The document outlines a webinar discussing five challenges in backup design that affect virtualized data protection, including full backup challenges, replication issues, and recovery performance. Speakers include industry experts George Crump and Kevin Russell, who emphasize the need for intelligent backup solutions as virtualization evolves. Exagrid is highlighted as a company providing scalable and efficient backup solutions that address these challenges.

1. Webinar
The Five Ways Backup Design
Can Impact Virtualized Data Protection
Learn How To Meet These Challenges:
Available On Demand
1. The Full Backup Challenge
2. The Changed Block Backup Challenge
3. The Consolidated Full Challenge
4. The Replication Challenge
5. The Instant Recovery Challenge
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/5DataProtect

2. About George Crump
● Founder of Storage Switzerland, and its
lead analyst
● Areas of expertise include performance
optimization and data protection.
● Recognized for his talks, white papers
and chalktalk videos on such current
technology as all-flash arrays, SSDs
and software-defined storage
● He has 25 years of experience
designing storage solutions for data
centers across the US

3. ExaGrid at a Glance
7,000+
Systems installed
globally
345+
Customer success
stories and videos at
ExaGrid.com
Company
Offices across North
America, Europe, APAC
Product
Highly scalable, cost-effective
disk backup with
deduplication system
Over 20 compatible backup applications & utilities
and technology certifications

4. About ExaGrid Speaker
Kevin Russell, Vice President, North America Systems Engineering
Kevin has been building, coaching and mentoring high-performance systems
engineering teams for over 15 years in disciplines ranging from network
architecture, data backup solutions, virtualization and enterprise storage. Kevin
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowling Green State University.
i 20 years, he has held multiple leadership positions with major technology
companies including NetScrJunip, and Riverbed Technology. Kevin has a
degree from State University in Bowling Green, OH and has co-authored a
book on network security.

5. Polling Question
"What Do You Wish Your Virtualized
Backup Would Do Better?"
A) More, Faster Backups Throughout the Day
B) Require Fewer or Zero Full Backups
C) Faster Recoveries To Original Host
D) Better "Recovery in Place" Performance
E) Better Reporting of DR Status via
Replication

6. Polling Question
"What Do You Wish Your Virtualized
Backup Would Do Better?"

7. The State of Virtual Backup
• Software has improved
significantly over the past three
years
• New features could enable the
cost effective achievement of
very high SLA capabilities
• But…hardware has largely
remained status quo and has
been leap frogged by software

8. Design Challenge #1
VM Backup Changed the State of Backups

9. Design Challenge #1
VM Backup Changed the State of Backups
● Full Backups Remain A Challenge
Deduplication and compression does not help on initial
full backups
● The Change Block Backup Challenge
Small but varied I/O now bombard the backup target
● The Consolidated Full Challenge
Creating a off-host full is more time consuming than
simply copying the data over the wire a second time

10. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Changed Block Backup Challenge
Legacy: Once a night
sequential data copy

11. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Changed Block Backup Challenge
Now: protection several times a
day, incremental update
Optimized
Native

12. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Consolidated Full Challenge
Legacy: Backup
was a bunch of
1’s and 0’s

13. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Consolidated Full Challenge
Now is multiple
versions of VM’s that
need to be
reconstituted in to a
new full backup

14. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Consolidated Full Challenge

15. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Consolidated Solution
Consolidation on the
backup appliance, no
network hops

16. Design Challenge #2
VM Backup Changed Disaster Recovery
● The VM Backup App and the
Backup Appliance can replicate off-site
Having the software do the replication consumes
backup and DR target server resources
Having the appliance do the replication means that
the backup software has no awareness of the replica
copy

17. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Replication Challenge
DR Site

18. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Replication Solution
DR Site
Command Control

19. Design Challenge #3
VM Backup Changed Recovery
● Full Restore Challenge
Deduplication and Multiple hops can impact full recovery
when moving data across the network
● The Tape Copy Challenge
VM specific backup apps are adding the ability to create
tape. Deduplication can impact that process and can add
multiple hops across the network
● Recovery In Place
Changes the Relationship we have with the backup
appliance – It can potentially be production storage

20. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Restore Challenges

21. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Restore Challenges

22. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Restore Solution

23. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Restore Solution

24. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Recovery in Place Challenge
Performance
degraded because of
deep drives, busy
controllers,
deduplication and
compression
Optimized

25. Virtualization Has Changed Backups
The Recovery in Place Challenge
Native
Optimized

26. Optimizing Architectures for VM Backup
● The State of Backups Are Changing
● The State of DR is Changing
● The State of Recover is Changing
● Requires Intelligent Backup Appliances

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ExaGrid –A Better Way!
Unique Architecture
• Front-end landing zone
• Adaptive deduplication
• Occurs in parallel
• Scale-out
• Full server appliances in a GRID
ExaGrid Solves the Problems
• Fastest backups
• Fastest restores, instant recoveries
& tape copies
• Fixed length backup window as data grows
• Eliminates obsolescence and
forklift upgrades

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Fastest Restores and Recoveries

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ExaGrid-VeeamAccelerated Agent
• Veeam to Veeam communications
• Faster than CIFs
• With the landing zone further improves performance for:
• Restores
• Instant VM Recovery
• Tape copy
• Sure Backup integrity check
• Virtual Lab
• Synthetic full backups on the ExaGrid
• Eliminates Veeam backup server overhead and network traffic
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30. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
gcrump@storage-switzerland.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
Exagrid:
www.exagrid.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ExaGrid
https://twitter.com/ExaGrid
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The Five Ways Backup Design
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