GWAVACon 2013: Requirements to Backup Solutions

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Requirements to backup solutionsin modern IT environments

Hubert [email protected]

Agenda What is a „modern“ IT environment – collect requirements „Buzz Words“ and more Compile a SEP sesam infrastructure – example Backup in virtual and distributed environments Example – Replication to a private Cloud

The Company

German vendor of Backup and Disaster Recovery Software.

Headquarter in Weyarn, near Munich.German development – german support!

Subsidaries in Germany and USA

World Wide Sales via Partners4000 Customers in > 50 countries

Hoppenstedt Top Financial Rating – only 3,3% of all German companies got a a No. 1 rating.

20-years of Backup Experience

1992: First Backup Solution for VMS, UNIX

1996:Patented backup processes

1999:sesam2000 for Linux, Unix & Win NT

2004:sales exclusively through distribution partners

2008:start of international business

2012: Satisfied customers in +50 countries

SEP sesam Backup for all

Database – hot backup extensions

Operating System / Filesystem

OS/2 VMSFreeBSD

Virtualis ation

Bare M

achineR

ecove ry

Update / T

raini ng / Su pport

Application backup

Actual IT environment?

Your input is needed?

Session title

Big Data

Cloud Computing

Cost

Actual IT Different Databases Huge amount of Data Virtualization Databases „Buzz Words“ and more VMware HyperV MS Exchange Linux Open Enterprise Server Groupwise Directory Server

Backup–What to look for Does the product fully support my platforms

– Operating systems– Database

Does the product backup many clients to one drive simultaneously Can the product automatically create multiple simultaneous backups

from one client? How will the product help me meet extremely aggressive

requirements?– LAN free backup– Remote office backup– Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape-(2Tape-2Tape-...)

O'REILLY - Backup & RecoveryInexpensive Backup Solutions for Open SystemsW. Curtis Preston

Backup–What to look for Does the product support virtual infrastructure

– VMware, Citrix Xen, Hyper V– Red Hat virtualization, KVM, Xen

Does the product have storage management features?– Could it handle the newest Technology?– Could it migrate data from “old” to “new” technology?

How easy is the product to administer? How automated is the product What does the product cost?

O'REILLY - Backup & RecoveryInexpensive Backup Solutions for Open SystemsW. Curtis Preston

Session title

SEP & Big Data

SMART Architecture

Multiple StreamMultilocation BackupDeduplication

Session title

SEP & Cloud

It's about Agility - Flexibility

Hybrid BackupWidest DB & OS supportDedup & Replication


SEP sesam in a virtual world!

Backup - fundamentals

System

Database

Data / File

Critical

Systemstate Registry HAL(Hardware

Abstraction Layer) Partition information

Bootloader ...

Backup in a Virtual Environment

System

Database

Data / File

Critical

Hypervisor

Backup in a virtual environment – with API

Hypervisor (Citrix Xen, VMware, Hyper V)

Guest1 ... GuestN

Ba

ckup A

PI

Database

Binaries / File

Hot Backup via Backup Agent

Snapshot via Backup API


Backup in distributed environments

Distributed backups

Single Data Center – no distributed environment – basic environment– Backup in the data center – Backup media connected to the sesam Server– All Servers are backed up to the Backup media connected to the sesam

Server

Single SEP sesam management Server for the complete environment – with subsidaries– Backup in subsidaries with sesam Remote Device Server– Backup media are connected to Remote Servers – not only to the sesam

server itself

SEP sesam Master GUIManage different sesam server within one GUI– Consolidated view on many sesam servers– Servers itself are independent

Backup ScenariosSingle SEP sesam management Server for the complete environment

Backup in subsidaries with sesam Remote Device Server

– Managed from the central backup server

– Keep the backup data local – local backup devices

– Logfiles / Management information stored central

Flow of Backup / Restore Data

Flow of Control / Log Data

SEP Remote Device Server

Additional Servrer to backup - SEP Clients

Server 1

Server 2

Server 3

Backup ScenariosSEP sesam Master GUI - Consolidated view on many sesam servers

– Environments with more sesam servers

– Logfiles / Management information stored on each server

– Master GUI provides a single GUI to manage all independent sesam servers

– No information in the GUI

SEP Remote Device Server

Backup Client

Backup Client

SEP Master GUI

Backup Client

Backup Client

Three Backup Servers managed within one SEP sesam GUI → so called Master GUI

SEP sesam Master GUI

Two Backup Servers managed within one SEP sesam GUI → so called Master GUI

Systems connected to the relevant backup servers, the backup server are independent. Only a joint view to the Database on each server, consolidated in the GUI.

SEP sesam Master GUI

Column shows the backup server where the job belongs to. All Servers are displayed in the same view

SEP sesam Master GUIstatus window

All Backup Servers displayed in „this Master GUI view“

Session title

Red Hat Storage & SEP Sesam

Backup is not important

All backup is done to ensure a fast and reliable restore!

The restore and disaster recovery requirements define the backup strategy – not the other way around!