Best Practices for VMware and Hyper-V Backup
A look at the virtual environment, management tools,
and some tips!
Bill Kleyman, MISM, MCSA, CCA, VTSP5 – MTM Technologies Data Center Knowledge, BusinessWeek, InformationWeek, UBM DeusM, TechTarget
@QuadStack @Veeam @MTM_INC
LinkedIn.com/in/BillKleyman
Administrative points on this webinar
Questions ● Can use the virtual Q&A panel.
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● At the end of the webinar, we can raise virtual hand for dialog
questions.
● Stick around until the end of the webinar!
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Bill’s Content
Veeam information, wrap-up
The VM and Virtualization Backup Conversation
What’s happening in the industry ● More data
● More cloud
● More demand for resiliency
The rise of virtualization – and the need for creative backup options
Diversity and Planning ● Environment Efficiencies
● VM Consolidation
Today’s Agenda and Conversation Creating a plan for a virtual environment and the disk-based systems.
Understanding today’s data recovery demands and how VMs play a role.
Examining a distributed virtualization infrastructure – And how cloud computing fits in.
A quick look at new features within Hyper-V and VMware for VM backup and resiliency.
Considerations and best practices for disk-based backup in a virtual environment.
Creating a plan for virtual environments
and disk-based systems
The amount of data being backed up and the sources ● SAN
● File Servers
● Cloud-based storage
● Account for everything!
The data retention policies to be applied ● Remember the average life of a disk – SAN, NAS or other storage.
● Disk-based backup is great for short-term initiatives
● Have a good archiving strategy for longer term data retention.
● Consider the policies and your industry.
− Government
− Education
− Healthcare
Creating a plan for virtual environments
and disk-based systems – Cont…
Let intelligent deduplication help you out! ● Having a deduplication system is almost necessary in today’s virtual
infrastructure.
− Cut network traffic
− Deduplication at the block level
− Reclaim storage
− Cut virtual environment storage demands by over 70%
Management tools and feature considerations ● Data deduplication
● Data Archival
● VMware and Hyper-V integration (Hypervisor Agnostic)
Understanding today’s data recovery demands
and how VMs play a role
Set realistic Recovery Time Objectives ● Close to ‘0’ means more expensive
● Segment systems and allocate RTOs to the respective workload or VM.
● Prioritize data and the VM
Remember: DR doesn’t usually include history − Separate disk-based backup and regular backup jobs
Replication and data migration methodologies − Have dedicated bandwidth between data centers
− Create a replication and migration policy
− Use Site-to-Site replication features built into the backup software
Examining a distributed virtual infrastructure –
And how cloud computing fits in The Cloud
● Data center extensions
● DR and backup
● Multiple data points
Bandwidth considerations ● Data size
● WAN QoS
● Be aware of saturation
Data retention and cost considerations ● More data in the cloud means more cost
● Prioritize the data sets
● Create data retention policies
Examining a distributed virtual infrastructure –
And how cloud computing fits in – Cont…
Site-to-site replication ● Know the amount of data being replicated
● Look for network compression features
● Schedule the replication as needed:
− Synchronous
− Asynchronous
A look at the latest recovery and backup benefits
from Hyper-V and VMware Hyper-V 3.0 (Server 2012)
● Hyper-V Extensible switch
● Improved Live Migration
● Resource metering
● Hyper-V replica
VMware vSphere 5 ● Storage Improvements
● vSphere Storage API
● vSphere Auto Deploy
● vSphere High Availability
● vSphere vMotion
● vSphere Distributed Switch
● vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Considerations and best practices for disk-
based backup in a virtual environment.
Creating good documentation ● And have a good management platform
Use deduplication features ● Either native or third party
Configuring compression settings ● This is a must for site-to-site replication
Testing and maintenance ● Always have a good schedule in place
“Future-proof” your environment ● Be ready for today’s and tomorrow’s demands
Considerations and best practices for disk-
based backup in a virtual environment – Cont…
Understand how VSS functions ● VMware Tools drivers and support
Ease of use and training ● Get certifications, and learn the platform
Remember: Backups and Snapshots are very different ● Snapshots are for temporary use – Backups are for longer term
Always back up physical host and hypervisor configurations ● Have the info to rebuild the host – it saves time in an emergency
Backup VMs incrementally, and not at the same time ● Schedule backups wisely so as not to overwhelm the host or storage
Final thoughts
Q&A and wrap-up
One question to you!
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