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Reid Purvis – DC & Cloud Infrastructure Tech SpecialistShivam Garg – Principal PM Manager

Backing up applications born in the Cloud: Deep Dive on IaaS VM Backup

INF343

Deals with backup in Azure, and to AzureProvides a centralized management experience

What is Azure Backup?

Microsoft’s born in the cloud backup solution

The awesomeness of the last year in as few words as possibleAzure Backup - The year in review

Storage

1000%Growth

from Jul’14and

accelerating

Servers

500 %

Growth from Jul’14

Subscriptions

350 %

Growth from Jul’14

Oct’14Hyper-V at scale

DeduplicationNov’14

Feb’15LTR and GFS

IaaS VM backupPricing change

Mar’14

Apr’15All MS workloads

to Azure

Formulating the right cloud backup strategyIdentify the common scenariosSuggest backup options

Customer scenarios

WorkloadI deleted a file/folder in my VM…

The SQL Server database was corrupted…

I need to protect my Linux workloads…

Infra (VM)The OS/config of the VM was corrupted…

I need protection for compliance reasons…

VM backupOS and application setup takes time – faster to restoreLow-cost compliance is neededInfrequent or full VM backup is sufficientCustomer wants simplicity of management

Workload backupWorkload awarenessGranular controlMore frequent backups

VM vs. Workload backup

>90% Enterprise customers use a combination of

VM backup and workload backup

Current state of VM backupCustomer expectation Public cloud reality

Backup strategy

Tweak the on-prem strategy

Need a brand new strategy

Fabric support

Public cloud = my hypervisor

No support for native backup

Impacts the adoption of the public cloudDissonance!

Azure VM backupDeep-dive into the solution

No downtime Consistency

Application consistency for Windows workloads (VSS)File-system consistency for Linux workloads

Automatic storage management with the backup vault Lower Incremental backups Simple management – via UI or PSH

Value proposition

Native VM backup story for Azure (differentiator!)

• AWS supports only EBS snapshots*• No VSS consistency!• Snapshots operations are async

operations impacts multi-disk snapshots

Azure IaaS Backup versus AWS

* http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/ApiReference-cmd-CreateSnapshot.html

Demo:Discover, Register and Protect your VM

How backup works

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Full backup0 GB 127 GB

Unallocated space

15 GB

4MB data block : Read from storage

0 GB 127 GB

Unallocated space

15 GB

Snapshot

1. Compute checksum (SHA)2. Write data3. Write checksum

Backup vault

Original

Incremental backup0 GB 127 GB

Unallocated space

15 GB

Read from storageCompute checksum

Read checksumCompareWrite changes

Backup vault

Original

0 GB 127 GB

Unallocated space

15 GB

Snapshot

How customers configure their backup** In the cloud, spread your backup over a whole 24 hour backup window

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400 9 hour nightly backup window

60+% Customer use a legacy schedule

for backups

Wait time

Processing time

• Storage blob IO limits matter • Storage account limits matter• Azure Backup leverages available IOPS

• We try to max out on available resources• The goal is to finish backup ASAP• Only constrained by Storage limits

• For every disk being backed up – reserve 500 IOPS from the 20,000 limit.

Capacity planning60 MB/s 500 IOPS

20,000 IOPS

40 disks

20 disks / storage account

PowerShellOffline VM backupLong term retentionDisk restoreRestore to a different storage accountPerformance improvements

Summary report (excel)Event logging & user-defined AlertsCancel a running job Export jobs list

Azure Backup GA features

Announcing Azure Backup support for Load Balancer and CloudLink encrypted IaaS VMshttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-backup-supports-loadbalancer-cloudlink-virtualmachines/

Bitlocker encryption support (CloudLink)Multi-NIC VMsVMs connected to Load Balancer (ILB & ELB)VMs with multiple reserved IP addresses

What’s New

What’s coming (that we can talk about)

VMs on Premium StorageIaaS ARM VM backupIbiza Portal integrationCentral monitoring

Pricing

Read more in the Azure documentation > Introduction to VM backup (link)

VM size is <50 GB

0.5 Protected Instance

VM size is >50 GB

1 Protected Instanceper 500 GB

Sum of allocated blocks on page blobs

Azure Workload backup

What is Azure Backup ServerUsing Azure Backup Server within the cloud (Azure & 3rd party clouds)

Backup of VMs and Workloads in Azure

Azure Backup agent SCDPM Azure VM backup

Files and Folder Files and Folder Files and Folder

Microsoft workloads Microsoft workloads

Windows/Linux VMs

Azure Backup Server

“DPM-like” workload aware backupTo disk and cloud (no tape)Tied to Azure Backup pricingWith no SCVMM and SCOM integration

Azure Backup Server explained

Azure Backup Server

Azure Backup Pricing

Preserve value in SCDPM for System Center customersUnlock the SMB segmentDPM-

likeSoftwar

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TapeSCVMMSCOM

Great for customers looking for workload backup in Azure!

Backing up files directly to Azure

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49170

Backing up Applications to Azure

Fidelity (restores) and Frequency (backup)

Less fidelity

More fidelity

Less frequent

More frequent

VM backup

SC DPM /Azure

Backup Server

Azure Backup agent

Once a day backupDisk-level restore

Thrice a day backupFile-level restore

15 min (or) hourly backupsWorkload restore

Cost per Protected Instance

Small Instance Upto 50GB

Medium Instance 51 to 500GB

Large Instances

$5/mo*

$10/mo**Increments of

$10/mo/500GB

Cost of LRS or GRS Storage

Cost of LRS Block Blob Storage

Or,Cost of GRS Block Blob Storage

$0.024 per GB/mo*

$0.048 per GB/mo*

No Charges for

RestoresOutbound Bandwidth

Storage Transactions

Key Principles

• Aligning to how the Industry charges for backup

Based on amount of Data & Instances being backed up (on-premises or in Azure)

• Providing customers with the flexibility to use the most economical storage in Azure

Choice of Globally or Locally redundant storage

* Prices in USD, US West DC Region

Pricing Model

http://aka.ms/abpricing * *SQL Server only for use with Azure Backup Server

Azure Backup Server (incl SQL Server**)

Azure Backup as part of the OMS suite

ValueAzure Backup charges customers for protected instances and storage in Azure. It is great for providing customers easy backup.

OMSAzure Backup is part of OMS – provides great value for customers using multiple OMS components

Customers count protected instances

Recap

… Several backup options available on Azure, to provide the right granularity and capabilities required for your backup strategy… Azure VM backup is a KEY VALUE for Azure customers over AWS … Azure backup as part of OMS provides a great value for customers!

Takeaways What Azure Backup is and is not Formulate the right cloud backup strategy & best way to backup

your data Plan your IaaS configuration resources & requirements Common questions and concerns, scenarios Pricing, Azure Backup included in OMS, getting started

Recap

Other Sessions: - Hybrid Cloud Backup with System Center Data Protection Manager and

Azure Backup [INF342]- StorSimple, Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery - Better Together

[INF311]- 5 Reasons Your Business Needs Veeam and Microsoft Azure [DAT222] - Beyond Backup, The Next Generation Commvault Data Platform [DAT225]- True Disaster Recovery System recovery is not enough – get true

resiliency to face disasters [DAT226B]- Secure and Efficient Back-up to Microsoft Azure [DAT235]

Related Content

1. https://docs.com/AzureBackup/2930/azure-backup-resources 2. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/services/backup/ 3. https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TechNet-Friday/TechNet-Friday-Extra-Azure-Backup 4. http://aka.ms/AzureBackupServer5. https://

channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Azure/Getting-started-with-Azure-Backup-video-1-of-3-

6. https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Azure/Getting-started-with-Azure-Backup-video-2-of-3-

7. https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Azure/Getting-started-with-Azure-Backup-video-3-of-3-

8. https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/This-Month-In/2015-10-23-This-Month-In-Azure-Azure-Backup

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