onsite and offsite backup and recovery of citrix xen server

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Citrix Ready Technical Webinar Series

Partner Name: PHD Virtual

Gaurav Chhaunker, Technical Marketing Lead – Cloud

Webinar Title: Onsite and Offsite Backup and Recovery of Citrix XenServer

Jim Noonan, Solutions Engineer

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Agenda

• Corporate Overview• XenServer Backup and Recovery• Cloud Backup• Backup Features• Q&A


PHD Virtual A Unitrends Company

Best value in data protection and recovery assurance for virtual & cloud environments

• Reduce the cost of assuring data, application and business service restoration within SLAs

Experiencing record growth• 15 quarters of record growth• 8000+ customers

Industry leadership• Only backup DR company Citrix has invested in• Product of the year: Search Server Virtualization• Reader’s choice award: Virtualization Admin.com• Highest rated product: InfoTech• Fastest growing start-up: Storage.com

Who We

Serve


Citrix XenServer

• Free

• Deploys in minutes

• XenMotion live migration

• XenCenter multi-server management

• One solution for virtualized Linux and Windows environments


What Needs to Be Recovered?

Granular Data

EnterpriseData Protection / Recovery Continuum

ApplicationObject

VirtualDisk

Files /Folders

VirtualMachine

Application BusinessService

Full Site


PHD Virtual Products

Recovery Management Suite

PHD Virtual Backup

• Scalable Backup

• Efficient Replication

• Instant, granular recovery (files, application items, VMs)

• Supports multiple hypervisors

PHD CloudHook

• Backup to Amazon, Google, Rackspace, Openstack/Openswift

• Secure with government level encryption

• Fast RTOs for Files and Full VMs

PHD ReliableDR

• Automated application, business service, full site recovery

• Guaranteed failover/failback

• Automated DR testing• Tests and reports against

RPO/RTO SLAs

• Flexible replication options

• Compliance reporting

“PHD Virtual Backup and ReliableDR are like peanut butter and chocolate!”


PHD Virtual Backup & Replication• Supports Citrix XenServer v6.2 and earlier

versions

• Installs and configures in 10 minutes and requires no training

• Rollback Recovery

• Performs 3 to 5 times faster on incremental backups

• Uses less storage than any competitor

• Unique Virtual Backup Appliance plugs into the XenServer Hypervisor; scales quicker and easier

• Requires no physical machines, 3rd party OS or software


Backup Storage

Primary Storage

The VBA Architecture Advantage

Virtual Backup Appliance100% Virtual FootprintNo Physical Servers

No Additional Software

Backup / Proxy ServerPhysical Server

Operating SystemBackup Software

SAN Attach (HBA)Maintenance

Backup Storage

Primary Storage

VIRTUAL BACKUP APPLIANCE

OTHER PRODUCTS

VS.

Backup / Proxy Server

P

P


CloudHook: Why Backup or Archive to the Cloud?

Primary Storage

$$$

Archived to Cloud

$


Backing up to The Cloud

• Amazon S3

• Google

• RackSpace

• Swift/OpenStack

• Any S3 compatible Provider


PHD TrueDeDupe™ Technology

True Source Side Data Deduplication

Deduplicated Backup Data

Virtualization Host

• VBA processes and dedupes data before leaving host• Unique data compressed & written to backup storage• Customers regularly see 25:1 dedupe ratios• Reduces backup storage requirements by 96%• Reduces network impact and optimizes data transfer


Full and Incremental Backup Mode

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Ideal Targets CloudNetwork (CIFS)DedupeTape

Virtual Full

Initial V Full V Full V Full V Full V Full V Full V Full V Full V Full V Full V Full V Full

Full & Incremental

Attached Virtual Disk


Application Awareness

• Small application installed in the guest (PHD Guest Tools)

• Ensures application consistency

• Performs Microsoft Exchange Log Truncationᵒ Combined with Digiscope email recovery, provides a complete data

protection story for virtualized Exchange

• Executes additional scripts for other applications, such as SQL serverᵒ Before and after a snapshotᵒ After a backup


PHD TrueRestore™ Technology

BackupStorage

DeduplicatedBackup Data

TrueRestore™ Technology

TrueRestore™ Technology – Confidence in Restore

• Backup data integrity checked during backup process• Data integrity checked during restore process• Ensures restored data matches original source data• Increases confidence in your ability to restore


PHD Virtual Dynamic Recovery

Dynamic Recovery Technology

• Quickly Restore Full VM - Standard or Rollback

• Quickly Restore Virtual Disk

• Instantly Recover App Object

• Instantly Recover File or Folder

Specific Data,Faster

All VM Data,Longer

Recovery Time

Recover the Right Level of Data Quickly and Efficiently

No Additional Physical or Virtual Infrastructure Required


PHD Virtual Backup Powered By Ontrack® PowerControls™

• Proven Productᵒ Ontrack PowerControls

• Two Environmentsᵒ Microsoft® Exchange Serverᵒ Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server

• Multiple Featuresᵒ Search » Copy » Restoreᵒ Identify » Migrate » Collectᵒ Extract » Export » Consolidate

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Virtual Machine Replication

1 2

Virtual Machine Replication1. Replication VBA Reads Backups

from PHD Backup Storage and Rehydrates VM’s

2. Replication VBA Restores VM’s tothe Replicated VM Storage in a “powered down” state.

ProductionHost

ReplicationHost

ProductionStorage

ReplicatedStorage

Backup StorageDe-duped & Compressed

Replicate VM’s for DR Replicate From Backup Storage No Additional Snapshots Intelligent Data Replication

Optimized Virtual Machine Replication


Scalability

VM sprawl

Company acquisitions

Increasing data demands


Filter


Demo


Q&A

[email protected]

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