EMC Recover Point and VCE Vblock

EMC Recover Point and VCE vBlock

Solution for Continuous Data Protection-Replication in Heterogeneous Environments and integration with VCE vBlock solution

Dejan Živanović PreSales Manager EMC Technology Solutions Group

Local, Remote or Local & Remote ?

Business Technical Considerations Considerations Recovery and Cost consistency Functionality, Capacity availability Recovery time Bandwidth objectives Recovery point Performance objectives PRIMARY DECISION DRIVERS

Historical Backup: Recovery Point Every 24 Hrs

Snapshots and Clones Continuous Data Protection Creates copies like “time-lapse photographs” Change-based “VIDEO CAMERA” with Snapshot / Clone Technology: Recovery Point Every 4-6 Hrs DVR-like roll back capabilities

(A)Sync Replication with Gold Copy: Recovery Point 12- 24Hrs

• Either space efficient change-based CDP Timesnapshots based CDP: for Timebackup indexed off-loading , but no event driven recovery points • Or full copies or clones for test and • Journal every change made and set development with minimal production the window for the amount of time to impact record CDP: Unlimited recovery points with application-aware I/O bookmarks

 RecoverPoint is a multi-node cluster – 2 nodes for RecoverPoint/SE – 2–8 nodes for RecoverPoint – All nodes in active-active configuration Hosts – Loads can be distributed across nodes – Nodes can be added to live system  Host-, array- or fabric-based write splitter – Lightweight driver on host OR CLARiiON splitter Layer 2 SAN OR Cisco fabric-based splitters (A/B fabric) – Intercepts writes to protected LUNs only – Sends writes to local appliance – RecoverPoint/SE only supports Windows and CLARiiON splitters  Supports mirrored SAN – Two separate SANs for reliability Storage – Supports nondisruptive fabric upgrades – Provides high availability for RecoverPoint configurations arrays through fault isolation – Supports Cisco and Brocade (including M models) fabrics EMC IBM HDS Sun HP  Supports iSCSI and Fibre Channel Heterogeneous Storage – RecoverPoint appliances include native 2/4/8 Gb/s optical Host, Fabric, or CLARiiON splitter support – CLARiiON splitter supports Fibre Channel and iSCSI volumes

Continuous Data Protection Continuous Remote Replication and Continuous Local & Remote

CDP CRR and CLR

RecoverPoint RecoverPoint SAN SAN SAN/WAN

Third- Third- Party Party

SAN Local Remote SAN Storage Journals Journal Storage

 Utilizes host, fabric, or array write splitting  Consistency groups ensure write-order fidelity within or across servers and virtual machines  Local replication with any point-in-time recovery  Map service level agreements using policy-based recovery point  Remote replication with point-in-time recovery objective settings  Supports EMC and third-party storage  Block-level local protection for SAN, VMware Virtual Machine File  Local and remote write journals enable roll-back to a System (VMFS), physical raw device mapping (RDM), SCSI/iSCSI consistent point-in-time image (on CLARiiON CX4 or CX3 series volumes)  Logical or physical access to replicated data © Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 5 RecoverPoint Local Protection Process—CDP

2a. Host splitter 1. Data is split and sent to the RecoverPoint appliance in one of three ways

3. Writes are acknowledged 2b. Intelligent- back from the RecoverPoint fabric splitter appliance

4. The appliance writes data to the journal volume, along with 2c. CLARiiON time stamp and application- splitter specific bookmarks

/ A / C r A r C / B r B

Production volumes Replica volumes Journal volume

5. Write-order-consistent data is distributed to the replica volumes

1. Data is split and sent to the 2a. Host splitter RecoverPoint appliance in one of three ways

3. Writes are 6. Data is received, 7. Data is written to acknowledged uncompressed, the journal volume 2b. Intelligent- back from the sequenced, and fabric splitter RecoverPoint checksummed appliance

2c. CLARiiON splitter 5. Data is sequenced, 4. Appliance checksummed, functions compressed, / A / C • Fibre Channel- and replicated to r A r C / B IP conversion the remote r B • Replication RecoverPoint Local site • Data reduction appliances over Remote site Journal volume and IP or SAN compression 8. Consistent data is • Monitoring and distributed to the management remote volumes

 RecoverPoint/Cluster Enabler – Integrates with Microsoft clusters to enhance application availability  Snapshot consolidation – Enables longer-term recovery with same storage consumption  Stretched CDP – Provides synchronous replication up to 200 kilometers – Enables cascaded RecoverPoint for three-site multi-hop disaster recovery configurations

 Virtual Provisioning support – Supports CLARiiON CX4 and Symmetrix DMX&V-MAX New with RecoverPoint v3.2 – Replication of thin LUNs preserves storage allocation policies Synchronous replication up to 200km over FC links  Replication over Fibre Channel Synchronous /Asynchronous dynamic mode change – Preserves existing financial investments vmWare Affinity  Performance and scalability improvements MS Hyper-V Support – Protects more applications with existing investments Monitoring and Reporting on RPA limits – Protects more applications quicker

 RecoverPoint leverages intelligent fabric services – Cisco SANTap Initiators . MDS Storage Services Module (SSM) . MDS 18/4 Multi-Service blade . 9222i Native services – Out-of-band architecture Initiator  target I/O Not in primary – Intelligent fabric redirects I/O (write splitting) data path – Eliminates need for host splitter Copy of Appliance primary I/O APIs

Target

 32 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel ports per Connectrix MDS-9000 Series SSM or 18 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel ports with MDS Storage Services Module (SSM) per 18/4 blade or MDS 18/4 Multi-Services blade  16,384 initiator, target, LUN (ITL) triplets with NX-OS 4.1.1i or later  Fits in any open slot in Connectrix MDS Storage Services Module MDS-9000 series modular chassis – Mix and match intelligent and normal ports in same switch – SANTap does not require use of front panel MDS 18/4 Multi- ports on SSM or 18/4 blade—preserves Services Blade initial cabling configurations  SANTap uses Storage Services Connectrix MDS-9222i Native support or with MDS 18/4 Multi-Services blade or Enabler (SSE) license MDS Storage Services Module (SSM) – Different SSE licenses are required depending on the hardware (SSM, 18/4, or 9222i native)

Primary Site Remote Bunker Site Application Database File and Application Database File and servers servers print servers servers servers print servers Management IP WAN

RecoverPoint SAN SAN

Fibre  Supports synchronous  All RecoverPoint resources Production CDP replication to Channel installed at remote site CDP replica volumes secondary site (such as a − CDP target storage, journal volumes bunker site) Stretched CDP − RecoverPoint appliances − Distance subject to specific − RecoverPoint repository configurations; refer to the volume EMC Support Matrix for − Standby/disaster recovery Failover guidance Primary CDP journal servers journal  Enables survival of  Dual fabric that is extended primary site outage to remote site  Provides synchronous  Servers and splitters must replication across distance be at both sites  Remote applications can  Reversing replication by access any point-in-time promoting CDP replica to image as read/write production is not supported without impacting production

Primary Site Secondary Site Tertiary Site

Manage- ment IP WAN Manage- ment IP WAN SAN SAN SAN WAN

Fibre Channel CDP CRR Production replica replica volumes volumes volumes

Failover CDP j CRR CDP journal journal journal

Near-Synchronous Synchronous over Fibre Channel limited* or Synchronous* Asynchronous over Fibre Channel or WAN Unlimited* Local and remote data protection minimizes data loss

 Each named cluster group’s RecoverPoint Fibre RecoverPoint associated devices reside Channel/ WAN in a single RecoverPoint consistency group of the same name  Supports Microsoft Cluster Server on Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Failover Cluster on Windows Server File Share Witness 2008 Enterprise and with RecoverPoint/CE Datacenter Editions installed  Supports synchronous CG1: Devices for replication Cluster Group1  Supports RecoverPoint and CG2: Devices for RecoverPoint/SE Cluster Group2

Cluster nodes with RecoverPoint/CE installed

 Operates in two modes: static and dynamic – Static fixed policies: . 200 kilometer distance and 4 millisecond latency Synchronous – Dynamic user-specified policies: Bandwidth Utilization . Set upper and lower thresholds for latency and/or throughput . Exceeding upper threshold results in change to asynchronous . Meeting lower thresholds results in change back to synchronous  Synchronous performance slower than asynchronous – Acknowledgement must travel roundtrip before next write can be processed  Initial synchronization, resynchronization will be asynchronous – During initial synchronization, during a sweep, and during recover production/resume production process  Supports RecoverPoint and RecoverPoint/SE, all splitter types  Requires stretched Fibre Channel network

Synchronous Replication Provides Zero RPO

Synchronous Only Options S/A Mode Change Benefits:  Application performance is impacted  Maintain application performance  Suspend replication and run  Remain protected via asynchronous unprotected  Avoid adding more network bandwidth  …or add more network bandwidth

Synchronous to asynchronous Synchronous mode change Bandwidth Utilization Bandwidth Utilization

Source Target Source Target I/O spike Switch to saturates asynchronous network avoids network saturation

Journal includes data plus metadata  Time/date – Identifies the time image was saved  Bookmarks: – System-generated group bookmarks (e.g., failover snapshot) – User-generated bookmarks – Other EMC product bookmarks (e.g., EMC Replication Manager) – System-event-generated bookmarks – Microsoft SQL Server (VDI) – Microsoft Exchange (VSS)

 Allows application recovery to be tiered by service level – Multiple volumes per group – Mixed recovery point objectives within same infrastructure OE Group 1 CRR  Provides independent replication controls – Recover by group, locally or remotely CRM CDP CRR – Start/stop by group Group 2 SCM CDP CRR  Enables grouping of optimization – Importance – Resource usage E-mail Group 3 CRR – Recovery point and recovery time objectives

 Each tier has different service level agreements 1: Linux (Web OE) – Consistency groups per tier – Operational recovery of tier Consistency  Parallel consistency across tiers group – Federated environments – Recover to a known point for all applications 2: Windows (CRM) – Disaster recovery for tier or application – Spans operating systems, applications, storage, and servers Consistency  Enables advanced functions group – Full environment cloning – Application upgrade testing – Data mining 3: UNIX (SCM, Financials…) – Consistent production rebuild

Consistency group

RecoverPoint Understands Allocated Capacity

Reported capacity SAN/ Allocated Allocated WAN

 RecoverPoint is thin aware – RecoverPoint recognizes thin LUNs Common storage pool Data – Retains allocation of thin LUNs—during Data devices initial synchronization, resynchronization devices – Allows mixing of thin and thick LUNs . Replication between CLARiiON CX4 and non-CX4 Symmetrix V-Max, CLARiiON CX4 DMX-4, DMX-3 – Virtual-to-virtual (thin-to-thin) replication

Available for CLARiiON CX4 and Symmetrix V-Max, DMX-4, DMX-3

 Integration with vCenter displays virtual machine status and details in RecoverPoint Consistency Groups – Shows replication status of virtual machines – Provides warning when a machine is not fully protected

Protected

Unprotected VMware

Quick view of replication status and alerts of unprotected VMs

EMC-developed storage replication adapter integrates RecoverPoint with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Production Recovery Manager  VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Virtual Machines Virtual Machines consistency groups – Displayed as “managed by SRM” – Can only be monitored – Snapshot access requires move to “maintenance VMware infrastructure VMware infrastructure mode” – vCenter Site Recovery Manager failover cannot occur Servers Servers for consistency groups in “maintenance mode”  vCenter Site Recovery Manager uses latest image during its test or disaster failover Heterogeneous storage Heterogeneous storage – A restriction on vCenter Site Recovery Manager not RecoverPoint RecoverPoint – CDP replica and journal not available during a real failover (only vCenter Site Recovery Manager test mode)  Supports VMware vCenter Server 2.5 RecoverPoint and RecoverPoint/SE – Only ESX 3.5 with vCenter Site Recovery Manager, not ESX 4.0 with vCenter Site Recovery Manager (a CRR and CLR consistency groups VMware limitation)

 Finance

 Environment & Background: – IBM Unix Servers, SUN Solaris Servers, EMC Clariion Storage, – MirrorView/S, AIX, vmWare, Win, Linux, Solaris, SCO Unix 5, – DB2, Informix  Customer requested: – DR solution over a long distance and 10Mbps IP link – Server consolidation using vSphare4 platform – DR Automation, fail-over/fail-back  Proposed solution: – 3-Site replication solution proposed – EMC Recover Point CLR, 2TB Lic per site, 4xRP Appliances – CISCO SAN equipment 2xMDS-9124 per site – 2x CLARiiON CX4-240

Primary Secondary Tertiary

Manage- VMware VMware VMware ment ESX Server ESX Server ESX Server IP WAN Manage- 260km ment IP WAN SAN SAN SAN WAN 10km

Fibre Channel CDP CRR Production replica replica volumes volumes volumes CX4-240 CX500 for B2D CX500 CX4-240 Failover CDP j CRR CDP journal journal journal

Synchronous over FC Asynchronous over 10 Mbps WAN link

 Public

 Environment & Background: – A lot of small SANs, not consolidated, – separate Backup environments, a lot of Physical servers / applications – Operations became complex, – expensive and started to face a lot of operational problems

 Customer requested: – DR solution, Server consolidation , Virtualization  Proposed solution: – EMC Recover Point CLR, 6TB Lic , 4xRP Appliances – CISCO SAN equipment 2xMDS-9124, 2xMDS-9134, 2xNEX-5020, 1xNEX-5010 – CLARiiON CX4-960 w/EFD,QoS, VP for primary site, CX4-480 for secondary site – EDL1500 w/ 8TB for backup

Primary Secondary

Manage- VMware ment VMware ESX Server ESX Server IP WAN 12km

SAN Fibre SAN Channel

Production volumes CRR replica volumes EDL1500 CX4-960 Failover CX4-480 CDP journal CRR CDP journal volumes

Synchronous over FC

The Datacenter The Cloud

Private Cloud vSphere Vblock

Virtualization provides the evolutionary path to a revolutionary improvement: capex, opex, business agility

VirtualVirtual ComputingComputing EnvironmentEnvironment CoalitionCoalition

The Virtual Computing Environment coalition.

Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, have committed to extensive and on-going collaboration to lead the journey to pervasive virtualization and private cloud with technology innovation, business partnership, venture investments and partner ecosystem leverage.

Technology Innovations Vblock Infrastructure Packages. Integrated best-of-breed packages from Cisco and EMC, together with VMware – engineered, tested, and validated to deliver revolutionary TCO and pervasive virtualization at scale in today’s most demanding use cases.

Integrated Pre-Sales, Services and Support Vblock Unified Customer Engagement. Dedicated pre-sales, professional services and single support experience to provide a seamless, end-to-end customer experience.

Solutions Venture and Investment Acadia. A Cisco-EMC joint venture to build, operate, and transfer Vblock infrastructure to organizations who want to accelerate their journey – available Q1 CY2010.

Partner Ecosystem Leverage Vblock Partner Ecosystem. A select group of partners, growing over time, which augment, sell and deliver Virtual Computing Environment solutions to enable the journey to pervasive virtualization and private cloud.

Data What is it: solution packages The combined best-of-breed technologies from Cisco and EMC, together with VMware – pre-integrated, tested, and validated to redefine the foundation of datacenter virtualized infrastructure. Applications

How it works: Operating Rather than buying and assembling individual components, Systems now acquire validated Vblock Infrastructure Packages direct Virtualizationor from partners with a seamless services and support experience. Benefits: Computing •Accelerating the journey to pervasive virtualization and private cloud computing while lowering risk and operating expenses •Customer assets (operating systems, applications, and data) Network are on-boarded as solution packages

Storage Imagine the power of three … Vblock Infrastructure Packages Redefining the foundation of data center infrastructure

vBlock 2 (3000 – 6000+ VMs) • A high-end configuration that is completely extensible to meet the most demanding IT needs of large enterprises or service providers vBlock 1 (800 – 3000 VMs) • A mid-sized configuration to deliver a broad range of IT capabilities to organizations of all sizes vBblock 0 (300 – 800 VMs) • An entry-level configuration to meet the IT needs of small datacenters • Test/development platform for Partners and customers Imagine the power of three … Scaling virtualized datacenter infrastructure backed by single support model

Solution Description Build Operate Transfer

. Standardized on Vblock architecture . Assessment/ . Operation by . Transfer design services Acadia staff  Focused on virtualized data center market . Licensing . Provision new . Ongoing PMO/ Acadia IP – Provide services direct and through environment governance . Ongoing channels/services providers . Skill training and subscription  Designed to enable a world-class transfer (portal) ecosystem of outsourcers, system . Primary support integrators and service providers and remote management . Robust business models including both traditional and utility consumption

Data Center Management Virtualization

Server Network Storage

© Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 33 vBlock Infrastructure Packages Modular, Standardized, Scalable vBlock 0 An entry-level configuration to meet the IT needs of small data centers vBlock 1 A mid-sized configuration to deliver a broad range of IT capabilities to organizations of all sizes vBlock 2 A high-end configuration that is completely extensible to meet the most demanding IT needs of large enterprises or service providers

 Enables incremental scaling with predictable performance, capability, and facilities impact  Best of breed technologies: – Compute: Cisco UCS family – Network: Cisco Nexus family, Cisco MDS 9000 series – Storage: EMC Symmetrix V-Max or EMC Unified Storage (Celerra, CLARiiON) – Virtualization: VMware vSphere 4 – EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM)

2 x Nexus 6140 •80 FCoE ports •16/32 FC ports •16/0 FCoE ports vSphere/ESX 4.0 •layer 2 connectivity •16:1 consolidation •1024 VMs

CX4-120/240/480 8 x UCS 5100 chassis •RAID-5 400 GB Fiber Channel •8 blades/chassis •2 x 4 core Xeon 5500 Blade •96 GB DDR3 RAM •1 CNA / blade (2 x FCoE) BW Oversubscription = 8:1 •2:1 at Fabric Extender •32:8 at 6140

Imagine the power of three … Combining best of breed technologies from market leaders

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Database Virtual Desktops Email Custom Web

RecoverPoint CDP, CRR or CLR options Sync, Async or ModeChange Replication S/A IO split on storage level (Clariion CX4) or on SAN level (Cisco MDS) Integration with vmWare infrastructure (HA, SRM, vCenter)

RecoverPoint Sync, Async or ModeChange Replication S/A RecoverPoint

FC or IP

vBlock - Best of breed technologies: Compute: Cisco UCS family Network: Cisco Nexus family, Cisco MDS 9000 series Storage: EMC Symmetrix V-Max or EMC Unified Storage (Celerra, CLARiiON) Virtualization: VMware vSphere 4 EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM)