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1 MOVING TOWARDS ZERO DOWNTIME FOR WINTEL Caddy Tan 21 September 2010 Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 1

2 MOVING TOWARDS ZERO DOWNTIME Recovery Point Objective (RPO) How much data can you afford to lose? Recovery Time Objective (RTO) How long will it take to recover? Protection scenarios Individual server failure Site-wide disaster Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 2

3 OLD SCHOOL THINKING Midnight The day before Midnight 3:00 pm 11:59 pm RPO Recovery Point Objective Failure RTO Recovery Time Objective Recovery Point + Recovery Time = your REAL downtime A failure occurs at 3pm How Long until I fix the problem? How old is my data? 15 hours? How long until I can restore from tape? Did the backups run correctly? This is your Recovery Point 39 hours? How long until users are back on? This is your Recovery Time Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 3

4 THE NEW STANDARD Midnight 3:00 pm 11:59 pm Failure RPO RTO Downtime is reduced from hours/days to seconds/minutes A failure occurs at 3pm How long until users are back on? Minutes How old is my data? Seconds This is your Recovery Time This is your Recovery Point Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 4

5 OPTIONS TO IMPROVE RPO / RTO Traditional Backup Poor RTO/RPO Complex, error-prone Less than 5% of the data stored in the enterprise requires synchronous protection. - Gartner Group Synchronous Replication Typically very expensive Hardware-specific solutions limit flexibility Distance limitations eliminate it as a candidate for Disaster Recovery Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 5

6 OPTIONS TO IMPROVE RPO / RTO Continuous Disk to Disk Protection RPO of minutes, seconds, or zero data loss RTO of minutes or hours Clustering / High Availability RTO of minutes instead of hours Users often unaware of failure or outage Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 6

7 CONTINUOUS DISK TO DISK PROTECTION Double-Take Backup Branch office servers backup to a centralized repository storage Works on existing LAN or WAN Protects system state and data File level de-duplication CDP retention or Periodic Snapshot Any point in time recovery Granular recovery Works on Windows environment Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 7

8 LOCAL OR REMOTE PROTECTION Site A Protect multiple production sites with one Double-Take Backup repository Site B Datacenter Site C Site D WAN optimized Three levels of compression Bandwidth throttling Fault-tolerant transmission over any IP network Automatic resynchronization after extended network disruption Repository De-duplication Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 8

9 RECOVERABILITY Recover individual s, databases, files or folders, server images from snapshots or ANY-point-in-time CDP New Hardware The Original Server Server Image Point in Time Snapshots or CDP Retention A Virtual Machine Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 9

10 DIFFERENTIATORS Affordable continuous disk-to-disk protection solution No application modules nor open file agents needed Reduce / eliminate dependency on tapes Recover system state to dissimilar hardware or virtual servers Excellent for branch office environment Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 10

11 HIGH AVAILABILITY Double-Take Availability Ensure server availability using real-time replication technology to protect data between storage Server availability between non-identical servers, physical or virtual servers Works on IP networks, across existing LAN or WAN Protects individual servers, whole site, or regional disasters Works on Windows and Linux operating system Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 11

12 4 OPTIONS FOR HIGH AVAILABILITY Application Level Failover Application monitoring and failover between servers Replicates relevant data only Full Server Failover Real-time cloning and failover of entire server, including system state and data, to a target physical or virtual machine Physical Server to Virtual Machine Failover Real-time cloning of server and failover of entire server to VSphere or Hyper-V target Virtual Host to Virtual Host Failover Replicate and failover whole virtual machines at the host level for Vsphere or Hyper-V Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 12

13 APPLICATION LEVEL FAILOVER SQL1 Source SQL_HA1 Target Replication Heartbeat Monitoring Services are started IP/Name taken over or DNS redirection performed Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 13

14 FULL SERVER FAILOVER Exch_01 Exch_01 DR_01 Production Server Heartbeat Monitoring Target Server Basic Reboots Windows and becomes file server identical to source server Staging Directory Staged information overwrites system configuration (nonhardware) Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 14

15 PHYSICAL SERVER TO VIRTUAL MACHINE FAILOVER Protect Multiple Servers N-1 Failover to an ESX host Only the VRA Helper is pre-configured Web_1 VRA Helper C:\ C: Protected D: Part. Protected..\source\C\..\source\D\ E: Not Protected Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 15

16 PHYSICAL SERVER TO VIRTUAL MACHINE FAILOVER Protect Multiple Servers N-1 Failover to an ESX host Only the VRA Helper is pre-configured Web_1 VRA Helper C:\ C: Protected D: Part. Protected E: Not Protected Web_1 C:\ D:\ Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 16

17 VIRTUAL HOST TO VIRTUAL HOST FAILOVER Host to Host Protection Guests are discovered and protected via a single UI VM Guest 1 VM Guest 1 Replica VM Guest 2 VM Guest 2 Replica VM Guest 3 Hyper-V or VMware ESX Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 17

18 VIRTUAL HOST TO VIRTUAL HOST FAILOVER Host to Host Protection Guests are discovered and protected via a single UI VM Guest 1 VM Guest 1 Replica VM Guest 2 VM Guest 2 Replica VM Guest 3 Hyper-V or VMware ESX Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 18

19 DIFFERENTIATORS Affordable host-based solution for high availability and business continuity No need for SAN Storage or dedicated network Ease of install, ease of management Integrate with VMWare, Hyper-V and Microsoft Cluster environment Support any applications Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 19

20 DESKTOP AVAILABILITY Double-Take Flex cost-effective, boot from IP-network solution for diskless desktops bootable images are centrally managed and secured on iscsi storage a single Double-Take Flex server can manage hundreds of desktops or servers Boot images can be exclusive or shared Users change to boot images can be persistent or nonpersistent individual image and profile settings can follow the user based on their login Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 20

21 MULTIPLE BOOT IMAGES Boot different departments from different images Sales Support Marketing iscsi Storage Accounting Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 21 21

22 RESILIENT BOOT IMAGES Simply Users reboot experience the client configuration machine to issues receive occasionally a fresh image #*%&! $$$$ Sales Support Marketing iscsi Storage Accounting Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 22 22

23 EASY TO MANAGE With With Flex, traditional patches desktops, are done patches only once and per updates image must regardless be done of dozens the number or hundreds of desktops of times Sales Support Marketing iscsi Storage Accounting Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 23 23

24 IDEAL FOR CLASSROOMS Boot different classes from different images Calculus Chemistry Economics iscsi Storage Web Design Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 24 24

25 IDEAL FOR CALL CENTERS Boot different departments from different images Tele-Sales Tier 1 Support Tier 2 Support iscsi Storage Customer Support Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 25 25

26 DIFFERENTIATORS Inexpensive, so it is ideal for desktops and blade servers Fast desktop deployment Simplified desktop management Simplified recovery Desktop users have full-performance experience with sound and video capabilities Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 26

27 Q&A Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 27

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