Symantec Virtualization

Solutions for Backup

and Data Protection

Jim Keeley, Symantec Sr. SE

Sun CEC 2008
Agenda

1 Sun & Symantec Partnership Overview

2 Review of Virtualization and Data Protection

3 NBU, PureDisk and Virtual Environment Backup

4 Backup Exec and Virtual Environment Backup

5 Wrap up and Q/A

Agenda

1 Sun & Symantec Partnership Overview

2 Review of Virtualization and Data Protection

3 NBU, PureDisk and Virtual Environment Backup

4 Backup Exec and Virtual Environment Backup

5 Wrap up and Q/A

SUN Symantec Partnership
• Relationship for 15 years with what was Veritas and Now Symantec
• History started relationship with Veritas File System/Volume Manger and NetBackup
Solutions…in fact we have had…
• Contracts in place for 13 years (2 contracts..)‫‏‬
– OEM - Sun price listed NBU (Any OS) & SF (Solaris)
• SUN support these levels 1-3
• More than three quarters of a billion dollars of license and support royalties since contract signed in ’1997
– Reseller – ANY Symantec product on ANY OS
• Did you know that SYMC drove >$700M/yr. in Sun IP in FY08?
• Sun is the primary development platform for all Symantec Solutions that run on the “Unix”
platforms
• More than 50% of all our Storage Foundation UNIX licenses are on Sun Solaris
• More than 80% of Sun high end enterprise server customers also buy and install Storage
Foundation
• Sun has over one hundred thousand service and support contracts on NetBackup and Storage
Foundation
• Sun sells and supports more NBU & SF licenses than any other Symantec Partner
Agenda

1 Sun & Symantec Partnership Overview

2 Review of Virtualization and Data Protection

3 NBU, PureDisk and Virtual Environment Backup

4 Backup Exec and Virtual Environment Backup

5 Wrap up and Q/A

Smart Companies Virtualize

Virtualizing your data center brings many benefits…

…Financial: Save money by consolidating servers

…Administrative: Deploy new servers more easily

…Agility: Make your servers move across your hardware

…Flexibility: Your hardware selection becomes less critical

…Disaster Recovery: Quickly restore to different locations

and hardware when needed
Challenges of the Virtualized Data Center
But new backup challenges are introduced with VMware
deployments because:

– Proliferation‫‏‬of‫‏‬servers‫“(‏‬VM‫‏‬sprawl”)‫‏‬makes‫‏‬backup‫‏‬
configuration more time-consuming

– VM sprawl increases storage requirements

– New‫“‏‬proxy‫‏‬servers”‫‏‬and‫‏‬the‫‏‬movement‫‏‬of‫‏‬VMs‫‏‬across‫‏‬
hardware increases backup and restore complexity

– Backup processing is very I/O and CPU intensive, and

simultaneous backups in multiple VMs can overload the ESX
server
Advantages Due to Virtualization

Although virtualization brings new data protection

challenges, it also brings new capabilities:

– VMware snapshotting technology‫“(‏‬VCB”)‫‏‬enables‫‏‬

high-performance off-host backup

– DR can easily occur to different hardware in different P V

locations
V V
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• 8+ year mutual interoperability and integration testing relationship
including cooperative support for customers
• Joint solutions across NetBackup, Backup Exec, Storage Foundation,
VCS, Enterprise Security Manager, Altiris, and Endpoint Protection

The relationship delivers results:

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Not all VMs are Created Equal
Typical Virtual Machine Types:
Mission-Critical Departmental File/Print Commodity Remote Office
VMs Application VMs VMs Server VMs VMs

• Unique Server Image • Unique Server Image • Standard image • Standard image • Geo dispersion
• Large data sets • Outside datacenter • Large data sets • Less-important data • Some critical apps
• SAN/NAS attached • Local storage • Granular recovery • Best-efforts recovery • Granular restores
• App integration important is sufficient

Protection and Recovery Considerations:

• Backup: On-host (client) or off-host • Recovery: VM, files, application, all

• Storage: Direct-attached or SAN/NAS • DR: Local or remote recovery

• Protection: Data, VM, or VM + data • Vaulting: Replication or tape shipping

• Location: Static‫‏‬or‫“‏‬mobile”‫‏‬VMs
Agenda

1 Sun & Symantec Partnership Overview

2 Review of Virtualization and Data Protection

3 NBU, PureDisk and Virtual Environment Backup

4 Backup Exec and Virtual Environment Backup

5 Wrap up and Q/A

Protecting the Virtualized Enterprise with
NetBackup for VMware
Mission-Critical Departmental File/Print Commodity Remote Office
VMs VMs Server VMs VMs
Application VMs

Remote
Offices

Standard
Client Dedupe
Client
Backup
Backup
Core VMware Cluster
Dedupe
Client Backup
w Replication

VCB
Backup
Backup Proxy
Media Servers PureDisk

Backup Infrastructure
VMware Granular
Recovery Datacenter
Virtual Machine Protection Scenarios
On-host (VM Client-Based) Backup (Normal Backup Client or Deduplication Client)
Client and Application Agent
Inside VM
Backup Server
and Storage
A
C C C

ESX Server

Off-Host Backup via VMware VCB (Data, VM or Data + VMDK)

Backup
Server and
Storage

ESX Server

Shared
Storage

A Application Agent C Client

On-host Backup Overview

• NBU or PureDisk client in virtual machine

– Within a VM, NBU supports any standard client or agent in OS,
DB, Cluster compatibility lists
– Objective: Blanket support for physical configuration in VM
– Used in non-shared storage environments
– Advantages:
• Simple implementation
• Single file backups
• DB and application backups are supported
• Restore files, appplications directly to VM
• Support for advanced NBU technologies (synthetic backups)
• PureDisk: Dedup data across VMs
On-host Backup Overview

• NBU or PureDisk client in virtual machine

– Restrictions:
• Entire VM (at OS level) restores are more complex
• Full VM (vmdk) restores not supported
• Backup processing load on one VM will negatively impact
performance on entire physical server
• VM must be powered on for backup processing to occur
Off-host Backup Overview

• NBU client inside VMware Service Console

– Considered off-host since no NetBackup client (NBU or PureDisk)
runs inside the VM
– Used in non-shared storage environments
– Advantages:
• Simple implementation
• Entire VM backups are supported (vmdk files)
• Entire VM restores are supported
• Service Console OS can be backed up
• Supports both LAN and SAN implementations
Off-host Backup Overview

• NBU client inside VMware Service Console

– Restrictions:
• Single (OS level) file restores cannot be performed directly from NBU
console
• DB, application backups and restores are not supported
• Script creation and maintenance are likely if consistent backups of live
VMs are required
• Backup processing load on one VM will negatively impact
performance on entire physical server
Off-host Backup Overview

• NBU for VMware Integrated with VMware Consolidated

Backup (VCB)
– Low backup impact for highly utilized ESX servers in a shared
storage environment
– Advantages:
• Two restores from a single backup:
– Single file and entire VM (vmdk level) restores
– Single pass backup using NBU FlashBackup (patented)
• Integration with VMware Converter technology simplifies VM restores
• Backup impact to all VMs is minimized
• Configuration is Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) and VMotion
aware
Off-host Backup Overview

• NBU for VMware Integrated with VMware Consolidated

Backup (VCB)
– Restrictions:
• Requires shared SAN or iSCSI environment
• Requires a separate Win 2003 Proxy Server
• Live (hot) DB and application backups require additional pre- and
post-backup processing to ensure data consistency
• Dedup of vmdk files through PureDisk Deduplication Option (PDDO)
not recommended at this time
How does NetBackup leverage VCB?

• If‫‏‬we‫‏‬leverage‫‏‬just‫‏‬what‫‏‬VCB‫‏‬provides…
– One policy for off-host backup of VMDK image files (VM DR)
– Another policy for off-host backup of VM user files (i.e. D: drive)
• By‫‏‬layering‫‏‬FlashBackup‫‏‬on‫‏‬top‫‏‬of‫‏‬VCB…
– Single FlashBackup policy for off-host backup of VMDK image
files
– Granular file-level restore from VMDK images
• Integrated Policy Setup
– Wizard simplifies policy setup
– Integrated VM discovery for policy setup
• Integrated Recovery
– Integrates with VMware Convertor for VM recovery
VCB Backups and Granular Recovery
File Recovery Backup policy alerts
1 NetBackup that it is time to
do a virtual machine
backup
Image Recovery
NetBackup instructs
VMDK
2 VMware to snapshot the
virtual machine

NetBackup NetBackup
Media Media
VMware ESX VMware ESX Server Server The new VMDK snapshot is
3 mounted to the NetBackup
Server via the proxy driver
NetBackup NetBackup
Enterprise Client Enterprise Client

Backup is then performed

VMware
Proxy
PureDisk VMware
Proxy
Driver
PureDisk

Plug-in
4 to any NetBackup storage
device (disk, tape)
Driver Plug-in
VMware ESX VMware ESX

The VMDK snapshot is

5 deleted

VMDK
VMDK The backup image is then
6 mapped for file-level
VMDK VMDK recovery
VMDK Backup
Disk Virtual Machines can then
VMDK
VMDK
VMDK
7 be restored from image
backups for DR
VMDK

Backup Disk Tape

Primary Or, single files can be
Shared Storage
Backup Storage
8 recovered to any location
NetBackup and VCB: Resource Consumption
NetBackup with VCB Alternatives

file-level recovery file-level recovery

full-VM recovery full-VM recovery
VMDK VMDK

first
image
VM one one fast image backup
backup VM backup
one fast image backup
copy second
second slow file backup
file
backup

• NetBackup‫‏‬uses‫‏‬VMware’s‫‏‬VCB‫‏‬ • 2x the storage

technology to backup only once, then
maps the image backup for file-level
restores • 2x the CPU and network usage

• Deduplication then can reduce storage • More than 2x the backup time!
even further – by up to 95%!
NetBackup and VCB: Performance
NetBackup with VCB Alternatives

      Backup Server

Backup Server
and Storage C C C C C C and Storage

     
ESX Server ESX Server
   
ESX Server ESX Server

• NetBackup software does not need to • Competitive solutions require backup

run on the ESX Server at all, thereby to run inside VMs, thereby reducing
maximizing performance of ESX performance of the ESX Server
server
• LAN bandwidth becomes a key choke-
• Backup traffic travels on the abundant point
SAN, not the constrained LAN

• Performance hit is isolated to the

dedicated backup server
NBU and VCB: License Cost and Tracking
NetBackup with VCB Alternatives

Backup Server
Backup Server
and Storage C C C C C C and Storage

$ $ $ $ $ $
$
ESX Server
$
ESX Server
$ ESX Server ESX Server $

• No penalty for running VMware: No

per-VM fees, pay per ESX server
• An ESX server with 5 VMs or 20 VMs
(of the same OS types) would cost the
same!
• Per-Guest‫‏‬VM‫‏‬fee…the‫‏‬more‫‏‬VMs,‫‏‬the‫‏‬
more you pay
• No savings for moving to VMware from
traditional infrastructure

• For VCB Backups: License one • Backup server still licensed separately
Enterprise Client per OS type per ESX
server

• For Dedupe: Capacity-based pricing

VCB and PureDisk

• NetBackup for VMware and PDDO

– Current image format does not guarantee effective de-duplication
– Specific to VCB and vmdk image, not file-based image
• De-Dup Alternatives
– Use file-based backups and PDDO
• NBU clients in VM
– Use PD clients in VM instead of VCB
• Outside of NBU 6.5 management for dedup data
NetBackup for VMware

• Currently supported (up to 6.5.2)

– Image level VCB support for Windows, Linux
– Granular restore from image level backup (Windows)
– File-level incrementals for VCB full backups
– Proxy Server support
• Windows Server 2003 x86, x64
• Roadmap
– 1HCY09
• Hyper-V agent
– 2HCY09
• Improved PDDO vmdk deduplication *
• VCB 4.0 support
Agenda

1 Sun & Symantec Partnership Overview

2 Review of Virtualization and Data Protection

3 NBU, PureDisk and Virtual Environment Backup

4 Backup Exec and Virtual Environment Backup

5 Wrap up and Q/A

Backup Exec 12.5 – Next Gen Windows Data
Protection
Backup Exec 12.5 NEW Comprehensive Recovery of Virtual and
Physical Systems – From Individual Files to an
Entire Application in Minutes

NEW Market Leading Data Protection for the

Complete Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Portfolio

Enhanced Management and Scalable

Platform Support for Added Backup Flexibility

Backup Exec 12.5 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5

Backup Exec 12.5: Comprehensive Data
Protection for VMware and Hyper-V Systems

– Reduce Cost and Management of Multiple Products - complete data protection

for physical and virtual server environments from a single console

– Reduce Complexity – automatically discover and backup of unlimited guest

machines to disk or tape with a single agent

– Reduce Recovery Time - granular file-level and image-level recovery with a

single backup

Exchange 2007 Backup Exec 12.5

Media Server

VMware ESX Server or

Backup Microsoft
Exec 12.5 & Backup Exec Hyper-V
System Recovery 8.5
Agenda

1 Sun & Symantec Partnership Overview

2 Review of Virtualization and Data Protection

3 NBU, PureDisk and Virtual Environment Backup

4 Backup Exec and Virtual Environment Backup

5 Wrap up and Q/A

Joint Sun and Symantec Portal

• sun.symantec.com
– Joint external portal focused on presenting Symantec sales and
product information for Sun field personnel
• Sales
• Marketing
• Technical
– About 3 months old and growing
– Registration is quick and easy
– Adding White Papers:
• “Veritas‫‏‬NetBackup‫‏‬6.5‫‏‬for‫‏‬VMware‫‏‬3.x‫‏‬- Best‫‏‬Practices”
• “Comprehensive‫‏‬Backup‫‏‬and‫‏‬Recovery‫‏‬of‫‏‬VMware‫‏‬Virtual‫‏‬
Infrastructure - Symantec‫‏‬Backup‫‏‬Exec‫‏‬12.5‫‏‬for‫‏‬Windows‫‏‬Servers”
Contacts

Symantec Sales Symantec Technical Pre-Sales

Tom Hylas Jim Keeley

Sun Global Partner Manager Sun Americas Sr. Systems Engineer
tom_hylas@symantec.com jim_keeley@symantec.com

Mike Wilson Andrew Oatley

Sun EMEA Alliance Manager Sun EMEA Technical Account Manager
mike_wilson@symantec.com andrew_oatley@symantec.com

Come to the Symantec Booth and talk to us!

 Thank You / Q&A

Two great companies with

a long history, solid relationship,
complementary technologies,
and great prospects
Great synergy
Thank you!
Jim Keeley
jim_keeley@symantec.com
303-887-5638