IBM Spectrum Protect in the Cloud

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IBM Spectrum Protect in the Cloud

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Disclaimer

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Agenda

Introduction (data protection cloud market / considerations)

Use cases / what can be done today and what’s coming?

Open Discussion

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What key use cases exploit cloud infrastructure?

Cloud Data Protection Considerations

What are key value propositions?

Economics / Budgeting

• CAPEX to OPEX (pay for what you need) • Leverage economies of scale

• Predictable cost

Flexibility / Consumability

• Rapid elasticity (ability to scale quickly) • On-demand self service

Risk Reduction

• Store data remotely for DR (geographically dispersed) • Eliminate lost tape exposure

Service Levels

• Standardized / measured services • Potential to improve RTO

Eliminate time to retrieve tape from offsite vault

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Cloud Data Protection Considerations

What are high level environment considerations?

How can you protect cloud environments with Spectrum Protect?

• SoftLayer, Amazon, Microsoft, …

• VMware VCD/VCAC, OpenStack,, BlueMix, Docker, …

How can Spectrum Protect use cloud infrastructure?

• SoftLayer, Amazon, Microsoft, ….

• On-prem IaaS: OpenStack Swift scale out COTS object storage

What is the delivery model (private, public, hybrid)?

• Location of data to protect / location of server / location storage pool • Who owns and manages the infrastructure?

Is data protection centrally managed across private, public, hybrid environments?

Additional considerations…

• Standardize data protection services • Privacy / security requirements

• Backup window / RTO (re. amount of data / bandwidth requirements)

Cloud Data Protection Considerations

What are typical adoption models?

Hybrid Cloud (D2D2C)

• Cloud tier (e.g. tape alternative) for Spectrum Protect in data-center / remote

office

• Leverage local backups for most recoveries / recovery in cloud considerations, use cloud for archive copies

• Disaster recovery: Spectrum Protect node replication target hosted in the cloud (potentially using cloud object storage)

Offer standardized XaaS consumption model for backup, archive, DR, …

• Improved self service consumption model for user / customer • Standardized service offerings provide efficiencies

• BaaS (backup as a service), AaaS (archive as a service), DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service), RaaS (recovery as a service)

Protect workloads hosted in the cloud

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Network bandwidth considerations

Agenda

Introduction (data protection cloud market / considerations)

Use cases / what can be done today and what’s coming?

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Cloud Data Protection Use Cases

Use Case Explanation

Leveraging IaaS -Cloud Based Storage

Cloud object storage as electronic vault (D2C or D2D2C)

Tape alternative for older backups or archives

Leveraging IaaS – Hosted in the Cloud

Spectrum Protect server hosted in cloud:

• Initial backup target (backup to the cloud)

• Node replication target (disaster recovery to the cloud) Data Protection for

Compute Clouds

Protect data hosted in OpenStack, SoftLayer, Amazon, Microsoft, Google

Backup as a Service Archive as a Service

Portal offers standardized service

• Self-service subscription, monitoring, charge back / show back

• Service could apply to on-prem or cloud hosted data • Service provided by customer, 3rd party MSP or IBM

Disaster Recovery as a Service

• DR ops managed as a service (managed node replication tgt)

Monitoring and Analytics as a Service

Monitor / manage TSM server from the cloud

What is object storage?

• Characteristics

• Data managed as objects in containers vs. file system hierarchies or disk • blocks

• Each object has data, associated metadata and a globally unique identifier • REST API interface to create/delete/get objects

• Public / private cloud deployment options (rent, purchase, lease) • Potential advantages: cost, scalability, elasticity, resiliency / durability

(replication / erasure coding)

• Examples: OpenStack Swift (used by SoftLayer), Amazon S3 / Glacier,

Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage / Nearline, … • Spectrum Protect’s object storage support

• 7.1.3: native object storage support (Swift / SoftLayer) based on next gen

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Where does a cloud storage tier fit?

Start with disk

• Minimize backup window / improve RTO • Deduplication

• Ideal for instant recovery

Tape has its place

• Durability, reliability, performance, scalability and portability considerations • Additional labor / OPEX considerations • Good consideration for long term retention

Cloud storage tier Primary copy

• D2C – typically used when high bandwidth

between server and object storage • D2D2C – typically used when lower

bandwidth between server and object storage

DR copy

• D2C - server replicates data to node

replication target hosted in cloud using cloud storage

Private Cloud Storage

• High bandwidth / high throughput / lower latency

• Low RTO

• May not need encryption • Typical usage

• Scale out commodity based storage

• Primary or DR copy

Public Cloud Storage

• Requires encryption

• Longer RTO based on bandwidth • Potential for in cloud retrieval of

data • Typical usage • Tape alternative

• Long term retention, older backups, DR copy • Remote office

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Container-based duplication pools in 7.1.3

Cloud-based storage pools in 7.1.3

• “Cloud” storage pools will exploit object-storage APIs provided by cloud, without need for gateway • Native cloud storage support based on container pools (not enabled for use as copy pool or database

backup media) • Initial support: D2C

• OpenStack Swift, including SoftLayer

• Client backup/restore, archive/retrieve directly to/from object-storage pool • Server-side encryption to protect data at rest

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Storage tiers using native cloud-based storage pools

Staging of data in on-premises disk pool followed by transfer of “least-used” data

to off-premises object storage (D2D2C)

1. During ingest, deduplicated data is stored in on-premises container pool 2. “Least-used” data is transferred to off-premises cloud storage pool

Candidate 1H2016

• Enables cloud storage tier

Native support for additional cloud environments

Candidate 1H2016 Future Candidate

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Summary: Spectrum Protect using Cloud Storage Pool

Cloud Data Protection Use Cases

Cloud object storage as electronic vault (D2C or D2D2C) Tape alternative for older backups or archives

Leveraging IaaS – Server the hosted Cloud

Spectrum Protect server hosted in cloud:

• Initial backup target (backup to the cloud)

• Node replication target (disaster recovery to the cloud)

Data Protection for Compute Clouds

Protect data hosted in OpenStack, SoftLayer, Amazon, Microsoft, Google

• Self-service subscription, monitoring, charge back / show back • Service could apply to on-prem or cloud hosted data

• Service provided by customer, 3rd party MSP or IBM

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Spectrum Protect Server Hosted in Cloud

Exploitation of WAN acceleration

• WAN acceleration software solutions, including IBM Aspera, offer high-speed data transfer in network environments with packet loss or high latency

• When used with Spectrum Protect, WAN acceleration software could allow optimal data transfer where distance or degraded network conditions adversely impact transfer over TCP

• Software solution would avoid need for additional WAN acceleration hardware • Spectrum Protect team is investigating possible use of WAN acceleration software for

1. Replication between Spectrum Protect servers

2. Data transfer between Spectrum Protect clients and server

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Metadata-only node replication with storage reference

• Reduces data transferred by Spectrum Protect replication

• Facilitates use of replication by cloud storage or hardware Candidate 2H2016

Butterfly Enhancements for Cloud Use Cases

Butterfly AER for Cloud Environments

• Visualization of hybrid cloud / cloud options in the AER target design

• Compares current environment with recommended target cloud environment, while providing a roadmap for migrating there

• Identifies potential risks across backup and storage infrastructures

• AER updated to include Next Generation Deduplication target environments

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Cloud Data Protection Use Cases

Spectrum Protect server hosted in cloud: • Initial backup target (backup to the cloud)

• Node replication target (disaster recovery to the cloud

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Protecting data hosted in OpenStack

• Today:

• TSM agent deployed within VM guest • TSM cinder driver for full volume

backup (re. Havana release Oct. 2013) • Tech doc for protecting OpenStack with

Data Protection for VMware * Potential Future Consideration: Expand centralized, online backup of VM guest machines

*https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager/page/Prote cting%20OpenStack%20with%20Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager%20for%20Virtual%20Environments

Data Protection as a Service on Bluemix

An enterprise class, secure, simple and easy to use service on Bluemix that enables applications to backup/restore their data

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Cloud Data Protection Use Cases

Spectrum Protect server hosted in cloud: • Initial backup target (backup to the cloud)

• Node replication target (disaster recovery to the cloud

Delivering Spectrum Protect ‘as a service’

• Self-Service Backup and Recovery Considerations

• Secure multi-tenant offering

• Standardized service offered through self service portal

• Self service backup / restore and backup scheduling based on RPO • Charge back / show backup

• Usage / status reporting

• Delivery models

•Portal offers standardized services to transform existing infrastructure to

private cloud data protection utility model –managed by customer

•Portal offers standardized services to transform existing infrastructure to

private cloud data protection utility model –managed by partner

• Customer consumes self-service data protection services (partner

provides complete service) for on-prem data

• Customer consumes self-service data protection services for cloudhosted

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Backup/Archive as a Service with Spectrum Protect

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Introducing Administrative REST API

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Agenda

Introduction (data protection cloud market / considerations) Use cases / what can be done today and what’s coming? Open Discussion

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IBM Resiliency Cloud Managed Backup helps protect your

critical business data with cloud-based, managed solutions

IBM Cloud Managed Backup Leveraging Spectrum Protect in SoftLayer

• CMB’s SoftLayer designs are based on the SoftLayer bare metal server offering rather than the virtual machine offering. Bare metal servers provide

• Supermicro based chassis

• Out of band console access (IPMI aka KVM)

• 4-36 drive bays with a wide selection of drive choices • RAID level choice for each drive

• Selectable memory quantities from 4 to 100 + GB • Selectable CPU speeds and core counts

• VMs were not chosen because • 64 GB max memory • Max 5 separate luns • Max ~10 TB storage • No Tape Storage in SoftLayer

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With IBM Resiliency Cloud Managed Backup on SoftLayer, you

have an enterprise-class backup platform using IBM Tivoli Storage

Manager for workloads on Softlayer.

Spectrum Protect has Cloud Recoverability and Mobility Solutions

• Recovery Services in the Cloud - assurance that these systems are

recoverable through scheduled and automated DR testing

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7.1.3: Node replication in directory based container pools

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2016: Metadata-only node replication

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Future: Always-on node replication

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Future: Node replication with transparent client access

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