Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity in VMware environments

Kishor Bhagwat

Presales Manager

EMC India

November 6, 2008

Agenda

�The Maturity Curve

�Busting the Myths around performance

�Meeting your SLAs on protection – local & remote

�“Before & After” impact of SRM

�SRM integration with EMC Replication Technologies

Time

Market Dynamics—VMware Adoption Continues at a Rapid Pace The Path to Success

Process and Technical Standard Phase� Extended Mobility� “VM First” Policy

Heavy Use Phase� DISASTER RECOVERY� Tier 1 applications� Backup built for VM� Performance/Quality of Service� VM Mobility� VDI

Light Use Phase� Utility servers� High availabilityPilot Phase

� POC servers� Testing/development

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15K IOPs – Good for I/O-Intensive VMs

30K IOPs – Exceeds the Load of Many Databases

60K IOPs – Around 120,000 Exchange Mailboxes

100K IOPs!

VMware and EMC: Meeting Extreme Storage Needs

When do you need 100K IOPS on a single ESX Server?

200K Microsoft Exchange mailboxes

85 average four--way DBs

What does it take?Nearly 500 disks

Three CX3-80s

77 TB of disk space!Joint VMware/EMC testing details here:

http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2008/05/100000-io-opera.html

EMCCLARiiON CX3-80

VMware ESX Server

StorageFabric

Market Dynamics—Disaster Recovery is a Top VMware Requirement

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3%

Source: Enterprise and SMB Hardware Survey, North America and Europe, Q3 2007; Forrester Research, Inc.

“How important are the following motivations for adopting server virtualization?”

Very important Important Slightly/somewhat important Not important Doesn’t know or does not apply to me

43%Cut hardware costs 39% 12% 6%

21%Improve power and cooling 37% 29% 10%

1%41%Improve server manageability and flexibility 46% 8% 4%

1%27%Create a shared IT infrastructure 40% 22% 10%

2%49%Improve disaster recovery and business continuity 34% 12% 4%

Base: 197 server decision-makers at North American and European enterprises that are interested in, are implementing in the next 12 months, or have already implemented server virtualization for x86 servers (percentages may not total 100 because of rounding)

Local Information Protection TraditionalFull and incremental backup: move 150–200% of data/week

Hardware

DiskNICMemoryCPU

VMware ESX Server

Built for VMwareEfficient VMware backup: move 2–7% of data/week

Hardware

VMware ESX Server

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Impact to existing processVirtualization reduces or spare CPU/IO resourcesVirtualization consolidates backup workloads

Virtualized systems have a significant amount of redundant data

90% of data in VM’s is duplicate (C:\)

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Integrated data-de-duplication and backup-to-disk solutionTremendous backup process improvements

90% reduction in VMDK backup storage requirements10x improvement in backup timesDe-dupe at source enables higher consolidation

Available as a Virtual ApplianceEnables Highest Consolidation Ratios!

Remote Information Protection – Disaster Recovery

Virtual Infrastructure Requires Flexibility in Data Replication Solutions

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Simplifies planning and execution of BC/DR processes

Integrates with and inherits characteristics of storage replication solutions

DR infrastructure needs to support both virtual and traditional deployment

Enable transition from physical to virtual

EMC DeliversBest-in-breed data replication solutions

Array-based

� All WAN topologies (IP, Layer 2, DWDM)

Fabric-based

� Compression and heterogeneous configurations

Host-based

� Critical in many physical to virtual scenarios

Application integrated

� Upgrade to app-consistent replication for all Tier 1 apps (Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP)

PRODUCTION

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Enabling Technology—VMware Site Recovery Manager

Turns complex manual recovery runbooks into automated recovery plans

Delivers central management of recovery plans from VirtualCenter

Simplifies and automates disaster recovery workflows:

Setup, testing, failover

Site Recovery Manager Leverages VMware Infrastructure and EMC Advanced Replication Software to Automate Disaster Recovery

Site Recover Manager Requires Replication Technology

EMC SRDF family, MirrorView, Celerra Replicator,and RecoverPoint

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Makes disaster recovery rapid, reliable, manageable, affordable

WAN SAN

Before VMware Site Recovery Manager

ESX Server

SAN

2. Replicate LUNs

3. Shut down the virtual machine

4. Pause replicated image (journal captures)5. Select most recent snapshot6. Allow image access to remote VMware ESX

7. Scan for new disk8. Register VM9. Power-up VM

10. Failback

11. Recover local VM

Manual Administrator Tasks

RecoverPoint RecoverPoint

1. VM mapped to LUNs and consistency groups

ESX Server(disaster recovery)

With VMware Site Recovery ManagerShut down the virtual machinePause replicated image (journal captures)Select most recent snapshotAllow image access to remote VMware

ESX ServerScan for new diskRegister VMPower-up right VMs in right sequence* User initiates failback Reverse replication direction, sync dataRecover local VM

WAN SAN

ESX Server

SANRecoverPoint RecoverPoint

2. Replicate LUNs

1. VM mapped to LUNs and consistency groups

ESX Server (disaster recovery)

Enabling Technology—EMC Advanced Replication Technologies

SRDF FamilyThe ultimate business continuity and disaster recovery solution for the broadest range of use cases

MirrorViewSynchronous replication for flexible recovery-point and recovery-time objective requirements 4

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Celerra ReplicatorIP replication with Quality of Service to optimize LAN/WAN bandwidth utilization

LANFS/LUN

Snaps

FS/LUN

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RecoverPointHost, array, fabric continuous data protection (CDP), continuous remote replication (CRR), concurrent local and remote (CLR) data protection; and compression

Production ESX Servers

Intel architectureVirtualization layerS

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Replica ofWindows

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Replica of Linux Backup Server

Intel architectureVirtualization layerS

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Bank in Southwest U.S.

Profile:

180 branches, 7x24 operations

Heterogeneous storage, VMware ESX Server 3.0.x, SQL Server-based transaction and batch-based check processing applications

Objectives:

Replicate between twin data centers 250 miles apart, 10 Mb WAN

5-minute recovery point objective, 15-minute recovery time objective

Periodic disaster recovery fire drills without disruption of production servers

Solution:

RecoverPoint CRR, 2-node clusters at each site

Cisco MDS-9506 with SSM and SSE (MDS-9000 SANTap Service)

VMware Infrastructure 3 (ESX Server, VMware High Availability, VMFS)

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY

In Summary: Why EMC for VMware – 5 Reasons

� Simple, easy-to-use solutions that integrate with and extend all VMware advanced functions (e.g., DRS, Storage VMotion, SRM)

� Flexibility for iSCSI, FC, and NFS – every protocol VMware needs = no risk, no sacrifices, no protocol wars

� Proven scaling, proven replication, proven availability, proven tier 1 app solutions

� Unique capabilities in VMware environments:

Backup built for VMwareVDI solutions – from 1 image to 10,000 in minutesChange control and end-to-end virtual-to-physical managementVirtual appliancesJoint VMware/Exchange/SQL/Oracle/SAP solutions

� Net – more customers choose EMC for VMware

46%

11%8%

5% 4%

26%

EMC HP Dell IBM Sun Other

2007 Server Virtualization Survey Results - IDC

Chart Source: IDC’s Server Virtualization 2007 MulticlientStudy, Dec 2007. Chart shows percentage of survey responses to a question about primary brand of network storage attached to virtual servers. N=311

“For virtual servers, networked storage solutions are more heavily weighted toward EMC storage. In previous years, storage attached to virtual servers was highly captive relative to the server hardware purchase.”

— Source: IDC’s Server Virtualization 2007 Multiclient Study, Dec 2007 * EMC and VMware were sponsors of this study

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