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May 2, 2023 © 2004 Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. 1

San Jacinto College and Overland

Storage A Backup and Archive Case

Study


San Jacinto CollegeSan Jacinto College

Founded in 1960 Year-round community college Approximately 73,000 students Located in Harris County, Texas Billy Vaughn, IT Ops Manager


IT InfrastructureIT Infrastructure

Serving students, faculty and administration 4,600 workstations 172 Windows servers 60,000 accounts Active Directory roaming for all students 27 TB of primary storage SAN, NAS, DAS and IP SAN Capacity growth of up to 130% in one month!


Legacy Backup/Recovery Legacy Backup/Recovery InfrastructureInfrastructure

LANLAN

Application Application ServersServers

Backup/Backup/Recovery Recovery NetworkNetwork

Media ServerMedia Server

Tape LibraryTape Library

FCFC

SCSISCSI

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Legacy Backup/Recovery Legacy Backup/Recovery InfrastructureInfrastructure

LANLAN




Tape LibraryTape Library

FCFC

SCSISCSI

• 172 Windows servers172 Windows servers• 4,600 workstations4,600 workstations• 27 TB of primary storage 27 TB of primary storage • 60,000 accounts60,000 accounts• Legacy tape library with Legacy tape library with six LTO-1 drivessix LTO-1 drives• Can’t reliably make an 11 hour backup Can’t reliably make an 11 hour backup windowwindow

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Backup/Recovery ChallengesBackup/Recovery Challenges

Explosive data growth Increasing reliance on roaming profiles Missing backup windows Network backups spill over into primetime Hard to validate backup success Slow and error-prone restores Too many tapes (on and off-site) What if a hurricane struck Houston?


ESG Research ESG Research "What are the biggest problems with your current backup and recovery solutions?" -- Percent of All Users (multiple responses accepted), N = 97

4%

13%

14%

15%

15%

18%

20%

22%

24%

30%

33%

37%

40%

49%

66%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

Poor service and support

Unacceptable level of data loss

Solution does not scale

Have not experienced any major problems

Backups are unreliable

Unsure of recovery point

Recoveries are unreliable

Consumption of technology resources

Media cost

Unsure of time to recover

Media management

Difficult to validate backup/recovery success

Consumption of human resources

Recoveries take too long

Backups take too long


ESG Research - Protection ConcernsESG Research - Protection Concerns

"Does your current backup schedule provide an adequate level of protection against data loss?" (Percent of Respondents, N = 128)

No, I worry that some data is

exposed31%

Yes, I am confident my data

is protected44%

No, I know that some data is

exposed25%


ESG Research - Availability ESG Research - Availability ConcernsConcerns

31% of organizations say they will experience significant revenue loss or other adverse business impact within 1 hour or less of application downtime. 58% within 4 hours or less.

29% of users don’t believe their current backup/recovery solution is meeting application availability requirements


Phase 1 – Tape Library Upgrade Phase 1 – Tape Library Upgrade

Upgrade from LTO-1 to LTO-3 Vendors evaluated:

Qualstar Spectra Logic Storage Technology Overland Storage


Overland Storage Overland Storage Founded 25 years ago (Nasdaq: OVRL) Over 100,000 installations Simply Protected Storage solutions:

NEO series tape backup and archive REO series disk backup and archive ULTAMUS series primary storage appliances

Sold through OEMs, distributors and storage and value added resellers


The Overland NEO 8000 Tape The Overland NEO 8000 Tape Library Library

Up to 400 TB of compressed capacity

LTO-3, LTO-2 and SDLT 600 2-12 tape drives Up to 500 cartridges Fibre Channel and GigE

connectivity


Phase 1 Tape Library Evaluation Phase 1 Tape Library Evaluation

LANLAN




Overland NEO 2000Overland NEO 2000

SANSAN

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Phase 1 Tape Library EvaluationPhase 1 Tape Library Evaluation

LANLAN





SANSAN

• 172 Windows servers172 Windows servers• 4,600 workstations4,600 workstations• 27 TB of primary storage (SAN, NAS, DAS, IP 27 TB of primary storage (SAN, NAS, DAS, IP SAN)SAN)• 60,000 accounts60,000 accounts• Overland NEO 2000Overland NEO 2000 withwith two LTO-3 drivestwo LTO-3 drives

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Phase 2 Backup/Recovery Phase 2 Backup/Recovery UpgradeUpgrade

LANLAN





SANSAN

• 172 Windows servers172 Windows servers• 4,600 workstations4,600 workstations• 27 TB of primary storage (SAN, NAS, DAS, IP 27 TB of primary storage (SAN, NAS, DAS, IP SAN)SAN)• 60,000 accounts60,000 accounts• Overland NEO 8000 withOverland NEO 8000 with three LTO-3 drivesthree LTO-3 drives• 13 TB Backup completes in seven hours13 TB Backup completes in seven hours• Half the drives, half the space, twice as fastHalf the drives, half the space, twice as fast• Backup Window problem resolved.Backup Window problem resolved.


Why Overland? Why Overland?

Native Fibre Channel and GigE support

Cost Evaluation system availability Support Ease of Upgrade Excellent performance


Phase 2 Benefits Phase 2 Benefits

Backups finish in half the time Using half the hardware That takes half the space And a quarter the number of tapes Validating backup success is easier Restores are more reliable Less tapes (on and off-site)


Phase 2 Tape VaultingPhase 2 Tape Vaulting

LANLAN




Primary Data Primary Data CenterCenter

Tape Vault Tape Vault


SANSAN

1. Backup 1. Backup

2. Transport off-2. Transport off-sitesite

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Phase 3 – Remote Tape VaultingPhase 3 – Remote Tape Vaulting

LANLAN








Phase 3 – Backup to DiskPhase 3 – Backup to Disk

LANLAN




iSCSI Disk ArrayiSCSI Disk Array

IP SANIP SAN





Phase 3 – D2D and Remote Tape Phase 3 – D2D and Remote Tape VaultingVaulting

LANLAN





IP SANIP SAN


1. Backup to Disk1. Backup to Disk



2. Copy to Tape2. Copy to Tape



Faster restores (2 weeks of data on disk)

Digital tape vaulting over existing GigE

Eliminates risk of tapes getting lost/stolen

Reduces the number of tapes Reduces the cost of tape vaulting


Phase 4 – Out-of-Region Phase 4 – Out-of-Region Replication Replication

LANLAN





IP SANIP SAN


WANWAN

Remote Remote SiteSite





Un-attended backup repository replication

Ability to recover from a regional disaster


The Backup Performance ChainThe Backup Performance Chain

Backup Server

Backup Storage Network

Primary Storage

Primary Storage Network

Backup Storage Hardware

Backup Storage Media

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Lessons LearnedLessons Learned

New tape technologies are really fast Half the hardware delivers twice the speed Remove the tape bottleneck and other bottlenecks may arise

Tape can be used to compliment a backup to disk strategy

Media costs are not the only area of savings Maintenance Personnel

Backup improvements can easily pay for themselves Reduced risk of backup window overruns Improved ability to recover files quickly Truck-less offsite backups for disaster avoidance: Priceless.

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