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BACK FROM THE EDGE: INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION THROUGH PLATESPIN
The document provides an overview of Micro Focus's PlateSpin disaster recovery solutions, highlighting the importance of disaster recovery and its role in business continuity. It details the product family, key concepts such as Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO), and outlines the benefits of using PlateSpin for efficient and cost-effective recovery processes. The presentation emphasizes the rising threats to data integrity, including cybercrime, and stresses the need for businesses to have robust disaster recovery plans in place.
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- 1. 1 Alain Salesse Solutions Architect March2017 Micro Focus Disaster Recovery Solution Overview #MFSummit2017
- 2. 2 • Introduction toPlateSpin • What is disaster recovery and why it matters • PlateSpin DR solutions • Q&A Agenda 2
- 3. 3 PlateSpin Product Family PlateSpinRecon 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
- 4. 4 Introduction to DisasterRecovery
- 5. 5 What is DisasterRecovery? 5 Replication of entire server workloads Failover of workloads during an outage Failback of workloads after the outage
- 6. 6 • A workloadis 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? 6 Data Applications Operating System Workload
- 7. 7 Top causes ofbusiness disruption 7 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
- 8. 8 However, the threatlandscape 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 8
- 9. 9 DR is thelast defence against ransomware “Back up data regularly. Verify the integrity of those backups and test the restoration process to ensure it is working” 9 Source: US Government interagency technical guidance document
- 10. 10 Lost business revenue and opportunities Lostemployee productivity and morale The cost of downtime has increased 38 percent since 2010 The impact of a major outage 10 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
- 11. 11 Organisations are ill-preparedfor a disaster 11 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%
- 12. 12 What is RTO? RecoveryTime 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. 12
- 13. 13 What is RPO? RecoveryPoint 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. 13
- 14. 14 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 14 Tier 3 2 1
- 15. 15 Business expectations ofDR 15 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
- 16. 16 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” 16 Tier 3 2 1
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- 18. 18 Low Cost • Leverages virtual infrastructureas 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
- 19. 19 PlateSpin Disaster Recoveryin action Copy Replicate Failover Failback Test 19 PlateSpin DR
- 20. 20 PlateSpin Disaster Recoveryin action Copy Replicate Failover Failback Test 20 PlateSpin DR
- 21. 21 PlateSpin Disaster Recoveryin action Copy Replicate Failover Failback Test 21 PlateSpin DR
- 22. 22 PlateSpin Disaster Recoveryin action Copy Replicate Failover Failback Test 22 PlateSpin DR
- 23. 23 Benefits of PlateSpinvirtualised 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 23
- 24. 24 PlateSpin disaster recoveryportfolio • 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 24 PlateSpin Forge
- 25. 25 Licensing • Perpetual licenselocked 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 25 PlateSpin Forge
- 26. 26 Forge 700 Forge900 (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 26 All-in-one disaster recovery appliance that includes server hardware, hypervisor, management software plus hardware and software support
- 27. 27 Why use PlateSpinDisaster 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 27
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