SAFEGUARD INFORMATION AND ENSURE AVAILABILITY WITH THE NETAPP BACKUP AND RECOVERY SOLUTION

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1 enterprise storage solutions SAFEGUARD INFORMATION AND ENSURE AVAILABILITY WITH THE NETAPP BACKUP AND RECOVERY SOLUTION backup and recovery solution Network Appliance unleashes the full potential of disk-based backup and recovery with the most comprehensive disk-based backup and recovery solution portfolio in the marketplace.

2 network appliance, inc. The Challenge: Manage Enterprise Backups with Reliable, Rapid Data Recovery Enterprise data storage systems hold a company's most valuable asset its information. Permanent data loss or even temporary data inaccessibility can immobilize an entire business, so the business demands rapid, reliable retrieval of all critical data. Meanwhile, data sprawls across a vast array of networked and direct-attached storage, remote office servers, and user laptops. Backup administrators can scarcely locate all of the company s data, much less protect it. Unfortunately, ever-increasing costs and complexity force companies to continually compromise and decrease the speed, frequency, and reliability of their data protection. Many realize the cumulative impact of the constant reduction in data protection quality only after failing to find or recover business-critical data. The explosive growth of enterprise-wide data overwhelms traditional data protection approaches. Merely trying to keep pace with primary storage growth, IT organizations invest in massive tape infrastructures to try to meet their backup windows. Despite the continuous installation of newer, larger tape libraries across data centers, departments, and remote offices, most still fail to meet their service-level agreements (SLAs). Those that do create successful backups find themselves managing hundreds of stale, redundant backup copies across countless locations. Despite the escalating expense and increasing management burden, users remain no closer to recovering the data they need. In fact, it becomes even more difficult to locate and recover one piece of business-critical data from the hundreds of thousands of redundant tapes distributed across the enterprise. Traditional backup no longer scales to meet enterprise data protection needs, but its costs can scale to consume your entire IT budget. Companies cannot efficiently recover their vital data. Administrators very rarely restore the version of data that users want. Traditional backups run nightly or weekly, but users want to recover data that is only minutes or hours old. Users current data simply does not exist on the backup tapes. Furthermore, failures in the backup, recovery, media, or media management processes prevent restoration of even these stale copies of data. Finally, even after a successful restore, the user may realize that the wrong version or an incomplete set of data was requested. Meanwhile, recoveries that run for hours or days cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in end-user and administrator productivity. Companies spend countless hours and amounts of money failing to recover backup data that does not even satisfy the end users requirements. Today s enterprise requires a scalable backup and recovery solution to reliably, rapidly restore the data that users need. The Answer: NetApp Backup and Recovery Solutions Network Appliance unleashes the potential of disk-based backup to consolidate protection across the enterprise and reliably recover any data, anytime, anywhere. The NetApp solution combines end-to-end intelligence about the backup data and industry-leading disk storage expertise to transform backups from low-value expenses into integral business assets.

3 NetApp simplifies backup and recovery by centralizing backups on disk to eliminate redundant data, infrastructure, and management. First, NetApp SnapVault software consolidates protection of hundreds of remote office and data center systems onto NearStore nearline storage. SnapVault identifies redundant data blocks on the primary storage, so each full backup transfers only the changed data. The resulting bandwidth efficiency maximizes both limited remote office connectivity and data center scalability. Second, by eliminating redundant data across each backup, SnapVault stores thousands of full backups for each primary system, while using the minimal amount of storage. NetApp SnapMirror then automatically creates bandwidthand storage-optimized off-site copies of all backups. Third, by consolidating backups onto one disk system, NetApp eliminates distributed, redundant tape deployments. Industry-leading backup partners run centralized tape backups 24x7 off the local or remote SnapVault system. Since SnapVault stores thousands of backups locally and remotely, tape backups need to be run less frequently. Finally, NetApp DataFabric Manager and leading partner backup applications unify management of enterprise-wide data protection across primary disk, secondary disk, and tape. The NetApp backup and recovery solution replaces multisite management of thousands of tapes, tape hardware, and backup software with simple, automatic, centralized data protection. NetApp reliably and rapidly recovers business-critical data from any point in time by using intelligence about the backup data to create a frequently updated, online, searchable archive of thousands of backups. First, since SnapVault centrally manages thousands of backups for hundreds of systems across the enterprise, administrators can easily locate any version of backup data for any system at any site. Second, SnapVault recovers current, business-critical versions of data. Unlike traditional heavyweight backups with nightly or weekly backup windows, SnapVault runs hourly lightweight, changed-data backups. SnapVault combines up-to-date protection with optimized storage of thousands of backups, so companies can now recover data from any hour, any day, or any week from any year! Finally, SnapVault creates online backups for reliable, searchable data recovery. Traditional backups store data on tape in proprietary formats accessible only through the backup application. SnapVault creates online backup archives for easy access and verification. Users and/or administrators can securely, reliably, and rapidly search and recover data via standard protocols (FCP, iscsi, NFS, and CIFS). The ability to rapidly search backup data helps companies and users to identify critical data quickly and reliably. The data is so accessible that when a primary system fails, companies can use online, up-to-date SnapVault backups for near-instant disaster recovery failover. The NetApp backup and recovery solution consolidates enterprise-wide backups and provides reliable, rapid recovery for any data from any site at any time. Backups no longer need to sit idle, consuming an ever-growing amount of resources and budget. The NetApp solution transforms the unmanageable expense of traditional backup into the low cost and high business value of SnapVault, a reliable and easily accessible repository of critical backup data. The NetApp Backup and Recovery Portfolio The NetApp backup and recovery solution portfolio offers a comprehensive, evolutionary set of tools to solve expanding data protection challenges. Every solution in the NetApp portfolio solves enterprise backup and recovery challenges, and each investment incrementally enhances and expands the solution. For example, to satisfy immediate backup requirements, a customer may opt to use a NearStore system for a disk-to-disk or virtual tape library (VTL) backup solution. From this most basic NetApp offering, the customer can seamlessly progress to an advanced SnapVault solution, using the same NearStore system. Focused on meeting competitive, enterprise-wide data protection needs, the NetApp backup and recovery solution contains: NearStore, an ATA disk-based nearline storage system running the award-winning Data ONTAP operating system with patent-pending RAID-DP (RAID Double Parity) for cost-effective and highly available data backup and archival. NearStore, for disk-to-disk or VTL backup, delivers increased reliability, performance, simplicity, and flexibility. SnapMirror network-optimized replication software to consolidate and automatically move backup data off-site. SnapVault heterogeneous, online backup software for frequent, consolidated backups with reliable, high-speed data recoveries from virtually any point in time. Integrated backup and recovery solutions from BakBone, CommVault, Computer Associates, IBM, Syncsort, and VERITAS. DataFabric Manager software to centrally manage and coordinate disk-based data protection. It configures, provisions, and manages storage systems across all solutions. It also provides a single administrative console for managing centralized heterogeneous data backup and recovery within a dispersed, remote environment. VERITAS NetBackup client software for heterogeneous backup and VERITAS NetBackup management software to unify data protection across primary disk, secondary disk, and tape.

4 The NetApp backup and recovery solution enables you to: Protect enterprise-wide data by automatically backing it up to a highly reliable, rapid-access storage system NearStore. Use a simple, automated backup process SnapVault software to back up data every hour with minimal administration, ensuring the most recent data is secure and available for a restore in case of a disaster. Store only changed data, so you can retain thousands of simpler, smaller, and faster backups online ensuring you have multiple hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly backups for rapid restoration. Adjust the cost and level of protection based on the value of the data. Customers can assign retention policies and schedules to each data set. Easily and rapidly verify your backup to ensure it completed successfully. NearStore provides cost-effective, fast-access storage for enterprise backup and recovery. The hardware component of the NetApp backup and recovery solution is NearStore, an ATA disk-based, nearline storage system that runs the award-winning NetApp Data ONTAP operating system with revolutionary RAID-DP reliability. Data ONTAP offers features such as the patented WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) file system and integrated Snapshot technology to improve enterprise-wide data management. Data ONTAP then integrates data replication and online backup, offering SnapMirror and SnapVault. NearStore delivers much faster data access and retrieval than current nearline or traditional tape-based storage solutions, which dramatically reduces the data or application service time-to-restoration. NearStore with NetApp or partner thirdparty software can back up almost any type of primary storage servers (UNIX, Windows, and others), mainframes, desktop and laptops, and NetApp storage systems using FCP, iscsi, NFS, or CIFS to seamlessly integrate into any backup environment. This all-inclusive functionality simplifies enterprise backup management and speeds data recovery. Disk-to-disk and virtual tape backup and a storage area network using NetApp partner products. The most basic NetApp disk-based backup solution uses NearStore to store standard backup images. This solution contains both backup applicationmanaged disk storage and certified VTL backup solutions using FalconStor and Alacritus software products. Combined with NearStore or NetApp primary storage, these products create a storage area network (SAN) capable of raising the bar on any solely tape-dependent enterprise. All backup application-managed disk and VTL solutions are tested and certified to offer complete interoperability. These backup solutions can be used as a standalone backup solution or as a secondary backup stage, prior to tape. SnapMirror replication for consolidated tape backup and off-site backup. SnapMirror, the optimized NetApp data replication solution, simplifies backup as well as disaster recovery. NearStore centralizes mirrors for multiple primary systems to consolidate tape backups. Without creating an extra data copy, NearStore can back up the mirrored data to tape while continuing to update the mirror. Instead of trying to back up numerous dispersed systems during a backup window, one NearStore system runs centralized 24x7 tape backups. Furthermore, any backup data stored on a NearStore system can be automatically and efficiently mirrored off-site for extra protection. Primary data, disk-to-disk or VTL backups, and SnapVault data can be instantly stored remotely, without IT administrator intervention. SnapVault delivers simple and efficient backup and recovery. SnapVault, the leading NetApp backup and recovery software, consolidates backups across the enterprise onto NearStore for reliable rapid recoveries from any point in time. SnapVault on NearStore consolidates backups across the enterprise because of industry-leading scalability in performance and data storage. The NearStore system can perform backups of hundreds of heterogeneous systems in the data center and remote office because each client does not transfer redundant information. Since each backup runs more quickly and more efficiently, primary storage can run more frequent backups, the network can support remote office backups, and secondary storage can support hundreds of primary systems. Storage redundancy elimination enables SnapVault to store thousands of full backups for each system, while consuming minimal disk storage. SnapVault improves data recovery by storing thousands of hourly, nightly, and weekly backups online. The increased frequency of data protection combined with the consolidation of backup data provides a single repository that can recover business-critical data from virtually any point in time. Furthermore, online backups guarantee that data reliability because backups and restores can be verified via standard data access protocols (FCP, iscsi, NFS, and CIFS). Finally, users and/or administrators can securely and efficiently search for and recover data. SnapVault benefits include the following: Dramatically simplifies and increases the reliability of data backup and restoration Eliminates redundancy in backups, to use CPU, network, and disk more efficiently, which enables SnapVault to manage thousands of backups for hundreds of distributed systems Consolidates backups to tape, while reducing the necessary frequency by storing thousands of versions online and sending them automatically off-site

5 Provides simple, centralized automated operation via standard leading partner backup applications to lower the cost of backup administration Protects data more frequently, so that users can recover more current data Enables users and administrators to securely, rapidly, and reliably search and recover data backups Enables near-instant disaster recovery by providing an online, current failover data copy Integrated Backup Solutions Using NetApp Partner Products Leading backup applications integrate SnapVault and tape management for unified disk and tape backup. This allows the use of NearStore systems for rapid recovery of critical data and the use of tape for archiving purposes. The solutions include SnapVault support for heterogeneous backup and recovery of file and application data. Each offers centralized scheduling, reporting, and seamless movement of data from primary system to NearStore to tape. While each partner optimizes SnapVault management to fit into its product environment, all of them maximize the value of advanced SnapVault capabilities. Unified backup using VERITAS NetBackup. The NetApp and VERITAS joint solution seamlessly combines the benefits of SnapVault with industryleading backup management and interoperability. The existing VERITAS client and management agent provide the enterprise-class management and reliability that companies trust. SnapVault offers the manageability, scalability, and recovery features that companies need. NetApp and VERITAS have partnered to offer SnapVault functionality with existing VERITAS NetBackup agents. All existing VERITAS functionality and management procedures continue to function without reconfiguring the environment. Consolidated SnapVault backup with reliable, online data recovery seamlessly integrates into the existing NetBackup deployment, enabling administrators to leverage the functionality they value. Companies can now recover data via NetBackup or standard data protocols. They can configure hourly backups using their standard NetBackup software. They can store thousands of redundancyeliminated synthetic full backups. Furthermore, VERITAS has extended management capabilities to unify the movement of backups across tiers of storage from primary to secondary disk, and then to tape. By creating a true partnership that, at the deepest levels, unifies the core values for each product, VERITAS and NetApp have redefined enterprise backup. Centralized Management Using DataFabric Manager NetApp DataFabric Manager software can either manage the entire SnapVault environment or complement partner backup application management. First, DataFabric Manager configures, provisions, and manages storage systems across all solutions. It configures, monitors, and provisions NearStore storage, so that SnapVault backups can begin. On a daily basis, it helps load balance backups across disk media, CPU, and network consumption. DataFabric Manager can also control the complete heterogeneous SnapVault solution. It also provides a single administrative console for discovering, configuring, and scheduling heterogeneous system backups across a dispersed, remote environment. Furthermore, it generates reports and monitors the health of the entire backup environment. Finally, DataFabric Manager provides a simple, intuitive interface for searching and recovering any version of any backup of any data on any system in the enterprise. NetApp Global Services: Setting New Service Standards for the Enterprise Successful enterprises demand much more from a storage vendor than just great technology. Busy IT departments are increasingly turning to vendors for storage services and assistance that include reactive as well as proactive types of services. NetApp offers comprehensive storage services that leverage our extensive expertise and innovative technologies while offering extended service choices for increased flexibility throughout the enterprise. You can engage NetApp Global Services to perform only the specific services you require, filling in the gaps and complementing the capabilities of your IT staff. Or, if you prefer, NetApp can take care of everything, designing, deploying, and managing your entire storage infrastructure. Whichever you choose, our programs will improve the reliability, availability, and management of your data. On joint solutions with our partners, you will benefit from a single focal point and no finger-pointing through comprehensive joint support agreements and access to joint escalation teams in our Global Support Centers. This infrastructure also translates into ongoing improvement and continued access to leading-edge services and solutions for you. As a leading provider of networked storage since 1992, NetApp has the expertise to assess, design, and implement backup and recovery solutions that incorporate the latest technologies to meet your needs now and grow with your organization for the future.

6 Services within the backup and recovery portfolio include: Environmental analysis and needs assessment. In the initial phases, specialists from NetApp Global Services will engage with your IT staff to understand every facet of your IT operations as they relate to backup and recovery. With detailed tools and proven methodologies to guide them, our Professional Services staff will investigate the strengths and weaknesses of your current backup/recovery solution (including a complete capacity plan) for every site to be included in the final design. The result is a complete understanding of where you are today, where you re falling short, and what you will need to succeed. Architecture and design. NetApp creates a complete backup/recovery architecture that includes a complete storage infrastructure that can include primary, nearline, and tape storage. NetApp utilizes your existing infrastructure to the greatest extent possible and suggests upgrades or changes to both storage devices and networks as necessary to meet defined goals. Complete backup schedules and restore procedures are part of the design. At the end of this phase, NetApp will present you with one or more designs that satisfy your requirements and hold a design review to help you assess alternatives and reach the best decision for your needs. Implementation. In many cases the trickiest part of upgrading your backup/recovery infrastructure is figuring out how to get from where you are today to where you need to be without shutting down the business in the process. That s why our service includes a complete implementation plan. Our experts work closely with your IT staff to fully understand and agree on planning goals and constraints. Based on that information, we create a complete and detailed implementation plan. The end product is a backup and recovery system that protects your data and makes it possible for your IT staff to be more productive and rest more soundly. Remote Office Windows Servers Remote Office FAS Servers Remote Office UNIX Servers Daily Every 4 Hours Every 4 Hours Data Center Tape Library FAS Servers Windows Servers Versions Heterogeneous Storage UNIX Servers NearStore Figure 1) Backup and recovery solution architecture. Network Appliance, Inc. 495 East Java Drive Sunnyvale, CA Network Appliance, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications subject to change without notice. NetApp, DataFabric, NearStore, SnapMirror, SnapVault, WAFL, and the Network Appliance logo are registered trademarks and Network Appliance, Data ONTAP, Snapshot, and RAID-DP are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in the US and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. DP-001 Rev. 0305