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Speakers

Pat O’DayChief Technology Officer

@odayp

Jake RobinsonSolutions Architect

@jakerobinson

Moderator Alicia GabaJoin the #BLRaaS conversion on Twitter

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• Quick Intro to Bluelock

• Top 10 Questions Answered

Agenda

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• Q&A

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Bluelock

Virtual DatacentersAgility and control

VMware FocusSecure, compatible and familiar

Stratified Delivery ModelsBest fit for each workload

- Platform options- Managed Services- Flexible support

- vCloud Datacenter Provider- Strong strategic alignment- 100% pure and focused

Visibility and TransparencySecurity, with agility and control

- Bluelock Portfolio™

- Predictive algorithms- Encourage behavior

- Business unit autonomy- Resource reallocation- Centralized governance

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www.bluelock.com

Bluelock Solutions

5-Series Virtual DatacentersProduction Hosting

Public Cloud resources for hosting production and business critical workloads. This VDC type supports even the most complex hosting requirements such as HIPAA and PCI compliance.

4-Series Virtual DatacentersRecovery-as-a-Service

Cloud-based disaster recovery resources that enable customers to replicate VMware-based workloads to the Bluelock Cloud from their own datacenter or other cloud environments.

2-Series Virtual DatacentersTest / Dev / Demo Hosting

Public Cloud resources for hosting test, development and other pre-production needs. This pay-go, no commitment cloud environment matches the risk and budget profile for your less critical workloads.

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Bluelock Solutions MODELSPRODUCTSSERVICES

Bluelock

Bluelock Advisory Services

Bluelock Virtual

Datacenters

5-Series

5000

5100

5125

5200

2-Series 2000

4-Series (RaaS)

4004

4504

4508

Bluelock Professional

Services

Bluelock Managed Services

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TOP 10RECOVERY-AS-A-SERVICEQUESTIONS

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How We Ended Up with These Questions

• Based on field experience with prospects and customers

• Based on questions asked in previous RaaS webinars

• We’ve put together 9 questions, but are leaving the 10th up to today’s audience– Submit your questions via the chat

or Q&A panel

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“What is RaaS?”Better Backup or Better DR

• Depends on what kind of experience you want and where you want to spend your time…

Backups require more work in the setup and in the event of a disaster, if you’re relying on it for your DR protection

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Backups and RaaS Comparison

Backup TypeCompare to RaaS

Risk Impact Value

Local Backup Remote Backup Weather

Days to Weeks of Downtime

Geo protection

File-level BackupHypervisor

or Replication

Data Corruption

Hours to Days of

Downtime

Application Protection

Tape-based Backup

Continuous Data

Protection (CDP)

Data Corruption Data Loss Minimize

Data Loss

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“What is the Difference Between Backup to the Cloud and RaaS?”

• I/O and compute• RTO• VMs versus file backup• Can I have my backups

go to the same location as my RaaS?

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“How Do I Protect Physical / Legacy or Non-Virtualized Systems?”

• Virtualize it?• Agent-based replication into a VM target• Application level replication

(log shipping or MS-SQL availability groups)

• Or physical assets stored in colocation space

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“Are There Size or Data Limitations with RaaS?”

• Is my environment too small or too large?• What are the VM or storage limitations

within a single Virtual Protection Group?• Sizes that fit Bluelock RaaS:

– Example 1 VM with 250MB– Example 20 VMs with 2TB– Example 180 VMs with 6TB

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“How Do I Initially Transfer My Data to the Cloud?”

• Data seeding– CDP– Media (secure courier)

• Initial replication networking setup– Bandwidth requirements

for continuous data protection

– Security– Connectivity options including

Dynamic networks

• Dynamic networking

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“How Do I Manage the Network for RaaS?”

• Full bandwidth “on demand”at time of failover

• End-user connectivity upon declaration

• IP addressing and DNS

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“What’s Automated and What’s Not?”

• Keep it simple• Which configs get passed over from the production site?

– In VM configuration data– Meta VM configuration – vCD versus vSphere

• Are firewall rules replicated?• Networking options

– Same subnets (public and private), leverage NAT on the edge, best for whole datacenter outage

– Different subnets (public and private), best when there are partial outages or when private links are involved

• Public IP addresses

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“How Do I Manage RPO and RTO Configurations?”

• Lowest possible configurations• Snapshots vs CDP• When and why would you need different

configurations• How far back can I go in the journal?

– Limitations of amount stored?– Does interval depend on I/O load?– Does small RTO impact client VM IO performance?– Is there history consolidation? – Retention options

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“What Happens During Failover and Failback?”

• Is the solution bidirectional?

• Can I bring up my recovery VM without vCenter online at primary site?

• What happens if a server outage occurs during failover?

• Does the network connection remain in place after a failover?

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Question 10 From the Audience

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Application Recovery Assessment

• Would you like to complimentaryApplication Recovery Assessment?– Weigh the risk level of your 1-3 applications

against the value of the cost of continuity

• Visit www.bluelock.com/raas to request your assessment

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