Advanced Data Protection Using Veeam and NetApp

The Challenge achieve the lowest possible RPOs, KEY FEATURES For years, customers with stringent dramatically improve recovery time objectives (RTOs), and leverage • Create from storage recovery point objectives (RPOs) have snapshots up to 20 times faster used storage snapshots to protect secondary targets for such than competitive offerings as NetApp E-Series storage. stored data without impacting perfor- • Recover individual items quickly ® mance or significantly increasing the and efficiently from NetApp The Solution Snapshot™, SnapMirror®, and amount of storage space consumed. ® Veeam and NetApp partnered to add SnapVault technologies Utilizing NetApp Snapshot copies snapshot support for NetApp FAS, • Improve DR protection by creating provides a number of advantages: FlexArray, and E-Series, providing instant secondary backups from They can be used for “point-in-time” storage snapshots customers with a deeper level of recovery and allow users to create protection and availability. Included a large number of restore points in Veeam Backup & Replication v8 frequently, without impacting production (generally available in the second half SOLUTION COMPONENTS workloads—even during working of 2014), this integration allows you Firmware hours. Additionally, Snapshot copies ® to achieve: • Data ONTAP 8.1 or later can be used to protect data in certain • Faster backups of VMware® virtual Software disaster scenarios. They can be repli- machines (VMs) directly from NetApp • Veeam Backup & Replication v8 cated to a secondary, often remote storage Snapshot copies Connectivity storage system using SnapMirror, and • Quick recovery of entire VMs or they can be archived using SnapVault. • NFS, iSCSI, and individual items from NetApp In short, NetApp snap technology Snapshot, SnapMirror, and Deployment modes combines performance, scalability, SnapVault • Cluster and 7-Mode and efficient storage utilization to • Improved protection by creating LUN cloning deliver fantastic RPOs. instant secondary backups from • Traditional and FlexClone® But there is a way to get even more NetApp Snapshot copies volumes (recommended) from your Snapshot copies—one that • Smooth implementations—simple allows you to leverage both storage- to deploy and easy to manage with and hypervisor-based snapshots to no agents Back up from NetApp Snapshot copies using Veeam NetApp and Veeam combine to deliver the low RPOs enabled by NetApp snap technologies with the fast RTOs deliv- ered by Veeam Backup & Replication. Backup Store Veeam Backup from Storage Snapshots FAS Series Backup Proxy Backup Repository transforms NetApp Snapshot copies into backups for quick VM recovery and efficient file-level recovery in VMware environments. Data is read directly from NetApp Snapshot copies without FIGURE 1: VEEAM BACKUP FROM STORAGE SNAPSHOTS. the need for VMFS resignaturing, temporary VM registration, host cleanup, or “proxying” of the ESXi™ Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots “Our data center is 99% virtual and server. Veeam does this by leveraging allows you to take advantage of the we decided on Veeam because it is ® low overhead that periodic storage- VMware vSphere Changed Block built for virtualization as well as being Tracking (CBT), allowing snapshot- based snapshots offer by letting you derived backups to be created quickly restore guest OS files, appli- agentless, scalable, simple to deploy quickly—up to 20 times faster than cation items, or an entire VM from a and manage. We’ve standardized on competitive offerings. What’s more, snapshot in minutes directly from native NetApp and by combining both these Snapshot copies can be NetApp Snapshot copies. Users can Veeam and NetApp our Clustered replicated to secondary storage also restore data directly from these systems, whether local or remote, Snapshot copies, eliminating the need Data ONTAP architecture achieves using SnapMirror before finally being for staging. And Veeam helps reduce the outstanding recovery points from archived using SnapVault. This provides the time needed to mount Snapshot snapshots, as well as rapid recovery our customers with the shortest possible copies by 10 times or more compared from Veeam protecting our data from backup windows, lowest impact on to manual processes, lowering your production VMs, and maximum RPO. RTOs while avoiding human errors that both large-scale failures as well as can occur during critical recovery steps Granular recovery from NetApp common user errors. We can such as mounting Snapshot copies. Snapshot copies recover whole VMs or individual Regardless of the diligence you take The process is simple: Just a few clicks in protecting your organization from from the Backup & Replication interface application items easily and in data loss, you’ll ultimately be called on is all it takes to restore your data. minutes. Veeam also provides to restore VMs and application items A complete, effective data us integration into our Microsoft to a previous state. Legacy backup protection solution Systems Center environment tools weren’t designed to deal with the One of the best ways to protect data is demands of today’s virtual environments to follow the “3-2-1 rule”—keep three for monitoring.” copies of your data stored on two and the always-on data center. Brent Dunington different sets of media with at least one Systems Architect, copy stored off site. Veeam provides an University of British Columbia easy, efficient way for system adminis- trators to implement a comprehensive data protection strategy. FAS Series Restore Veeam Backup Snapshot Vaulting Full VM (array based) creates both primary and secondary SnapMirror Guest files (17 file systems) SnapVault backups directly from NetApp Low RTO Exchange items Efficient Veeam Restore Snapshot copies—instantly storing replication SharePoint items Active Directory objects one of the backup copies in SnapVault. SQL Server databases To do this, Veeam Backup & Replication Restore first creates an application-aware VM Snapshot copy followed by a storage FAS Series Snapshot copy. Once the storage Snapshot copy is created, the VM FIGURE 2: VEEAM EXPLORER FOR STORAGE SNAPSHOTS. snapshot is released and Backup from Storage Snapshots reads the data from the snapshot to create the new backup file. Backup is completely storage agnostic, which allows the backup Application consistent file to be saved anywhere including on Snapshot Backup NetApp E-Series storage. Store FAS Series ONTAP API Primary backup Backup proxy Backup repository Snapshot By combining NetApp’s low RPO

S capabilities with Veeam’s fast RTO tore enablement, Veeam and NetApp provide customers with unprecedented SnapVault (FAS series) levels of data protection and a simple, easy-to-manage suite of capabilities that delivers affordable, industry-leading FIGURE 3: VEEAM BACKUP SNAPSHOT VAULTING. performance. Veeam Explorers for Microsoft® Exchange and SharePoint® Directory, making item-level recovery of their backup data by reducing provide instant visibility and granular even easier while continuing to enable operational and management costs recovery of individual items. Veeam is the lowest RPOs and RTOs available. while delivering advanced data extending this same fast, agentless, protection for the modern data center. and easy recovery to Microsoft SQL Integration of NetApp Snapshot capa- Server databases and Microsoft Active bilities into Veeam Backup & Replication helps customers get more value out

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