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Storage integrated data protection HPE Recovery Manager Central
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Table of contents
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Business challenges
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Executive overview
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Technical overview HPE RMC—how it works HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage HPE Hyper Converged 250 System (HC 250) for VMware HPE StoreOnce RMC Integration with VMware vCenter Fast and affordable end-to-end protection for Microsoft® SQL server and Oracle databases Data protection for HPE 3PAR File Persona
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Why HPE RMC Business advantages Technology advantages Operations advantages
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Next steps
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Recovery Manager Central (RMC) is designed to address the challenges organizations face in maintaining application availability. RMC integrates the speed and agility of storage array-based snapshots with low cost disk-based backup systems to provide up to 23X faster backups and up to 5X faster restores1 than traditional backup processes at lower cost that are easier to manage. HPE RMC • Reduces backup times by up to 23X and restore times by up to 5X2 • Improves recovery time • Reduces the cost of storing multiple snapshots • Simplifies recovery by application owners
Business challenges Businesses and organizations of all sizes are facing an explosion of data that has become increasingly difficult to manage. The amount of data can be overwhelming. Analysts predict that by 2020 there will be 44 trillion gigabytes of data generated,3 90 percent of which will be less than 2 years old.4 Today, 83 percent of organizations have a downtime tolerance of 3 hours or less and 49 percent have applications that can only tolerate downtime of 15 minutes or less.5 With the pressure to run applications that have minimal tolerance for downtime, this data needs to be protected and recovered within minutes. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for these high-availability applications often require aggressive Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) that must be created without interruption. Users also want to be able to recover data, VMs or databases that could be days or weeks old, which creates a long‑term storage and cost challenge. These SLAs also include Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) that will allow them to minimize application downtime. In many cases, it is difficult for the IT staff to balance these needs versus cost. There are different technology approaches such as clones, snapshots, and disk based backup systems that have helped to address application availability issues, however, they also have limitations. • Clones or mirrors are full copies of the data that are written at the same time as the base volume. The mirror is broken during off-hours in order to protect the data from corruption. Clones provide very fast recovery because they can be promoted to production and the application can be quickly restarted. However, clones have several limitations including application interruption for data consistency, and the high cost of storing the clones on expensive fast disk drives. Clones also require that the primary storage array is still operational for rapid recovery. • Snapshots are point-in-time (PIT) copies of data that address some of the issues related to clones. Snapshots can be taken throughout the business day which improves the recovery point and are space efficient. Snapshots are limited by the amount of space on the array and the high cost of the disk space to store multiple snapshots to meet RPOs. Snapshots also require that the primary storage array is still operational for rapid recovery. • Disk based backup systems that deduplicate full backups can offer a faster alternative to tape, but these systems use traditional backup processes that often impact application performance where the backup server can create a bottleneck.
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ased on HPE testing of backup performance B comparison between HPE Recovery Manager Central for VMware environments and traditional backup environments
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IDC Digital Universe Study—April 2014
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SINTEF, May 2013
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SG Research Report. Trends for E Protecting Highly Virtualized and Private Cloud Environments, July 2013
Application owners, VM and database administrators now more than ever are demanding greater control and visibility over their application data protection from a familiar console, such as vCenter. They need non-disruptive data protection and do not want to compromise the application availability and performance during backup. They require a faster way to simply and reliably protect and restore data than traditional backup processes can provide. HPE RMC is a solution to these problems.
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Executive overview RMC integrates the management of array-based snapshots with the efficiency and speed of disk based backup systems. It combines the availability of instant and non-intrusive local and remote snapshots with cost efficient disk backup systems to provide multiple recovery points, and rapid restore times. Since the backup is stored on a separate device, it provides protection against a storage array outage. RMC integrates 3PAR StoreServ and HPE Hyper Converged 250 System (HC 250) for VMware snapshot technology with native data movement to the StoreOnce Systems. The current release integrates this process into VMware® vCenter, Microsoft® SQL server and Oracle databases1 and allows VMware administrators to manage the creation, backup, and the recovery of snapshots directly and seamlessly from within vCenter. RMC enables fast, efficient, reliable, and simple protection for your business. HPE testing has proven that RMC delivers up to 23X faster backups and up to 5X faster restores than traditional backup methods. RMC includes an open RESTful API that will allow ISV’s with backup software, infrastructure management tools and security systems to leverage this same technology. Fast
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Deliver on SLAs with fast, non-disruptive, application consistent backup and recovery
Eliminate cost and complexity of traditional backup approaches with backup from HPE 3PAR or HC 250 to StoreOnce
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Protect applications with the availability of snapshots and the protection of backups
Empower hypervisor and application owners to control backup and recovery directly and seamlessly from their preferred native interfaces Figure 1: HPE Recovery Manager Central—Key business value
Technical overview HPE RMC—how it works Most organizations protect their data using traditional backup methods where a backup application installed on a media server requests data from a primary storage array and moves it to disk or tape via the backup application/media server. Traditional backup processes are often disruptive to application SLAs and require backups to be scheduled during less busy times. RMC employs a direct backup model to orchestrate the snapshot lifecycle and protect the data on a separate backup target without a backup application. With RMC backup, once the first full backup is complete each subsequent backup is a differential making it significantly faster than traditional backup methods particularly for higher volumes of data.
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RMC leverages 3PAR StoreServ and HC 250 SnapDiff technology to create an application consistent snapshot. Only changed blocks are sent to the StoreOnce system which minimizes network traffic and saves disk space on the backup system. The backups complete at the speed of a traditional block-level incremental but are stored as a synthetic full backup. It is a consistent full recovery point which makes restore time much faster. RMC uses the Express Protect feature to enable the backup of the snapshot data to the StoreOnce system for deduplication and long-term retention. HPE StoreOnce Catalyst software for the StoreOnce systems optimizes movement of deduplicated backups and manages all data movement. Backups can be copied from one StoreOnce appliance to another for disaster recovery purposes. Sun
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The copies on the StoreOnce system are independent volumes that provide flexible restore options: • Restore to the original volume on the same array • Restore to a snapshot of the original volume or another volume on the array • Restore to any other volume on another 3PAR StoreServ or HC 250 array In RMC 3.0, six technologies are supported: • HPE 3PAR StoreServ • HPE Hyper Converged 250 System (HC 250) for VMware • HPE StoreOnce systems including HPE StoreOnce VSA • VMware vCenter integration • Microsoft SQL server databases • Oracle databases
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HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage The first primary storage array supported by RMC is 3PAR StoreServ. It offers the application availability and performance of Tier-1 storage at midrange costs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ can meet even the most stringent SLAs with performance acceleration for your most frequently accessed data. A flash-optimized architecture enables optimal performance of flash-based SSDs while block-level storage tiering and mixed workload optimization enables high levels of performance for both spinning and non-spinning media. As a result, you can put more applications on the same storage to lower total infrastructure cost. Unlike traditional arrays that require you to purchase larger arrays to support growth or increase performance, the 3PAR StoreServ design delivers capacity and performance that scale, even at extremely high capacity utilization levels. RMC leverages the HPE 3PAR Virtual Copy and Remote Copy Software to create the instant Point in Time local and remote copies of the data. 3PAR Virtual Copy and Remote Copy Software is a reservationless, non-duplicative, snapshot product that consumes capacity only for changed data. It does this in fine-grain increments and without duplicating changed data within a snapshot tree. HPE 3PAR Virtual Copy Software helps eliminate the cost and performance overhead of host-based snapshots. The unique performance advantages of 3PAR StoreServ enable you to leverage snapshots without the performance concerns that weigh down traditional array-based copies. The system’s automatic load balancing capabilities decrease the contention between base and snapshot volumes that are inherent in other architectures. To further reduce administration time and decrease the chance of human error, you can automate creation and expiration of snapshots across multiple boot and data volumes. These snapshots can be centrally administered from within VMware vCenter. HPE Hyper Converged 250 System (HC 250) for VMware For customers who are looking for a simple, agile and highly available virtualization system, the new Hyper Converged 250 family eliminates complex solution stacks. It combines a powerful HPE Apollo server platform and mature StoreVirtual data services from Hewlett Packard Enterprise into one building block to simplify the delivery of virtualized servers and desktops. The HPE Hyper Converged 250 family now supports VMware and Microsoft virtualization technologies, and continues to provide a turnkey virtualization solution for medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and IaaS providers. The Hyper Converged 250 product uses the HPE StoreVirtual technology to provide highly available storage to the Hypervisor platform storage for the host platforms. HPE RMC-V has the ability to use HPE deduplication and catalyst technology to protect the HC250 directly with a StoreOnce appliance. The ability to integrate with the HPE Recovery Manager Central product adds a very convenient and efficient data protection technology to the HC250 Hyper-Converged appliance. The RMC product with VMWare integration is included with the HC250 product at no charge and the HC250 includes the appropriate license. Running as a VM appliance it is fully integrated with VMware vCenter and enables users to perform snapshots of VMFS datastores hosted on the HC250 appliance and create Express Protect backups to a StoreOnce appliance. The backups take full advantage of HPE’s deduplication technology and are always a synthetic full. No ISV software is required for this solution. Snapshots and backups are application consistent providing the guest operating systems have the VMWare tools software loaded. RMC-V uses the VMware VSphere Storage API to make application consistent snapshots and express protect backups. Recovery can be from snapshot or Express Protect Backup at a VMFS datastore or at VM level. If required HPE RMC-V element recovery technology (ERT) enables recovery of individual files within a guest VM directly from the StoreOnce Express Protect Backup.
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HPE StoreOnce HPE StoreOnce systems help organizations to address backup sprawl, reduce inefficiencies, and improve reliability. StoreOnce provides a cost effective disk based platform that is available in a range of scalable dedicated appliances and flexible virtual appliances. HPE StoreOnce deduplication reduces the amount of backup data you need to store by up to 95 percent. These systems provide automated backup and DR operations with secure data retention and built-in encryption. HPE StoreOnce VSA delivers these capabilities in a software-defined form factor with 50 TB of capacity that can reduce storage costs compared to a purpose built appliance by running on existing virtualization infrastructure. For small environments, deploying StoreOnce in a software-defined form factor can reduce storage costs by up to 65 percent compared to deploying purpose built appliances. HPE StoreOnce VSA is a cost-effective virtual appliance that can be deployed as a virtual machine on VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM hypervisors that delivers fast, efficient, and scalable backup. RMC Integration with VMware vCenter RMC for VMware vSphere is a plugin that allows VMware administrators to create and manage non-disruptive, application consistent snapshots. These administrators can initiate online recovery directly from within vCenter console. They can schedule the automatic snapshot creation and movement to the StoreOnce system. With the ability to create more snapshots that consume very little space, VMware administrators can meet more aggressive Recovery Point Objectives. More snapshots taken during the day create opportunities to restore data that is the most current and improve overall application availability. RMC Element Recovery Technology (ERT) allows more granular recovery of an individual VM or an individual file within a VM, helping improve recovery RTO, and minimizing disruption and downtime of production VMs. The figure below is an example that shows the integration with VMware vCenter.
Figure 3: Easy snapshot management, backup, and recovery from within VMware vCenter
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Fast and affordable end-to-end protection for Microsoft® SQL server and Oracle databases RMC for SQL and RMC for Oracle allows Microsoft SQL and Oracle database administrators (DBAs) to create schedule and manage SQL and Oracle-application consistent snapshots on a HPE 3PAR array. RMC for SQL Express Protect and RMC for Oracle Express Protect feature enables automatic flat backup of SQL and Oracle snapshot data from HPE 3PAR to StoreOnce, independent of backup server software. This provides simple, rapid, and affordable recovery of SQL and Oracle mission-critical databases as well as highly granular and flexible Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives. RMC also enables crash consistent backups and snapshots to be performed on any application running on 3PAR or HC250. Data protection for HPE 3PAR File Persona HPE 3PAR File Persona, integrated with HPE RMC, offers streamlined data protection in large file storage environments by augmenting traditional backup approaches. It combines the simplicity of snapshots with the reliability and cost effective retention of backups through a native integration of HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE StoreOnce in a seamless, converged data protection solution.
Why HPE RMC Organizations are balancing the demands of the application users versus their limited IT budgets and staff. HPE RMC enables infrastructures that can meet all of these demands cost effectively and provide additional business, technology, and operational benefits. Business advantages • Lower risk. RMC provides a fully tested complete converged infrastructure for backing up and restoring VMware, SQL and Oracle environments by integrating 3PAR StoreServ and HC 250 snapshots and StoreOnce systems with management through VMware vCenter, Microsoft SQL and Oracle databases. This integration results in few components which simplifies the process and lowers business risk. • Increase business flexibility. Applications owners can control their own backup and recovery. Through VMware vCenter, SQL Studio or the RMC GUI, the VM or DB administrator can restore any SQL or Oracle database, VM or datastore which greatly improves productivity. The staff closest to the application and the business requirements, can control their own environment. • Improve application uptime. With RMC, customers can make application consistent local and remote copies of data throughout the day without interruption to the application. Restores are much faster because the user can select a snapshot that represents the last known good copy. Recovery could be within minutes.
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Improve VMware protection • Lower RPOs and RTOs • Self-service restore from within vCenter • Eliminate cost and complexity from backup
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Technology advantages • Improve time to backup. RMC can reduce backup times by up to 23X and restore times by up to 5X. Since the copy of the data on the StoreOnce Backup system is a synthetic full backup, it can be restored to the designated storage array quickly. • Provide scalability. RMC leverages platforms that scale from small systems for remote sites to systems with hundreds of terabytes that support the largest data centers. 3PAR StoreServ arrays are available in different configurations that can scale from 1 TB to over 3 PB. This capacity does not include the space savings that can be achieved with thin provisioning. The StoreOnce Backup is based on a scale-out architecture with capacity points that start small and allow you to add in virtual capacity, shelves, or nodes. For small and remote offices, the StoreOnce VSA virtual appliance can scale from 1 TB to 50 TB of usable capacity. For larger sites and enterprise data centers the StoreOnce Backup system can scale from 5.5 TB to 1.7 PB of usable capacity. These quoted capacities do not take into consideration the deduplication that can reduce the amount of backup storage required by up to 95 percent. • Leverage flexible 3PAR StoreServ and HC 250 Snapshots. The 3PAR StoreServ and HC 250 snapshot capability is built into the basic architecture and has been used for years by customers. It is a tested and proven method to protect data and provide multiple restore options for applications. HPE RMC leverages this proven snapshot capability by enabling native data movement to and from the StoreOnce Backup system and the 3PAR StoreServ or HC 250 array. • Utilize the efficiency of StoreOnce. HPE StoreOnce is a disk-based backup system with a deduplicating engine that is available in a range of scalable dedicated appliances and flexible virtual appliances. HPE StoreOnce systems reduce the amount of backup data you need to store by up to 95 percent. This efficient architecture dramatically reduces the amount of storage that is required for data protection. Operations advantages • Simplify management. With RMC, organizations can eliminate the complexity of managing traditional backup software, hardware, and servers. RMC provides a single interface through VMware vCenter that allows application owners to create, schedule, manage, and restore the entire virtualized environment. For customers who currently use VMware, these tools are familiar and well understood. It makes implementation easy and simplifies ongoing management. • Increase operational efficiency. By leveraging 3PAR StoreServ and HC 250 SnapDiff technology, only changed blocks are sent to the StoreOnce system. This reduces network traffic and reduces the capacity requirements for the backup system. Customers can purchase less storage capacity and still provide improved RPOs and RTOs.
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Invest effectively with HPE Technology Services Accelerate your technology return on investment (ROI), reduce implementation time and impact on backup environments, and manage data more effectively with HPE services. HPE and HPE authorized channel partners can help you to select the right level of personalized, proactive, and simplified support for your business. • The HPE RMC Software Installation and Startup Service provides deployment of the HPE RMC software, helping to ensure proper installation and integration in your storage environment. • HPE Foundation Care is system-level IT hardware and software support that delivers flexible coverage window and response time for more choice and simplicity. • HPE Proactive Care combines reactive and proactive services to provide easy-to-purchase, cost-efficient system-level support coupled with personalized expert advice and products connected to HPE to help prevent problems and reduce downtime. • HPE Proactive Care Advanced builds and incorporates on Proactive Care and also gives customers personalized technical and operational advice from an assigned, local Account Support Manager for personalized technical collaboration, flexible access to specialist skills to help optimize business critical IT, and enhanced Critical Incident Management to help so the business is not affected if there is a system or device outage. • HPE Datacenter Care provides the support you need to deploy, operate, and evolve your data center environment to be hybrid-cloud ready with single-point-of-accountability for HPE and others’ product.
Next steps Contact your local HPE sales representative or an HPE authorized partner to design and implement a backup/recovery solution that will meet your needs today and allow room for expansion as your business grows. Find a local HPE partner. hp.com/go/locator. To learn more about the HPE Care Pack implementation and support services or for information on support options, please visit: HPE Support Services HPE Installation and Deployment Services
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