Learn How Snapshots CAN be Backups

In this webinar we cover:

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Available On Demand

1. The types of snapshot technologies

(they’re not all the same)

2. The weaknesses of snapshots

3. How to create a primary storage architecture

that overcomes these weaknesses

4. The benefits of a primary storage

architecture that protects itself

Our Speakers

Oscar Wahlberg is a Director of Product Management at Nexenta. As a part of the team at Nexenta he

runs the product management team for NexentaStor and NexentaEdge - a new object cluster storage

product. Before joining Nexenta he was with Symantec and Veritas Software where he lead the

product management team for their file system products and emerging storage solutions.

George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the

subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is

widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash

arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking.

He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud

and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained

through product testing and interaction

with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be

found in the articles, videos, webinars,

product analysis and case studies on

our web site:

http://storageswiss.com

Who Is Storage Switzerland?

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• Global leader in SDS: Delivering software solutions to storage challenges

• 200+ employees, headquartered in Silicon Valley

• Sales launch in 2008

• Channel centric go to market with 300+ resellers and OEMs, including Dell

• Close to 6,000 customers worldwide

• 1 Exabyte of raw capacity under management

• Cloud service providers, healthcare, finance, M&E, public sector

• Open source based, complemented by strong IP (30 patents and counting)

• Unified (block & file) storage solutions powered by ZFS

• Bringing ZFS DNA to object offering

Nexenta Company Highlights

Polling Question

What is your biggest data protection

challenge?

A) Getting backups done on time

B) Protecting data more frequently

C) Meeting each application’s RPO/RTO

D) Lowering the cost of data protection

E) All of the above

Polling Question

What is your biggest data protection

challenge?

State of Data Protection

• Applications are increasing in number

• Application data is growing

• Unstructured data is growing

• RPO/RTO is becoming

increasingly strict

The Storage Switzerland Data

Protection Philosophy

● Set Service Level Objectives

● Develop a “3-2-1” Data Protection

Strategy

● Develop a Tiered Recovery

Strategy

Set Objectives

Don’t Broker Agreements

● Ask any user or application

owner how much data can

they afford to lose and guess

what the answer will be?

● NONE!

● Service Level Objectives are

set by IT based on their

known capabilities and

intrinsic understanding of the

environment

What is a 3 – 2 – 1 Data Protection

Strategy?

3 Copies of DataNot 30

2 Types of Media 1 Copy off-Site

What is a Tiered Recovery Strategy?

Snapshots (RPO/RTO)

On-Site Disk Backup (RTO)

On-Site Archive (VRO)

Off-site (GRO)

Where Traditional Backup

Falls Short

• Once a night protection is

not enough to meet RPOs

• Data transfers from

protection storage to

primary storage too slow

• Recovery in Place creates

as many problems as it

solves

Primary Storage Has To Carry

More of the Backup Burden

The Advantages of Snapshot-Driven Data

Protection

• Protection copy can made

instantly and clean

• Data is stored in native form

• Protected copy accessible

from other servers or VMs

Addressing the Weaknesses of

Snapshots

• Snapshots are vulnerable to

storage system failure –

Implement two systems on-

site, snapshots on both

• If the site fails so do your

snapshots – Implement a 3rd

system off-site

Addressing the Weaknesses of

Snapshots

• Storage system has to support a high

number of active snapshots

– Use a re-directed

snapshot technology

• Long term retention of data

eventually gets expensive

– Backup up snapshots to

disk/cloud/tape for retention

and indexing

(meets the “2” in 3-2-1 strategy)

• Storage systems are coming down in price

dramatically

• Software-defined storage promised to drive that

price down even further, while maintaining

features and performance

• SDS also introduces

flexibility

Addressing the price problem of

Self-Protecting Primary Storage

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No Hardware / No Data Lock-In• Designed to run on broad selection of certified hardware• Enables dramatic cost savings• Maximum flexibility and agility

Ecosystem Ready• Fully integrated with Citrix, VMware, OpenStack, Microsoft and CloudStack• 100% delivered through channel partners and OEMs• Scalable from 10s of Terabytes to 100s of Petabytes

Any Access Protocol for Wide Range of Workloads• Block, File and Object protocols• Advanced data management, data optimization and data protection built-in• Unified, single pane of glass management for all assets

Enable customers to transform their storage infrastructure to increaseflexibility, simplicity and speed to market; improve data and risk

management and reduce TCO

Nexenta: Powerful and Differentiated Value Proposition of True SDS

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Unified storage services– File: 10GbE NFSv3 / NFS v4 / CIFS / SMB 2.1

– Block: 8Gbps FC / 10GbE iSCSI

High availability & disaster recovery– 2 node active / active cluster

– Periodic async replication over any distance

Data protection– ZFS powered end-to-end data integrity with block level check summing

– Software based RAID 1, RAID N+1, RAID N+2 and RAID N+3

– All RAID operations performed on allocated blocks for faster recovery

Capacity optimization– Thin provisioning

– Inline data reduction

Scale– From 10’s of TBs to 2PB (raw)

– Unlimited file system size

– Unlimited space optimized snapshots and clones

NexentaStor Key Features

…

Block & File

NexentaStor

NexentaStor

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NexentaStor Typical Use Cases and Differentiators

File Shares for Apps & Desktops

NFS, SMB 2.1Inline data reductionSnaps and clones for protectionSimple scaling to PB usableIndustry leading TCO

Cloud Backend

NFS, iSCSI, FC, SMB 2.1High performance with hybrid SSD & HDDUnlimited namespace sizeInline data reductionEcosystem integration

Business Continuity & Near Line Archive

NFSPB scale with inline data reductionEnd to end data integrityDual & triple parity RAIDIndustry leading TCO

File Shares for Grid and Digital Media Apps

NFS, iSCSI, FC, SMB 2.1High performance hybrid SSD & HDDUnlimited namespace sizeInline data reductionUnlimited, high perf snaps and clones

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Leverage NexentaStor for a cost effective, intelligent backup strategy

Data protection at the Primary site

– RAID 1 .. RAID N+3

– Unlimited space optimized snapshots/clones

– Scheduled snapshots to provide low RPO

Primary backups

– Integration with major backup vendors

– Backups to tape through NDMP

– Scheduled synchronization with remote disk

Disaster Recovery with replication

– Periodic, delta based replication

– Always point in time consistent at DR site

– Can use DR site for data mining

– Bi-directional replication, 1 to 1 or N:M

– Supports asymmetrical source and target configurations

2 way replication

Recover from any node, any snapshot or any clone

ScheduledBackup

Backup Target Array or VTL

Thank you!

Storage Switzerland

http://www.storageswiss.com

gcrump@storage-switzerland.com

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http://twitter.com/storageswiss

StorageSwiss on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss

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http://www.nexenta.com

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http://twitter.com/nexenta

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Learn How Snapshots CAN be Backups

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