IBM's storage solutions leverage software-defined storage architecture to provide a robust platform for hybrid cloud and cognitive applications, ensuring efficient data management and protection. The IBM Spectrum Storage suite offers a comprehensive range of tools and features for data control, backup, and optimization, with a focus on hybrid cloud deployments. Collaborations with Veeam enhance backup and recovery processes, particularly for VMware environments, leveraging fast and reliable IBM FlashCopy snapshots.

2. IBM Storage & SDI
Data is the asset.
Cognitive is the goal.
Hybrid cloud is the
platform.
Software defined storage
is the architecture.
Storage is the foundation.

3. Hybrid cloud is the platform on
which cognitive solutions are built.
Data is the resource
on which they all depend.
IBM Storage protects that data,
delivering it when, where, and
how it’s needed with reliability,
efficiency and economy.
Storage is the Foundation
For hybrid cloud & cognitive solutions

4. Comprehensive family of offerings addresses full range
of software defined storage & compute requirements
Flexible deployment on cloud, as appliance,
and as software on client choice of hardware
Built using technologies proven in over
fifty thousand client deployments
From the vendor with the highest leadership
ranking positions by analyst
Complements and transforms existing infrastructure
to support next generation applications
The IBM Storage Portfolio Difference

5. Traditional Applications New GenerationApplications
Storage
Management
Policy
Automation
Analytics &
Optimization
Snapshot &
Replication
Management
Integration &
API Services
Data
Protection
Spectrum Virtualize
Virtualized SAN Block
Spectrum Scale
Global File and Object
Flexibility to use IBM and non-IBM Servers & Storage or Cloud Services
Spectrum Accelerate
Hyperscale Block
IBM Storwize, XIV, DS8000, FlashSystem, ProtecTIER and
Tape Systems
Non-IBM storage, including commodity servers and media
Data Access
Spectrum Control Spectrum Protect
Self Service
Storage
Spectrum Archive
Active Data Retention
andnon-IBMclouds
IBM Software Defined Storage Capabilities
5
IBM Spectrum Storage Solutions
Storage and Data Control

6. • #1 in Software Defined Storage
• #1 Object Storage with Seamless Cloud Storage
• #1 Business Resiliency Solution
• Cognitive Storage Placement Anywhere
• Hybrid Cloud Optimized
• Modernization through Software Defined Storage
Architecture
• Optimize Your Current Investments with
Virtualization
• Ease of Consumption
• Optimal Tier Economics
Top Reasons why IBM is the vendor to
partner with for Software Defined Storage

7. 7
Broadest Storage and Software Defined Portfolio
IBM Flash Solutions make
fast storage simple
Software-defined storage
to speed innovation and
hybrid cloud
IBM Software Defined
Storage
• IBM Spectrum Storage Suite
• IBM Spectrum Control /
Storage Insights
• IBM Spectrum Protect
• IBM Spectrum Accelerate
• IBM Spectrum Archive
• IBM Spectrum Scale
• IBM Spectrum Virtualize
• IBM Spectrum Copy Data
Management
IBM Cloud Object Storage
IBM Converged Infrastructure
VersaStack
• IBM FlashSystem V9000
• IBM FlashSystem A9000
• IBM FlashSystem 900
• IBM Storwize V7000/V7000F
• IBM Storwize V5030F/V5030/
V5020/V5010
• IBM SAN Volume Controller
IBM PurePower
• IBM Storwize V7000
IBM Storage Solutions
IBM All-Flash
• IBM FlashSystem A9000
• IBM FlashSystem A9000R
• IBM FlashSystem V9000
• IBM FlashSystem 900
• IBM DS8888F/DS8886F/DS8884F
• IBM Storwize V7000F/V5030F
• IBM All-Flash Elastic Storage
Server
• IBM All-Flash SAN Volume
Controller
IBM Hybrid Storage
• IBM DS8884/DS8886
• IBM XIV Storage System
• IBM Storwize V7000//V5030/
V5020/V5010
• IBM Elastic Storage Server
• IBM SAN Volume Controller
IBM Software Defined
Computing
• IBM Spectrum Symphony
• IBM Spectrum LSF
• IBM Spectrum Conductor
with Spark
• IBM Spectrum Conductor for
Containers
Faster applications, faster
time to benefits, easy,
efficient and versatile,
certified and tested for you
Defining a new generation of
software-defined computing
infrastructure
Tape Storage for data protection
and long term retention .Storage
Networking for increased
performance, security and
flexibility
IBM Business Continuity
& Connectivity
IBM Tape & Virtual Tape Systems
• TS7700, TS7760
• Tape Libraries
• LTO7 and enterprise tape drives
• ProtecTIER Deduplication
IBM Storage Networking (SAN)
• Directors
• Switches
• Specialty Switches

8. IBM Spectrum Virtualize /
IBM Storwize family + Veeam

10. IBM
Backup Storage like
IBM Storwize
IBM Spectrum Scale
Secondary Backup:
IBM Tape Libraries
Veeam Backup from Storage Snapshot
for IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) and IBM Storwize
Backup/Restore
SAN Backend
FlashCopy
(with
optional
Retention)
VMware
IBM Spectrum Virtualize / Storwize
Veeam leverages IBM FlashCopy based Backups to achieve:
• Agentless Application Aware Backup (AD/Exchange/SharePoint/SQL/Oracle/…)
• Minimizes the typical VMware backup API performance impact on production VMs during backup
• Improves RTO and RPO times with technologies like Instant VM Recovery and Application Restore out of Snapshots or Backups
• More than doubles the possible backup speed compared with standard VMware API backups and more than 10x the speed of other storage
snapshots backup solutions through usage of VMware Change Block Tracking with them
Backup & Replication

11. Veeam Backup from Storage Snapshot
for IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) and IBM Storwize
Backup/Restore
SAN Backend
FlashCopy
with
retention
VMware
IBM Spectrum Virtualize / Storwize
Veeam leverages IBM FlashCopy based Backups to achieve:
• Agentless Application Aware Snapshot creation (AD/Exchange/SharePoint/SQL/Oracle/…)
• Improves RPO time as customers can create additional snapshot based restore points on top of traditional backups.
• High frequent Crash Consistent Snapshots together with application restore support out of them, improves RPO times even further.
Backup & Replication

12. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots
for IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) and IBM Storwize
FlashCopies
VMware
IBM Spectrum Virtualize / Storwize
Veeam can restore VMs (Instant VM Recovery) / Guest Files / Application Items and Databases out of IBM FlashCopies
• Works with FlashCopies that were created by Veeam, IBM or any 3rd Party software. VMs need to be on VMDK base.
• Easy to use interface. New Snapshots are automatically detected and restores can be started.
• Veeam Backup Free Edition provide VM and Guest File Restore. Application Items and DBs can be exported.
• Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Edition provide additional Application Item and DB restore to original place.
Free
Backup & Replication

13. On-Demand Sandbox for Storage Snapshots
for IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) and IBM Storwize
FlashCopies
VMware
IBM Spectrum Virtualize / Storwize
Veeam can provide automated restore verification and on-demand Labs for VMs from IBM FlashCopies
• VMs can be started on demand into a Sandbox environment to test applications, scripts, upgrades, development,…
• Most actual FlashCopy can be used to schedule automated restore tests. It will test VM boot, Network connection and Application start.
• Works with FlashCopies that were created by Veeam, IBM or any 3rd Party software. VMs need to be on VMDK base.
• Reports of these automated restore tests can be sent by mail. (Enhanced Report in Veeam Availability Suite)..
Veeam
VirtualLab Verification Job
Backup & Replication

14. Veeam Explorer
from Storage Snapshot

15. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots
for IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) and IBM Storwize
FlashCopies
VMware
IBM Spectrum Virtualize / Storwize
Veeam can restore VMs (Instant VM Recovery) / Guest Files / Application Items and Databases out of IBM FlashCopies
• Works with FlashCopies that were created by Veeam, IBM or any 3rd Party software. VMs need to be on VMDK base.
• Easy to use interface. New Snapshots are automatically detected and restores can be started.
• Veeam Backup Free Edition provide VM and Guest File Restore. Application Items and DBs can be exported.
• Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Edition provide additional Application Item and DB restore to original place.
Free
Backup & Replication

16. Use of Storage Snapshots for better RPO
At any Backup you need to transport data and
consistency processing reduce performance of applications. Veeam
Backup Processing are therefore done typically “only” 1-4x a day.
 Solution: Use Storage Snapshots between the Backups (once
per hour or more frequent) for better RPO

17. and more
Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots
*.vbk
 Instant VM Recovery
 File Recovery
(Win/Linux/Unix)
 Object/DB Restore
 Can be out of consistent or
crash consistent
FlashCopies and Backups
 It does not matter if
Snapshot was created by
Veeam, Lenovo or 3rd Party
 For VMDK based VMs

18. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

19. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

20. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

21. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

22. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

23. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

24. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

25. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

26. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

27. Veeam Explorers

28. Instant VM Recovery – How it works

29. Licensing
IBM FlashCopy License needed
Veeam Explorer from Storage Snapshot need one of the following Versions:
 Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise
 Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise
 Veeam Essentials Enterprise
 Veeam Backup free edition can be used as well.
Full functionallity but Application restore is limited to export (no direct
restore to original)

30. Veeam Backup
from Storage Snapshot

31. IBM
Backup Storage like
IBM Storwize
IBM Spectrum Scale
Secondary Backup:
IBM Tape Libraries
Veeam Backup from Storage Snapshot
for IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) and IBM Storwize
Backup/Restore
SAN Backend
FlashCopy
(with
Retention)
VMware
IBM Spectrum Virtualize / Storwize
Veeam leverages IBM FlashCopy based Backups to achieve:
• Agentless Application Aware Backup (AD/Exchange/SharePoint/SQL/Oracle/…)
• Minimizes the typical VMware backup API performance impact on production VMs during backup
• Improves RTO and RPO times with technologies like Instant VM Recovery and Application Restore out of Snapshots or Backups
• More than doubles the possible backup speed compared with standard VMware API backups and more than 10x the speed of other storage
snapshots backup solutions through usage of VMware Change Block Tracking with them
Backup & Replication

32. VMware Snapshot challenges
VM snapshot deleteVM snapshot
VMware VM snapshot lifetime
I/O
t
I/O
t
IBM FlashCopy Delete IBM
FlashCopy
VMware VM snapshot lifetime

33. IBM FlashCopy based Backups

34. Veeams unique features
 Backup from Storage Snapshot uses asyncronous reads (higher
queue depth) and is so in many cases more than 2 times faster
compared with DirectSAN backup methods
 Veeam access the FlashCopy Snapshots directly to read data without
to mount the FlashCopies to a VMware host. This allow Veeam to
preserve and use the VMware Change Block Tracking informations
together with Incremental Forever backups. This is up to 10x faster
copared with mounting the volume to a VMware host (including
reregister VMs).
 Storage Latency Control keeps an eye on the Datastore Latency and
reduce Backup speed if Applications will be affected with the extra
load produced by the backup.

35. Example of a standard VMware API
backup from Storage without Snapshots
 ~34 min open VMware VM Snapshot at
this example.
 Veeam uses parallel Disk backup to
reduce time window but the VMware
VM Snapshot is open for a long time.
 This leads in a ~28min VMware VM
Snapshot commit with high IO at
Storage and possible performance
impact on the VM

36. With use of IBM Storage FlashCopy
Snapshots for Veeam Backups
 VMware VM Snapshot is only open until
the storage snapshot was created.
(14 seconds in this example)
 It creates IBM FlashCopies in the
background directly after the VM Snapshot
creation.
 Nearly instant VMware VM Snapshot
commit (3 Seconds in this example)
 Works with FC/iSCSI VMware Datastores

37. Veeam
Backup
Files
and more
VM, File, Object and DB Restore
*.vbk

38. Licensing
IBM FlashCopy License needed
Backup from Storage Snapshot need one of the following Versions:
 Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Plus
 Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Plus
 Veeam Essentials Enterprise Plus

39. On-Demand Sandbox
for Storage Snapshots

40. Veeam Backup from Storage Snapshot
for IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) and IBM Storwize
Backup/Restore
SAN Backend
FlashCopy
with
retention
VMware
IBM Spectrum Virtualize / Storwize
Veeam leverages IBM FlashCopy based Backups to achieve:
• Agentless Application Aware Snapshot creation (AD/Exchange/SharePoint/SQL/Oracle/…)
• Improves RPO time as customers can create additional snapshot based restore points on top of traditional backups.
• High frequent Crash Consistent Snapshots together with application restore support out of them, improves RPO times even further.
Backup & Replication

41. Enabling Snapshot only Jobs

42. Licensing
IBM FlashCopy License needed
Backup from Storage Snapshot need one of the following Versions:
 Veeam Backup & Replication Standard
 Veeam Availability Suite Standard
 Veeam Essentials Standard

43. On-Demand Sandbox
for Storage Snapshots

44. On-Demand Sandbox for Storage Snapshots
for IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) and IBM Storwize
FlashCopies
VMware
IBM Spectrum Virtualize / Storwize
Veeam can provide automated restore verification and on-demand Labs for VMs from IBM FlashCopies
• VMs can be started on demand into a Sandbox environment to test applications, scripts, upgrades, development,…
• Most actual FlashCopy can be used to schedule automated restore tests. It will test VM boot, Network connection and Application start.
• Works with FlashCopies that were created by Veeam, IBM or any 3rd Party software. VMs need to be on VMDK base.
• Reports of these automated restore tests can be sent by mail. (Enhanced Report in Veeam Availability Suite)..
Veeam
VirtualLab Verification Job
Backup & Replication

45. SureBackup – How it works

46. Instantly start a group of VMs in a Virtual Lab
“We’re building
roughly 8 to 10
test environments
at any given time.
With Veeam,
it’s not only
possible, but easy
and automated.”
– Theresa Brownfield
Lead Principal IS Operations Engineer
John I. Haas, Inc.
On-Demand Sandbox for Storage Snapshots
High Performance as FlashCopies can be used for it
Put your backups to work!

47. OnDemand Lab/SureBackup start

48. Licensing
IBM FlashCopy License needed
On-Demand Snadbox for Storage Snapshots need one of the
following Versions:
 Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Plus
 Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Plus
 Veeam Essentials Enterprise Plus

49. General Overview

50. Veeam intends to support the following systems:
 min Firmware tbd
 Exact list of storage systems will be released shortly before the
release of v10
IBM Spectrum Virtualize software running the following Systems:
 IBM Storwize V3500/V3700/V5000/V5000F/V7000/V7000F/V9000 (all generations that support minimum code level)
 IBM SAN Volume Controller (all generations that support minimum code level)
 Commodity x86 servers (if certified from IBM side).
 IBM/Cisco VersaStack (converged system)
Supported Storage Systems

51.  FibreChannel (Veeam Proxy needs to be physical)
 iSCSI
Fallback to NBD-Network mode or HotAdd (Backup & Restore)
Usable Protocols

52. Veeam and Enterprise Environments
Reduced Management Overhead
and Application Protection

53. Veeam and Enterprise Environments
Optimal VMware Interaction

54. Veeam and Enterprise Environments
Reduced Data Flow

55. Veeam and Enterprise Environments
Veeam Engine

56. Veeam and Enterprise Environments
Easy Integration Project

57. Veeam and Enterprise Environments
Instant Recovery