VMware vsphere Data Protection TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER JUNE 2012
Table of Contents Introduction... 3 Architectural Overview... 3 Deployment and Configuration... 4 Management... 5 Virtual Machine Backup... 5 Virtual Machine Restore...6 Reporting...7 Preventing Backup-Data Corruption... 9 Conclusion...10 About the Author...10 TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 2
Introduction With VMware vsphere 5.1 ( vsphere 5.1 ), VMware is releasing a new backup and recovery solution for virtual machines called vsphere Data Protection (VDP). This solution is fully integrated with VMware vcenter Server (vcenter Server) and provides agentless, disk-based backup of virtual machines to deduplicated storage. Benefits of VDP include the following: This paper presents an overview of the architecture, deployment, configuration, and management of VDP. Architectural Overview VMware vsphere 5.0. VDP supports the backing up of virtual machines on VMware vsphere ( vsphere ) versions 4.0 and higher. The following Web browsers are supported for configuration and management of VDP: machines, and as many as 10 VDP appliances can be deployed per vcenter Server instance. The Windows-based Web browser. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 3
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Figure 2. vsphere Data Protection in the vsphere Web Client The initial backup of a virtual machine takes comparatively more time, because all of the data for that virtual Management Virtual Machine Backup Backup simultaneously on each VDP appliance. The retention policy can be defined in the following several ways: TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 5
Figure 3. VDP Retention Policy Configuration Virtual Machine Restore The restore of an entire virtual machine is performed using the Restore tab Client. The administrator can browse the list of virtual machines backed up by VDP and then select one or more since the selected restore point, and it recovers only those blocks. This reduces data transfer within the vsphere environment during a recovery operation and decreases recovery time. VDP automatically compares and the method resulting in the fastest restore time. This is useful in scenarios where the change rate since the selected restore point is very high and the overhead of a CBT analysis operation would be more costly than that of a full-image recovery. VDP intelligently determines which deployment method will result in the fastest full-image restore (CBT is not leveraged). Figure 4. Specifying a New Location for the Restored Virtual Machine TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 6
perform restores on their own without the assistance of a VDP administrator. The end user can select a restore Figure 5. vsphere Data Protection Restore Client Reporting additional information and troubleshooting purposes. Users can filter the list of virtual machines by means of machine information details section displays the Virtual Machine Name, guest operating system, backup status, backup date and other useful items. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 7
Figure 6. Reports Tab TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 8
Figure 7. VDP Email Report Preventing Backup-Data Corruption information would be prevented. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 9
Figure 8. VDP Rollback Conclusion Data protection is a key component of any business continuity plan. VMware vsphere Data Protection (VDP) the need for assistance from a backup administrator. VDP also features a checkpoint-and-rollback protection system to help ensure that backup data is available for restoration when data loss occurs or disaster strikes. About the Author VMware, he spent several years assisting with the build-out and administration of VMware virtual infrastructures TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 10
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