This document summarizes an upcoming presentation and live demo on solutions for virtualization, cloud computing, and licensing and support options for CA Technologies' Unified Data Protection product. The presentation will cover virtualization best practices, agentless backup solutions for VMware and Hyper-V, virtual standby capabilities, backup to public and private clouds, and simplified licensing and support offerings. A demo environment will be used to showcase backup, replication, and recovery features for virtual and physical servers across on-premises and cloud locations.
This document summarizes a presentation about solutions from CA Technologies for virtualization, cloud computing, and data protection. It discusses virtualization best practices, agentless backup for virtual machines, virtual standby for disaster recovery, backup to public and private clouds, and licensing and support options. The presentation includes demos of backup, replication, and recovery of virtual machines between on-premises and cloud environments.
This document discusses pricing, support, and licensing for CA's Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) product. It begins with an agenda and background on industry challenges with backup costs and complexity. The bulk of the document then focuses on how UDP simplifies pricing and licensing with fewer SKUs and options. It also discusses UDP's competitive pricing compared to other backup vendors and how support is made simple through various online resources and tracking of customer satisfaction and issue resolution times.
Arcserve spun out from CA Technologies to become an independent company in August 2014. The document discusses Arcserve's new business strategy and global presence as an independent company, as well as its data management solutions including Arcserve Unified Data Protection, which provides a single, unified solution for backup, replication, recovery point server deduplication, virtual standby, and other features to simplify data protection.
This document provides an overview of the key elements and features of the arcserve UDP data protection solution, including:
- Centralized management console for backups across physical and virtual systems
- Recovery Point Server for global deduplication, replication, and optimized storage
- Agentless backup for virtual environments like VMware and Hyper-V
- Built-in replication between Recovery Point Servers for disaster recovery
- Advanced features like infinite incremental backups, scheduling, and reporting
This document provides an overview of the arcserve UDP architecture. It discusses elements like the centralized management console, recovery point server for global deduplication, built-in replication, agentless backup for virtual environments, block-level incremental backup, full system high availability, virtual standby, multi-tenant storage, jumpstart data seeding, unified reporting, and tape archive capabilities. The goal is to reduce costs and complexity of data protection especially for remote offices by eliminating the need for tape backups in the field.
Arcserve spun out from CA Technologies to become an independent company in August 2014. The document discusses Arcserve's unified data protection solution, which combines data backup, replication, high availability, virtual standby, and tape archiving into a single management console. It can protect physical and virtual systems from a single site to multiple remote offices and the cloud.
The document discusses CA's unified data protection product (UDP) pricing, licensing, support and migration strategies. It provides an overview of simplified pricing with 5 primary SKUs priced per terabyte or socket. It also outlines competitive pricing comparisons and details on licensing tracking, upgrades, and migrating from legacy Arcserve products to UDP. Support is highlighted as a priority with 24x7 global access and improving customer satisfaction scores.
This document summarizes a presentation about solutions from CA Technologies for virtualization, cloud computing, and data protection. It discusses virtualization best practices, agentless backup for virtual machines, virtual standby for disaster recovery, backup to public and private clouds, and licensing and support options. The presentation includes demos of backup, replication, and recovery of virtual machines between on-premises and cloud environments.
This document discusses pricing, support, and licensing for CA's Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) product. It begins with an agenda and background on industry challenges with backup costs and complexity. The bulk of the document then focuses on how UDP simplifies pricing and licensing with fewer SKUs and options. It also discusses UDP's competitive pricing compared to other backup vendors and how support is made simple through various online resources and tracking of customer satisfaction and issue resolution times.
Arcserve spun out from CA Technologies to become an independent company in August 2014. The document discusses Arcserve's new business strategy and global presence as an independent company, as well as its data management solutions including Arcserve Unified Data Protection, which provides a single, unified solution for backup, replication, recovery point server deduplication, virtual standby, and other features to simplify data protection.
This document provides an overview of the key elements and features of the arcserve UDP data protection solution, including:
- Centralized management console for backups across physical and virtual systems
- Recovery Point Server for global deduplication, replication, and optimized storage
- Agentless backup for virtual environments like VMware and Hyper-V
- Built-in replication between Recovery Point Servers for disaster recovery
- Advanced features like infinite incremental backups, scheduling, and reporting
This document provides an overview of the arcserve UDP architecture. It discusses elements like the centralized management console, recovery point server for global deduplication, built-in replication, agentless backup for virtual environments, block-level incremental backup, full system high availability, virtual standby, multi-tenant storage, jumpstart data seeding, unified reporting, and tape archive capabilities. The goal is to reduce costs and complexity of data protection especially for remote offices by eliminating the need for tape backups in the field.
Arcserve spun out from CA Technologies to become an independent company in August 2014. The document discusses Arcserve's unified data protection solution, which combines data backup, replication, high availability, virtual standby, and tape archiving into a single management console. It can protect physical and virtual systems from a single site to multiple remote offices and the cloud.
The document discusses CA's unified data protection product (UDP) pricing, licensing, support and migration strategies. It provides an overview of simplified pricing with 5 primary SKUs priced per terabyte or socket. It also outlines competitive pricing comparisons and details on licensing tracking, upgrades, and migrating from legacy Arcserve products to UDP. Support is highlighted as a priority with 24x7 global access and improving customer satisfaction scores.
Next Generation Data Protection Architecture Gina Tragos
The document discusses next generation data protection solutions. It summarizes that traditional point solutions for backup, replication, availability, etc. have become inadequate for modern computing needs. Next generation solutions provide unified data protection that is highly scalable, easy to manage, and offers improved data protection and recovery capabilities. Case studies show how next generation solutions from Arcserve help organizations reduce backup windows, enable disaster recovery within hours instead of days, and provide centralized management of data protection across multiple locations and petabytes of storage.
This document summarizes a presentation about CA arcserve's Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution. The presentation discusses the growing challenges of data protection and how current solutions are falling short. It then outlines how the UDP solution provides a unified platform that reduces complexity and costs while improving reliability, flexibility, and recovery capabilities. Key features highlighted include global deduplication, agentless backup, virtual standby, and assured recovery reporting.
This document describes Arcserve UDP, a unified data protection solution. It provides concise summaries of Arcserve UDP's key capabilities in 3 sentences or less, including global deduplication across sites with Recovery Point Server, block-level infinite incremental backups, built-in replication, jumpstart data seeding, virtual standby, agentless VM backup, and unified reporting. The document is aimed at helping salespeople understand and effectively sell the solution.
CA is a large, global company that focuses on data management solutions. It offers the CA ARCserve Backup product, which provides comprehensive backup, recovery, replication and high availability capabilities for physical and virtual systems. Some key features of CA ARCserve Backup include built-in data deduplication, storage resource management, backup visualization, and integration with VMware and Hyper-V. The document discusses CA ARCserve Backup and provides examples of how it has been implemented for customers in industries such as manufacturing, financial services and technology.
This document describes the key features of the CA Arcserve UDP solution. It discusses its unified data protection capabilities including agentless backup for virtual environments, global deduplication across sites with Recovery Point Server, replication between sites, virtual standby for disaster recovery, assured recovery testing, and unified management and reporting. The solution aims to provide simplified and scalable data protection for physical and virtual environments from small to large organizations.
This document discusses a presentation about the CA arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution. The presentation covers:
1) The market need for a unified data protection solution due to the complexity of managing multiple point solutions and the growth of virtual environments.
2) How the CA arcserve UDP solution provides a single, unified platform for backup, replication, disaster recovery, and other data protection tasks across physical and virtual environments.
3) Key capabilities of the CA arcserve UDP solution like global deduplication, virtual standby, assured recovery testing, and a centralized management console.
L'agilité du cloud public dans votre datacenter avec ECS & NeutrinoRSD
The document discusses how ECS and Neutrino can provide public cloud agility within an organization's datacenter. It highlights several use cases where ECS can help simplify management of remote offices, enable collaboration by reducing storage and backup costs, archive cold user data, modernize applications by providing object storage, and support other traditional use cases like data protection, tiering to the cloud, and disaster recovery. ECS allows organizations to achieve many of the benefits of public cloud services on-premises.
Presentation deduplication backup software and systemxKinAnx
The document provides information on EMC's Avamar deduplication backup software and system. It discusses how Avamar reduces backup time and storage requirements through client-side deduplication. Avamar provides daily full backups, one-step recovery, and supports both physical and virtual environments. It integrates with EMC Data Domain systems and is optimized for backing up virtual machines, remote offices, desktops/laptops, and enterprise applications.
The document discusses EMC Data Domain, a data protection storage system that provides deduplication to reduce storage requirements by 10-30x. It protects up to 55 PB of logical capacity in a single system and completes backups faster at up to 31 TB per hour. Data Domain seamlessly integrates with leading backup and archiving applications. It provides reliable access and recovery through data verification and self-healing capabilities.
EMC Starter Kit - IBM BigInsights - EMC IsilonBoni Bruno
The document provides an overview of deploying IBM BigInsights v4.0 with EMC Isilon OneFS for HDFS storage. It includes a pre-installation checklist of supported software versions and hardware requirements. The installation overview section describes prerequisites and steps to prepare the Isilon storage, Linux compute nodes, and install IBM Open Platform and value packages. It also covers security configuration and administration after deployment.
The document discusses EMC's Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) product. It provides examples of how ECS has been used by customers for applications such as global content repositories, modern application platforms, geo-scale big data analytics, cold archives, internet of things storage platforms, and analytics requiring data in place. It also outlines new features and integrations for ECS around monitoring, availability, performance, and deployment simplicity.
Deduplication reduces the amount of disk storage needed to retain and protect data by ratios of 10-30x and greater, making a disk a cost-effective alternative to tape. Data on disk is available online and onsite for longer retention periods, and restores become fast and reliable. Storing only unique data on disk also means that data can be cost-effectively replicated over existing networks to remote sites for disaster recovery and consolidated tape operations.
Les solutions EMC de sauvegarde des données avec déduplication dans les envir...ljaquet
The document discusses EMC's backup and recovery solutions, with a focus on deduplication-based products. It provides an overview of EMC's portfolio including Avamar, Data Domain, and NetWorker. It then discusses key concepts like deduplication fundamentals and how the technology has evolved backup solutions from tape-based to disk-based. Specific product features and benefits are highlighted, such as Avamar's guest-level VMware backup and Data Domain's inline deduplication approach.
Se training storage grid webscale technical overviewsolarisyougood
The document provides an overview of StorageGRID Webscale, an object storage solution from NetApp. It discusses key concepts including how StorageGRID Webscale uses a distributed architecture with different node types to provide a global object namespace and scale to support billions of objects and petabytes of storage. The document also describes how StorageGRID Webscale leverages extensive metadata and policy-driven management to intelligently distribute and tier data across storage pools.
Transforming Backup and Recovery in VMware environments with EMC Avamar and D...CTI Group
This document discusses the transition from tape-based backup systems to backup appliances and deduplication backup software. It notes that backup appliances are disrupting the market, with tape being marginalized and storage and software functionality converging. Purpose-built backup appliances and deduplication backup software are experiencing much faster growth than tape automation. Deduplication technology is accelerating this transition by making backup storage more efficient and reducing bandwidth needs.
Deduplication Solutions Are Not All Created Equal: Why Data Domain?EMC
Data Domain systems provide significant advantages over other deduplication solutions through their unique technologies and leadership. Their Data Invulnerability Architecture ensures the integrity of backup data through end-to-end verification, fault avoidance, detection and healing, and rapid file system recoverability. Stream Informed Segment Layout delivers industry-leading performance that scales with CPU improvements. Data Domain Boost distributes deduplication processing for up to 50% faster backups and 99% less network usage. These technologies simplify backup operations, improve reliability and recoverability of data, and help customers meet backup windows.
Building Hadoop-as-a-Service with Pivotal Hadoop Distribution, Serengeti, & I...EMC
Hadoop has made it into the enterprise mainstream as Big Data technology. But, what about Hadoop as a private or public cloud service on a shared infrastructure? This session looks at a Hadoop solution with virtualization, shared storage, and multi-tenancy, and discuss how service providers can use Pivotal Hadoop Distribution, Isilon, and Serengeti to offer Hadoop-as-a-Service.
Objective 1: Understand Hadoop and its deployment challenges.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Understand the EMC HDaaS solution architecture and the use cases it addresses.
Objective 3: Understand Pivotal Hadoop Distribution, Serengeti and Isilon's Hadoop features.
Virtualization and Open Virtualization Format (OVF)rajsandhu1989
This document discusses virtualization and its role as the backbone of cloud computing. It defines virtualization as the creation of virtual versions of hardware platforms, operating systems, storage devices and network resources. The document outlines different types of virtualization including hardware/server virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization, and desktop virtualization. It describes how server virtualization works using hypervisors to divide physical servers into multiple virtual machines. The benefits of virtualization discussed include resource sharing, load balancing, easier backup and recovery, and scalability.
Next Generation Data Protection Architecture Gina Tragos
The document discusses next generation data protection solutions. It summarizes that traditional point solutions for backup, replication, availability, etc. have become inadequate for modern computing needs. Next generation solutions provide unified data protection that is highly scalable, easy to manage, and offers improved data protection and recovery capabilities. Case studies show how next generation solutions from Arcserve help organizations reduce backup windows, enable disaster recovery within hours instead of days, and provide centralized management of data protection across multiple locations and petabytes of storage.
This document summarizes a presentation about CA arcserve's Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution. The presentation discusses the growing challenges of data protection and how current solutions are falling short. It then outlines how the UDP solution provides a unified platform that reduces complexity and costs while improving reliability, flexibility, and recovery capabilities. Key features highlighted include global deduplication, agentless backup, virtual standby, and assured recovery reporting.
This document describes Arcserve UDP, a unified data protection solution. It provides concise summaries of Arcserve UDP's key capabilities in 3 sentences or less, including global deduplication across sites with Recovery Point Server, block-level infinite incremental backups, built-in replication, jumpstart data seeding, virtual standby, agentless VM backup, and unified reporting. The document is aimed at helping salespeople understand and effectively sell the solution.
CA is a large, global company that focuses on data management solutions. It offers the CA ARCserve Backup product, which provides comprehensive backup, recovery, replication and high availability capabilities for physical and virtual systems. Some key features of CA ARCserve Backup include built-in data deduplication, storage resource management, backup visualization, and integration with VMware and Hyper-V. The document discusses CA ARCserve Backup and provides examples of how it has been implemented for customers in industries such as manufacturing, financial services and technology.
This document describes the key features of the CA Arcserve UDP solution. It discusses its unified data protection capabilities including agentless backup for virtual environments, global deduplication across sites with Recovery Point Server, replication between sites, virtual standby for disaster recovery, assured recovery testing, and unified management and reporting. The solution aims to provide simplified and scalable data protection for physical and virtual environments from small to large organizations.
This document discusses a presentation about the CA arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution. The presentation covers:
1) The market need for a unified data protection solution due to the complexity of managing multiple point solutions and the growth of virtual environments.
2) How the CA arcserve UDP solution provides a single, unified platform for backup, replication, disaster recovery, and other data protection tasks across physical and virtual environments.
3) Key capabilities of the CA arcserve UDP solution like global deduplication, virtual standby, assured recovery testing, and a centralized management console.
L'agilité du cloud public dans votre datacenter avec ECS & NeutrinoRSD
The document discusses how ECS and Neutrino can provide public cloud agility within an organization's datacenter. It highlights several use cases where ECS can help simplify management of remote offices, enable collaboration by reducing storage and backup costs, archive cold user data, modernize applications by providing object storage, and support other traditional use cases like data protection, tiering to the cloud, and disaster recovery. ECS allows organizations to achieve many of the benefits of public cloud services on-premises.
Presentation deduplication backup software and systemxKinAnx
The document provides information on EMC's Avamar deduplication backup software and system. It discusses how Avamar reduces backup time and storage requirements through client-side deduplication. Avamar provides daily full backups, one-step recovery, and supports both physical and virtual environments. It integrates with EMC Data Domain systems and is optimized for backing up virtual machines, remote offices, desktops/laptops, and enterprise applications.
The document discusses EMC Data Domain, a data protection storage system that provides deduplication to reduce storage requirements by 10-30x. It protects up to 55 PB of logical capacity in a single system and completes backups faster at up to 31 TB per hour. Data Domain seamlessly integrates with leading backup and archiving applications. It provides reliable access and recovery through data verification and self-healing capabilities.
EMC Starter Kit - IBM BigInsights - EMC IsilonBoni Bruno
The document provides an overview of deploying IBM BigInsights v4.0 with EMC Isilon OneFS for HDFS storage. It includes a pre-installation checklist of supported software versions and hardware requirements. The installation overview section describes prerequisites and steps to prepare the Isilon storage, Linux compute nodes, and install IBM Open Platform and value packages. It also covers security configuration and administration after deployment.
The document discusses EMC's Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) product. It provides examples of how ECS has been used by customers for applications such as global content repositories, modern application platforms, geo-scale big data analytics, cold archives, internet of things storage platforms, and analytics requiring data in place. It also outlines new features and integrations for ECS around monitoring, availability, performance, and deployment simplicity.
Deduplication reduces the amount of disk storage needed to retain and protect data by ratios of 10-30x and greater, making a disk a cost-effective alternative to tape. Data on disk is available online and onsite for longer retention periods, and restores become fast and reliable. Storing only unique data on disk also means that data can be cost-effectively replicated over existing networks to remote sites for disaster recovery and consolidated tape operations.
Les solutions EMC de sauvegarde des données avec déduplication dans les envir...ljaquet
The document discusses EMC's backup and recovery solutions, with a focus on deduplication-based products. It provides an overview of EMC's portfolio including Avamar, Data Domain, and NetWorker. It then discusses key concepts like deduplication fundamentals and how the technology has evolved backup solutions from tape-based to disk-based. Specific product features and benefits are highlighted, such as Avamar's guest-level VMware backup and Data Domain's inline deduplication approach.
Se training storage grid webscale technical overviewsolarisyougood
The document provides an overview of StorageGRID Webscale, an object storage solution from NetApp. It discusses key concepts including how StorageGRID Webscale uses a distributed architecture with different node types to provide a global object namespace and scale to support billions of objects and petabytes of storage. The document also describes how StorageGRID Webscale leverages extensive metadata and policy-driven management to intelligently distribute and tier data across storage pools.
Transforming Backup and Recovery in VMware environments with EMC Avamar and D...CTI Group
This document discusses the transition from tape-based backup systems to backup appliances and deduplication backup software. It notes that backup appliances are disrupting the market, with tape being marginalized and storage and software functionality converging. Purpose-built backup appliances and deduplication backup software are experiencing much faster growth than tape automation. Deduplication technology is accelerating this transition by making backup storage more efficient and reducing bandwidth needs.
Deduplication Solutions Are Not All Created Equal: Why Data Domain?EMC
Data Domain systems provide significant advantages over other deduplication solutions through their unique technologies and leadership. Their Data Invulnerability Architecture ensures the integrity of backup data through end-to-end verification, fault avoidance, detection and healing, and rapid file system recoverability. Stream Informed Segment Layout delivers industry-leading performance that scales with CPU improvements. Data Domain Boost distributes deduplication processing for up to 50% faster backups and 99% less network usage. These technologies simplify backup operations, improve reliability and recoverability of data, and help customers meet backup windows.
Building Hadoop-as-a-Service with Pivotal Hadoop Distribution, Serengeti, & I...EMC
Hadoop has made it into the enterprise mainstream as Big Data technology. But, what about Hadoop as a private or public cloud service on a shared infrastructure? This session looks at a Hadoop solution with virtualization, shared storage, and multi-tenancy, and discuss how service providers can use Pivotal Hadoop Distribution, Isilon, and Serengeti to offer Hadoop-as-a-Service.
Objective 1: Understand Hadoop and its deployment challenges.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Understand the EMC HDaaS solution architecture and the use cases it addresses.
Objective 3: Understand Pivotal Hadoop Distribution, Serengeti and Isilon's Hadoop features.
Virtualization and Open Virtualization Format (OVF)rajsandhu1989
This document discusses virtualization and its role as the backbone of cloud computing. It defines virtualization as the creation of virtual versions of hardware platforms, operating systems, storage devices and network resources. The document outlines different types of virtualization including hardware/server virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization, and desktop virtualization. It describes how server virtualization works using hypervisors to divide physical servers into multiple virtual machines. The benefits of virtualization discussed include resource sharing, load balancing, easier backup and recovery, and scalability.
This document discusses Zerto, a company that provides disaster recovery and business continuity software. Some key points:
- Zerto was established in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston and Israel with over 300 employees.
- Zerto's flagship product is Zerto Virtual Replication, introduced in 2011, which provides hypervisor-based replication and recovery automation.
- Zerto's software-defined approach replicates VMs at the individual level for granular recovery with seconds of RPO. It is storage and hypervisor agnostic.
- Zerto provides a single software solution for continuous data protection, offsite backups, replication, and disaster recovery automation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Webinar NETGEAR - Acronis e Netgear per la protezione e l'efficienza dei sist...Netgear Italia
Acronis Backup 12 provides data protection for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads through a unified web console. It allows recovery of systems in seconds through Acronis Instant Restore and protects entire IT infrastructures, including on-premises, remote, private, and public cloud assets. ReadyNAS devices combined with ReadyDR provide block-level disaster recovery replication between NAS devices for continuous data protection and business continuity. 10GbE switches like the NETGEAR XS716T provide the network bandwidth required for backup, replication and disaster recovery workflows.
A journey to the cloud: Getting started migrating your on-premises service to...OVHcloud
There are many answers to the question, "How do I migrate to the cloud?". Access to the OVH Private Cloud has never been so simple, or its performance so high. Discover our various use cases and migration cases, using the very latest technology integrated into the OVH Private Cloud.
This document provides an overview of the Veritas Resiliency Platform, which offers single-click disaster recovery, migration, and workload mobility. It supports virtual and physical environments including VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, OpenStack and applications like Oracle and SQL Server. Key capabilities include predicting recovery times, automating recovery processes, and allowing non-disruptive rehearsals through application-aware automation and orchestration.
In early March, Harbour IT hosted a breakfast session in conjunction with VMware – “vForum Wrap – All the best bits from VMware’s vForum 2010”.
Held in both the Norwest and Sydney offices, local customers were given a VMware update from guest speaker, Bo Leksono. The presentation covered the latest VMware technology and the steps to follow on your journey to the cloud
Back-ups: Hoe ze je kunnen redden van een cyberaanvalCombell NV
Het aantal cyberaanvallen stijgt jaar na jaar en ook de methoden die cybercriminelen gebruiken worden beter. Maar één ding is belangrijk om te blijven onthouden: 100% veiligheid bestaat niet. Er is altijd wel een stukje software met een lek of een onbeveiligd apparaat dat cybercriminelen de kans geeft in te breken in je omgeving. En ook menselijke fouten kunnen je waardevolle informatie doen kwijtspelen.
Nadenken over de manier waarop je omgaat met back-ups is dus cruciaal. De beste back-up strategie is echter sterk afhankelijk van je bedrijf en je data. Het vereist een planning waarbij je goed nadenkt over welke keuzes het best zijn voor jouw onderneming.
Kies je bijvoorbeeld voor een lokale opslag of toch eerder voor de cloud? Of allebei?
Een back-up op een andere locatie (off-site) is soms het enige wat uit de handen van hackers kan blijven. Zeker wanneer je bedrijfsvoering afhangt van automatische processen is dit een niet te verwaarlozen onderdeel van je back-up strategie.
Bekijk ons Veeam Cloud Connect aanbod:
https://www.combell.com/nl/backup/veeam-cloud-connect
Heb je interesse om de webinar van deze presentatie of één van onze andere trainingen te volgen? Bekijk onze kalender: https://www.combell.com/nl/resources/events
Double-Take by Vision Solutions – Christian Willis, Technical Director: Meeting the Availability Challenges of physical, Virtual and Geographically Dispersed Systems
Questions? Contact:
United Kingdom and Ireland
Double-Take House
1, Wildwood Triangle
Worcester, WR5 2QX United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 (0) 333 1234 200
Fax: +44(0)333 1234 300
saleseu@doubletake.com
Part 2: Architecture and the Operator Experience (Pivotal Cloud Platform Road...VMware Tanzu
The primary goals of this session are to:
Do a deep dive into the CF architecture via animated slides illustrating push, stage, deploy, scale, and health management.
Also do a brief dive into BOSH, including why BOSH, what it is, and animations of how it works. It’s not an operations focused workshop, so we keep the treatment light.
Discuss the value adds to CF BOSH OSS that Pivotal brings through the Pivotal Ops Manager product and our associated ecosystem of data and mobile services.
Quickly prove that I can push an app to a Pivotal CF environment running on vCHS in the same exact way I can push an app to PWS.
Pivotal Cloud Platform Roadshow is coming to a city near you!
Join Pivotal technologists and learn how to build and deploy great software on a modern cloud platform. Find your city and register now http://bit.ly/1poA6PG
Webinar NETGEAR - Acronis & Netgear, demo di soluzione di Disaster Recovery e...Netgear Italia
Demo di una soluzione di Disaster Recovery e Backup per sistemi di virtualizzazione. L'ambiente utilizzato contempla l'utilizzo di un hypervisor vmware con Acronis per Vmware, 2 ReadyDATA ( 1 RDD516 ed 1 RD5200) come soluzioni di storage per i datastore, quali repository del backup e soluzione per il disaster recovery.
Virtual SAN: It’s a SAN, it’s Virtual, but what is it really?DataCore Software
What do you think of when you hear the words “Virtual SAN”? For some, it may mean addressing application latency and infrastructure costs through consolidation. For others, it may be addressing potential single point of failures. Regardless of the use case, Virtual SANs are becoming one of the hottest software-defined storage solutions for IT organizations to maximize storage resources, lower overall TCO, and increase availability of critical applications and data.
This presentation introduces the concept of Virtual SAN and does a technical deep dive on the most common use cases and deployment models involved with a DataCore Virtual SAN solution.
This document provides an overview and introduction to the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course. It describes the basic concepts of virtualization and VMware ESXi, outlines the vSphere components, and how vSphere fits into software-defined data centers and clouds. It also introduces the vSphere Client user interface and provides learning objectives for lessons on the software-defined data center, the vSphere Client, and an overview of ESXi.
This document discusses high availability, disaster recovery, and backup considerations for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. It covers Hyper-V architecture, anatomy of a virtual machine, challenges with backing up virtual machines including transactional consistency, and different approaches to backups including file-level and image-level. It also discusses high availability options for Hyper-V like live migration and replication, and disaster recovery strategies ranging from days to immediate recovery depending on budget and needs.
Double-Take Software provides workload optimization solutions such as disaster recovery, high availability, server migration, and backup/management. It focuses on virtualized workload protection and has over 19,000 customers including over half of the Fortune 500. Double-Take's solutions provide real-time replication, hardware agnostic protection, automated failover and recovery in minutes, and WAN-optimized migration and backup.
„CA ARCserve – the swiss knife of data protection".
Speaker: Tamas Jung, CA Technologies Senior Consultant, Technical Sales, Scop Computers and Computer Associates
Hypervisor-Based Replication , Zerto architecture: Simple, effective, and virtual-ready , virtual replication and BC/DR capabilities for the data center and the cloud
Efficient Data Protection in VMware environments. You will learn about the basics of data protection in VMware environments and you will also find sample configurations and recommendations including Symantec Backup Exec / NetBackup, Fujitsu ETERNUS LT and Fujitsu ETERNUS CS800.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
FREE A4 Cyber Security Awareness Posters-Social Engineering part 3Data Hops
Free A4 downloadable and printable Cyber Security, Social Engineering Safety and security Training Posters . Promote security awareness in the home or workplace. Lock them Out From training providers datahops.com
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying AheadWask
https://www.wask.co/ebooks/digital-marketing-trends-in-2024
Feeling lost in the digital marketing whirlwind of 2024? Technology is changing, consumer habits are evolving, and staying ahead of the curve feels like a never-ending pursuit. This e-book is your compass. Dive into actionable insights to handle the complexities of modern marketing. From hyper-personalization to the power of user-generated content, learn how to build long-term relationships with your audience and unlock the secrets to success in the ever-shifting digital landscape.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
I like to talk a little about expectations because everyone does something for a reason and they expect certain business benefits to come out of their actions. You may have had to provide your management with a cost / benefit analysis to approve you spending your time and purchasing the Hypervisor software licenses to use in production.
The first thing people look for is often reductions in operating expenses. Less money spent on physical hardware acquisition and maintenance because you consolidated several physical servers onto one physical server running several virtual servers. This also saves on your monthly electric bill in two ways – First there is a server power usage savings having unplugged several physical servers. Second there is a power savings in your air conditioning costs since you now have less servers generating heat in your computer room. You may also see a reduction in your data center costs if you have to pay for rack space as you will need less of that moving forward.
Some people may look for savings in Administration effort saying virtual servers are easier to manage than physical servers. This is not necessarily always the case as virtual servers require new ways of managing and protecting. Your administrators will all have to be trained how to handle issues with virtual servers now. Training is very important as you can’t always be available to handle all the issues that could arise and are unique to virtual servers. You will also need the right tools in place to better track and manage your virtual and physical servers to help you more efficiently manage them. We will talk more about this later on.
Now lets look at a few industry best practices to keep your newly virtualized environment running smoothly. The first and foremost best practice is to make sure that your virtual servers are backed up and that your data is protected and recoverable. Although this may sound basic, some people think that since Hypervisors provide high availability for their virtual servers, they don’t need to perform backups. Most backup systems will allow you to put a backup client or agent on the virtual server and back it up as if it were any other physical server. The negative to this approach is that you could have several virtual server backups running at the same time and that would put an excessive load on the physical server hosting those virtual servers. A much more elegant, and Hypervisor vendor recommended approach, is to use a backup system that uses the backup API provided by the Hypervisor vendor. These APIs manage the backup process and make sure that the supporting hardware resources are not being over taxed during a backup process. They also provide additional functionality that enables backup vendors to rapidly move data for backup and restore and eliminate the need to use temporary storage for backup data.
There are products on the market that are specifically focused on backing up only virtualized servers. Although these products may sound like the best backup solution for virtual servers, the fact that they are a point solution causes you to have multiple backup applications, one for physical and one for virtual servers and this just increases the complexity of your environment while also adding cost through additional software acquisition and maintenance and additional training costs. A far better solution is to look for a backup application that provides solid reliable backup across your entire environment for all your servers, physical and virtual. This helps to simplify your environment, reduce your management tasks and help keep costs down so you can reap the savings associated with virtualizing your servers. Most long-standing backup application vendors have integrated support for hypervisor APIs to provide the recommended backup and restore methodologies for virtual servers so there is no reason not to use a single backup system across your environment.
When you decide to migrate an application to a virtual server or decide to setup a virtual server as a Disaster Recovery server, you should test your application in advance to make sure there are no hidden issues. Testing can be easily performed by using the backup and recovery capability found in your backup system. Simply backup the production server, application and data and perform a bare-metal recovery to the virtual server. This will copy the complete server image over and allow you to run the application against a copy of the production data. Do be careful as this is a real copy of your production server and it will perform automated functions that may be programmed into it.
Alternatively, there are high availability applications that will let you start up the application on a virtual replica server and run the application with a copy of the production data. This also gives you the ability to test and make sure everything is in place for a successful migration from physical to virtual servers.
However you setup your test environment, you should be sure to check the new virtual server for any license issues as well as understand what demands the application will put on the system resources. This also gives you an opportunity to check for application performance capabilities on the virtualized server so you will know what to expect when you migrate over for production. Also, as a Disaster Recovery alternative, you may be willing to accept reduced performance on a remote virtual server until you are able to recover your primary production server. The important thing is to know what to expect before you actually make a switchover.
We talked earlier about the need to document and diagram your new environment so you can quickly understand which servers are physical and which are virtual and what applications they are running. This will greatly help you in the event of an unplanned outage to recover quickly. Now, I know this can be a tedious task that requires you to continually remember to update your documents and diagrams as changes occur in your environment – and something we all like to procrastinate with. However, the real solution here is not to do this manually but rather use a set of management tools to do this automatically for you.
Tools are available from the Hypervisor vendors but they are limited in scope and only cover their own virtual servers. If you are like most and are trying several hypervisors out, you will not be able to have a single report across all your servers. You would be better off with a product that provides information across all the servers in your environment, physical and virtual and whether it is a Microsoft Hyper-v, VMware, or another virtual server. Best practices are to look for a comprehensive product that covers not only the servers but also the storage, network and components on the servers such as memory, CPU and OS levels and patches. This may sound like an expensive proposition but look for backup vendors who provide this as part of their backup application so you don’t need to buy anything else.
The fourth best practice is to be careful when cloning or provisioning new virtual servers. This sounds simple but, because virtual servers are so easy to create that, often times, people end up with many more than they really need. It is easy to say, “well, I just want to test this one thing out so I will create a quick clone to use to test.” Before you know it, you have an awful lot of “clones” out there and they are all active. The issue is that each VM takes up hardware resources and software licenses that could be used by production systems. You then have to go thru each server understand what it is being used for and if you can de-provision it.
Some might think this is only a problem for larger environments however smaller environments will actually “feel the pinch” sooner as they have fewer physical resources available and less time to spend managing their virtual server environments.
Remark that now we do support Hyper-v
Same Simple solution for both hypervisors hyper-v and VMware
Same console for virtual and physical server
If someone ask about:
cluster support for Hyper-v : answer: YES, with the UDP premium edition you will able to protect Hyper-v cluster’s
VIX : Our strategy is aligned with vmware…”
How host-Based Backup works?
For Host-Based Agentless backup, a “proxy” is required
The proxy will run the actual backup process
Act as the agent for the backup
The “agent” deduplicates data while sending to the RPS
The proxy can be:
Running on the RPS server
Completely separate from the hypervisor
A virtual guest
Running on the Hyper-V “parent partition” (physical)
Demos Steps:
Review the Environment
New Plan
Create a host based backup Task
Add VMs from Hyper-v
Add VMs From vSphere
Comment that it’s the same procedure than for Physiscal Machines
Enter Manager as Proxy and explain about it
Select destination UDP RPS Manager
Select DS1
Enter Pass: 1234
Go to schedule show the advanced options (keep default)
Talk about the Recovery points…. As we are ussing deduplication, we may keep more Recovery points than before.
Go to Advanced and select “generate file system catalog…”
Save the plan and Run a BKP
Show the new groups created on the Resources -> Nodes
Restore Option…..
Restore from Windows explorer SAME as UDP for physiscal servers
From the GUI (right clik on the VM from “resources”:
“browse files and folders”
“Recover VM” show that we can restore to a Different location, but SAME hypervisor type…. BUT::::
We can use for example BMR or Virtual Standby in order to convert recovery point to MS Hyper-v
Also I’ll menthion that we can protect also ESXi FREE editions intalling UDP Agent within each guest VM
Same for Virtual and physical servers
Cross hypervisor conversion
Demo
Create a new Plan
Task 1 Agent less for one VM from Hyper-v
Then add new Task for Virtual Stanby on the vsphere
(I should have an already prepared and working plan doing:
Agent lees Backup –> Replicated to RPS-R -> Virtual Stand by -> replicate to Remote RPS::
:: on the Remote RPS -> also have a Virtual Standby task after the “Replicate From task”
During Virtual Stand by Demo, at the end, show super quickly Full System HA integration (for those that will not attend the session 3)
Show RPS Jumpstart as a nice utility for UDP running on the cloud.-
Tentative, just in case someone ask for more details
Now lets look at a few industry best practices to keep your newly virtualized environment running smoothly. The first and foremost best practice is to make sure that your virtual servers are backed up and that your data is protected and recoverable. Although this may sound basic, some people think that since Hypervisors provide high availability for their virtual servers, they don’t need to perform backups. Most backup systems will allow you to put a backup client or agent on the virtual server and back it up as if it were any other physical server. The negative to this approach is that you could have several virtual server backups running at the same time and that would put an excessive load on the physical server hosting those virtual servers. A much more elegant, and Hypervisor vendor recommended approach, is to use a backup system that uses the backup API provided by the Hypervisor vendor. These APIs manage the backup process and make sure that the supporting hardware resources are not being over taxed during a backup process. They also provide additional functionality that enables backup vendors to rapidly move data for backup and restore and eliminate the need to use temporary storage for backup data.
There are products on the market that are specifically focused on backing up only virtualized servers. Although these products may sound like the best backup solution for virtual servers, the fact that they are a point solution causes you to have multiple backup applications, one for physical and one for virtual servers and this just increases the complexity of your environment while also adding cost through additional software acquisition and maintenance and additional training costs. A far better solution is to look for a backup application that provides solid reliable backup across your entire environment for all your servers, physical and virtual. This helps to simplify your environment, reduce your management tasks and help keep costs down so you can reap the savings associated with virtualizing your servers. Most long-standing backup application vendors have integrated support for hypervisor APIs to provide the recommended backup and restore methodologies for virtual servers so there is no reason not to use a single backup system across your environment.
When you decide to migrate an application to a virtual server or decide to setup a virtual server as a Disaster Recovery server, you should test your application in advance to make sure there are no hidden issues. Testing can be easily performed by using the backup and recovery capability found in your backup system. Simply backup the production server, application and data and perform a bare-metal recovery to the virtual server. This will copy the complete server image over and allow you to run the application against a copy of the production data. Do be careful as this is a real copy of your production server and it will perform automated functions that may be programmed into it.
Alternatively, there are high availability applications that will let you start up the application on a virtual replica server and run the application with a copy of the production data. This also gives you the ability to test and make sure everything is in place for a successful migration from physical to virtual servers.
However you setup your test environment, you should be sure to check the new virtual server for any license issues as well as understand what demands the application will put on the system resources. This also gives you an opportunity to check for application performance capabilities on the virtualized server so you will know what to expect when you migrate over for production. Also, as a Disaster Recovery alternative, you may be willing to accept reduced performance on a remote virtual server until you are able to recover your primary production server. The important thing is to know what to expect before you actually make a switchover.
We talked earlier about the need to document and diagram your new environment so you can quickly understand which servers are physical and which are virtual and what applications they are running. This will greatly help you in the event of an unplanned outage to recover quickly. Now, I know this can be a tedious task that requires you to continually remember to update your documents and diagrams as changes occur in your environment – and something we all like to procrastinate with. However, the real solution here is not to do this manually but rather use a set of management tools to do this automatically for you.
Tools are available from the Hypervisor vendors but they are limited in scope and only cover their own virtual servers. If you are like most and are trying several hypervisors out, you will not be able to have a single report across all your servers. You would be better off with a product that provides information across all the servers in your environment, physical and virtual and whether it is a Microsoft Hyper-v, VMware, or another virtual server. Best practices are to look for a comprehensive product that covers not only the servers but also the storage, network and components on the servers such as memory, CPU and OS levels and patches. This may sound like an expensive proposition but look for backup vendors who provide this as part of their backup application so you don’t need to buy anything else.
The fourth best practice is to be careful when cloning or provisioning new virtual servers. This sounds simple but, because virtual servers are so easy to create that, often times, people end up with many more than they really need. It is easy to say, “well, I just want to test this one thing out so I will create a quick clone to use to test.” Before you know it, you have an awful lot of “clones” out there and they are all active. The issue is that each VM takes up hardware resources and software licenses that could be used by production systems. You then have to go thru each server understand what it is being used for and if you can de-provision it.
Some might think this is only a problem for larger environments however smaller environments will actually “feel the pinch” sooner as they have fewer physical resources available and less time to spend managing their virtual server environments.
Now lets look at a few industry best practices to keep your newly virtualized environment running smoothly. The first and foremost best practice is to make sure that your virtual servers are backed up and that your data is protected and recoverable. Although this may sound basic, some people think that since Hypervisors provide high availability for their virtual servers, they don’t need to perform backups. Most backup systems will allow you to put a backup client or agent on the virtual server and back it up as if it were any other physical server. The negative to this approach is that you could have several virtual server backups running at the same time and that would put an excessive load on the physical server hosting those virtual servers. A much more elegant, and Hypervisor vendor recommended approach, is to use a backup system that uses the backup API provided by the Hypervisor vendor. These APIs manage the backup process and make sure that the supporting hardware resources are not being over taxed during a backup process. They also provide additional functionality that enables backup vendors to rapidly move data for backup and restore and eliminate the need to use temporary storage for backup data.
There are products on the market that are specifically focused on backing up only virtualized servers. Although these products may sound like the best backup solution for virtual servers, the fact that they are a point solution causes you to have multiple backup applications, one for physical and one for virtual servers and this just increases the complexity of your environment while also adding cost through additional software acquisition and maintenance and additional training costs. A far better solution is to look for a backup application that provides solid reliable backup across your entire environment for all your servers, physical and virtual. This helps to simplify your environment, reduce your management tasks and help keep costs down so you can reap the savings associated with virtualizing your servers. Most long-standing backup application vendors have integrated support for hypervisor APIs to provide the recommended backup and restore methodologies for virtual servers so there is no reason not to use a single backup system across your environment.
When you decide to migrate an application to a virtual server or decide to setup a virtual server as a Disaster Recovery server, you should test your application in advance to make sure there are no hidden issues. Testing can be easily performed by using the backup and recovery capability found in your backup system. Simply backup the production server, application and data and perform a bare-metal recovery to the virtual server. This will copy the complete server image over and allow you to run the application against a copy of the production data. Do be careful as this is a real copy of your production server and it will perform automated functions that may be programmed into it.
Alternatively, there are high availability applications that will let you start up the application on a virtual replica server and run the application with a copy of the production data. This also gives you the ability to test and make sure everything is in place for a successful migration from physical to virtual servers.
However you setup your test environment, you should be sure to check the new virtual server for any license issues as well as understand what demands the application will put on the system resources. This also gives you an opportunity to check for application performance capabilities on the virtualized server so you will know what to expect when you migrate over for production. Also, as a Disaster Recovery alternative, you may be willing to accept reduced performance on a remote virtual server until you are able to recover your primary production server. The important thing is to know what to expect before you actually make a switchover.
We talked earlier about the need to document and diagram your new environment so you can quickly understand which servers are physical and which are virtual and what applications they are running. This will greatly help you in the event of an unplanned outage to recover quickly. Now, I know this can be a tedious task that requires you to continually remember to update your documents and diagrams as changes occur in your environment – and something we all like to procrastinate with. However, the real solution here is not to do this manually but rather use a set of management tools to do this automatically for you.
Tools are available from the Hypervisor vendors but they are limited in scope and only cover their own virtual servers. If you are like most and are trying several hypervisors out, you will not be able to have a single report across all your servers. You would be better off with a product that provides information across all the servers in your environment, physical and virtual and whether it is a Microsoft Hyper-v, VMware, or another virtual server. Best practices are to look for a comprehensive product that covers not only the servers but also the storage, network and components on the servers such as memory, CPU and OS levels and patches. This may sound like an expensive proposition but look for backup vendors who provide this as part of their backup application so you don’t need to buy anything else.
The fourth best practice is to be careful when cloning or provisioning new virtual servers. This sounds simple but, because virtual servers are so easy to create that, often times, people end up with many more than they really need. It is easy to say, “well, I just want to test this one thing out so I will create a quick clone to use to test.” Before you know it, you have an awful lot of “clones” out there and they are all active. The issue is that each VM takes up hardware resources and software licenses that could be used by production systems. You then have to go thru each server understand what it is being used for and if you can de-provision it.
Some might think this is only a problem for larger environments however smaller environments will actually “feel the pinch” sooner as they have fewer physical resources available and less time to spend managing their virtual server environments.
.
If someone ask about:
Cluster support for Hyper-v : answer: YES, with the UDP premium edition you will able to protect Hyper-v cluster’s
VIX : Our strategy is aligned with vmware…”