Backing up VMware successfully has always been a challenge. The introduction of the cloud ever increasing scale of VMware infrastructure continues to give backups fits and makes it even harder. Please join George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and our guest speaker W. Curtis Preston, Chief Technical Architect at Druva, for a discussion on the new challenges with VMware backups, and how to address them successfully.

1. What’s Breaking Your VMware Backups?
And How You Can Fix Them Quickly
W. Curtis Preston,
Chief Technical
Architect
George Crump,
Founder and Lead
Analyst
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and Q&A go to:
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2. A Brief History of
VMware Backup
● Age 1: Wait, we have to backup
VMware?
● Age 2: A VM is like a server,
install the software in the VM
● Age 3: The VCB Disaster
● Age 4: VADP
● Age 5: VADP and the Cloud

3. Top 5 Reasons
VMware Backups
Still Break

4. Lack of Auto-
Discovery
● VMs just “appear”
● Counting on change process
procedures is risky
● VM can run for weeks without data
protection

5. Auto-Discovery
a Requirement
Look for solutions that
can auto-discover
applications, add to a
default backup job,
notify backup
administrator

6. Lack of Cloud Support
● Phase 2: Backups Leverage
Cloud’s Other Resource -
Compute
○ Disaster Recovery in the cloud
(backup process compute
remains on-premises)
○ Infrastructure-less (all compute
and storage is in the cloud)
● Phase 1: Get the Cloud
Checkmark:
○ Mirror copy of backup data in
cloud (tape replacement)
○ Move old backups to cloud
(backup archiving)
○ Move all backups to cloud (on-
premises is a cache)

7. Too Much Backup
Infrastructure
● Typical backup environment has
backup server, media servers,
proxy servers, dedicated network
connections, backup storage,
backup storage and more backup
storage
● The cloud, the way most vendors
add it, doesn’t help much

8. Requirements for Infrastructure-less Backup
● All backup storage in the cloud
● Support multiple cloud tiers
● Backup processing (the backup
server) is also in the cloud
● Advanced capabilities are in the
cloud (search, compliance etc..)

9. Expensive and
Complicated Disaster
Recovery
● DR for most applications still
requires a dedicated second site
● Cloud support, for those that have
it, requires a restore to the cloud
or transformation
● True cloud recovery means data
is in the cloud and is ready for
cloud-based instantiation

10. No VMware on
AWS Support
● Most backup solutions
have no VMware on
AWS support (VMC) or
require a separate
solution
● Backup solutions need
to support VMC in the
core application

11. Conclusion
Drive toward an infrastructure-less
architecture
○ Require full cloud support
○ DR in the cloud
○ VMware on AWS support

12. What’s Breaking Your VMware Backups?
And How You Can Fix Them Quickly

13. New Data Landscape Faces Complex Changes
Retention &
Compliance
Locations &
Storage Mediums
Continuity &
Uptime

14. Enterprise
Customers
4,000+
Data Under
Management
100PB+
Amazon Storage
Partner
Top 5
“ With Druva we gained data visibility while reducing costs and
complexity, simplifying and reinforcing our entire data
protection strategy.” Brian Bagwell, Director of IT

15. Easily Meeting Business Continuity SLAs – RPO/RTO
Production Servers
CloudCache
Hot, 30 Days
Commodity Server
LAN speed restores All AWS Regions

16. Druva Cloud-Native Architecture - Backup, Archival and DR
Cloud-Native and Offered “as-a-Service”
DR in the Cloud

17. • Agentless and hypervisor level backup
o VMware APIs – CBT, VADP
o Application consistent backups
• Integration with vCenter
o Auto configuration of VMs per policy
• Unique application aware global dedupe
• Instant recovery in AWS
o DR and workload mobility
Cloud Backup and Archival for VMware

18. Druva Phoenix is VMC Certified!
• Only SaaS data protection that is VMC Certified
o Deployed as a Proxy
o Agentless
• VM mobility across hybrid environments
o On-premises or VMC
• Advantage
o Only SaaS backup solution for VMC
o Seamless data protection and VM mobility across
hybrid environments - On-Premises or VMC
o Easy to deploy and manage – no
hardware/software
o Single management control plane

19. VM Granular Recovery Options
VMDK Restore
Full VM Restore
File Level Restore

20. • Perfect Capacity Utilization!
o Smallest footprint - storage used post global deduplication and compression
o Scale on demand
o No wastage or under utilized capacity
o No Performance bottlenecks at capacity
Pay Only for What You Use in the Cloud
Under Utilized
Wasted Resources
Perfect Utilization

21. Druva Cloud Platform - One Platform to Protect it All
Full Data Visibility
Reduced Infrastructure Dependency
Lower Overall TCO
Single Pane of Glass

22. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
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www.druva.com/phoenix
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23. What’s Breaking Your VMware Backups?
And How You Can Fix Them Quickly
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