IBM Enterprise 2014 - BMR / DR Planning for Linux with Storix Software

BMR and DR Planning for AIX and Linux with
Storix Software
© 2014 Storix, Inc.
Scott Figgins – Field Technical Consultant Ingram Micro
October 2014

Disaster Recovery for AIX and Linux
Agenda for this Session
Discuss types of Disasters (Human / Natural / Other)
Discuss Vendors recommended methods for backing up and
recovering systems and data
Discuss the benefits of using Storix with IBM Power Systems
Power 8 ScaleOut Line up – Server / Client / Appliance
Q&A
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What is Disaster Recovery?
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Two Categories of IT Disasters
Natural Disasters – Hurricanes, Floods, Tornadoes, Wild Fires, Earthquakes
Man-Made Disasters – Floods, Fires, Intrusions, Malicious Code

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Companies that had a major loss of business data, 43%
never reopen and 29% close within two years.
Source: Business continuity statistics: where myth meets fact. Continuity Central. 24 April 2009.

Disaster Recovery Terminology and How to measure it.
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Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD). The MTD represents the total amount of
time the system owner/authorizing official is willing to accept for a mission/business
process outage or disruption and includes all impact considerations.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO). RTO defines the maximum amount of time that a
system resource can remain unavailable before there is an unacceptable impact on
other system resources.
Recovery Point Objective (RPO). The RPO represents the point in time, prior to a
disruption or system outage, to which mission/business process data can be
recovered (given the most recent backup copy of the data) after an outage.

Linux System Recovery Tools
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“Should you even bother with operating system backups? If the installation process is relatively
easy, and if the application of bugfixes and customizations are well documented and easily
reproducible, reinstalling the operating system may be a viable option.”
Source: RHEL 6 Documentation
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- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Documentation

“Open source tools for backing up data on Linux include tar, cpio, and rsync. See the man
pages for these tools for more information.”
Source: SLES 11 Documentation
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- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Documentation

System Recovery Tools
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• Founded in 1999 by the author of IBM’s sysback
• Bare-metal recovery for Linux since 2002
• TSM Integration since 2007
• Bare-metal recovery for Solaris since 2008

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Storix is the trusted expert in Linux/UNIX backup and system
recovery solutions for over 2,000 global customers

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Adaptable System
Recovery

Adaptable System Recovery
Source: If applicable, describe source origin
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Disk Images vs. File-based ASR

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VM Snapshots are Disk Images

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Guest

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Recover to dissimilar hardware
P2V, V2P, or V2V

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System provisioning from a ”golden image”
Network settings updated during cloning

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Centralized Backup
Management

Centralized Backup Management
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More than a bare-metal backup utility
Complete backup management
X-Based GUI
Web Interface
Menu-driven Recovery

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Administrator
Backup Server
Boot Server
Clients

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Administrator
Clients
Backup Server
Boot Server
Backup Server
Boot Server

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Administrator
Clients
Backup Server
Boot Server
Backup Server
Boot Server

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Administrator
Clients
Backup Server
Boot Server
Backup Server
Boot Server

SW Datacenter NE Datacenter
Backup Server Backup Server
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Administrator
Manage Multiple Sites
Clients Clients

Production Offsite DR
Production Server Offsite Server
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Clients
Offsite Recovery
Staging

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Clients
Offsite Recovery
Staging

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Clients
Offsite Recovery
Staging
Recovery Targets
X
X X

Storix License and Support
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✔ Workstation Edition – (standalone)
✔ Network Edition – (more than one system)
✔ TSM Edition – (Write backups directly to TSM)
✔ Purchase as many as you need
✔ Physical and Virtual Systems
✔ AIX, Linux, PowerLinux, & Solaris

Storix License and Support
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✔ Documentation– Quickstart, Users Guide, Recovery Guides
✔ Online Help Desk – Create and respond to tickets 24/7
✔ Phone Support – 7am – 5pm Pacific Time
✔ Emergency Disaster Recovery Support – On Call 24/7

 POWER8 roll-out is leading with scale-out (1-2S) systems
 Expanded Linux focus: Ubuntu, KVM, and Open Stack
 Scale-up POWER8 (>2S) systems will be rolled out over time
 PCI Gen3 right out of POWER8 processor
 OpenPOWER Innovations
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1 & 2 Sockets
Power Systems
S812L
Power Systems
S822L
Power Systems
S822
Power Systems
S814
Power Systems
S824L
Power Systems
S824
 1-socket, 2U
 Linux Only
 PowerVM &
PowerKVM
 2-socket, 2U
 Linux Only
 PowerVM &
PowerKVM
 2-socket, 4U
 Linux Only
 PowerVM &
PowerKVM
 2-socket, 2U
 All Operating Systems
 PowerVM only
 1-socket, 4U
 PowerVM only
 2-socket, 4U
 PowerVM only
New IBM Power Systems based POWER8

Where is my mksysb for Linux?
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Q & A

Backup Slides
Ingram Micro
Field Technical Consultants
Scott Figgins– BM Power & Storage East Region
Scott.Figgins@IngramMicro.com 386.871.3975
Cheryl Thompson–IBM Power & Storage Central Region
Cheryl.Thompson@IngramMicro.com 210.275.0091
Korey Johnson–IBM Power and Storage West Region
Korey.Johnson@IngramMicro.com 404.840.6195
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