Module: RecoverPoint Concepts

Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

• Describe the RecoverPoint system
• Define the components of a RecoverPoint cluster
• List the requirements of a RecoverPoint system
• Outline the different RecoverPoint Splitter options
• Explain the concept of a RecoverPoint Consistency Group
• Explain the RecoverPoint Data Flow
• Describe the RecoverPoint management options

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Lesson: RecoverPoint Overview
This lesson covers the following topics:
• The concept of RPO and RTO
• The range of products in the RecoverPoint family
• RecoverPoint use cases
• RecoverPoint licensing

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Defining Availability and Business Continuity

Data Replication and Data Protection Archive Data Protection

Availability Management
RecoverPoint Data Domain Data Domain Data Protection Advisor
VPLEX Networker SourceOne Avamar
Avamar Isilon Networker
Data Protection Suite Cloud Boost eCDM
ProtectPoint

- Daily Backup Daily recovery points-from tape or disk

- Snapshots More frequent disk-based recovery points
- Any Point-in-Time
- Significant Point-in-Time }All Recovery Points

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Understanding RPO and RTO

Recovery Point Objectives Recovery Time Objectives

(RPO) (RTO)

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.

DECLARE
DISASTER
10 a.m.

RPO: How much data can I afford to RTO: How much time can I
lose? be offline?

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What affects RPO with Recovery Products?

Disaster Recovery
RPO: How much data can I afford to
lose? Actual Lag:
Production data not yet transferred

5 6 7 8 9 10
Operational
1112 1 2
Recovery
3 4 5 6 7
a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.
• Point-in-Time (PiT) Granularity
• PiT Retention Period (window)

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RecoverPoint Family of Products

Two Products for different use cases

RecoverPoint
Data Protection for Storage Arrays
XtremIO, VPLEX , VNX, VNXe, Unity, VMAX, and Non EMC Storage
with VPLEX

RecoverPoint for VMS

Data Protection for Virtual Machines
VMware Environment

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RecoverPoint Benefits

Business Continuity

Any Point-in- time Non-stop

Any Distance Any Environment
recovery operations

• Continuous data • Provide near-instant • Synchronous or • Application

availability data recovery asynchronous over independent
• Local and/or remote • Fast restore to full distance • Supports
recovery operation Heterogeneous
Storage Arrays

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EMC RecoverPoint Overview

Block level replication for storage LUNs

Any point-in-time (PiT) recovery

Concurrent local and remote replication

Sync/Async Replication

Heterogeneous array platforms

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RecoverPoint Use Cases

Disaster Operational Data

Recovery Recovery Migration

Recover from data unavailability Recover from data loss Replicate to repurpose
• Natural disasters • Human errors • Test & Dev
• Accidents • Data corruptions • Analytics
• Utility outages • Virus attacks • Backup from copy
• Technical malfunctions • Data center move

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RecoverPoint Use Case – Data Repurposing

Production Remote
1. Access the image at the Sync or Async
desired PIT replication

2. Take a storage snapshot

or clone Application

3. Resume normal Journal

Array
RecoverPoint operation Snap

4. Perform test/dev on
snapshot/clone Writeable Test /
Copy Dev

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RecoverPoint Use Case – Online Data Migration

Sync or Async
replication
1. Access the image at the desired
PIT at the old site

Production Copy
2. Failover to the new site

3. Resume normal RecoverPoint

operation
“Old” “New”
Production Production
site site

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RecoverPoint Licensing Options

Features RecoverPoint /SE RecoverPoint/EX/CL

Number of clusters Up to 2 Up to 5
Number of arrays One array per cluster Unlimited
Supported Storage and
Splitters XtremIO, Unity, VNX EMC and non-EMC with VPLEX

Yes
Customer Installable? No
VNX only
Licensing Per array Per array and RP cluster for CL
RecoverPoint Virtual or Physical RPAs available Virtual or Physical RPAs available
Appliances (RPAs) Two to eight per cluster Two to eight per cluster
Journal compression Not supported Supported

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RecoverPoint SE License

Replication Local or Remote

2-8 RPAs 2-8 RPAs

Physical or Virtual Physical or Virtual
SAN
SAN WAN SAN
Cluster-1 Cluster-2

1 per Cluster • License tied to Array

• 1 Cluster or 2
• Array Type Same on both
Clusters
• XtremIO, Unity, or VNX

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Lesson: RecoverPoint System Architecture
This lesson covers the following topics:
• RecoverPoint Components
• RecoverPoint Write Splitter Options
• Snap Based Replication with XtremIO

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RecoverPoint System
Host

Local Remote
Protection Protection
Splitter
Splitter
RP Cluster RP Cluster
WAN Splitter

Journal
Journal
Local
Production Remote
Copy
Copy

Up to five interconnected clusters managed via a single console

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RecoverPoint Cluster

• A set of 2-8 RecoverPoint appliances (RPAs)

• All RPAs in a cluster must be either physical or virtual
• Features are licensed per cluster
2-Node Virtual RPA Cluster

4-Node Physical RPA Cluster

vRPA vRPA

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RecoverPoint Cluster Topology

• Up to five Clusters in a single

RecoverPoint system
– EX/CL only
Cluster B Cluster D
• Up to five copies per CG
• CGs in the same system may have
different topologies Cluster A

• Clusters must have connectivity to

allow replication Cluster C Cluster E

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RecoverPoint Appliance Gen6 RPA

• Manage data protection and

replication
• Can be physical or virtual machines
• Gen 5 and Gen 6 co-exist in a
Cluster
vRPA

Gen5 RPA

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Supported Mixed RPA Configuration

System-1
Cluster-1 Cluster-2
New RPAs can be added to
existing clusters Gen6 RPA Gen6 RPA

Gen4 RPA Gen4 RPA

Gen5 RPA Gen5 RPA

Should be RPA1 or 2 for Cluster
Control
System-2
Cluster-1 Cluster-2
Can be used as source site in Gen6 RPA vRPA
mixed multi-site system with Gen4
and Gen5 RPAs Gen6 RPA vRPA

Gen6 RPA vRPA

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Gen 6 Physical RPAs

10 Gb Ethernet

USB PS1
RAID-1 drives
slots 0 and 2 LAN
16 Gb
FC Ports
BMC Port

WAN

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Virtual RecoverPoint Appliance

vRPA vRPA

vRPAs supported in all license models

Used with VNX and Unity Write Splitters

iSCSI Only

Splitter

VNX
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vRPA Performance
vRPA

vRPA Performance Profiles

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RecoverPoint Write Splitters

VNX/VNXe Unity VMAX/VMAXe VPLEX

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Snap Based Replication with XtremIO

Flash City Flashville

Easy Operation Best Protection Superior Performance

• Uses XtremIO in-memory • RPO of 1 Minute • Offload replication tasks to
metadata snapshots • Thousands of PIT RecoverPoint CPUs
• No splitter is needed for recovery • Supports XtremIO
• Simple and Easy • Immediate RTO High-Performance
• Full operational disaster • Replicate to XtremIO or • Can scale-out
recovery Heterogeneously with XtremIO

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XtremIO Replication

Native Replication Heterogeneous Replication

XtremIO XtremIO XtremIO VPLEX VMAX VNX

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Repository Volume
Volume dedicated
RecoverPoint Cluster on SAN attached
storage
SAN

1 Repository volume
per cluster

Replica

Journal Must be accessible

by all RPAs
Repository

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Journal Volume

RecoverPoint Cluster 1 Journal per Copy

SAN

Size determines
Protection Window
10Gb minimum

Replica
Multi volumes can
be pooled together
Journal

Repository

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RecoverPoint Copies
• RecoverPoint Can maintain up to five CG Copies
– RP EX/CL: Production Copy + up to four Replicated Copies
– RP SE: Production Copy + up to two Replicated Copies

RP EX/CL RP SE
Production Copy Production Copy

/ Local/Remote Copy 1 / Local/Remote Copy 1

Remote Copy 2 Remote Copy 2

Remote Copy 3

Remote Copy 4

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Consistency Groups
Application
LUNs
• Each Consistency Group
assures that write order fidelity is
maintained across all volumes
• Data protection settings and
policies are administered per
Consistency Group
• Assigned to a preferred RPA or
Distributed

Production Copy

Consistency Group

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Consistency Group Assignment

RPA-1 RPA-1
WAN

• Consistency
Groups assigned to CG-1
an RPA
• CG will switch if an
RPA fails
RPA-2 RPA-2
WAN

CG-2

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Replication Sets

• Consists of a production volume plus any

local or remote Copies
• Number of Replication Sets is equal to the
number of production volumes
• Replication sets belonging to the same
Consistency Group have the same number
of copies

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Lesson: RecoverPoint Data Flow
This lesson covers the following topics:
• Write phase
• Transfer phase
• Distribution phase
• Snap Based Replication with XtremIO

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RecoverPoint WorkFlow

Journal
“Write” “Transfer” “Distribute” Volumes

Copy
RPA WAN RPA Volumes

Production
Volumes
I/O Load & WAN Utilization Copy Storage
Distribution

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The Write Phase Application

• Application sends write to storage

• Splitter sends Write to RPA Memory
Write
• Splitter sends Write to Storage
Splitter
• RPA acknowledges write
• Storage acknowledges write
RPA
• Splitter acknowledges write

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The Transfer Phase

• Source RPA transmits to Target

– No Cross Connection

• Compression and Deduplication applied

WAN
• IP or FC FC

RPA-1 RPA-1

Source Target
RPA RPA

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Distribution Process

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5-Phase Distribution Process Write

Remote RPA Memory Read

PiT Created
Read Copy

Write
This is the RTO
Do (Journal Lag)
Undo
Write Copy
Copy Journal Copy Volume

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XtremIO Snap Based Replication Transfer only the changes, store

changes as Snapshot at target
Operational Overview Send diff between new Snapshot side
and latest transferred Snapshot
Full synchronization:
IN-MEMORY
METADATA The first Snapshot
Transfer all data from
Snapshot, store as a
Host
Snapshot at target

Changes
DIFF Get diff answer and build a bitmap
Ans
bitmap of changes
DIFF
SCSI RPAs RPAs First Initialization
Snapshot

New Snapshot

Start a new cycle:

Create Snapshot New Snapshot

First Snapshot New Snapshot

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Lesson: RecoverPoint Management Options
This lesson covers the following topics:
• Unisphere for RecoverPoint
• RecoverPoint CLI

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Unisphere for RecoverPoint – Getting Started

To Log into Unisphere for RecoverPoint:

• Open a web browser and enter the Cluster
Management IP
• In the RecoverPoint login screen, log in as
one of the ‘admin’ or ‘monitor’ pre-defined
users
• The first time you access the Unisphere for
RecoverPoint Management Application, the
Getting Started Wizard is displayed

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Unisphere for RecoverPoint

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Unisphere for RecoverPoint – Overall Health

Option Use
To graphically display an overview of the
Key Functions of the GUI: Overall Health
current status of the RecoverPoint system
System Limits To monitor how close system is to
• System Dashboard exceeding functional limitations
System Events To display the RecoverPoint event log

Widgets

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Unisphere for RecoverPoint – CG Monitoring

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RecoverPoint CLI
login as: admin
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
System: 5 warnings
Clusters:
Chicago:
RPAs: OK
Volumes: OK
Splitters: OK
London:
RPAs: OK
Volumes: OK
Splitters: 2 warnings
WANs: OK
Groups: OK
For more info, run 'get_system_status' command with 'summary=no'.
Chicago>

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Installation Manager
login as: boxmgmt
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Last login: Thu Oct 31 13:11:33 2016 from 172.16.1.10
Initializing Installation Manager... done
Installation Manager - RecoverPoint Version 5.0(d.205) Cluster
Chicago

** Main Menu **
[1] Installation
[2] Setup
[3] Diagnostics
[4] Cluster operations
[5] Shutdown / Reboot operations
[Q] Quit
Chicago RPA 1:

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Module Summary
Key points covered in this module:
• The RecoverPoint system
• The components a RecoverPoint cluster
• The requirements of a RecoverPoint system
• Different RecoverPoint Splitter options
• The concept of a RecoverPoint Consistency Group
• The RecoverPoint Data Flow
• The RecoverPoint management options

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