STORServer InstantRestore

STORServer Backup Appliance with Instant Restore
STORServer, Inc.
www.storserver.com

Background: STORServer Instant Restore
STORServer has been engineering TSM products for 13 years
STORServer with Instant Restore is only available to existing STORServer Appliance and TSM customers
The STORServer appliance with Instant Restore comes fully configured and installs quickly
STORServer leverages TSM to optimize your IT environment

Overview: STORServer with Instant Restore
Backup for remote and branch offices and the data center
Recovery management for Microsoft Windows and Linux servers
Applications and users restored within minutes with full recovery in background
Eliminate traditional backup windows withcontinuous changed data captured at block level
Automate data transfers based on flexible, policy-based settings
Affordable, effective add-on to your existing STORServer Appliance or TSM solution

Designed to protect data in your remote or branch offices or data center
Features & Benefits: STORServer Instant Restore
Block-Level, Incremental Capture- Need for backup windows eliminated- Superior performance
Target-Side Data Deduplication- Reduce disk capacity requirements- Post process does not impact backup
Point-in-Time Recovery- Roll back to any previous point in time- Maintain any number of previous generations

Summary: Product Offerings

STORServer IR works great in virtual environments
The TSM FastBack client is installed on individual virtual machines
No need for a proxy server
TSM FastBack’s block-level, incremental-forever backup technology virtually eliminates the backup window and the load on the CPU
FastBack uses only about 2% of CPU cycles when running a backup job
Can do bare machine recoveries of virtual servers to another virtual machine or to a physical machine (P-to-P, P-to-V, V-to-V, V-to-P)
Use for loading and migrating test environments and for on-demand disaster recovery
The TSM FastBack Server component can also be run in a virtual machine

TSM FastBack in a virtualized environment
FastBack
Client
FastBack
Client
Virtualization techniques like VMWare place extra burden upon individual applications and fileservers. These servers can ill-afford additional workloads introduced by backup.
Block-level incremental-forever backup addresses this by virtually eliminating the backup window and the load on the CPU.
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The TSM FastBack Client is installed on each guest OS
Performs block level incremental forever backup for applications and files
The ESX Server CPU is not over-loaded with long backup windows from multiple virtual systems
Can Also deploy TSM FastBack Server in a Virtual Machine
This makes TSM FastBack a great solution for virtual system data protection.

TSM FastBack w/ VMware and Hyper-V
Problem:
Customers need solutions that enable fast and granular recovery of these virtual environments
Traditional, file-level backup products must often rely on special integration with the host, or the use of a proxy server, to coordinate backup and recovery processes
Solution:
Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack provides non-disruptive backup and instant recovery of any amount of data following a failure
TSM FastBack may be installed directly on each guest operating system, allowing for full protection of the file systems and applications of these individual, virtual environments.
Block-level, incremental backup does not burden the host server with significant I/O or processor overhead.
Result:
Many of the guest operating systems can be performing backups simultaneously on the same host: easier to manage
No need for a proxy server or special integration: reduced cost

TSM FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery
Bare Machine Recovery
Takes less than an hour
Full access within minutes
With Instant Restore technology, data volumes are made available as soon as the recovery process starts
Support for dissimilar hardware
Recover on a similar server, to a completely different server, or to a Virtual Machine
Any-to-Any HW Restore utility
“N-to-1” standby server ratio:
One standby server can provide cover for many production servers
Cost-effective ‘high availability’ alternative
32 and 64-bit operating systems & processors
MS Windows and Linux clients

Virtualization Support for Guests & Hosts
Guests:
Must be a FastBack supported operating system
Hosts:
Vmware ESX
MicroSoft Hyper-V
FastBack BMR Virtualization Support

FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery – MS Windows Support
Perform FB snapshot backup to FB Server
Create FB BMR recovery CD
Recovery CD used as boot disk to recover a damaged machine
Complete restore with a snapshot from FB Server
Note:
When restoring a system to hardware that is different from the original system, the Any-to-Any HW Restore utility may be needed to resolve a black screen condition during system boot after the restore

FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery – Linux Support
Linux Platforms: Fedora and Suse
After installation of BMR on the FB server machine, there are four stages; two preparatory and two recovery stages with multiple steps in each stage
Create Linux boot image (using Linux system utility)
Create FB snapshot
Restore Linux image on recovery machine
Restore snapshot to recovery machine
Notes:
While installing Linux for BMR, be sure to use the default install path
The Linux BMR does not support configurations with dissimilar hardware

TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange
Granular restore of individual MS-Exchange objects to active Exchange mailbox, Outlook .pst, other mailbox with SMTP:
Messages
Attachments
Calendar entries
Contacts
Notes
Tasks
Journal entries
Supports Shared / Public Folders
Supports Exchange 2003, 2007 & 2010
Note: Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 users must download the latest Exchange MAPI from Microsoft.

TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange…

TSM FastBack - Benefits
TSM FastBack Client/Server Overview
Reduce the business risks and costs associated with the loss of critical data
Improved Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) – reduce new data at risk from 24-hours to as little as the last transaction
Improved Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) – reduce downtime following almost any data loss from hours/days to just a few minutes*
Automate the protection of data in remote offices and on workstations – reduce the need to re-create data and the costs of data loss, without the need for on-site IT staff
Reduced data storage footprint – incremental-forever backup, data deduplication and selective replication reduce capacity and bandwidth requirements
On-demand disaster recovery – reduce the costs of standby hardware through use of bare machine recovery on dissimilar or virtual hardware*
Streamline e-mail recovery – restore only the Exchange content that you need, not an entire mailbox or ‘brick’
Investment protection – integrate these next-generation capabilities into your existing data protection and recovery infrastructure (added benefits when integrating with TSM)

Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Basics
Block-level, incremental-forever, continuous or scheduled backup for Windows and Linux servers
Near-instant restore of Windows and Linux application data
Integrated target-side data deduplication
Built-in ‘selective replication’
Tight integration with Tivoli Storage Manager
TSM FastBack for Workstations: optional protection for laptops & desktops

Block Level Incremental Forever
FastBackServer
Production
Disk
Frequent Block Level Incremental snapshots can take only seconds or minutes to complete
Bandwidth efficient data movement makes frequent snapshots and CDP practical
Very little impact to the production server or the network
Block level incremental is used for application protection as well as protecting files
Excellent performance
Application or File server
Incremental backups are Block-Level, not file-level.
Only the blocks that have changed since the last incremental snapshot are backed up

Mount Snapshots as a Virtual Volume
Quickly mount any snapshot volume from the local or remote (replicated) repository, as a virtual volume on the server (read-only)
Mount snapshots into virtual volumes, without actually restoring the files.
Example use:
MS SQL table restore
You can mount virtual volume with a backed up database and recover anything you need without restoring the volume to disk.
When a database is backed up it resides on the FastBack repository, so a virtual volume containing the database can be mounted on any SQL server.
Mount a backup volume and attach the database to SQL without the need to restore.
User can manipulate data using native database tool
Access from anywhere
Select any saved snapshot
Any point in time
Mount as a Virtual Drive

FastBack - Deployment - Remote Office Protection
Remote Office
Application Servers / File Servers
Data Center
TSM is the workhorse
in the Data Center
Vault/DR Site
FastBack Server
TapeVault
TSM
Server
WAN
Remote Office
FastBack Server and DR HUB Server
TapeLibrary
FastBack Server

WAN
Deployment Examples- IR server w/ TSM server
Deduplication for data sent over the network from FastBack to TSM
The target for this deduplicated data sent over the network is a TSM 6.2 server.
Integrated deduplicated data replication using TSM API
Deduplication across multiple FastBack servers targeting the same TSM Server
Benefits:
More effective use of bandwidth
Reduced storage requirements at the DR site
Reduced storage requirements at the DR site
WAN dedupe
More effective use
of Bandwidth
Data Center

Reduces storage requirements
Remote Office
WAN
Data Center
Data deduplicated on FastBack Server
FastBack Server
FastBack DR Server
Deployment Examples- IR server to IR server
Benefits:
Remember: FastBack already has excellent data reduction capabilities based on its block level incremental forever snapshots
Deduplication adds to this to further help reduce storage requirements
Data deduplicated on FastBack Server
Post processing with low impact on backup operations
Provides space usage information to help customers understand the benefits of de-duplication

Bottom Line

STORServer InstantRestore

by jwsnlutz on Jun 28, 2011

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