Enhancing VCB with esxRanger Professional 3.0

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Enhancing VCB with esxRanger Professional 3.0

Azeem Mohamed

Sr. Director, Marketing & Products

Enhancing VMware® ESX

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Vizioncore Overview• Founded in 2002• Launched esxRanger flagship product in

April 2005; added three products in 2006• Headquarters in Chicago, IL; global

presence with worldwide sales channel • Proven solutions: More than 2,200

customers, 23,000 licenses, 450 partners


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“As an ecosystem partner for the VMware Infrastructure platform, Vizioncore delivers valuable toolsets…that allow users to more easily accomplish their objectives for their virtualized applications and servers.”

-Karthik Rau, Senior Director, Infrastructure Product & Solutions

VMware, Inc.

Partnership Value


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Industry Expertise• VMware ESX Server:

Advanced Technical Design Guide

• Author Scott Herold– Director R & D

• Industry White Papers:– ‘1-2’ Punch Backup Methodology– Top 10 Migration Upgrade Tips– Fastest Backups for VI3


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Vizioncore CustomersFinancial • Aegon• FHL Bank of San

Francisco• Union bank and trust• Bank of Oklahoma

Government • County of Orange• County of LA• Salt Lake County• State of Colorado

Education• USC• UC Santa Barbara• University of Arizona• University of Texas

Healthcare• Blue Cross• Beckman

Coulter• City of Hope

Medical Center• Gentiva Health

Services• Palo Alto

Medical

Technology • National

Semiconductor• Sprint• Texas

Instruments• IBM

Manufacturing• BP• Citgo• Dreyers Ice Cream• Red Bull• Aquila• Paccar

Other Industries • AAA Auto• Disney• Assurant• CGI• DST Systems• GMAC Mortgage• Los Alamos Labs• MWH Global• Raytheon


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Vizioncore Product Portfolio

• esxRanger Professional– Integration with VirtualCenter & VCB, new differential

backups, file recovery, reporting repository and intelligent rules engine

Fastest backup solution for VMware Infrastructure 3!• esxCharter

– Real time performance monitoring & control for VI3– Reporting of key ESX Server statistics – BILLBACK!

• esxReplicator – Live replication of virtual machines for disaster recovery

• esxMigrator– Migrate from ESX Server 2.5 to VI3 with ease and

automation


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Business Continuity

• Service Level Driven

• Every application needs a backup!


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VMware Backup/Recovery Challenges

• Reliability• Recovery time • Backup Overhead• Shrinking backup window• Disaster Recovery costs


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Back Up Methods

• File level: – Inside the guest agents

• Commvault, Tivoli, Legato, Veritas– Transactional or user data

• Image level:– Complete copy of entire virtual machine

• OS, application, data, file-level agents


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File Level Agents• Advantages

– Restore individual files– Consistent transactional data

• Challenges– OS recovery

difficult/impossible– Guest/host resources heavily

utilized


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Image Level

• Disaster Recovery• Advantages

– Up and running fast– Full virtual machine captured– Simple recovery

• Challenges– Transactional data consistency


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• Advantages– Image & File level backup– LAN free– Offloads backup

• Challenges– Script driven– Lacks feature– Still requires 3rd Party tools

• Backup automation• Restores!

– Single target


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VCB Architecture


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• “The Holy Grail!”– Full image backup,

Differential backup– Full image restore,

file level restore– VirtualCenter

integrated GUI– VMotion & DRS

aware– VCB integrated!

• Comprehensive & Automated– GUI-driven– No agents– VI3 enabled– Compression– Archiving– LAN/WAN options


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esxRanger Professional GUI


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• Installed centrally– Windows Server (2K3 or XP)– Dot Net framework– Can be same as VirtualCenter or VCB proxy

• If using VCB, must be proxy server• Note: VCB cannot be installed on VirtualCenter server

• Will launch vcbMounter process– In background– Uses export method for image backup


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Differential Backups

• Smaller backups– More frequency, less disk required

• Compares all backups – To last full image or last differential

• Looks for changes • Records data changes & compresses data• Performs backup to destination


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Differentials Engine


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esxRanger Professional GUI Backup in 3 easy steps!Recovery in 3 easy steps!

Differential backup and restores!

VCB & VC Enabled!


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Infrastructure esxRanger Pro & VCB Integration• Automates VCB Process from GUI option • I/O Intercept Engine

– Leverages memory pages• Database and engine on esxRanger Professional server• Backup and compression performed in memory

– Will redirect backups from export • To destination of choice (i.e. network share)• Prevents need to write on proxy, read off for backup

– Does not need space on proxy– Will leverage fibre channel

• LAN Free


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Combined Solution


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Successful Deployment!

• Build 2003 proxy server • Install VCB framework • Install esxRanger Professional • Install VCB plug-in • Start backing up your virtual

machines with the fastest VMWare backup solution!


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Fastest Backups – Period!


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• Speed– LAN free, redirect, dedicated resources

• fastest possible!

• Performance – No overhead on network, host or guest

• Disk space savings– No disk space requirement on proxy


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Comprehensive Backup Methodology

• WEEKLY backups ─ Full virtual machine images with esxRanger

Professional• DAILY backups

─ Differential with esxRanger Professional • Delta since last full image• Eliminate backup agents inside virtual machines for file-

level backups

• LEVERAGE VCB ─ Take backup load off ESX Server hosts & Network

Detailed whitepaper available at www.vizioncore.com


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• Performance w/no overhead! – leverage VCB

• Fastest backup - use esxRanger Professional

• Flexibility – full or differential backups

• D/R - full image or file level restores

• Affordable – save $, reduce downtime

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Demonstration


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“Overall, Vizioncore’s esxRanger is a slick and simple solution to backing up VMware virtual machines… if you run production VMware servers, this is definitely a worthwhile tool.”

- Paul Venezia, InfoWorld, September 2006

Quality & Excellence

Product Review Rating: 8.1


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Summary

• Built for VMware Infrastructure!• Leader - Image backups

– Proven technology• Customers and Partners

• Innovative & Unique– Image level approach– New technology additions to virtualization

• Value– Immediate ROI, Low entry point


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Questions?

• Contact us at:– www.vizioncore.com

– [email protected]

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