SOLUTION OVERVIEW

VSPEX WITH RECOVERPOINT FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES Continuous Data Protection for Your Virtual Infrastructure

THE CHALLENGE: DELIVERING COMPLETE PROTECTION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES Businesses face many challenges in delivering application availability, while working within constrained IT budgets. Increased deployment of virtualization lowers costs and increase availability, but alone will not allow businesses to provide the required application access demanded by users.

Most of today’s organizations operate 24x7, with many applications being mission-critical. Continuous availability of these applications to all users is a primary goal of any IT organization. Should an application fail, IT’s mission is to have all applications up and running as soon as possible. There are hundreds of possibilities that can cause infrastructure to be taken down - from fires, flooding, natural disasters, application failures, data corruption/deletion or even just simple mistakes that may happen in the computer room. Sometimes there are good reasons to take down applications for scheduled maintenance, tech refreshes, load balancing, or data center relocation. In all of these scenarios the outcome is the same, applications stop processing. By some estimates, the average cost of downtime is $45k/hour, so the ultimate goal of the IT organization is to maintain mission critical application availability.

THE SOLUTION: VSPEX WITH RECOVERPOINT FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES The EMC VSPEX Private Cloud for VMware vSphere integrated with EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines represents the next-generation architecture for continuous data protection for mission-critical applications. The combined VSPEX with RecoverPoint for VMs solution provides complete protection of applications that run in the private cloud against many possible disaster scenarios. Using RecoverPoint for VMs helps ensure resiliency against failures within the datacenter infrastructure. RecoverPoint for VMs supports any virtual machine, with any application, at any distance, from any point in time provisioned across any storage to offer continuous protection within and across your datacenters.

EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines redefines data protection for VMware Virtual Machines (VMs), enabling local or remote replication with continuous data protection for recovery to any PiT (Point in Time). It is a VMware hypervisor-based, storage agnostic, software-only data protection tool with built-in orchestration and automation capabilities accessible via a VMware vCenter plug-in.

ESSENTIALS Challenges

Deliver application availability 24x7x365 and restore application processing in the event of a disaster.

The Solution

EMC VSPEX Private Cloud with RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines represents the next-generation for continuous data protection for mission-critical applications.

Simple

VSPEX Private Cloud with RecoverPoint for VM becomes the most resilient private cloud for business.

Efficient

Protects VMs with VM level granularity and replicates VMs (VMDK and RDM) accessed by any type of storage connectivity supported by VMware.

Flexible

Recover to any point in time

SIMPLE VSPEX is the simple, efficient and flexible private cloud solution. Adding RecoverPoint for VMs enables discovery, provisioning, and orchestration of disaster recovery workflows, including testing, failing over, failing back, and recovering production of a single consistency group or a group of consistency groups to and from any point-in-time. With RecoverPoint for VMs, VSPEX becomes the most resilient private cloud architecture built for business.

With built-in orchestration and automation capabilities fully integrated with VMware vCenter via a plug-in, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines empowers vAdministrators with the visibility and control to protect single or multiple VMs locally or remotely to the target site. vAdministrators can perform automated discovery, provisioning and orchestration for DR test, failover and failback to any PiT all from the vCenter Web Client GUI.

Finally, EMC engineering, testing and validation for VSPEX eliminates much of the planning and deployment risk in terms of sizing and interoperability versus traditional build your own configurations.

EFFICIENT RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines protects VMs with VM level granularity and replicates VMs (VMDK and RDM) accessed by any type of storage connectivity supported by VMware.

With RecoverPoint technology, data is protected by Consistency Group (CG), preserving relational dependencies during recovery such as those of a database and a database log. The CG depends on the use of journal volumes that hold all the historical changes in order to preserve write order fidelity. Furthermore, the CG Sets feature enables recovery activities to be performed to the same consistent PiT across all data in the set simultaneously. Both RecoverPoint for VMs and RecoverPoint are designed to ensure recovery consistency for one application or inter-dependent applications with the CG and CG sets options.

FLEXIBLE RecoverPoint uses a journal-based implementation to hold the PiT information of all the changes made to the protected data. Its replication policy supports a short RPO via journal technology that delivers DVR like roll back in time capability to a selected PiT just seconds before data corruption occurred, reversing the error in the recovery process.

RecoverPoint for VM supports capacity on demand by allowing the Administrator to easily add additional consistency groups for any application or to expand existing consistency groups as existing applications grow their compute or storage resources.

SUMMARY VSPEX with RecoverPoint for VMs utilizing best-of-breed technologies delivers the power, performance, and reliability businesses need to be competitive. VSPEX solutions are built with proven best-of-breed technologies to create complete virtualization solutions that enable you to make an informed decision in the hypervisor, server, and networking layers.

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