as does use of SANs.
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Industry Trends
Use of traditional backup systems like Backup Exec is declining…
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Industry Trends
…while firms increase use of disk-based backup,
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Industry Trends
…increase use of replication technology,
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Industry Trends
…and slowly begin to explore online backup.
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Rodey Environment
• Overview– 75 attorneys/150 people/2 offices – 30 mb QMOE WAN
• Virtualization– 80% virtual– 2 datacenters (Albuquerque, Santa Fe)– 5 VMWare 4.1 esxi hosts w H/A– 25 Guests
• Exchange 2010• Aderant• Autonomy• BES, File Servers, DCs, MailMarshal
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Rodey Environment
• EqualLogic SANS– Albuquerque 2 x PS6000XV
• 13 TB usable• 3.5 TB data + replication
– Santa Fe PS6000E• 11 TB usable• 3 TB data + replication
• Local disk backup storage– Albuquerque
• Drobo B1200i: 12TB
– Santa Fe
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Rodey Goals
• RPO (Recovery Point Objective)=4 hour• RTO (Recovery Time Objective)=4 hours, 8 hours
– Tier one applications=4 hours• Network Authentication• E-Mail• Documents• Time Entry & Billing
– Tier two applications=8 hours• E-discovery & Litigation DBs• BES• Citrix
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Rodey Goals
• D/R– Move operations to one office– Replication
• Restores– VM Level Recovery– Application Level Recovery
• Files, SQL, Exchange, A/D• Archive to tape
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EqualLogic
• Thin provisioning• Snapshots• Replication• EqualLogic Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition (ASM/VE)
– VMWare Tools quiescence– VMWare consistent image
• EqualLogic Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition (ASM/ME)– Volume Shadow Copy: Exchange, SQL– Requires guest attached storage– Transactional consistent image– No log truncation
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Veeam
• Deduplication• Compression• Changed Block Tracking (VMware CBT)• Application aware processing: Exchange,
SQL, AD, Sharepoint– Veeam agent -> MS VSS agents– No permanent guest agent– Transactional consistent image– Log truncation
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Veeam 6 – distributed processing
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Veeam (cont)
• Backup– Full, Incremental, Reverse Incremental
• Replication– Full + VMWare snapshots
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Veeam
• SureBackup– Verification
• Restores– Instant Recovery– VM– Guest Files– Application Items
• Replication– Failover (what happens)– Failback (what happens)
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Veeam
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EqualLogic & Veeam
• Implementation at Rodey– Backups– Replication– Snapshots– screenshots
• Application specific tips/examples• Things to watch out for• Summary
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NetApp
• Overview: Perkins and NetApp Using NetApp for almost 3 years Initial deployment for Exchange and Supporting
Applications (SQL, BES, etc.) 3 - distinct blocks of data model (w/ snapshots)
• Supports HA requirements• Meets BU / Recovery requirements• Provides DR Capabilities
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NetApp
Perkins Virtual Environment• Globally > 600 VMs (Prod, Test, Dev, etc.)• 2 Data Centers: Seattle & Chicago Seattle > 200 - Chicago > 30
• Protocols in use: CIFS, FC, iSCSI, NFS ESX using FC and NFS
• Deduplication: 14% to >40% / datastore• Replication: Block Level local and remote
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NetApp
Configuration and Management: VSC• VSC: Virtual Storage Console VCenter Plug-in
• Define Backup Jobs including Dataset (volume), Schedule, Retention and Warnings/Alarms
• Verify and Correct if needed Host Connection Settings (Adapter, MPIO, NFS)
• Other: Data Collection Provisioning Optimization
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NetApp
Functionality• Backup – VSC Job
Scheduled Block-level snapshot of VMWare snapshots followed by triggered SnapMirror replication(s)
• Restores Full System Rollback to a Backup Point Clone of any Snapshot with choice of recovery target Single File Restore from within a Snapshot
• DR Break Mirror, Mount Volumes, Power on VMs Other Details: Re-IP, Change CNAMEs
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NetApp
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NetApp
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NetApp
User Impacting Results• Multiple Intra-Daily Restore Points• Reduced Window of Potential Data Loss• Relatively Fast Restores (multiple locations)• Relatively Quick Restoration of Services
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• Document Management System:
• Not Virtualized:– Exchange 2007– SQL Server– All other apps
• Tape Backup• Data & Applications: on the same server
Our IT infastructure in 2008
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2008: Big (un)Organized Mess
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Goals in 20081. Separate data from applications
– Virtualize apps– Makes for easy backup and restore
2. Virtualize Exchange 20103. Virtualize SQL Server4. Virtualize domain controllers
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Columbus, OH
Marion, OH
Cleveland,OH2011
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Why Microsoft Hyper-V?
Why not VMWare?
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2009Standardization of Hyper—V servers
C: Windows Server OSD: VHDs for the VMS
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2009Nightly and Weekly Backups
backup of D: using BackupAssist to
a hard disk sitting in a docking station, attached directly to the serverwith an eSATA Cable.
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2010: 4 Hyper-V servers with 40 VMsSIMPLE!
2012:9 Hyper-V servers with almost 100 VMs
GETTING COMPLICATED!
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Hyper-V R2
Early 2012• In search of a new backup strategy
– Simple to use– Centrally monitor/manage – Remote Administration– Centralized Reporting– Network to disk backup– Automation
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Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2012
• MS System Center 2012 family• Not only backs up Hyper-V
– File data from volumes, shares & folders– Application data
• MS Exchange storage groups• MS SQL Server dbases
– System state for protected file and app servers• Standalone metal servers
– Powershell scripting (power users)40
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Protection Groups
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Monitoring
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Recovery
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Reporting
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Management
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BYO Backup Box
• Built our own backup box using SATA HDs
• Backup boxNorco DS-12D3 x SFF-8088 external connectors12 x 3.5" Drive Bays
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BYO Backup Box
Interface card:LSI LSI00276 4 x SFF-8088
mini-SAS controllerPCI-Express 2.0 x8Up to 6Gb/s
Connect these to the Hypervisor hosting the DPM VM
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We use 3 TB drives times 12 =36 TeraBytes of Raw Storage!
DPM 2012 in a VM with direct access to the backup drives.
BYO Backup Box
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Primary Site DPM (deployed)
2012 today
Satellite office(deploying?)
replicated to
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Q & A