Optimize VMware and Hyper-V Protection with HP and Veeam
John DeFrees, Global Alliance Solution Architect, Veeam
Markus Berber, HP LeftHand P4000 Product Marketing Manager, HP
Key takeaways from today
Virtualized environments require a new set of tools to meet today’s expectations and business priorities
Data deduplication in the HP StoreOnce Backup System optimizes backup storage utilization
Veeam Backup & Replication delivers enhanced recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTOs and RPOs)
The HP and Veeam solution offers a compelling total cost of ownership (TCO), and return on investment (ROI) that can be achieved in months – not years
This co-certified solution is optimized for VMware vSphere
®and
Microsoft Hyper-V
®and is fully supported by HP and Veeam
Existing tools don’t always do the job
Traditional physical backup
● Agent in each VM
● Full VM recovery can be complex
● Expensive
● Does not always guarantee recoverability
Traditional VM backup
● Backup code runs on ESX hosts
● Significant storage requirements
● Limited recovery options
Opportunities are being missed
Virtualization provides new
opportunities to improve data
protection and disaster recovery
HP and Veeam architecture
HP and Veeam provide a co-certified, end-to-end storage and data protection solution optimized for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V
P4000
A tested and proven solution
ESXi 5.0 Host
HP DL380 G7 12GB RAM Dual 6-core CPU
Virtual machines 2008R2 DC
2008R2 Exchange 2010 2008 32-bit file server Redhat 5.x Oracle 11g w/ ASM
Veeam Backup Server
HP DL380 G7 12GB RAM Dual 6-core CPU
Primary Storage
HP P4300 2TB SAN Software rev 8.1.00.047
Backup Storage
HP StoreOnce D2D4312 G2 Software rev 2.2.13
Network Switch
HP ProCurve 2824
Validation Timeline
Summer 2011 Spring 2012 Summer 2012
Compatibility & Performance testing with Veeam v5
Compatibility testing with Veeam v6
Performance testing with Veeam v6
Test Configuration
Architecture benefits
Scalability
● Storage and backup both designed for growth of the virtual environment
● Scale seamlessly without disrupting services
Improved recovery time and recovery point objectives
● Fast incremental backups with Veeam
● Fast Instant VM Recovery from StoreOnce storage
Disaster recovery
● Affordable virtualized DR with HP storage and Veeam replication
HP LeftHand P4000
Clustered scale-out architecture
Start with today’s needs
● Use storage nodes to build clusters
● Build single tier or multiple
● Leverage all critical resources
● Industry standard platforms
Grow as needed
● Scale performance and capacity linearly – online
Multi-tiered environments
● SSD, SAS and MDL SAS clusters
● Migrate data online between clusters with Peer Motion
HP StoreOnce Backup System
Enhance business performance
● Instant access to backups
with leading recovery performance
● Faster backups with scale-out technology
● High availability design including failover to maximize backup efficacy
Lower operational costs
● Spend up to 95% less on new backup capacity
● 75% price and performance advantage over competing offerings
● Dynamically Scale capacity or
performance up to 512TB or 40 TB/hr
StoreOnce deduplication for flexible, disk-based backup storage
Veeam Backup & Replication
Designed for virtualization
Image-based backups
Support for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V
Improves recovery time objectives
Instant VM Recovery boots VMs from backup storage
2-in-1 backup and replication with failover and failback
Improves recovery point objectives
Efficient forward or reverse incremental backups
Near-continuous data protection (near-CDP)
Storage Efficiency
Veeam deduplication: Optimized for network reduction
● Source-side deduplication
● Comparison size between 256KB and 1MB for network conditions
● Deduplication within backup jobs (one or more VMs)
StoreOnce deduplication: Optimized for storage utilization
● Target-side deduplication
● Variable boundary 4K comparison size
● Deduplication within StoreOnce volume
Complimentary technologies for maximum utilization, so enable both!
Recovery time
Veeam Instant VM Recovery
VM troubleshooting and recovery
Testing of software updates and patches
Backup testing and verification via “SureBackup”
What if you could start VMs from the backup storage when you needed to?
Instant VM Recovery with HP storage
Architecture considerations
● HP LeftHand P4000 as storage backup target for the lowest RTO
− No data rehydration required – faster recovery
− Facilitates “Universal Application Item Recovery” (object-level)
− Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots simplifies recovery from LeftHand hardware-based snapshots lowering RTO and RPO
● HP StoreOnce storage - Best capacity utilization
− Must rehydrate data – slower recovery
● Striking a balance
− Backup critical VMs to the HP LeftHand P4000, the rest to HP StoreOnce
Testing results
Veeam v6 and StoreOnce Instant VM Recovery test
Boot Exchange in 4 minutes
On P4000
Boot Exchange in 10 minutes
On StoreOnce
Tradeoff:
VM recovery time size on disk vs.
Backup Mode (Forward Incremental)
Storage Optimization
(Veeam Block Size)
Repository Type
Total Time
Reported full backup
size
Full backup size on disk (after dedupe)
Reported incremental backup size
Incremental size on disk (after dedupe)
Total backup size on disk
SAN w/ physical proxy LAN CIFS –
No Compression 26:51 67.9GB 19.5GB 15.2GB .1GB 19.6GB SAN via Hot Add
w/ virtual proxy LAN CIFS –
No Compression 36:25 67.9GB 19.5GB 15.2GB .1GB 19.6GB LAN through ESX host LAN CIFS –
No Compression 32:11 67.9GB 19.5GB 15.2GB .1GB 19.6GB SAN w/ physical proxy WAN CIFS –
Low Compression 21:03 59.1GB 20.7GB 15.2GB .4GB 21.1GB SAN w/ physical proxy LAN CIFS –
Optimal Compression 21:01 28.3GB 27.2GB 15GB 4.9GB 32.1GB
Scaling out
Easily increase all attributes of the architecture as your environment grows
• Scale-out primary storage performance and capacity with LeftHand
• Increase backup performance with distributed backup proxies
• Increase backup storage capacity with additional StoreOnce nodes
Architecture Best Practices
● Isolate the storage traffic
− 10 Gb Ethernet
● Enable Veeam compression if used as a backup target
LeftHand P4000
StoreOnce
● Increase Veeam comparison size● Disable Veeam compression
● Multiple streams: 12 -16 = “the sweet spot”
● Manual NIC load balancing or bonding (under investigation)
Veeam
Backup & Replication
● Use physical proxies for better performance (not required)
− Typically 200 – 400 VMs per physical host
● Large block: LAN; Small Block: WAN
● Don’t run more than 64 jobs at once
● Configure for direct SAN backups
− Use LeftHand hardware VSS provider for Hyper-V environments
● Configure backups for forward incremental
− Disable previous full backup chain transformations
Sample deployment: SMB
Sample deployment: Multi-site
Sample Deployment: Enterprise w/ DR
P4000 StoreVirtual
