CommVault Simpana Replication Software Optimized Data Protection and Recovery for Datacenter or Remote/Branch Office Environments

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CommVault

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Simpana

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Replication

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Optimized Data Protection and Recovery for Datacenter or Remote/Branch Office Environments

Key Benefits

Consolidates data over thin WAN connections and expedites local recovery

Eliminates tape management at multiple locations by centralizing remote office protection Improve protection, efficiency and simplify management by leveraging a central infrastructure of backup software, devices and trained personnel

Meet Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives (RPO/RTO) by leveraging continuous data protection and multiple recovery points Eliminates the risk of application corruption by recovering your file or application to a specific point-in-time

Optimizes security, protection and WAN utilization with encryption, compression, bandwidth throttling and discrete replication

Increases reliability and speed of recovery with a local online backup copy and embedded deduplication for more retention and faster restore

Eliminates exposure from site disaster, costly off-site tape storage and lowers TCO by replicating to physical or virtual sites for disaster recovery

Easily add capabilities for protection, archive, and snapshot recovery, all managed from the same Unified Console.

The Business Challenge

All corporate data within your infrastructure requires protection, security, availability and is subject to compliance requirements regardless of where it resides. The lack of a consolidated data protection and recovery strategy for all the data in your enterprise can impact service levels, threaten business continuity and increase operational cost. Exponential data growth, limited bandwidth, resources, budgets and protection options impede your ability to meet backup windows, ensure protection and expedite recovery. As data spreads to remote sites at the edge of your infrastructure it becomes increasingly difficult to access primary data and move it efficiently among disk systems, sites and operating platforms.

As the costs of managing and storing data continues to rise in parallel with exponential data growth, businesses must look for cost-effective solutions that consolidate administration, increase data availability, improve use of storage, network and resources and expedite disaster recovery.

CommVault® Simpana® Solution

CommVault ® Simpana®Replication software delivers comprehensive reliable data protection for Windows, Linux and UNIX environments. A unified architecture that integrates backup and recovery, replication, archive and storage resource management makes Data Replicator the ideal solution to consolidate remote and branch office backup operations or deploy cost effective disaster recovery. With CommVault software you can continuously replicate data to meet recovery point and recovery time objectives or you can replicate on a scheduled basis to optimize the use

of available bandwidth. Whether you choose to perform backups at the remote site for local restore or to centralize backup operations over a WAN for distributed protection, CommVault® Simpana® Replication software enables you to create secondary copies of production data quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively, using a combination of host-based replication and snapshot technologies. These secondary copies of data can be immediately accessed for rapid recovery, be used to create multiple recovery points or to perform traditional backups without impacting server performance. Data encryption, compression, bandwidth throttling and scheduled replication ensure data protection and optimize the use of available network bandwidth.

Remote and Branch Office Protection Options

Centralize Remote Office Data Protection Over a WAN

Managing remote office data has traditionally been expensive and problematic. Maintaining backup software and infrastructure in remote offices is costly; distracting remote office personnel with backup and tape rotation tasks is disruptive; paying an offsite services company to drive to each remote office and collect tapes is costly and inefficient.

What if instead of protecting data remotely …you could centralize it and protect it with your data center infrastructure?

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Key Capabilities

Replicated Remote Office Backup—Allows for a deduplicated backup at the remote site which is then replicated over to a central data site for secondary processing, DR and long term archiving without impacting the remote systems Continuous Data

Replication—Allows disaster recovery copies of

backup/archive data to be created over the LAN or WAN on a continuous basis. Discrete Data

Replication—Allows disaster recovery copies of

backup/archive data to be created over the LAN or WAN on a scheduled basis Scheduled Bandwidth Throttling—Optimizes available network resources by allowing administrators to match replication needs to available bandwidth. Unique Application Recovery Points—Captures point-in-time snapshot-based images of replicated data and offers special application integration for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle data. This maintains application integrity and provides consistent recovery images ’behind’ the replica. Easy, Centralized

Management of Operations—Provides the industry’s only “Single Pane of Glass” graphical user interface from which to easily create, track, administer and manage replication along with backup, recovery and archive using a single policy engine.

backup software and devices, CommVault lets you efficiently leverage a single trained team of backup and recovery specialists and provide a central collection point for tape rotation. CommVault® Simpana® software ensures data coherency, recovery and ease-of-management. The simple configuration of replication pairs makes it easy to establish a “fan-in”, many-to-one configuration, where multiple remote office locations replicate to a central location. This centralized approach helps reduce costs and increases the reliability of backup and recovery operations.

CommVault® Simpana® Software enables the centralization of Remote Office Data over a WAN using Continuous Capture Replication or Discrete Data Synchronization.

Scenario 1: Continuous Capture Replication CommVault® Simpana® Replication software provides continuous data protection by capturing data written by a server, onto an attached disk (internal or external) in real time. Any disk that is mountable by the server can be seen and protected with CommVault software. The

software duplicates the I/O stream as it is written to the disk, and then sends the data as fast as possible across the network to a second server system. Continuous data protection can also be leveraged in a Windows based clustered environment for easy fail-over. CommVault Replication iData Agent is also deployed on the second server to capture the replicated I/O stream and then to apply that I/O stream to a duplicate copy of the data. This creates an up-to-date replica. CommVault software inserts consistency markers in the replication log to enable the creation of application-consistent recovery point snapshots at the destination. CommVault® Replication software can maintain—and “dial back” to—multiple point-in-time snapshots for fast application recovery.

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resulting in tape management and data security challenges. CommVault® Simpana® software addresses these challenges by combining the power of global data deduplication with data replication. This eliminates redundant data from remote office backups and reduces backup footprint. The deduplicated data is replicated to the central site in compressed format making it possible to create a disaster recovery copy over a WAN with limited bandwidth. Furthermore, the disaster recovery copy can then used for local and remote restore as well as secondary processing such as encryption and vaulting to offsite tape, without impacting remote systems.

With CommVault® Replication software, encryption and compression can be enabled during the data transfer over the WAN for additional security without impacting the size of the deduplicated data being transferred.

Enhance Disaster Recovery

Moving data offsite is the accepted method for ensuring recovery following a site disaster or outage. However, you are only as good as your last backup—and sometimes losing the data that has changed since the last backup can materially disrupt your business.

What if you could protect your company’s critical data … with a second copy that is current, up-to-the-instant of the disaster, rather than your last backup?

With CommVault® Replication software, you can leverage real-time replication to create a second copy of your data at another location as it is written to disk at the production site. In the event of a site outage, you have a second copy of your data—online, current up-to-the-instant of the disaster and immediately available for use. CommVault® software’s real-time replication of data can be deployed in a one-to-many configuration. This gives maximum flexibility to leverage other remote or virtual sites for disaster recovery.

Unify Management and Reporting

Introduction of new applications and system management tools into an organization requires careful planning and often leads to lengthy efforts to justify the cost and time associated with

learning, deploying and managing new software. What if rather than needing to manage yet another point product … you could have a single management interface and seamless integration between data replication and backup software? The foundation of CommVault® Simpana® software is the Common Technology Platform which provides common services for all data management applications in the suite. This enables you to run replication and backup using the same interface and leveraging the same back-end hardware. This expands functionality and allows businesses to leverage existing skill sets. For example, you can use CommVault® Backup and Recovery software to make backup copies off of replicas or snapshot-based Recovery Points. Since Simpana software modules all use the same policy engine, the CommVault Backup and Recovery software can restore backup copies directly to the original source.

Maintain the Integrity of Your Applications

The continued success of most enterprises relies on the integrity of data stored in database and e-mail servers. Unforeseen events like power surges, hardware failures and network outages can easily interrupt the transfer of data in your organization and leave you guessing as to the state of your critical data.

What if you didn’t have to guess at the state of the replicated data … because consistency points were embedded in the replication stream? CommVault® Simpana® software maintains the integrity of your application data for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle data by creating consistent Recovery Points. It marks the

replication stream at points that are known good states. CommVault software leverages these consistency points to create application-consistent point-in-time snapshots (recovery points).

Recovery Point snapshots provide an additional layer of protection against viruses and corruption, enabling you to restore Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle databases with confidence.

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Integrate Data Management and Protection

Remote office backup whether performed locally or over a WAN is only the first step in a

comprehensive data protection strategy. Once copied to a secondary host, your data needs to be protected and managed through its lifecycle. All Simpana® software modules are fully

integrated—this enables you to leverage the backup module to automatically create backup sets of replicas at scheduled intervals based on policies you define. Additionally, when used in conjunction with the CommVault Data Archiver module, you can efficiently recover migrated remote office data without requiring offline files to be recalled.

Maintain Uninterrupted Data Consistency

When protecting data over wide area networks, network link failures can and will happen. The ability to gracefully recover from link failure is a key factor in protecting your remote office data. When links do fail, many data protection solutions require the administrator to perform manual comparisons of source and destination copy to determine what data was modified during the network outage.

What if you could recover from network failures without performing manual data comparisons? CommVault® Replication Software ensures that you can quickly return to a production state by carefully tracking all change activity during the network interruption and automatically bringing the replica up to a consistent state when network services are restored. CommVault products help you deliver the high service levels critical to maintaining business continuity.

Improve RTO/RPO Service Levels

When a virus attack or data corruption occurs, your current best option for recovery probably includes a restore process—and depending on the size of your database, this may take hours and even days. In most environments, a lengthy recovery process and loss of data can disrupt business operations and significantly impact the bottom line. upt business opons and significantly impact the bottom line.erations and significantly impact the bottom line.

What if you could reduce your recovery time from days or hours to minutes—and eliminate data loss and user impact?

CommVault® Simpana® Software improves recovery times and helps meet stringent recovery point objectives. Real-time replicas and Recovery Point snapshots allow you to quickly and reliably recover remote Windows, Linux and UNIX file system data as well as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle databases.

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Key Features and Benefits

Features Benefits

Centralized policy management, control

and reporting Simplify configuration and administration. Manage global environment from a single webconsole or a lightweight Java graphical user interface.

Integrated backup Seamlessly leverage backup/archive copy policies for easy administration and management.

Application Recovery Points Protect Microsoft Exchange (2000, 2003, 2007), SQL Server (2000 and 2005) and Windows-based Oracle applications against corruption or viruses by leveraging space efficient, copy-on-write, point-in-time snapshots.

Replicated Remote Office Backup Allows for a deduplicated backup at the remote site which is then replicated over to a centraldata site for secondary processing, DR and long term archiving without impacting the remote systems

Remote Office Backup with Client Site Deduplication

Enables the creation of an inline backup with deduplication to provide a local dedupe recovery copy at the remote site while simultaneously transferring only changed data over a WAN to create a second copy for disaster recovery.

Discrete Data Replication Allows disaster recovery copies of backup/archive data to be created over the LAN or WAN on a_{scheduled basis.} Continuous Data Replication Allows disaster recovery copies of backup/archive data to be created over the LAN or WAN on a_{continuous basis.} Smart synchronization Expedite re-sync after of your replica following a network outage, without the overhead of hefty_{check-sum or other network intensive comparisons between the source and target.} Source client browse Browse backup set from the original client to simplify restore and configuration in complex_{environments.} Hardware-independent Recovery Point Snapshots are independent of storage hardware allowing you to leverage your_{existing storage assets.}

Mountable snapshots Enable read-only end-user browse and restore of individual files.

One-to-one / one-to-many / many-to-one

local or remote configuration Facilitate centralization of data, disaster recovery and rapid disaster recovery managementleveraging both fan-in and fan-out scenarios. Point-and-click reporting Track all your data protection operations throughout the lifecycle of the data from one central UI_{for easy management.} Out-of-band initial mirror creation Eliminate the need to replicate large initial datasets over the network. Move data to the central_{location and sync it up later per your replication requirement.} Bandwidth throttling Use manual or scheduled bandwidth throttling to match replication needs to available network_bandwidth.

Compression _{Reduce network traffic and expedite replication process.}

Encryption Protect critical corporate data from exposure when replicating over unsecured network_connections.

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Additional Solutions to Use with CommVault

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Simpana

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CommVault® Simpana® software offers a singular suite of data management software built on the same software platform so that all capabilities work together. This makes it easy to add capabilities when and how you need them. To add on to CommVault Simpana software for host-based replication, consider:

Backup

Object-level backup and recovery of file systems, applications, databases and virtual server systems. Reliable operation with failover resume and job completion capabilities.

Replication

Remote office data centralization as a seamless extension of Backup. Disaster Recovery flexibility.

Search

Information Access and eDiscovery of Electronically Stored Information (ESI).

Simplify, speed and reduce the cost of enterprise-wide discovery from a single console.

Resource Management

Analysis of primary storage growth requirements. Analysis of secondary storage growth requirements.

SnapBackup

"Near Instant" snapshot backups across heterogeneous systems and storage. Eliminates backup impact on production servers.

Virtual Server Data Protection

Flexible backup and recovery options for VMware and Microsoft virtual platforms. Agent-less backup of virtual Machines.

Remote Office and Branch Office Data Protection

Leverage multiple options for protecting remote office data based on RTO/RPO and recovery SLAs. Optimize disk and network utilization with client-site deduplication.

Workstation Backup and Recovery Solution

Centralizes data protection to data residing at the edge on end user desktops and laptops. Ensures preservation of end-user files and data in efficient, searchable, long-term archives.

Data Deduplication

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System Requirements

Applications Supported Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle

(Windows only).

Other application data fully supported without recovery points.

Platforms AIX, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat and SuSE Linux.

Microsoft Clustering and 64-bit platforms supported.