Veeam Backup & Replication

More ways to WOW.

Mario Marquez
System Engineer
Veeam Software
Existing tools aren’t doing the job
 Traditional backup
● Agent in each VM “A major reason that
● Full VM recovery is complex organizations still hit these
● Expensive bumps on the backup and
recovery road: They use the
● Does not guarantee recoverability
same products for both physical
 Typical VM backup and virtual server backup, when
we all know that virtualization
● Backup code runs on hosts requires a fundamentally
● Significant storage requirements different approach.”
● Limited recovery options – SearchServerVirtualization.com
● Does not guarantee recoverability
The right tool for the job

 Built specifically for virtualization

 Addresses unique requirements
● Fewer spare resources
● More data
● Dynamic environment

 Leverages unique opportunities

● Whole VM restore
● Unified data protection
● Backups as datastores
vPower
 Exclusive patent-pending Veeam technology

 Publishes the contents of the backup file as a datastore the

host can connect to
● Compressed, deduplicated, incremental

 Runs the VM directly from the backup file

● On regular backup storage
● Without making any changes to the backup file

“This is why I love Veeam. They take all the virtualization technology pieces
on the table and put them together into a functioning business solution.”
– Brett Westover
IT Administrator
Therapeutic Research Center
Running VMs from backups
 Quickly restart a failed VM

 Test VM backups

 Restore data from applications running on the VM

 Create VMs for testing and troubleshooting

Backup
 Fast
● Disk-based backup
● Forever incremental
● Changed block tracking  20x faster
● VeeamZIP for easy ad-hoc backups NEW!

 Efficient
● Offloads processing from hosts and VMs
● Excludes unnecessary data, and deduplicates and compresses the rest
● Generates no special metadata
● Accesses SAN storage directly

 Reliable
● No more babysitting backup jobs
● Performs advanced application-aware processing
● Automatically verifies recoverability of backups
Why replication?
 Virtualization enables cost-effective replication
● Inexpensive standby hosts
● Dissimilar storage
● VM-level (not application-specific)

 Virtualization enables unified data protection

● Image-based incremental backup
● Image-based incremental replication
● Only difference is the target

 It’s not just a commercial bundling of products…

it’s a cohesive data protection strategy
2-in-1: backup and replication
 Host-based replication
● Replicate onsite for HA, offsite for DR
● Numerous optimizations for efficient replication across the WAN
● Replica rollback to protect against corruption of source

 Assisted failover
● Fail over individual VMs
● Re-IP after failover

 Real failback
● Delta sync
● 1-click and confirm—for one or several VMs
● Re-IP after failback
Flexible recovery
 Restore exactly what you need
● Entire VM
● Individual VM files
● Individual guest files
● Application data
all from the same image-level backup
 1-Click File Restore

Web-
based

Find the
file

Right-click
to restore one… … or several files
1-Click File Restore (continued)
 Restore directly to original location
● Uses guest interaction APIs
● Does not require:
 Direct network connection to VM
 User permissions on host or VM
 Agent in host or VM

 Delegate file restores

● “File Restore Operator” role
● Delegated operator does not need permissions on backup files,
the host or the VM
● Secure: files restored directly to original location
● Can be restricted to certain file types (.docx, .xlsx, etc.)
 A Virtual Lab
 We know how to clone VMs
 BUT, a sophisticated backup
tool can allow us to access the
VMs within the backup file.
 Reduce disk storage
requirements (only changes)
● Keep backup read-only!
● Isolated from production network!
Fast recovery
 Disk-based: no tapes to find, retrieve, mount, etc.
 Immediate: no dependence on a catalog
 Restore entire VM image: faster and less error-prone than
rebuilding the machine and reloading applications and data

 Instant File-Level Recovery (IFLR): restore individual guest files

directly from the image-level backup, without any staging or special
metadata needed

 Instant VM Recovery: restart failed VM directly from the backup

Instant VM Recovery
 Fast: restart VM directly from backup file
 Readily available: uses existing backups and backup storage
 Buys you time: users keep working while you troubleshoot the problem
How it works

Within 2 minutes!

VMware vPower

Compressed/
Deduplicated
vPower NFS Backup File

Storage vMotion

VMware datastores Backup storage

 Quick Migration
 The Instant VM
Recovery trick is nice,
but…..
I don’t have Storage
vMotion…
 No problem!
● The right backup tool can
accommodate that as well.
 One example is Veeam
Quick Migration
Architecture
 Distributed architecture
● Backup servers
Backup proxy servers
Backup repositories
● “Automated everything”
● Centralized management via Enterprise Manager
● Intelligent load balancing
Architecture
 Distributed architecture
● Backup servers
Backup proxy servers
Backup repositories
● “Automated everything”
● Centralized management via Enterprise Manager
● Intelligent load balancing

 Low TCO
● No agents: to license, deploy, monitor or maintain
● Storage agnostic
● Manage VMware and Hyper-V from a single console,
with a single data protection infrastructure
Real benefits to the business
 Significant cost savings
● Storage
● Manpower
● Downtime
● Software licenses
● Software maintenance
● Server consolidation
● Test labs

 Risk reduction
 Data loss
 Unrecoverable backups
 Human error

 SLA compliance
● Enhanced RTOs and RPOs to meet service-level agreements
Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5
We never stand still
What’s coming in 6.5
 Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange
 Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots
 VMware vSphere 5.1 support
 Windows Server 2012 support
Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange
 Visibility into Exchange VM backups
● Immediate: No need to provision storage, restore the VM or
restore the mailbox store
● Agentless
● Requires no special backups or metadata collection—even works with
existing Veeam backups (and SAN snapshots)
 Free!
● Included in all versions of Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5,
including Free Edition
● Eliminates need for expensive standalone tools licensed per-mailbox

 Currently available
Just restored a 145 GB #MSExchange Public The new #veeam explorer for exchange
Folder database in 2 min. using @veeam. Then looks veeamy. That's right, I just made up a
restored a single item all under 10 min. SWEET! new word (it means awesomesauce)

Even the *beta* of @veeam Exchange Really excited with the new @veeam Explorer
Explorer works a treat. Saved literally, hours of beta for #Microsoft Exchange VM backups - we
work.. and saved my bacon. #recommend have lots of interested customers ready for this!
Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange (continued)

 Capabilities
● Browse: familiar Explorer-type interface
● Search: familiar Outlook-like Find, including Advanced Find
● Export: export to PST file, MSG file or attachment
 Uses cases
● E-discovery
● Item-level restore: export and send to affected user
● Mailbox archive

 Supports Exchange Server 2010

E-discovery and item recovery
Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots
 Veeam restores from SAN snapshots
 Supports tiered data protection strategy
 Perform all restores through familiar, easy-to-use
Veeam interface
 Supports HP StoreVirtual VSA and HP LeftHand

SAN snapshots + Veeam restore =

Best RPOs and RTOs for operational recovery
Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots (continued)
 Fast: recover entire VM or individual items in < 2 minutes
● Fully automated: clone & promote snapshot, present to vSphere, clean up
● Restores directly from VM files on the SAN snapshot: no staging or
intermediate restores required

 Flexible
● Specific VM
● Individual guest files: Windows, Linux, et al
● Individual Microsoft Exchange items

 Free
● Worry-free: automated process eliminates human errors and protects
integrity of SAN snapshots and production LUNS
● Agent-free: no agents to deploy on hosts or VMs
● Literally free: included in all editions of Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5,
including Free Edition
How it works
Instant VM Recovery from a SAN snapshot
A solution you can count on

 Know that your VMs are protected and that you can recover
quickly in the event of a problem
 Remove unnecessary load and potential sources of instability
on your production hosts
 Know that the solution will work as advertised
 Know that you won’t outgrow the solution
 Know that you made the best investment
A great value
 2-in-1: backup and replication
 Hardware agnostic
 No extra charge for:
● Replication (near-CDP)
● Deduplication
● Enterprise Manager

 Licensing by CPU socket

● No per-server, per-agent or per-mailbox fees
● Quick ROI and low TCO
Questions? Comments?
Thanks for attending!