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DataDomain Backing Your Stuff Up

The document discusses data protection options for virtual machines (VMs) running on VMWare ESX. It notes that while VMWare environments can be difficult to backup due to host resource limitations, VMs are portable and stored as just a few files. It then summarizes that Data Domain can provide fast backups of VMs to disk in a fraction of the time required for tape. Data Domain allows backups directly from VMs or the service console and provides deduplication across backups. CommVault software can also be used to back up VMs to Data Domain for disaster recovery, testing, and migration purposes.

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DataDomain Backing Your Stuff Up

The document discusses data protection options for virtual machines (VMs) running on VMWare ESX. It notes that while VMWare environments can be difficult to backup due to host resource limitations, VMs are portable and stored as just a few files. It then summarizes that Data Domain can provide fast backups of VMs to disk in a fraction of the time required for tape. Data Domain allows backups directly from VMs or the service console and provides deduplication across backups. CommVault software can also be used to back up VMs to Data Domain for disaster recovery, testing, and migration purposes.

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How do I back all this up?

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Subtle VMWare Facts We Leverage


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Virtual Systems Born From One Image In most data


centers dozens or hundreds of virtual machines are often created
from a handful of gold images. This equates to segment
redundancy.
VMWare Can be Difficult to Backup Finite ESX host resources
limit overall backup systemic bandwidth. Sequencing backup
groups take more time expands backup window.
Virtual Machines are Very Portable Entire systems and their
application data are encapsulated in 2 or 3 tangible files.
VMWare is a Great Customer and Partner Feedback at
VMWorld indicates they are seeking proactive efficient solutions to
close the gap on Virtual Environment Data Protection.
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VMWare ESX3 Consolidated Back-up


Centralized file level back-ups *no agents* on VMs

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Data Domain Gee, is this faster than tape?


File or DR level VM backup/restore done in a
fraction the time required for tape
Typical backup speeds exceeding 400GB/Hour to a
single system
Data Domain scales to multi-terabyte/Hour
performance

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Backing Up VMware to Data Domain

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CommVaults View VMWare Data Protection

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is he still talking..? - Summary Concepts


Data Domain enables NAS, (CIFS, NFS) NDMP & VTL backup targets for all
virtualized applications

Drops into existing enterprise backup architectures


Works with Virtualized and Non-Virtualized environments
In 80/20 data centers, centralized capacity optimization provides single instance store
across all applications and systems, virtual or actual

Back-up VMs to DDR with agent, or service console level

Choose to place an agent on critical VMs for file level restore


Choose to place an agent on the service console as well
Back-up all to same DDRs and watch compression happen

Consolidated back-ups sent from proxy to DDR

If you prefer an agent free virtual machine

Global Rule: all data is compared to all other data in the DDR
Replicate all or some to anywhere, whenever, and back

DR, test, development, virtual application migration

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CommVault / VMWare Resources


Website link interesting papers
http://www.commvault.com/solutions/vmware/

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