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1 VMware Disaster Recovery Expert Checklist for VMware DR Planning Sean Clark Blog: seanclark.us VMware vexpert, VCP

2 Administrative points on this webinar Questions Can use the virtual Q&A panel. This webinar is recorded and available for replay after a few days. At the end of the webinar, we can raise virtual hand for dialog questions. Stick around until the end of the webinar! Winners will receive a choice of books! Overview of Veeam

3 About Veeam Veeam Software develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection. Reduce costs, mitigate risk, and fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam.

4 DR Planning Sanity Check Intro Assessing DR Needs Design for VMware DR Strategic Design Back to Rick

5 May 2011 Tornado - Joplin, MO

6 Japan Tsunami - March 2011

7 It will never happen to us... We don t live in tsunami affected area. Tornados have never hit our town. Paying for your recovery site doesn t increase our revenues. You have backups on tape so we re okay. It s okay, we have RAID. Who s afraid of the big bad wolf?

8 But beware the Humans! Source: 2008 Accenture Survey

9 Phased Approach Assessment - Gathering key requirements for DR solution Design - Creating a DR plan to meet business and technical requirements Deploy - Stand up necessary infrastructure. Install, configure and test solution Manage - Regularly test your DR plan as frequently as possible

10 DR Planning should be Business Focused Key BIA activities 1. Identify critical business systems 2. Identify system resource dependencies 3. Identify key support personnel or teams 4. Estimate disruption impact 5. Determine resource recovery priority Free BIA template put out by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

11 BIA Template

Objective RTO -> Recovery Time Objective How many hours after disaster declaration that

12 Determine RPO and RTO RPO -> Recovery Point Objective How many hours of data loss tolerated How much data doesn t need re-entered Affects BRTO Business Recovery Time Objective RTO -> Recovery Time Objective How many hours after disaster declaration that service must be restored Relates directly to ease of recovery and DR test Guides specific DR designs

Use Cases Drive RPO and RTO Understand your business Education K-12 RPO of 24-48 hours acceptable

Season RPO/RTO of 24-48 hours Healthcare Patient care systems RPO/RTO of near-zero but budget

13 Use Cases Drive RPO and RTO Understand your business Education K-12 RPO of hours acceptable RTO of days-week probably acceptable Accounting firm Tax Season - RPO/RTO of < 1 hour After Tax Season RPO/RTO of hours Healthcare Patient care systems RPO/RTO of near-zero but budget dictates how low you can go Back office systems RPO/RTO of hours Budget will dictate how low you can go

14 Understand your Budget How big is your stack of chips? Create some wiggle room in the budget Consolidate DR in one system Re-use DR for Test/Dev Sacrificial lambs Communicate vision 100% virtualized Completely test-driven DR Executive Champion C-level decoder ring built in

Stateless app servers Redeploy in Disaster Protect the deployment systems Client

15 Understand App Dependencies AD, DNS, DHCP, Firewall Mission critical apps Physical server dependencies? UNIX or mainframe? Database consistency VSS? Stateless app servers Redeploy in Disaster Protect the deployment systems Client access Consider VDI solutions for DR access Protect VDI infrastructure but redeploy desktops

Automate Data Collection Veeam Reporter Document

documentation Veeam Monitor Determine resources needed

change rate Evaluate WAN performance Test a product

16 Automate Data Collection Veeam Reporter Document virtual environment automatically Base for DR documentation Veeam Monitor Determine resources needed to power DR Veeam Backup and Replication POC Data change rate Evaluate WAN performance Test a product that can meet needs VMware Partners have tools/scripts to assess environment

WAN handle it? Can budget pay for added bandwidth?

17 Analyze Resource Requirements Compute Size to handle protected workloads Size for some performance degradation or none Storage Daily change rate Separate swap/page files or note Network Can your WAN handle it? Can budget pay for added bandwidth? Truck full O tapes may be more economical WAN acceleration Can shorten backup windows HyperIp from Netex Free 2Mb/s subscription for Veeam customers

18 Design for Easiest Restore

servers to reduce licensing Storage Local storage for DR is cheaper

replication Fall back to tapes/disks in a truck DR in the cloud or

19 Co-Lo, self-host or dare we say.cloud? Server hardware Roll over old ESX servers into DR Invest in beefy servers to reduce licensing Storage Local storage for DR is cheaper Works with Veeam Network Invest in bandwidth to facilitate replication Fall back to tapes/disks in a truck DR in the cloud or self-host Self-host is cheaper than co-lo if you have the facilities Why pay for DR infrastructure if not using?

20 Test-driven DR plan TTD or Test-Driven Development works for software so why not DR? Design with testing in mind Veeam SureBackup recovery verification Enables continuous testing

21 DR magic brought to you by the letters V and M VMs make DR easy (easier)!

22 Why make DR harder than it has to be? I m all for challenges but.

23 100% Virtualization Soapbox Consolidate platforms Virtualized x86 is winning the battle on cost Add DR simplicity and accelerate the trend Get critical servers on VMs for DR Consider nuclear option: 1 VM per ESX SureBackup and On Demand Sandboxing not possible with other platforms

24 More reasons to go All-in with Virtual DR VMware vsphere 5 32 vcpu, 1TB RAM Storage DRS No workloads are off-limits Veeam vpower v6 Enterprise scalability Dynamic scale-out capability 1-click File Restore Advanced Replication Advanced application integration

25 Questions and Answers Winners receive a choice of the following books Thank you for attending! Resources: Blog: Eval: Veeam.com

VMware admins: Can your DR do this?

VMware admins: Can your DR do this? Veeam Backup & Replication v6 Rick Vanover vexpert, VCP, MCITP Product Strategy Specialist Twitter @RickVanover Administrative Points on this Webinar Technical content,