Veeam Backup & Replication and Nimble Storage CS-Series
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Speed up backup & recovery with flash-optimized storage
Phil Nayebi, Systems Manager, Miller CastingsNicholas Schoonover, Technical Marketing, Nimble StorageJason Acord, Systems Engineer, Veeam Software
Veeam Backup & Replication and Nimble Storage CS-Series
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Agenda• Introduction• Miller Castings’ IT Environment• Requirements for Virtualization• Solution Deployed and Benefits• Best Practices
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Introduction• Miller Castings
• Operating since 1972• Specialize in high quality lost wax castings (ISO 9001 & AS9100)• Primary supplier for variety of industries• 350 Employees in a 72,000 sq feet facility in SoCal
• Phil Nayebi• Systems Manager at Miller Castings • 10 years veteran• Responsible for IT -- hands-on approach
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Miller Castings: Environment• IT’s focus on supporting the business
• Supporting 350 employees• Applications including engineering apps (Solid Works, Master CAM), WIP Trac, Document
management and ERP systems and Microsoft applications (SQL Server, Exchange, Lync), and file services
• Approaching 100% virtualization using VMware vSphere 5• Data Protection using Veeam
• Infrastructure • All, but one server running ESXi • Nimble Storage CS220G• Managed by a team of two (including myself)
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Journey to Virtualization• Used to be an HP including HP LeftHand storage
• 4x 2U P4000 storage arrays
• Goal at the time was to be 100% Virtualized• Pushed both storage and data protection past the limit –
performance and adequate data protection• Unfortunately previous solutions didn’t worked with virtualized
environments – application errors
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Engineers
Nimble Storage CS220G
Factory floor Administrative
10GbE10GbE
10GbE
1GbE
At 100% Virtualization
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Veeam and Nimble Storage• Introduced to Veeam by VAR
• Replaced previous backup solution – initially on HP LeftHand, later on Nimble Storage
• Effective Service Levels for Data Protection • RPO improved with Veeam• Simplified recovery process – quick and intuitive
• Came across Nimble Storage at VMworld 2012• Took advantage for POC using Veeam to migrate data from
LeftHand to Nimble -- worked flawlessly• Applications running smoothly and storage performance no
longer a bottle neck.
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Power of Virtualization and Efficiency• Consolidated 4x 2U HP Lefthand arrays to 1 3U Nimble Storage
array• ~2x the usable space with faster performance
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Best Practices & Future Plans• Networking
• Pay attention to networking (especially Jumbo frames)
• Leverage 10GbE • Storage
• Matters in virtualization• Evaluate use of VMDKs & RDM vs. vanilla
LUNs• Get educated!!!• Future is clearer …
• Leveraging digital imaging – lend itself to non-disruptively scaling our Nimble Storage array
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Nimble Storage Overview
Rapidly growing installed base of over 1100 customers and 2000 deployments
Partner eco-system expanding quickly, with over 400 VARs
Strong alliances with VMware, Microsoft and Cisco
Leadership team brings deep industry expertise and business building experience
• Founded in January 2008; started shipping in August 2010• Headquartered in San Jose, CA; operations in US, Canada, Europe, and Australia• Over 250 employees
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Storage Architectures–The Engine Powering Storage
Architected to use disk only; overlaying flash on top results in partial solution
Today’s Storage Architectures
Purpose-built, Performance Hybrid Designed from the ground up to
leverage the best of flash and disk Eliminates compromise between
performance, capacity, and data management
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Engineered for Efficiency
Scale just performance, just capacity, or both
Scale-out cluster eliminates storage silos
Scale with zero downtime
Scaling at the Lowest Incremental Cost
DATA PROTECTION
PERFORMANCECAPACITY
SCALING
CASL
High capacity disk Always-on compression High ratio of usable
to raw capacity
2-5x More Usable Capacity/$ Responsive flash cache
accelerates reads with no RAID overhead
Serialized writes eliminate need for high RPM spindles
2-5x More Performance/$
Thin snapshots with no performance penalty
Retention for months, not days WAN-efficient replication
Instant Backups & Restores
Scale just performance, just capacity, or both
Scale-out cluster eliminates storage silos
Scale with zero downtime
Scaling at the Lowest Incremental Cost
DATA PROTECTION
PERFORMANCECAPACITY
SCALING
CASL
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2-5x better performance / $ 2-5x better capacity / $ ~ 4x reduction in footprint, power and cooling
UNIVERSAL COMPRESSION: 30-75% SAVINGS Variable-size blocks enable
fast inline compression Elimination of read-modify-write
penalty allows compression of all applications
WRITE-OPTIMIZED LAYOUT: 100x FASTER WRITES Guaranteed coalescing of random
writes to sequential stripes; eliminates dependency on spindle speed
Coalesced writes to flash increase lifespan by 500%
DIS
KS
SD
C
ache
Cache populated intelligently on first write, instantly on cache miss
Metadata in cache accelerates all accesses
DYNAMIC CACHING: 50x FASTER READS
Accelerating Applications with CASL
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Nimble CS-Series Storage Solution Consolidate 4x more–high perf and efficiency
● Compact 3U chassis Instant snapshot and restore
● 1000’s of efficient snapshots ● VSS / VMware integration● WAN-efficient replication
Scale-to-fit architecture● Scale-up/scale-capacity/scale-out as needed
All-inclusive enterprise features● Cloning, thin provisioning, replication, etc.● Simple management for storage, backup, DR
CS210 CS220 / CS220G
CS240 / CS240G
CS260 / CS260G
CS420 / CS420G
CS440 / CS440G
CS460 / CS460G
Base array raw
capacity 8TB 12TB 24TB 36TB 12TB 24TB 36TB
Flash 160GB 320GB 640GB 1200GB 640GB 640GB 1200GB
Network 4 x 1GbE 6 x 1GbE or 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE (G models)
Controllers Dual hot-swappable controllers in active-passive configurations with mirrored NVRAM
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Scale To Fit with CASLSCALE COMPUTE/CACHE
Scale IOPS and reduce latency by scaling cache and/or compute
SCALE CAPACITY
Scale capacity alone using expansion shelves
SCALE-OUT CLUSTER
Scale performance and capacity by adding nodes while managing centrally
Scale flexibly and non-disruptively at the lowest incremental cost.
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Challenges• Business challenges
• Consolidating demanding applications such as Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint increases the need for higher storage performance
• Infrequent backups or none at all, leaving important business data unprotected
• Cost-prohibitive Disaster Recovery solutions
• Technical challenges• Long backup windows impacting availability of business-critical applications
and services• Complex, time-consuming, and costly to manage mixed-environment
backups • Limited array capacity preventing more frequent RPO’s
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Joint Solution Overview• Nimble’s high-performance storage is a perfect complement to Veeam
Backup & Replication
• Cost-effectively retain months’ worth of snapshots on a single Nimble array, with restores performed in seconds
• Use Veeam to archive backups for longer retention periods, while retaining flexible and granular recovery options
• Replicate for disaster recovery protection
• Reduce costs and protect virtualization investments while simplifying their backup process and environment
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Veeam is Modern Data ProtectionVeeam is
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What is Modern Data Protection?
Veeam Backup & Replication- Fast, reliable recovery…LOW RTOs- Hyper-V and VMware …1 console- Replicate VMs off-premise …Included- Deduplication, Compression …Included- Exchange & SharePoint recovery…Included
VM Recovery in minutes from backups that work
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vPower …Recover VMs in Minutes• Exclusive patented
Veeam technology
• Runs the VM directly from the backup file
• Publishes the contents of the backup file as a datastore a host can connect to
“This is why I love Veeam.They take all the virtualization technology pieces on the table andput them together into a functioning business solution.”
– Brett WestoverIT Administrator
Therapeutic Research Center
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Running VMs from backups
When you need to… vPower enables…Quickly restart failed VMs Instant VM Recovery
Verify the recoverability of backups and eliminate failed restores SureBackup
Restore application data,without agents or special backups
U-AIRUniversal Application-Item Recovery
Test patches, troubleshootproblems, or create a training lab On-Demand Sandbox
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Instant VM Recovery
Fast:restart a VM directly froma backup in 2 minutes
Readily available:uses existing backups and backup storage
Buys you time:users keep workingwhile you troubleshoot
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Instant VM Recovery:
Compressed/DeduplicatedBackup FilevPower
Backup storageProduction storage
Back to work in 2 minutes!
Migrate online
Hypervisor
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SureBackup• Verify the recoverability
of every backup– Every virtual machine– Every restore point
• No increase in backup time, additional hardware or staff
• Leverages vPower and Virtual Lab
Check all
Check some
Checksum
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Sure Backup:
Compressed/DeduplicatedBackup FilevPower
Backup storageProduction storage
Hypervisor
VMOSApp
Report
Verification Job
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Veeam ReplicationHost-based replication– HA and DR: replicate onsite for high availability, offsite for DR– WAN support: numerous optimizations for efficient WAN replication– Multiple restore points: protects against corruption
Assisted failover– Failover individual VMs– Automatically re-IP after failover
Real failback– Delta sync– 1-click and confirm – for one or several VMs– Automatically re-IP after failback
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Veeam Explorer for Microsoft ExchangeExchange Item Recovery in Minutes! NO additional licensing, NO charge
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Veeam Explorer for Microsoft ExchangeNo extra cost, no agents, no additional licensingSupported platforms: Exchange Server 2010 / 2013
Licensing• Available in all editions, including Free Edition• All editions: Export to .PST, export to .MSG, send as attachment• Enterprise Edition: Also includes restore to original mailbox store
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Return on investment Reduce costs for data protection Eliminate downtime
– Prolonged recoveries (for example, rebuild vs. restore, instant recovery)– Failed recoveries
Maximize server consolidation and savings:– Less Equipment– Less Power– Less cooling– Less floor space– Less Management
Keep your job (and your sanity): priceless
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Veeam and Nimble Storage• Veeam and Nimble provide an optimized, end-to-end
storage and data protection solution for virtual environments providing:• Flash-optimized hybrid storage performance• Instant backups and recovery• Capacity efficiency with compression and backup de-duplication• WAN-efficient replication for offsite DR• Lower costs than traditional solutions
• Ideal for performance-intensive applications• Highly dense Microsoft Exchange deployments with item-level recovery• Tackle VDI boot & login storms while maintaining data protection per VM,
desktop, file or application item
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Technical details• Configuration
• No additional software updates to install
• Supported versions• All CS-Series arrays • Veeam Backup & Replication• iSCSI SAN
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Best practices• Backup
• Nimble for primary storage and short to mid-term snapshots• Veeam for longer term archival backup • Repurpose legacy storage as backup target
• Restoration• Nimble for quick restoration within 60-90 days• Veeam for item-level recovery and long-term restoration
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More information• www.nimblestorage.com• http://go.veeam.com/nimble-storage-and-veeam.html
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