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Best Practices of Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 for Data

Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Software Contents


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Contents

1 About This Document .................................................................................................................. 3

1.1 Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................... 3

1.2 Purpose ......................................................................................................................................................................... 3

1.3 Intended Audience ........................................................................................................................................................ 3

2 Introduction to OceanStor Dorado V3 ...................................................................................... 5

2.1 Product Positioning ....................................................................................................................................................... 5

2.2 HyperSnap .................................................................................................................................................................... 6

3 Veeam Backup & Replication ..................................................................................................... 8

4 Introduction to the Solution ..................................................................................................... 10

4.1 Application Scenarios ................................................................................................................................................. 10

4.2 Solution Architecture .................................................................................................................................................. 10

5 Typical Configuration ................................................................................................................ 12

5.1 Networking ................................................................................................................................................................. 12

5.2 Hardware and Software Configurations ...................................................................................................................... 13

5.3 Storage Configurations ............................................................................................................................................... 14

6 Solution Verification .................................................................................................................. 15

6.1 Verification Process .................................................................................................................................................... 15

6.2 Deploying the Environment ........................................................................................................................................ 16

6.3 Verifying the Data Backup Solution ........................................................................................................................... 26

6.4 Verification Results ..................................................................................................................................................... 38

7 Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 39

8 Reference ...................................................................................................................................... 40

9 Glossary ........................................................................................................................................ 41

10 Acronyms and Abbreviations ................................................................................................. 42


Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Software 1 About This Document


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1 About This Document

1.1 Overview As the enterprise network has been widely used, it is crucial for the enterprises to ensure the

security of their information assets. However, data backup as an important part of enterprise

information security architecture is usually not taken seriously. Data failures are likely to

happen during data transfer, storage, and exchange. If no measures are taken to back up or

restore data, the data may be lost, causing great losses to the enterprises.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 series (Dorado V3 for short) is brand-new all-flash enterprise

storage. This document provides a data backup solution for VMware virtual machines (VMs)

by incorporating Dorado V3's snapshot feature with the Veeam Backup & Replication

software, and offers recommended configurations and best practices for the typical

application scenarios, to meet customers' needs for data protection when they are using

VMware VMs.

This document includes:

Introduction to Dorado V3

The solution to restore VMware VMs on Dorado V3 by working with Veeam Backup &

Replication

Verification of the solution

1.2 Purpose This document verifies the feasibility of the solution that integrates Dorado V3 and Veeam

Backup & Replication software to back up VMware VMs. It helps you understand the typical

features of Huawei backup solutions and obtain the reference for IT system solutions, so as to

reduce the costs of system management, maintenance, and upgrade.

1.3 Intended Audience This document is intended for Huawei employees, partners, and customers. You can better

understand this document if you are familiar with:

Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 all-flash storage system

Veeam Backup & Replication software


Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Software 1 About This Document


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VMware vSphere virtualization

Windows operating system (OS)


Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Software 2 Introduction to OceanStor Dorado V3


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2 Introduction to OceanStor Dorado V3

2.1 Product Positioning Dorado V3 is an all-flash storage product designed for midtier-to-enterprise storage

environments. It provides mass data storage, fast data access, high availability, and high

utilization in the ease-of-use and energy saving form factor.

Dorado V3 offers comprehensive and superb solutions by using diverse efficiency boost

mechanisms to provide industry-leading performance. Those solutions help customers

maximize their return on investment (ROI) and meet the requirements of different application

scenarios such as online transaction processing (OLTP), online analytical processing (OLAP),

high-performance computing (HPC), server virtualization, and virtual desktop infrastructure

(VDI).

Dorado V3 uses Huawei's FlashLinkTM dedicated to flash media to achieve high performance

at 0.5 ms stable latency. Value-added services such as inline deduplication, inline compression,

and snapshot will not increase the latency. The gateway-free HyperMetro feature provides an

end-to-end active-active data center solution, which can smoothly evolve to the geo-redundant

disaster recovery (DR) solution to achieve 99.9999% reliability.

The snapshot feature of Dorado V3 implements lossless writable snapshots based on the

redirect-on-write (ROW) mechanism. Veeam Backup & Replication software working with

Huawei snapshot feature implements data protection and DR solutions in the VMware

virtualization environment, decreasing impact on the production environment and reducing

the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO).




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Figure 2-1 Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 series

For more information, click the following link:

http://e.huawei.com/en/products/cloud-computing-dc/storage/unified-storage/dorado-v3

2.2 HyperSnap HyperSnap is the Huawei-developed snapshot feature of Dorado V3. A snapshot is a

point-in-time copy of source data and serves as a data backup available for a specified data set.

The data backup is a static image of the source data at that time. After being created,

snapshots can be mapped to hosts to process read and write I/Os, or saved as data backups on

the storage system.

HyperSnap has the following advantages:

Data is backed up online without service interruption.

Lossless writable snapshots are achieved based on ROW.

Snapshots occupy small storage space. If the source data is not modified, its snapshot

does not occupy extra storage space. If the source data is modified, the new data is

written into a new location and the snapshot will occupy extra storage space.

The source data at multiple points in time can be quickly recovered.

Customer Benefits

Table 2-1 Customer benefits provided by HyperSnap

Benefit Description

Space-saving and

user investment saved

A snapshot and its source data share the same storage space.

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Benefit Description

Independent snapshot

data accessible to

various applications

Snapshots are independent of each other. Each client accesses

snapshot data at different points in time for various purposes, such

as data analysis and application test.

Related Concepts ROW

ROW is a core technology used to implement snapshot. When receiving a write request

for modifying the source data, the storage system uses ROW to save the new data to a

new location in the storage pool and directs the pointer of the modified data block to the

new location.

Data organization

The LUNs created in the storage pool of Dorado V3 consist of metadata volumes and

data volumes.

− Metadata volume: records the data organization form (logical block address (LBA),

version, and clone ID) and data attributes. A metadata volume is organized in a tree

structure.

LBA indicates the address of a logical block; the version corresponds to the point in

time of a snapshot; and the clone ID indicates the number of data copies.

− Data volume: stores LUN data.

Source volume

A volume that stores the source data for which snapshots are generated. It is presented as

the source LUN to users.

Snapshot volume

A logical data copy generated for the source volume. It is presented as a snapshot LUN

to users. The data organization form (LBA, version, and clone ID) allows each single

LUN in a storage pool to have multiple data copies with the same LBA. The source LUN

and the shared metadata of its snapshots are saved to the same shared tree.

Snapshot copy

It copies a snapshot to obtain multiple snapshot copies at the activation time. If the

snapshot data is changed, the data in the snapshot copies remains the same as that at the

snapshot activation time.


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3 Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Backup & ReplicationTM is a backup solution developed for VMware vSphere and

Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments. It provides a set of features for performing data

protection and DR tasks to quickly, flexibly, and reliably restore virtualized applications and

data.

Infrastructure Veeam backup server

The Veeam backup server is a physical or virtual machine on which Veeam Backup &

Replication is running. It is the configuration and control center in the backup

infrastructure. The backup server performs all types of administrative activities. In

addition to its primary functions, a newly deployed backup server also serves as the

default backup repository to save backups locally.

Virtual infrastructure server

Virtual infrastructure servers are used to back up and replicate the source ESXi hosts and

targets.

Backup proxy

Backup proxy provides an optimal route for backup traffic and enables efficient data

transfer. It retrieves VM data from the source storage, then processes and transfers the

data to the target storage.

Backup repository

A backup repository is used to store backup files and copies.

Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication produces image-level backups of VMs. It treats VMs as objects.

When you back up VMs, Veeam Backup & Replication copies a VM image as a whole, at a

block level. Image-level backups can be used for different types of recovery, including VM

recovery, entire VM recovery, VM file recovery, and file-level recovery.

The backup technology is typically used for VMs with lower RTOs. When the primary VM

fails, you can restore VM data from the backup file.

Data Recovery

Veeam Backup & Replication offers a number of recovery options for various DR scenarios:

Instant VM recovery enables you to instantly start a VM directly from a backup file.


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Entire VM recovery enables you to restore a VM from a backup file to its original or

another location.

VM file recovery enables you to recover individual VM files (such as virtual disks and

configuration files).

Guest OS file recovery enables you to recover individual guest OS files from Windows,

Linux, and other OSs.

Veeam Backup & Replication uses the same image-level backup for all data recovery

operations. You can restore VMs, VM files, and individual guest OS files to the most recent

state or to any available restore point.

Highlights of Huawei and Veeam Integration

Huawei OceanStor series storage systems paired with Veeam Universal Storage API aim to

decrease impact on production environment and reduce the RPO and RTO.

VM data retrieval decreases the impact of backup activities on VMware production

VMs.

Individual VM or entire VMs can be recovered quickly and efficiently.

Scheduled backup tasks periodically create snapshots on Huawei OceanStor storage

devices.

A separate copy of the production environment can be generated with only a few clicks,

facilitating development, testing, analysis, and troubleshooting.


Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Software 4 Introduction to the Solution


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4 Introduction to the Solution

4.1 Application Scenarios As the volume of enterprise data grows, enterprise administrators are attaching greater

importance to the security and significance of various data. Data backup and recovery are

critical measures in response to possible accidents such as file loss or data corruption. In the

event of data loss or corruption, you can use backups to restore data.

Veeam Backup & Replication software works with Huawei snapshot feature to provide a data

protection and disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere applications, which protects

the systems against data loss or corruption with the minimal RPO, RTO, or impact on the

production system.

For the compatibility and restrictions of Veeam Backup & Replication, see:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/storage_backup.html?ver=95

4.2 Solution Architecture Veeam Backup & Replication's built-in integration with Huawei storage systems helps

decrease impact on the production environment and minimize the RPO. In addition, Huawei

storage can use the Veeam Universal API to integrate its storage solutions with Veeam Backup

& Replication. With this integration, Veeam Backup & Replication invokes storage snapshots

via the Universal API to back up and restore data.

Figure 4-1 shows the solution architecture. On the Veeam Backup Server console, connect

source ESX hosts to the backup proxy, and connect the proxy to the backup repository to back

up the VM data to the repository.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/storage_backup.html?ver=95


Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Software 4 Introduction to the Solution


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Figure 4-1 Solution architecture


Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Software 5 Typical Configuration


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5 Typical Configuration

5.1 Networking Figure 5-1 shows the solution network, which adopts 16 Gbit/s Fibre Channel and uses two

switches for redundancy.

Figure 5-1 Solution network diagram




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Dorado6000 V3 maps LUNs to ESX6.0 hosts through a Fibre Channel fabric. Datastores are created

on the LUNs, and VMs are created on the datastores.

OceanStor 5600 V5 maps LUNs to the proxy host and Veeam backup server through a Fibre Channel

fabric. Drive letters are created and mounted to store backup media.

The Veeam backup server is a physical or virtual machine running the Windows operating system.

Veeam Backup & Replication is installed on the Veeam backup server. It is the configuration and

control center in the backup infrastructure, and also used to store backup media.

The proxy host is used to store backup media, which is added to Veeam backup server.

5.2 Hardware and Software Configurations

Table 5-1 Hardware configurations

Hardware Configuration Quantity

RH2288 V3 2 x CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10 GHz

64 GB memory

1 x dual-port 8 Gbit/s HBA

3

Dorado6000 V3 2 x controller with 256 GB memory

2 x four-port 12 Gbit/s SAS interface card

2 x dual-port 8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel

interface card

1 x 2 U disk enclosure

25 x 3.6 TB SSD

1

OceanStor 5600 V5 2 x controller with 256 GB memory

2 x four-port 12 Gbit/s SAS interface card

2 x dual-port 8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel

interface card

1 x 2 U disk enclosure

25 x 3.6 TB SSD

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SNS2224 24 x 16 Gbit/s Fibre Channel port 2

Table 5-2 Software configurations

Software Version Remarks

Windows OS Windows Server 2012 Operating system for Veeam

backup server and proxy

VMware ESX ESXi 6.0 VMware ESX host

OceanStor Dorado6000

V3

V300R001 Storage system with the

HyperSnap license




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Software Version Remarks

OceanStor 5600 V5 V500R007 Storage system with the

HyperSnap license

Veeam Backup &

Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication

9.5 Update 3a

Backup software

5.3 Storage Configurations In this solution, Dorado6000 V3 and OceanStor 5600 V5 storage systems are used to carry

production storage services and store backup media, respectively. The following table lists the

typical storage configurations.

Storage Disk Domain

Storage Pool

LUN Remarks

OceanStor

Dorado6000 V3

16 TB 16 TB 8 x 1 TB (SYS

datastore)

Datastore used for VM

system disks

4 x 500 GB

(DATA

datastore)

Datastore used for VM

data disks

OceanStor 5600

V5

6 TB 6 TB 2 x 400 GB Mapped to the Veeam

backup server and proxy

host for storing backup

media.


Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Software 6 Solution Verification


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6 Solution Verification

6.1 Verification Process This test verifies the backup solution of Dorado V3 for VMware vSphere virtual

environments. Figure 6-1 shows the verification flowchart.

Figure 6-1 Verification process

Table 6-1 describes each step.

Table 6-1 Description of the verification procedure

Procedure Description

Deploying the

environment

Environment deployment includes installing the Veeam Backup &

Replication software, login and adding Huawei storage, adding

VMware vSphere, adding the proxy host, and adding the repository.




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Procedure Description

Verifying the data

backup solution

This test creates four backup tasks and each backup task backs up 10

Windows VMs at a time. First, create test data for one VM and back

up the VM. After the backup is complete, delete the test data and

execute the recovery task. Verify that the test data on the VM is

successfully recovered.

6.2 Deploying the Environment

Software Installation

Install the Veeam software by referring to Installing Veeam Backup & Replication, then install

the Huawei plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication by selecting the default installation

option.

Download address for the plug-in:

https://www.veeam.com/data-center-availability-suite-new-download.html

Adding Huawei Storage

Log in to Veeam Backup & Replication and open the STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE

view. In the ADD STORAGE wizard, choose Huawei to add a Huawei storage device. The

detailed procedure is as follows:

Step 1 Select a storage model.

This solution uses Dorado6000 V3 storage system as the production storage.

Figure 6-2 Adding a Huawei storage

Step 2 Enter the storage device's IP address and click Next.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/install_vbr.html?ver=95

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Figure 6-3 Entering the IP address

Step 3 Enter the user name and password.

Click Add. In the dialog box that is displayed, enter the user name and password and click

Next.

Figure 6-4 Entering user name and password

Step 4 Select a protocol.

This solution uses Fibre Channel by default.




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Figure 6-5 Selecting a protocol

Step 5 Review and apply the configurations.

The information summary page is displayed. Click Finish to complete the storage device

configuration.

Figure 6-6 Information summary page

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Adding VMware vSphere

Log in to Veeam Backup & Replication and add VMware vSphere on the INVENTORY page.

The detailed procedure is as follows:

Step 1 Enter the IP address of the VMware server and click Next.

Figure 6-7 Entering the IP address

Step 2 Enter the user name and password and click Next.

Figure 6-8 Entering the user name and password




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The information summary page is displayed. Click Finish to complete the configuration.

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Adding the Backup Proxy

Log in to Veeam Backup & Replication, open the BACKUP INFRASTRUCTURE page,

then add proxy in the Backup Proxies column.

Step 1 Choose the server.

Right-click Add VMware Backup Proxy, and click Add New in the displayed dialog box.

Then enter the IP address, user name, and password to add the proxy server.




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Figure 6-9 Adding the backup proxy server

Step 2 Apply the network traffic rules.

Use the default traffic rules. Click Apply.

Figure 6-10 Applying the traffic rules




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The information summary page is displayed. Click Finish to complete the proxy server

configuration.


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Adding the Backup Repository

Log in to Veeam Backup & Replication and open the BACKUP INFRASTRUCTURE page.

Add the repository in Backup Repositories. Choose the drive letter of the proxy server as the

backup repository. In this solution, the proxy server uses LUNs mapped by the backup media

storage.

Step 1 Name the backup repository.

Right-click and choose Add Backup Repository from the shortcut menu. On the page that is

displayed, name the repository.




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Figure 6-12 Entering a name for the repository

Step 2 Choose the backup repository type.

Set the repository type to Microsoft Windows Server, because the proxy server runs

Windows.

Figure 6-13 Choosing the backup repository type




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Step 3 Choose a repository server.

Drive D is the drive letter mapped by the backup media storage to the proxy. Choose drive D

as the backup storage disk.

Figure 6-14 Choosing the repository server

Step 4 Specify a save path for backup files.

By default, the backup files are stored in the D:\Backups folder.

Figure 6-15 Save path for backup files




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Step 5 Specify a mount server.

By default, backup files are mounted to the proxy server.

Figure 6-16 Specifying a mount server

Step 6 Review the settings.

The information summary page is displayed.





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Step 7 Apply the settings.

Click Apply and wait until the backup repository is created.

Figure 6-18 Applying the settings

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6.3 Verifying the Data Backup Solution This section uses Veeam integrated with Huawei snapshot feature to initiate backup tasks for

40 VMs. Each backup task backs up 10 VMs at a time, and a total of four backup tasks are

created. To verify the data backup solution, first create test data for one VM and back up the

VM. After the backup is complete, delete the test data and execute the recovery task. Then,

check whether the recovery task is successful by comparing the recovered date with the

backup data.

Data Backup

Repeat the following steps to create four backup tasks (the backup proxies and backup

repositories are evenly distributed to the server host and agent host).

Step 1 Create test data before backup.

Before performing a backup task, create a folder and two .txt files on a Windows VM.




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Figure 6-19 Creating test data

Step 2 Create a VM backup task.

Log in to Veeam Backup & Replication and create a VM backup task on the Home page.

Figure 6-20 Creating a VM backup task

Step 3 Name the backup task.




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Figure 6-21 Naming the backup task

Step 4 Select the backup objects.

In Virtual Machines, click Add and select Windows VMs on the ESX host as the backup

objects.

Figure 6-22 Selecting VMs




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Step 5 Confirm the backup objects.

There are 10 backup objects with a total size of 660 GB, including 9 x 40 GB VMs and 1 x

300 GB VM.

Figure 6-23 Confirming the backup objects

Step 6 Specify the backup proxy and backup repository.

In Storage, choose the backup proxy server and backup repository. Then, select the

Configure secondary destinations for this job.




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Figure 6-24 Specifying the backup proxy and backup repository

Step 7 Add Huawei snapshot feature.

In Secondary Target, add Huawei snapshot feature.

Figure 6-25 Adding Huawei snapshot feature




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Step 8 Configure the client.

The test uses the default settings. You can change the settings as required.

Figure 6-26 Configuring the client

Step 9 Set the backup schedule.

The backup schedule is specified manually.

Figure 6-27 Setting the backup schedule




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Step 10 Review and apply the settings.

The information summary page is displayed. Click Finish.


Step 11 Review the backup tasks.

Figure 6-29 shows the four backup tasks, each of which backs up 10 VMs.

Figure 6-29 Backup tasks

Step 12 Start the backup.




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Click Start to execute the backup. Figure 6-30 shows the backup progress. Storage snapshots

are used to back up data and the backup bandwidth is 890 MB/s.

Figure 6-30 Backup progress

Step 13 Query storage snapshots.

Log in to the production storage and choose Data Protection > Snapshot. It is found that the

Veeam software has invoked the snapshot feature to create four backup tasks for backing up

the LUNs that carry the VMs.

Figure 6-31 Huawei storage snapshots

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Data Recovery

The following deletes the test data to simulate data corruption, and then uses the backups to

recover data to verify the recovery function.

Step 1 Delete the test data.

Delete the a.txt file from the backup Windows VM.

Figure 6-32 Deleting test data on the VM

Step 2 Execute the VM recovery task.

Log in to Veeam Backup & Replication and open the Virtual Machine page. In the

INVENTORY pane, choose the VM to be recovered, then right-click and choose Restore

virtual disks to start the recovery.

Figure 6-33 Executing the VM recovery

Step 3 Select the backup data.

Select the desired backup data and click Next.




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Figure 6-34 Selecting the backup data

Step 4 Select the virtual disk for backup.

Select windowsa_1.vmdk on which the test data is stored.

Figure 6-35 Selecting the disk to be restored

Step 5 Power off the VM.

To recover the VM, you need to shut down it.




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Figure 6-36 Power-off prompt

Step 6 Specify the recovery reason.

Specify the reason for performing this recovery operation, and then click Next.

Figure 6-37 Specifying the recovery reason

Step 7 Review and apply the settings.




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The information summary page is displayed. Select Power on target VM after restoring and

then click Finish.


Step 8 Check the recovery progress.

Figure 6-39 shows the progress of the VM recovery task.

Figure 6-39 VM recovery progress




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Step 9 Compare the test data.

After the recovery is complete, log in to the Windows VM to check whether the a.txt file is

recovered successfully. If it is recovered, compare its data with that before the backup.

Figure 6-40 Comparing the test data

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6.4 Verification Results The data backup solution for VMs by using Veeam Backup & Replication paired with Huawei

snapshot feature can simultaneously back up 2.5 TB data of 40 VMs with 890 MB/s

bandwidth. After the backup is complete, data can be recovered successfully in the event of

data corruption, and the recovered data is consistent with the original data.


Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Software 7 Summary


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7 Summary

This document provides a verified solution and typical configurations for data backup by

incorporating Dorado V3's snapshot feature with the Veeam Backup & Replication software.

The networking, parameter settings, and test methods provided in this document can be used

as references to facilitate planning and deployment of the Veeam data backup environment in

Dorado V3 storage system, and reduce risks.

The Veeam backup software paired with the snapshot feature of Dorado V3 allows enterprises

to back up VMs in a quick, easy, and space-saving way, solving the major problem

encountered by the enterprise architecture.


Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Software 8 Reference


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8 Reference

http://support.huawei.com/carrier/docview!docview?nid=DOC1000342099

http://support.huawei.com/carrier/docview!docview?nid=DOC1000342099


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9 Glossary

Table 9-1 Glossary

Term Definition

Controller The control logic in a storage subsystem that performs command

transformation and routing, aggregation (RAID, mirroring, striping,

or other), high-level error recovery, and performance optimization

for multiple storage devices.

Controller enclosure An enclosure that accommodates controllers and provides storage

services. It is the core component of a storage system and generally

consists of components, such as controllers, power supplies, and

fans.

Disk enclosure An enclosure that consists of components such as expansion

modules, disk modules, power supplies, and fan modules. System

capacity can be expanded by cascading multiple disk enclosures.

RAID level The application of different redundant types to a logical drive. A

RAID level improves the fault tolerance or performance of the

logical drive but reduces the available capacity of the logical drive.

Each logical drive must be specified a RAID level.

Storage system An integrated system that consists of the following parts: controller,

storage array, host bus adapter, physical connection between

storage units, and all control software.

Thin LUN A logic disk that can be accessed by hosts. It dynamically allocates

storage resources from the thin pool according to the actual capacity

requirements of users.

VM A virtual computer simulated by VMware, that is, a logical

computer.


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10 Acronyms and Abbreviations

Table 10-1 Acronyms and abbreviations

Acronym or Abbreviation Full Spelling

FC Fibre Channel

GE Gigabit Ethernet

HBA Host Bus Adapter

LUN Logical Unit Number

SAN Storage Area Network

SSD Solid-State Drive

VM Virtual Machine

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