Advanced Data Protection Using Veeam and NetApp Technology

The Challenge time objectives (RTOs), and leverage KEY FEATURES For years, customers with stringent storage-efficient FAS and AFF secondary recovery point objectives (RPOs) have targets and cloud-integrated • Create from storage ™ used snapshot technology to protect with NetApp AltaVault storage. snapshots up to 20 times faster than competitive offerings. stored data without affecting perfor- mance or significantly increasing the The Solution • Recover individual items quickly and efficiently from NetApp amount of storage space consumed. NetApp and Veeam have partnered to Snapshot, SnapMirror, and ® ® NetApp Snapshot copies provide a integrate support for NetApp Snapshot SnapVault technologies. number of advantages: You can use technology into the Veeam Availability • Improve disaster recovery them for “point-in-time” recovery and Suite. This integration provides protection by creating instant secondary backups from storage create a large number of restore points customers with a deeper level of snapshots. frequently, without impacting production protection and availability across NetApp workloads—even during working hours. FAS, FlexArray®, and E-Series storage You can also use Snapshot copies to platforms. Integration of Veeam Backup SOLUTION COMPONENTS protect data in certain disaster scenarios. & Recovery with NetApp Snapshot Firmware You can replicate them to a secondary, technology allows you to achieve: • NetApp Data ONTAP® 8.1 or later often remote storage system for disaster • Faster backups. Back up VMware Software recovery by using NetApp SnapMirror® virtual machines (VMs) directly from • Veeam Backup & Replication replication technology, or back up and Connectivity ® NetApp Snapshot copies. archive them by using NetApp SnapVault • NFS, iSCSI, and software. In short, NetApp Snapshot • Quick recovery. Recover entire Deployment modes technology combines performance, VMs or individual items from • Cluster and 7-Mode LUN scalability, and efficient storage utilization NetApp Snapshot, SnapMirror, and Cloning to deliver fantastic RPOs. SnapVault software. • Traditional and FlexClone volumes • Improved protection. Create instant (recommended) Now there is a way to get even more secondary backups from NetApp from your Snapshot copies—one that Snapshot copies. allows you to leverage both storage • Cost-effective cloud backup storage. and hypervisor-based snapshots to Leverage Veeam software with achieve the lowest possible RPOs, NetApp AltaVault cloud-integrated harness NetApp FAS and All Flash FAS storage for fast and efficient backup (AFF), dramatically improve recovery to the cloud. • Enhanced scalability. Scale efficiently and effectively, regardless of the size of

your environment and number of VMs. VM VM VM VM VM VM • Better return on NetApp storage VMware VMware investments through On-Demand Sandbox capabilities. Use NetApp Snapshot and FlexClone® technology to create completely isolated copies of your production environment in Production Storage SnapMirror Backup Secondary Storage FAS AFF/FAS just a few clicks, for fast and easy Application-Consistent testing and troubleshooting. Crash-Consistent Snapshot Copies Snapshot Copies • Smooth implementations. Implemen- Application-Consistent tations are simple to deploy and easy Snapshot Copies to manage with no agents.

DIAGRAM 1: VEEAM AND NETAPP DELIVER UNIFIED REPLICATION. NetApp and Veeam technologies combine to deliver the low RPOs enabled by NetApp Snapshot technology Granular recovery from NetApp This time efficiency helps you lower your with the fast RTOs delivered by Veeam Snapshot copies RTOs while avoiding human errors that Backup & Replication. Veeam backup Regardless of the care you take in can occur during critical recovery steps from storage snapshots transforms protecting your organization from data such as mounting Snapshot copies. NetApp Snapshot copies into backups loss, you’ll ultimately be called on to The process is simple: Just a few clicks for quick VM recovery and efficient restore VMs and application items from the Backup & Replication interface file-level recovery in VMware environ- to a previous state. Legacy backup are all it takes to restore your data. ments. Data is read directly from NetApp tools weren’t designed to deal with the Snapshot copies without the need for demands of today’s virtual environments A complete, effective data VMFS resignaturing, temporary VM and the always-on enterprise. Veeam protection solution registration, host cleanup, or “proxying” Explorer for Storage Snapshots allows One of the best ways to protect data is of the VMware ESXi server. Veeam does you to take advantage of the low over- to follow the “3-2-1” rule—keep three this by leveraging VMware vSphere head that periodic array-based snapshots copies of your data stored on two Changed Block Tracking (CBT), allowing offer by letting you quickly restore different sets of media with at least one snapshot-derived backups to be created guest OS files, application items, copy stored off site. Veeam provides quickly—up to 20 times faster than or an entire VM in minutes directly an easy and efficient way for system competitive offerings. What’s more, you from native NetApp Snapshot copies. administrators to implement a compre- can replicate these Snapshot copies to Users can also restore data directly hensive data protection strategy. secondary storage systems, whether from these Snapshot copies, eliminating Veeam Backup Snapshot Vaulting local or remote, by using SnapMirror the need for staging. In addition, data creates primary and secondary backups and/or SnapVault. This approach provides and application recoveries can be directly from NetApp Snapshot copies customers with the shortest possible performed directly from NetApp Snapshot —instantly storing one of the backup backup windows, lowest impact on copies on primary or secondary NetApp copies in SnapVault. To do this, Veeam production VMs, and maximum RPO. storage (AFF, FAS), helping you maximize Backup & Replication first creates an your NetApp investments. And Veeam application-aware VM snapshot copy helps reduce the time needed to mount followed by a storage snapshot copy. Snapshot copies by a factor of 10 or Once the storage snapshot copy is more compared with manual processes. created, the VM snapshot is released and the Veeam proxy server creates a new backup file. Since Veeam is completely storage agnostic, you can VM VM VM Backup Server save the backup file anywhere, including VMware NetApp on NetApp AltaVault for cloud storage. AltaVault By combining the low RPO capabilities Public Cloud of NetApp software with Veeam’s fast

RTO enablement, Veeam and NetApp Production Storage SnapMirror Secondary AFF/FAS or SnapVault Storage FAS provide customers with unprecedented Private Cloud levels of data protection and a simple, Crash-Consistent Application-Consistent easy-to-manage suite of capabilities Snapshot Copies Snapshot Copies that delivers affordable, industry-leading Application-Consistent performance. Snapshot Copies

Veeam Explorers for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint provide instant visibility DIAGRAM 2: VEEAM AND NETAPP DELIVER UNIFIED REPLICATION PLUS CLOUD INTEGRATION. and granular recovery of individual items. Veeam is extending this same fast, agentless, and easy recovery to Microsoft SQL Server databases and Low RPO Snapshot Microsoft Active Directory, making Restore item-level recovery even easier while Explorer for Storage Snapshots continuing to enable the lowest RPOs AFF/FAS Ecient • Full VM – array based and RTOs available. Veeam Explorer Replication Low RTO • Guest files – 17 file systems Veeam • Exchange items for Oracle can also be leveraged by SnapMirror Restore SnapVault • Sharepoint items administrators to get fast, transaction- • Active Directory Objects Restore level recovery across Oracle database • SQL Server – transaction-level environments. Integration of NetApp • Oracle – transaction-level Snapshot capabilities into Veeam Backup AFF/FAS & Replication helps customers get more value out of their backup data by reducing operational and management DIAGRAM 3: VEEAM EXPLORER FOR STORAGE SNAPSHOTS USED WITH NETAPP SNAPSHOT COPIES. costs while delivering advanced data protection for the modern data center. Enterprise scalability The exponential growth of data and • Full VM restore acceleration technol- Backup to the cloud provisioned IT services is forcing ogies with custom-tailored logic for Many businesses are interested in businesses and enterprises of all sizes raw disk, deduplicating storage, and leveraging low-cost storage in the to rethink their availability strategy. tape, greatly improving VM restore cloud as a way to efficiently store and Veeam scales efficiently and effectively performance processing engine protect critical business data off site. and provides benefits that include: enhancements that let you scale for Veeam integrates with the NetApp large environments and efficiently • Backup acceleration technologies AltaVault cloud-integrated storage process jobs containing thousands of that double I/O performance and solution to give organizations a simple VMs or millions of files shorten backup windows by up to way to back up data to the cloud. five times—all while reducing load

on primary storage, backup storage, and vCenter Servers Veeam On-Demand Sandbox for Storage Snapshots Veeam On-Demand Sandbox for Storage Snapshots integrates Veeam’s Veeam Virtual Lab long-standing on-demand sandbox VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM capability with NetApp Snapshot and VMware VMware FlexClone technology, giving you another way to leverage your NetApp storage investment. SnapMirror Production and SnapVault Secondary Storage FAS Using this capability, you can provision AFF/FAS

Array-Based FlexClone a complete, isolated copy of your Array-Based Snapshot Instant Snapshot Copies production environment in just a few Copies Copies clicks by running copies of production VMs directly from FlexClone copies on NetApp primary or secondary storage. DIAGRAM 4: VEEAM ON-DEMAND SANDBOX WITH NETAPP SNAPSHOT AND FLEXCLONE TECHNOLOGY. This allows you to test updates or troubleshoot your production environ- ment—plus a variety of similar use cases—at the full speed and scale of Our data center is 99% protecting our data from production storage. “ virtual and we decided on both large-scale failures as Ease of implementation Veeam because it is built well as common user errors. As an agentless architecture that directly for virtualization as well as We can recover whole VMs integrates with VMware vSphere and being agentless, scalable, or individual application Microsoft Hyper-V, Veeam Backup & Replication is simple to install and simple to deploy and manage. items easily and in minutes. manage. When Veeam is combined We’ve standardized on Veeam also provides us with NetApp powered storage solutions, businesses can simplify IT operational NetApp, and by combining integration into our Microsoft management, significantly improve both Veeam and NetApp, Systems Center environment application availability, and mitigate risk. our clustered Data ONTAP for monitoring. architecture achieves the Brent Dunington ” outstanding recovery points Systems Architect, University of British Columbia from snapshots, as well as rapid recovery from Veeam,

ABOUT VEEAM ABOUT NETAPP ® ™ Veeam enables Availability for the Always-On Enterprise NetApp is the data authority for hybrid cloud. We provide a full ™ with the Veeam Availability Suite by helping organizations range of hybrid cloud data services that simplify management meet today’s service-level objectives, enabling recovery of any of applications and data across cloud and on-premises IT service and related applications and data within seconds environments to accelerate digital transformation. Together and minutes. More than 200,000 customers worldwide rely on with our partners, we empower global organizations to unleash Veeam to protect 11+ million VMs. To learn more, visit the full potential of their data to expand customer touchpoints, www.veeam.com foster greater innovation and optimize their operations. For more information, visit www..com. #DataDriven

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