veeam backup & replication v7 deep dive

Veeam Backup & Replication v7 Deep Dive

Anton Gostev, Veeam SoftwareDoug Hazelman, Veeam Software

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What doesVeeam do?

Image-based backup and replication for virtual machines

Agent-free

Storage-agnostic

Forever incremental

Instant recovery on any level

Who are ourcustomers?

75,000+ organizations

88% of Fortune 500

40% of Global 2000

All industries

All sizes

VMware and Hyper-V

Who is Veeam?What makes usspecial?

Strong R&D with history of industry leading innovation

We build, not buy or OEM

Our products just work

We provide fanatical support

We listen to our customers


5 years of innovation

• 2-in-1: backupand replication

• Instant File-Level Recovery

• Built-in deduplication

• Synthetic full backups

• Replication multiple restore points

v1

v2• ESXi support

with VCB• Fastest VCB

performance• Advanced VSS

support

v4• Centralized

management• Support for

vStorage APIs• Support for CBT• Support for thin-

provisioned disks• Near-CDP• Replication

to ESXi

v3• Instant File-Level

Recovery for Linux• ESXi support

without VCB

v5• vPower• Instant VM

Recovery• SureBackup• U-AIR• On-Demand

Sandbox• Instant indexing

6.0• Enterprise

scalability• Advanced

replication• Hyper-V support• 1-Click File

Restore

6.1• VeeamZIP• vPower for

Hyper-V• Veeam

BackupFree Edition

6.5• Veeam Explorer

for Microsoft Exchange

• Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots

• New hypervisorsupport: vSphere 5.1and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

• Archive backupsto the cloud

Q1 08 Q3 08 Q1 09 Q4 09 Q4 10 Q4 11 Q2 12 Q4 12Q1 13

Cloud Edition

Q3 13

7.0• Built-In WAN

Acceleration• High performance

Backup from Storage Snapshots

• Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint

• Virtual Lab for Replicas

• Virtual Lab for Hyper-V


The Veeam way:

Solve backup problemsProblem Veeam solution

Untested and unrecoverable backups SureBackup

Downtime during restore Instant VM Recovery

Backups take too much space Built-in deduplication

Getting backups offsite Built-in WAN Acceleration

Impact from VM backup Backup from Storage Snapshots


2 disruptive innovations

Built-in WAN Acceleration

Backup fromStorage Snapshots

What is v7?

7 market-leading features

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint

Virtual Lab for Hyper-V

Self-Service Recovery

Native tape support

VMware vCloud Director Integration

vSphere Web Client plug-in

VirtualLab for Replicas

75+ other newfeatures andenhancements

Backup Copy jobs

Parallel processing

64-bit data movers

Hardware accelerated compressionVeeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange 2013RESTful APIand more!

The new major release of Veeam Backup & Replication

http://go.veeam.com/v7


Do you copy your backups?

No14%

1 copy34%

2+ copies52%

Backup copiesOn-site

12%

Off-site88%

LOCATION


How do you get backups offsite?

The 3-2-1 rule3 copies2 different media1 offsite

WAN43%

Tape34%

Rotated drives23%

OFFSITE Transport


Introducing:

Built-in WAN AccelerationWhat is WAN Acceleration?The appliance … that speeds up the time it takes for information to flow back and forth across the WAN by using compression and data deduplication techniques to reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted. Basically, an accelerator works by caching duplicate files or parts of files so they can be referenced instead of having to be sent across the WAN again.

What is not WAN Acceleration?Delta transfer, deduplication, traffic compression, TCP/IP optimizations, backup seeding is not WAN acceleration… don’t be mislead by marketing!Only true WAN acceleration can provide up to 50x reduction in data transfer (comparing to simply copying backup files).



HowWhat you expect…

Variable-block size data fingerprintingGlobal cacheTraffic compressionTCP/IP optimizations: multi-threading, latency

Resume on disconnect



Howand more…

Infinite cache(backup repositories)

Cache content awareness(OS data blocks)

Forever incremental backup health check

No competition for cache between workloadsComprehensivemonitoring and reporting(Veeam Backup Management Suite)

What you expect…Variable-block size data fingerprintingGlobal cacheTraffic compressionTCP/IP optimizations: multi-threading, latency




Howso it’s…

Powerful: up to 50x faster

Easy-to-use:integrated solution

Affordable: one purchase

What you expect…Variable-block size data fingerprintingGlobal cacheTraffic compressionTCP/IP optimizations: multi-threading, latency


and more…Infinite cache(backup repositories)

Cache content awareness(OS data blocks)

Forever incremental backup health check

No competition for cache between workloadsComprehensivemonitoring and reporting(Veeam Backup Management Suite)



How It Works

Primary backup repository

Source siteWAN accelerator 50x faster Target site

WAN accelerator

Off-site backup repository

Cache Cache

Read

Write

Popu

late

FingerprintsWe can see the future!

WAN optimized TCP/IP



PerformanceScale

Up to 100 Mbps per pair: should be able to saturate 10 Mbps WAN links with basic hardware

Primary bottleneck: WAN accelerator’s cache storage speed, fast SSD cache is the king

Recommendations

SSD cache: the most important piece, makes huge difference!

Decent primary backup storage: incremental runs performance

Decent target backup storage: lookup, full backup file transformation, GFS processing and health check performance



When to use?

Links between 50 Mbps and 100 MbpsHDD cache: use for workloads with high change rates on small blocks (Exchange, SQL, other databases)SSD cache: use for any workloads

Links < 50 MbpsAlways use, unless VM change rate is minimal

Links > 100 MbpsUse when primarily concern is bandwidth savings rather than data transfer timeConsider deploying multiple WAN Accelerator pairs



Deployment ConsiderationsNetwork infrastructure

No changes required (transport port is configurable)

Global network traffic throttling rules still apply

One to many deployment scenarios

Single WAN accelerator in HQ, multiple WAN accelerators at branches: acceleration works both ways

Existing general purpose WAN accelerators

Configure Veeam traffic bypass in the settings, get best of both worlds!



Example



WherePart of new Backup Copy jobOptional, direct transfer also available

vNext: ReplicationCan seed replicas from backup copies in 7.0


Backup Copy Job

What is Backup Copy job?Efficiently “copy” backups onsite and offsite

Forever incremental: synthetic full backups managed at target, validation (and remediation) built-in

Selective: specify VMs, frequency and retention

Simple: eliminates need for multiple backup jobs, scripted file copies and storage-based file replication

Do not take the name literally! It’s NOT about copying backup files, but rather VMs and restore points.


Backup Copy Job

ArchivingAutomatically maintain backup archivesaka GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) retention


Backup Copy Job

Reference ArchitectureOptimize your backup infrastructure forfast backups and restores, and low cost

Use fast storage for primary backups and restores

Control costs by limiting the number of restore points

Keep restore points archive on lower cost (per TB) storage

Productionstorage

Primarybackup storage

Secondary backup storage (onsite)

Secondary backup storage (offsite)

Backup

Backup Copy

Backup CopySecureconnection


Disruptive innovationBuilt-in WAN Acceleration

High Performance Backup from Storage Snapshots



WhyReduce impact on production VMs and storage

Improve RPOs – for both backups and replicas

Leverage storage capabilities

Luca Dell’Oca @dellock6

After 3 days of backup runs I should say it: @veeam VBR7 + parallel processing + SAN snapshots is deadly combination



Why

> 1 hour



How It Works

Backup

Productionstorage

LUN

Backup server

Production host

Temporary host

MountSnapshot

Backup

Store

Backup repository

Direct from snapshot:No datastore mountNo VMFS resignaturingNo temp VM registrationNo host configuration cleanup

Leveraging VMware CBTUp to 20x fasterpatent pending

How you think it

worksHow Veeam Works


Backups from Storage Snapshots

HowDirect storage access (no proxying through ESXi)

No mount, resignature, VM registration, or clean up

Using VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT)

Easy to setupA single checkbox!

Instant VMware snapshot commit

Up to 20x faster than the competition

Result



WhereHP StoreVirtual VSA

HP StoreVirtual (LeftHand, P4000)

HP StoreServ (3PAR)

Development underway for additional vendors


Native tape support

Support for virtual tape libraries (VTLs), tape libraries and standalone drive, LTO3 and later

Tracks files, VMs and restore points on tape to simplify restore

Coordinated withVM backup jobs

File-level backup and restore FREE


Backup and Recovery for vCloud DirectorFull backup and recovery capabilities:

See your vCloud world in B&R

Backup all vApp vCloud metadata

Restore entire vApps and individual VMs into vApps

Migrate vApps within and between vCloud Director instances

Advanced monitoring and reporting of vCD infrastructure with suite

VeeamZIP for vCloud VMs includes vApp metadata FREE

Requires VMware vCloud Director 5.1

“After some quick and brief tests, it looks like you have a better tool than VMware vCloud Connector for moving around workloads”

Solutions ArchitectVMware


Virtual Lab for Replicas Automatically test recoverability of your replicas

Put your DR site to work

On-Demand Sandbox for testing, training and troubleshooting

Agent-free recovery of application objects (U-AIR)

Difference vs. virtual lab for backups:

Full storage performance (no vPower NFS)

Support for multi-host virtual labs (requires DVS)


vSphere Web Client plug-inAt-a-glance view of backup infrastructure status and trends directly in vSphere web clientIdentify unprotected VMs and simplify capacity planning with Veeam Backup Management Suite

Overview of backup

infrastructure

Daily backup activity

Backup repositor

y statistics

Summary of backup job

status


Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint

Fast, easy, and agent-free restore of Microsoft SharePoint items FREE

• Instant visibility and browsing of SharePoint databases

• Advanced search for specific items (e-discovery)

• Quick recovery and export


Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange

Fast, easy and agent-free restore of Microsoft Exchange items FREE

• Support for Exchange 2013 NEW

• Restore to Office 365 NEW


Processing Engine Enhancements

Honestly, I’m as excited about these “under the hood” improvements just about as much as the everything else combined.

It seemed too good to be true.

We are seeing almost unbelievable improvements on large VMs.

The scale [v7 provides] that we’re seeing in testing is pretty amazing.

In my opinion [parallel processing] may very well be the biggest feature of this release.

Very, very impressed with [CPU usage reduction] on backup proxy servers.

VMs with multiple disks process a few TIMES faster, so snapshots don’t grow large and snapshot commit is no longer a pain in the … !


Top 3

Parallel processing (and better than you ever expected)

Data mover improvements (64-bit, memory)

New compression algorithm (hardware accelerated)

Tom SightlerSolutions ArchitectVeeam Software

By far, the most impressive part of the testing was the performance of the backup engine. The partner had installed on a fairly old 4 core physical server that did not have direct SAN access, so backups were over network mode via 2 bonded 1GbE links. v6 did about 20 MB/s with CPU load around ~40% in this lab. v7 absolutely blew thru the backups, running at an average transfer rate of 200MB/s while task manager showed only ~5% CPU usage. It seemed too good to be true. We were effectively storage bottlenecked with NBD mode.


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Veeam Backup & Replication v7 Deep Dive

Anton Gostev, Veeam SoftwareDoug Hazelman, Veeam Software

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