This document discusses EMC Avamar backup solutions for virtual machine environments. It highlights that virtual machines now make up over half of new server deployments, creating new data protection needs. Avamar addresses these needs through deduplicated backup of both virtual machine guests and images. It provides various deployment options including a virtual appliance. Avamar helps optimize backup performance, storage usage, and recovery in virtualized environments.

1. BACKUP FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES EMC Avamar for VMware Environments Horia Constantinescu horia.constantinescu@emc.com Backup & Recovery Systems Division EMC Corporation

2. Physical to Virtual Evolution VMs were more than half of new logical servers deployed in 2009 VM crossover 15.0 12.5 10.0 Millions 7.5 5.0 2.5 0.0 2012 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Physical servers Virtual Machines Source: IDC MCS, Worldwide Server Virtualization Forecast, February 6, 2009

3. VMware Adoption and Data Protection Needs Phase 1 IT Production Cost Efficiency Phase 2 Business Production Quality of Service Phase 3 ITaaS Business Agility Rapidly growing number of VMs Greater business continuity needs Greater need for improved SLAs Lowering the data protection cost structure 0% 85% INCREASING DATA PROTECTION NEEDS 70% Physical Environment 50% 30% 15% 100% 0% 50% 100% Virtual Environment

4. Proactive Approach Backup Redesign Backup Redesign Reactive Approach Proactive Customers Save Time and Money

5. “Data protection paradigms and architectures (especially backup and recovery) must change in order to adapt to virtualized environments.” Worldwide Storage for the Virtualized Environment Taxonomy (Page 1) Benjamin Woo, Laura DuBois, Noemi Greyzdorf, IDC, December 2010

6. Backup and Recovery Architectures: In Transition from Tape to Disk NetWorker Tape Tape Backup software NetWorker Backup software VTL VTL/Tape NetWorker Data Domain Deduplication storage Backup software Avamar Onsite Backup Storage Disaster Recovery Storage Application Backup Clients Backup/Media Manager Backup/Recovery Architecture Conventional(Tape-centric) Transformational (Disk-centric) Disk Library DB Deduplication backup software and system Home Data Protection Advisor Data Protection Management Software on premise off premise

7. Backup is a Key Virtualization Consideration Organizations top server virtualization initiatives for 2010 Consolidate more physical servers onto virtualization platforms 48% Improve backup and recovery of virtual machines 37% Expand number of applications running on virtual machines 36% Make use of virtual machine replication for disaster recovery 32% Increase security of virtual server environment 23% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Source: Enterprise Strategy Group White Paper, Innovate, Integrate, and Accelerate Virtualization, Figure 3, May2010.

8. Server Virtualization Brings Backup Challenges and Opportunities Contention Consistency Complementary technologies Consolidation optimization

9. The “Must Have” List Backup for VMware solutions Must address issues, smooth phase transitions Resolve resource contention Support both guest and image level backup Provide both file and full virtual machine recovery Must provide business value Offer value for both physical and virtual worlds Reduce downtime, cost and risk Must integrate with VMware infrastructure VMware vStorage API; VMware vCenter Server VMware Site Recovery Manager (for DR automation)

10. Deduplication is the Key Relieve resource contention Support rapid virtual machine cloning Contain backup storage growth Enable more effective disaster recovery

11. Why Avamar? Deduplication backup system End-to-end, software/hardware solution Improves backup window, less network load Integrated high availability and reliability Flexible deployment options Avamar Data Store Avamar Virtual Edition Avamar VM Full backups, every time—one-step recovery Higher backup success rate and reliability Increased ROI, lower TCO, less risk

12. Network D D A A C C C B B B D A A Divides data into sub-file segments Determines if segments are unique or duplicate Backs up only data that is unique Sends data compressed and encrypted B D A A C C VMware ESX B B B C D A Move Less Data Data deduplication is the enabler

13. Avamar for VMware Optimized for VMware backup Guest backup Low impact agents, relief from resource contention issues Image backup Integrated with VMware vStorage API Easy file-level recovery from image backup Tight VMware vCenter integration Deployable as a virtual appliance—Avamar Virtual Edition

14. VMware Guest Backup No-cost Avamar agents assure application consistency Agent resides in each virtual machine Deduplicates within and across virtual machines – as if they were physical servers Reduces resource contention and speeds backups Provides file-level restore for Windows, Linux and Solaris Avamar Agents VMware ESX

15. VMware Guest Backup Avamar backup versus traditional backup Traditional Avamar CPU USAGE NETWORK USAGE DISK USAGE 1:20 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 1:40 p.m. 1:20 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 1:40 p.m. 1:20 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 1:40 p.m.

16. VMware Image Backup Avamar integration with VMware vStorage API Deduplication within and across VMDK files Load-balancing across proxy virtual machines Change-block-tracking minimizes recovery time File level recovery from image backup Replication provides DR for backed up VMDKs Virtual Machines VMware Virtualization Layer Mount x86 Architecture Resource Pool Physical server SAN storage = Avamar Software Agent Avamar server Physical server

17. Proxy Server Load Balancing Avamar efficiently uses available resources How does this work? Avamar automatically assigns VMs backup jobs to available proxy servers using a round robin protocol Backups are distributed evenly across available virtual proxy servers Benefits Automatic and transparent More efficient backups Better use of available resources Simplifies the management of virtual proxy servers Applied either globally or in groups Storage LUNs Virtual Machines VMware VMware VMware DRS VMware ESX SERVER CLUSTER VMware VMware VMware VMware Proxy Servers Pool Avamar

18. Proxy CPU Utilization Over Time for Image Backup of 40 GB Virtual Machine VMware vSphere Change Block Tracking Avamar full-image recovery is faster and more reliable 9:25 a.m. 9:135 a.m. 9:145 a.m. 9:15 a.m. VM Version 7CBT Backup VM Version 7Backup VM Version 4Initial Backup

19. Flexible Image-level Recovery NEW Three ways to restore a virtual machine: Restore back to original virtual machine Restore to an existing virtual machine Restore to a new virtual machine Original Existing VMware Avamar Data Store Change the game: help simplify disaster recoveries leveraging Avamar

20. Integration with VMware vCenter Manage data protection, and contain VM sprawl Browse to VMware vCenter via the Avamar UI Auto-discover VMs and their associated groups Monitor backup/restore operations in the Activity Monitor View VM protection status (guest/image/none) Single point of management for VMware backup options

21. Customer Voices “An important feature for us in choosing Avamar was its remote replication. This allowed us to replicate backup data between our new production datacenter and DR datacenter, eliminating tape handling.” “We had the strategy to go to VMware, but the performance of our traditional backups was just crawling, so we had to bring in Avamar first before we could grow it further. Avamar was, and is, a critical component to our virtualization initiative.” “We’re basically virtualizing everything we can with VMware. Avamar helps us manage this transition more efficiently and reliably by giving us a standard way to manage both physical and virtual backups.”

22. Accelerate the Virtualization Journey Enhanced Backup & Recovery 99% Reduction in Replication Bandwidth Increase Consolidation Ratios File, Image, and Site Recovery 40x-60x Data Reduction 90% Faster Backups Lower Backup Infrastructure Costs Investment Protection Reduce Risk Simplify Management Improve Operations Extended Business Value

23. Avamar for VMware Benefits Summary Maximize virtualization investments Support for latest VMware vStorage APIs; tight VMware vCenter Server integration Deduplicated guest and image-level, daily full backups Shrink storage requirements Increase retention periods Shorten backup/recovery windows Improve bandwidth efficiency Simplify data management Lower costs Scalability, high availability, and reliability One-step full recovery Replication and disaster recovery Flexible physical and virtual deployment options EMC backup recovery systems portfolio

24. EMC Avamar Real World Results Daily full backups vs. traditional daily full backups Source: EMC While results will vary by data type and mix, Avamar can dramatically improve backup performance and efficiency

25. Avamar Supported Operating Systems and Applications Application Modules Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 Lotus Notes Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005 Oracle 9i, 10g, 10gR2 IBM DB2 8.2.x, 9.5 NDMP (EMC Celerra) DART 5.5, 5.6 NDMP (NetApp) Data ONTAP 6.5, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.1x. 7.2 VMware Infrastructure New Avamar software expands client operating system, application support VMware ESX Server versions 3.0.x, 3.5, 3i = ESX client OS-certified using RHEL 4 client (support within virtual machines depends on VMware support of client operating system)

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28. Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware Avamar Server deployed as a virtual appliance Leverages existing ESX servers and storage Replication (of applications and storage) Facilitates rapid, cost-effective deployment and return on investment Supports vMotion for deployment and flexibility Up to 2 Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware virtual appliances per VMware ESX server for scalability Avamar VM Avamar VM Avamar VM Resource Pool VMware Virtualization Layer x86 Architecture

29. “Given the functional strength and deployment flexibility of the product family, we believe that Avamar for VMware has the potential to become the de facto standard for backup and recovery in medium-to-large VMware deployments. At the very least, the current offering provides a yardstick against which other solutions in this space will be measured. VMware customers can look forward to an ever expanding set of features and capabilities as the product evolves over the coming year.” EMC Avamar for VMware: Tailor-Made Backup and Recovery for VMware Infrastructure Environments ArunTaneja, Founder Taneja Group, February 2009 Avamar and VMware