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Larry Gilreath II, Solutions Architect
Best practices for backup and recovery: Windows Workloads onto AWS
Backup and Recovery Solution Space
On Prem Backup and Recovery Process to protect data in the event of accidental deletion, corruption or failure with the ability to restore data to given point in time.
Disaster Recovery Ability to restore service in the event of failure.
Storage Snapshots Storage ISV Hypervisor Tape Storage Off-site Tape
Vault
Archiving Long term retention of data, generally for compliance requirements.
Backup & Recovery Challenges
Backup systems are often underfunded Organizations forget about recovery
• Bad recovery experiences trigger backup system changes
Backup systems change slowly • Always try to work with existing platforms
No one cares about backups. Everyone cares about recovery.
Operating System
Backup Agent
Data
Backup Master
Backup Database
Media Server Media
Hypervisor
Backup Agent
Guest Guest Guest
Network
Off Site
Configuration & Metadata
Data
Data
Data
Data Center Backup Software Platform
Remote Office/Branch Office Backups
clients
Field office
Internet
Home office
client
Hotel
client
Airport
client
Coffee Shop
client
Data Center
Common Backup and Recovery Data growth spiraling out of control
• Challenging to meet backup windows
Traditional technologies and processes don’t scale Try to accurately predict storage needs Bandwidth / WAN constraints for remote office / branch office (ROBO) RPOs / RTOs can be difficult to achieve
• Recovery Point Objective • Recovery Time Objective
Backup and Archive HW + SW is expensive Tape is unreliable, cumbersome, error prone, with low durability Off-site vaulting is cumbersome
Days or Weeks
Why AWS for backup?
Metered usage: Pay as you go
No capital investment No commitment
No risky capacity planning
Avoid Opex and risks of physical media
handling
Control your geographic locality for
performance and compliance
AWS Global Infrastructure
11 Regions 26+ Availability Zones 50+ Edge locations
AWS Storage and Archive Options
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Highly scalable object storage
1 byte to 5 TB in size
99.999999999% durability
Amazon Elas7c Block Store (EBS) High-performance block storage device
1 GB to 16 TB in size Mount as drives to instances with snapshot/
cloning functionalities
Amazon Glacier Long-‐term object archive
Extremely low cost per gigabyte
99.999999999% durability
Built-in redundancy Designed for
99.999999999% durability
Store backups in Amazon S3
Internet-scale storage Grow without limits
Benefit from AWS’s massive security
investments
Low price per GB per month No commitment No up-front cost
Long term backup retention in Amazon Glacier
Stop managing physical media
Amazon Glacier has lower cost than
Amazon S3 with the same durability
Amazon Glacier is optimized for infrequent
retrieval
Easy ways to transfer data
AWS Direct Connect Dedicated connectivity to AWS Edge Locations
AWS Import/Export Data transfer using portable disk drives
Transfer data in a secure SSL tunnel over
the public Internet
Where AWS fits natively: S3 & Glacier
Backup Master
Backup Database
Media Server
Media
Amazon S3
WAN
Bou
ndar
y
Amazon Glacier
or
Client
Client
HTTPS
HTTPS
HTTPS
Where AWS fits natively: AWS Storage Gateway
Backup Master
Backup Database
Media Server
Media
Amazon S3
AWS Storage Gateway
cached volume
virtual tape library
VTL
WAN
Bou
ndar
y
Caching disk
Amazon Glacier
iSCSI
Hybrid Cloud Backup
VPC – Datacenter #4
Single GUI for Management
Branch office backup to cloud
Considerations: - Backup Software - Storage / Caching Gateway - WAN or Internet - Deduplication - Compression - Encryption - WAN Acceleration
Core data center backup to cloud
Considerations: - Backup Software - Storage / Caching gateway - Direct Connect or Internet - Telco Burst Models
- Time Warner Telecom - Deduplication - Compression - Encryption - WAN Acceleration
Cloud backup to Cloud Applications running on EC2 backing up to S3 / Glacier
Considerations: - Backup software - Encryption - Deduplication - Compression - Native S3 and Glacier
integration - AMI Backup Appliance?
- AMI = Golden Master - EBS Snaps / Scripting
Recovery Solutions
Common Recovery Architectures
Backup
and restore
Pilot light
Warm standby
Multi-site
Backup and restore (into AWS)
On-site infrastructure
S3 Bucket
Over the Internet
AWS Import/Export or
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS region
Corporate data center
Using AWS Direct Connect
Availability Zone
Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2)
Amazon S3 bucket
Backup and
restore
Pilot light architecture
Pilot light
www.example.com
Data Mirroring/ Replication
Not Running
Database
Server
Data Volume
Corporate data center
Web
Application Server
Master Database Server
Pilot light architecture – Failover
Pilot light
Not Running
Database Server
Data Volume
Corporate data center
Web
Application Server
Master Database Server
www.example.com
Application Server
Web Server Server
Warm standby architecture
Warm standby
Data Mirroring/ Replication
Application Data Source
Cut Over
Elastic Load
Balancer
Active Production
Amazon Route 53
www.example.com
Corporate data center
Data Volume
Application Server
Slave Database Server
Web
AWS region
Web
Application Server
Master Database Server
Non Production Traffic
Warm standby architecture – Failover
Warm standby
Elastic Load
Balancer
Active Production
Amazon Route 53
www.example.com
Corporate data center
Data Volume
Application Server
Slave Database Server
Web
AWS region
Web
Application Server
Master Database Server
Windows - General
VM Import • no additional charge beyond Amazon EC2 and Amazon
S3 • Use the AWS CLI or other developer tools to import a
virtual machine (VM) image • VMware vSphere - AWS Management Portal for vCenter
to import your VM • Windows and Linux VMs that use VMware ESX or
Workstation, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Xen virtualization
Windows - AD
AWS Directory Service • AD Connector • connect your Microsoft Active Directory to the AWS Cloud • Integrate with your existing RADIUS-based MFA
infrastructure • Domain Join Instances
Windows - Database
Amazon RDS for SQL Server • Import Your Data – pre-steps
• Create a snapshot of the target database. • Disable automated backups on the target database. • Disable foreign key constraints, if applicable. • Drop indexes, if applicable. • Disable database triggers, if applicable.
• Import & Export Wizard • Bulk Copy
