Manage Your Risk with Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

EMC RecoverPoint Network-Based Intelligent Data Protection

Muhammad Salama Sr. Technology Consultant

[email protected]
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Data-Replication Pain Points in Heterogeneous Environments

Application response time

Local site
Oracle Exchange SQL
Applicationconsistent recovery Corruption protection

Remote site
Oracle Exchange SQL

SAN SAN Communications cost

SAN Disaster-recovery testing

infrastructure

IBM HDS

EMC

HP SUN Heterogeneous storage

IBM HDS

EMC

HP SUN

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Data Replication Technologies

Host

RepliStor

Network

Array RecoverPoint MirrorView/S MirrorView/A SAN Copy

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Remote Recovery: RPO and RTO

Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)

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RPO Definition: Amount of data lost from failure, measured as the amount of time from a disaster event

RTO Definition: Targeted amount of time to restart a business service after a disaster event

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Operational Recovery
Either space efficient change-based snapshots for backup off-loading Or, full copies or clones for test and development with minimal production impact Journal every change made and set the window for the amount of time to record

Snapshots and Clones

Creates copies like timelapse photographs

Continuous Data Protection

Change-based VIDEO CAMERA with DVR-like roll back capabilities

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RecoverPoint Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

Application Database servers servers
Messaging File and servers Print servers

RecoverPoint splitter drivers

Mirrors server writes to RecoverPoint appliance Resides on host or in fabric

RecoverPoint appliance
SAN
Managed and prioritizes resources Writes changes to local CDP Journal Distributes changes to target

Journal
ThirdEMC Party

Disk systems

Local CDP Journal

Tracks all data changes to every protected LUN Utilizes bookmarks for application-aware recovery Repository for live data updates Provisioned from existing SAN LUNs Dynamically compressed, which saves storage

Supports heterogeneous environments

RecoverPoint supports EMC and third-party storage* RecoverPoint/SE supports CLARiiON arrays only
* Support for third-party storage requires intelligent fabric

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RecoverPoint Local Protection ProcessCDP

2a. Host splitter 1. Data is split and sent to the RecoverPoint appliance in one of three ways 3. Writes are acknowledged back from the RecoverPoint appliance

2b. Intelligentfabric splitter

2c. CLARiiON splitter

4. The appliance writes data to the Journal volume, along with time stamp and applicationspecific bookmarks

/A

/B

/C

rA

rB

rC
Journal volume

Production volumes

Replica volumes

5. Write-order-consistent data is distributed to the replica volumes

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RecoverPointRecovery Point Consolidation in Journal

JOURNAL RECOVERY POINT TIMELINE
Two days ago

Continuous Recovery Points

Now

Daily Recovery Points Weekly Recovery Points Monthly Recovery Points

Monthly

Weekly

Daily

Continuous

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RecoverPoint Continuous Remote Replication (CRR)

SAN

SAN

SAN or WAN

ThirdParty EMC

ThirdEMC Party

RecoverPoint splitter drivers

Intercepts server writes (block level) Resides on host, CLARiiON, or in fabric* Mirrors write to RecoverPoint appliance

Journal
Tracks all data changes to every protected LUN Utilizes bookmarks for application-aware recovery Dynamically compressed, which saves storage

RecoverPoint appliance
Bandwidth reduction with data compression for WAN transfer Distributes changes to remote site Supports instant access to protected data

Provides advanced functionality

Policy-based bandwidth management 510 times bandwidth reduction Replicate over IP or Fibre Channel

Supports heterogeneous environments

RecoverPoint supports EMC and third-party storage* RecoverPoint/SE supports CLARiiON arrays only
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* Support for third-party storage requires intelligent fabric

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RecoverPoint Concurrent Local and Remote (CLR) Data Protection

PRODUCTION SITE
Cluster Active Node Cluster Passive Node RecoverPoint appliances

DISASTER RECOVERY SITE

Standby Disaster Recovery Server Tape Backup Manager

Replication Data Flow

SAN

SAN/WAN

SAN

Tape Library

RecoverPoint Replication Services Storage Groups and Logs Local Journal Remote Journal Replicated Storage Groups and Logs

Performance architecture
Out-of-band design leveraging intelligent host and fabric interfaces * Supports CLARiiON write splitting on CX3 and CX4 arrays Designed to work in enterprise-class environments

True CDP data protection for applications

All writes stored in Journal with application bookmarks for recovery Supports Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS) and VDI APIs

Replication across heterogeneous storage*

Leverage existing storage investments Co-exists with local CDP

Concurrent local and remote data protection

Create local and remote copies of the same LUNs Recover both locally or remotely to different point-in-time images No impact to production or the other replica during recovery

True bi-directional, any-to-any replication

Replicate between arrays at same or different site *

Unified management interface

Remotely configure, monitor, manage CDP/CRR Programming CLI for intelligent scripting
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RecoverPoint Stretched CDP over Stretch Fibre

PRIMARY SITE
Application Database File and servers servers print servers

REMOTE BUNKER SITE

Application servers Database File and servers print servers

Management IP WAN RecoverPoint

SAN

SAN

Production Volumes

Supports synchronous CDP replication to secondary site (such as a bunker site)

Distance subject to specific configurations; refer to the EMC Support Matrix for guidance

Stretch Fibre

All RecoverPoint resources installed at remote site

CDP target storage, journal RecoverPoint appliances RecoverPoint repository volume Standby/disaster recovery servers

CDP Replica Volumes

Stretched CDP

Failover CDP Journal

Enables survival of primary site outage Provides synchronous replication across distance Remote applications can access any point in time image as read/write without impacting production

Dual fabric that is extended to remote site Servers and splitters must be at both sites Reversing replication by promoting CDP replica to production is not supported

Primary Journal

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Cascaded RecoverPoint Topology Example

PRIMARY SITE
Management IP WAN

SECONDARY SITE

TERTIARY SITE

Management IP WAN SAN WAN SAN

SAN

Production Volumes

Stretch Fibre

CDP Replica Volumes

CRR Replica Volumes

Failover CDP Journal

CDP Journal

CRR Journal

Near-Synchronous*

Asynchronous Unlimited*

Local and remote data protection minimizes data loss

* Refer to the EMC Support Matrix for the maximum distance for your configuration
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Policies for Dynamic Sync/Async Replication

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Journaling for Application-Aware Recovery

Journal Includes Data Plus Metadata Time/date
Identifies the time image was saved

Bookmarks:
System-generated group bookmarks
e.g., Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS) backup

User-generated bookmarks Other EMC product bookmarks

EMC Replication Manager

System-event-generated bookmarks Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft Virtual Device Interface (VDI) operations

Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft VSS

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RecoverPoint Recovery Process

Request image via management interface
User selects by bookmark or point in time

Recovery request

Servers at recovery site

RecoverPoint recovers image as read/write

RecoverPoint appliance User chooses virtual or physical target Existing Journal data used to play back changes to appropriate bookmark or point in time Target-mounted read/write to recovery server

SAN

All new writes saved in Journal

Existing disaster-recovery protection not impacted Image changes committed on request

v
History Journal

Recovery-image use cases

Failover production to image Start new application from image Surgically repair data from image Fast production resynchronization Rollback production from changed blocks Source for backup Data analysis Disaster-recovery development and testing (fire drill)

Target volumes

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Understanding Data Consistency

Applications and data are interrelated (Federated)
Order Entry CRM
DB

All data movement must be stopped/started at the same point in time

To restart applications you must have all the datanot parts of it Recovery requires dependentwrite consistency across all volumes and systems
DB

DB

SCM

Systems share informationhow do you get a consistent view?

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Grouping for a Consistent View

Allows application recovery to be tiered by service level
Multiple volumes per group Mixed recovery point objectives within same infrastructure OE

Group 1

CRR

Provides independent replication controls

Recover by group, locally or remotely Start/stop by group

CRM SCM

CDP CDP

Group 2

CRR CRR

Enables grouping of optimization

Importance Resource usage Recovery point and recovery time objectives E-mail

Group 3

CRR

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Grouping for Federated Environments

Each tier has different service level agreements
Consistency groups per tier Operational recovery of tier

1: Linux (Web OE)

Parallel consistency across tiers

Federated environments Recover to a known point for all applications Disaster recovery for tier or application Spans operating systems, applications, storage, and servers

Consistency group

2: Windows (CRM)

Consistency group

Enables advanced functions

Full environment cloning Application upgrade testing Data mining Consistent production rebuild

3: UNIX (SCM, Financials)

Consistency group

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Summary
Lowest total cost of ownership
Reduction and consolidation of server, storage footprint (capital expenditure), and WAN bandwidth (operational expenditure)

Integrated CLARiiON support

CLARiiON-based splitter on CX3 and CX4 Virtual Provisioning support on CLARiiON CX4

Intelligent SAN-switch integration

RecoverPoint supports Connectrix using Brocade and Cisco technology

Any-point-in-time recovery
Rollback of data at the local site and/or remote site

Highest availability, highest performance

Network-based architecture optimized for application availability and performance

Heterogeneous support
RecoverPoint supports spectrum of host, storage, and SAN elements

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