Stuff happens and every organization needs effective disaster recovery plans for key IT infrastructure components. Doing nothing is not an option, clustering is not cost-effective for all workloads, and tape backups just take too long to restore. So what are your options? In this session we’ll take a look at how virtualization technology can help fill the gap with costeffective recovery of important server workloads.

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Alain Salesse
Solutions Architect
March 2017
Micro Focus Disaster Recovery
Solution Overview
#MFSummit2017

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• Introduction to PlateSpin
• What is disaster recovery and why it
matters
• PlateSpin DR solutions
• Q&A
Agenda
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PlateSpin Product Family
PlateSpin Recon PlateSpin Migrate
Transformation Manager Protect / Forge
Physical and virtual analysis
Virtualization planning & modeling
Resource reclamation
Disaster recovery planning
Workload Migration
Anywhere-to-Anywhere
Physical, Virtual, Cloud
Windows and Linux
Cost-effective Disaster Recovery
Software or Hardware appliance
Easy setup, rapid recovery
Physical and virtual workloads
Leverage virtual infrastructure
Planning & execution tool for
large-scale data center transformation
& workload migration projects
Support for all workload migration types
Increases transformation speed and success
ratio drives down cost of transformation
projects

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Introduction to Disaster Recovery

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What is Disaster Recovery?
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Replication of entire server workloads
Failover of workloads during an outage
Failback of workloads after the outage

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• A workload is the operating system,
applications, data and configuration
that reside on a physical server or
virtual machine.
• A single entity, portable
between physical and virtual
platforms
What is a workload?
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Data
Applications
Operating System
Workload

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Top causes of business disruption
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Network
Failure
16%
Hardware
Failure
31%
Software
Failure
15%
Power
Failure
43%
Human
Error
13%
Source: Forrester - Disaster Recovery Journal, November 2013. Global Disaster Recovery Preparedness Online Survey

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However, the threat landscape is evolving…
• “Cybercrime represents the fastest
growing cause of data center
outages” – Ponemon Institute
• “2016 has been the year of
ransomware” – ZDNet
• “File-encrypting malware can cost
individuals anywhere between
$200 and $10,000 each time” –
FBI
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DR is the last defence against ransomware
“Back up data regularly. Verify
the integrity of those backups
and test the restoration
process to ensure it is working”
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Source: US Government interagency technical guidance document

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Lost business
revenue and
opportunities
Lost employee
productivity and
morale
The cost of downtime has increased 38 percent since 2010
The impact of a major outage
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Source: Forrester - Winter 2014, The State of IT Resiliency and Preparedness
Ponemon Institute – January 2016, Cost of Data Center Outages
The average cost
of downtime per
minute
$9k
Lost customer
confidence and
business reputation

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Organisations are ill-prepared for a disaster
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Source: 2014 study by the Disaster Preparedness Council
40%
Organisations
whose DR plan
failed to work when
they needed it
Organisations
without a fully
documented DR
plan
60%
Organisations
failing their own
disaster recovery
tests
65%

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What is RTO?
Recovery Time Objective
• The target, maximum allowable
time to recover from an outage.
• An RTO of four hours means
systems have to be back up and
operational no more than four
hours after an outage.
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What is RPO?
Recovery Point Objective
• A measure of maximum acceptable
data loss in terms of time (minutes,
hours, days).
• An RPO of four hours means that the
most recent backup has to be no
more than four hours old at the time
of an outage.
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Service availability tiers
Availability %
Downtime per
Year
Downtime per
Month
Typical
RPO/RTO
90
“one nine”
36.5 days 72 hours
12-24 hours
95 18.25 days 36 hours
99
“two nines”
3.65 days 7.2 hours
15-60 minutes
99.9
“three nines”
8.76 hours 43.8 minutes
99.99
“four nines”
52.56 minutes 4.32 minutes
<5 minutes
99.999
“five nines”
5.26 minutes 25.9 seconds
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Tier
3
2
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Business expectations of DR
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Source: Gartner
Zero
17%
Less than 1
hour
32%
Between 1
and 4 hours
40%
Tier
1
Tier 2
Tier
3
More
than 4
hours
11%
Audience polling shows that 72% of
the enterprises surveyed have RTO
for their most mission-critical
applications and services between
one and four hours

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Disaster recovery solutions
Availability %
Typical
RTO/RPO Solution Relative cost
90
“one nine”
12-24 hours
95
99
“two nines”
15-60 minutes
?99.9
“three nines”
99.99
“four nines”
<5 minutes
99.999
“five nines”
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Tier
3
2
1

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PlateSpin Virtualized
Disaster Recovery

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Low
Cost
• Leverages virtual
infrastructure as a recovery
platform
• Bridges the gap between
expensive high availability
and inadequate backup
solutions
• Delivers mirroring-like RTO
and RPO performance at a
price point approaching tape
Disaster Recovery with virtualisation
PlateSpinTape Clustering
High
Performance

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PlateSpin Disaster Recovery in action
Copy
Replicate
Failover
Failback
Test
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PlateSpin
DR

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PlateSpin Disaster Recovery in action
Copy
Replicate
Failover
Failback
Test
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PlateSpin
DR

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PlateSpin Disaster Recovery in action
Copy
Replicate
Failover
Failback
Test
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PlateSpin
DR

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PlateSpin Disaster Recovery in action
Copy
Replicate
Failover
Failback
Test
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PlateSpin
DR

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Benefits of PlateSpin virtualised recovery
Rapid failover and failback
• Warm standby VMs provide very fast
recovery
• Restore to bare metal, repaired server
or virtual platform
• Use hypervisor snapshots for point-in-
time recovery
Safe sandbox testing
• Test at any time without affecting the
production environment
• Test upgrades/patches/changes
Heterogeneous workload protection
• Protect physical and virtual Windows and
Linux with the same solution
Simple licensing
• No OS or application licenses required
on recovery workloads
(depends on vendor T&Cs)
Cost effective
• Utilise existing VMware infrastructure
• No need for expensive, application-level
high availability
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PlateSpin disaster recovery portfolio
• Sophisticated software
solution
• Leverages capacity in existing
VMware virtual infrastructure
• All-in-one hardware appliance
• 5 year hardware support
• No virtual infrastructure
required; no expertise needed
in virtualization
PlateSpin Protect
• Delivers mirroring-like RTO and RPO performance at a price point
approaching tape
• Protect up to 40 or more physical and virtual workloads per server
• Be protected in hours not days
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PlateSpin Forge

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Licensing
• Perpetual license locked to a
single named workload
• Allows a single workload to be
protected
• Maintenance needs to be
renewed on a yearly basis
• Sold per appliance with
licenses to protect 10, 25 or
40 workloads
• Additional workload licenses
available in 5-packs
• Maintenance included for
3 or 5 years
PlateSpin Protect
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PlateSpin Forge

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Forge 700 Forge 900 (in development)
Dell PowerEdge R730xd with VMware ESXi 5.5
2 x 10-core processors
Xeon E5-2630v4 3.1GHz
2 x 20-core processors
Xeon E5-2698v4 2.2GHz
128GB RAM (upgradeable) 512GB RAM (upgradeable)
20TB SATA storage RAID 6 20TB SSD storage RAID 6
6 x Gigabit Ethernet
PlateSpin Forge technical specs
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All-in-one disaster recovery appliance that includes server hardware,
hypervisor, management software plus hardware and software support

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Why use PlateSpin Disaster Recovery?
PlateSpin DR solutions are designed to minimise
Risk Test your recovery plan quickly and
easily any time
Cost No need for dedicated infrastructure
or lots of network bandwidth
Time Implement protection in hours
not days
Complexity One simple recovery solution for
Windows, Linux, physical and virtual
Inconsistency Eliminate under- and overprotection,
and protect everything well
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