Solve data protection challenges for VMware Virtual environments

As server virtualization technology continues to heat up, more and more enterprises are optimistic about the efficiency of virtualization technology in energy saving and management, and this technology is widely used in its own IT environment. However, when enterprises do not find effective answers to the question of how to protect the proliferation of data on physical servers, how to protect the data of virtual machines, especially remote office locations, becomes a new peak for IT managers to challenge. A set of can to protect the enterprise physical environment, but also can effectively protect the virtual environment, that can solve the local system data backup/recovery challenges, but also can cover the remote data of various fault/disaster solutions, IT managers are urgently needed ' antidote '.

Physical and virtual, both local and remote protection

NN is a world-renowned pharmaceutical company with nearly a century of history, with more than 70 subsidiaries and over 26,300 employees worldwide. In China, has also become a research and development, production, marketing Trinity of the perfect organizational structure, bringing together a large number of outstanding talent at home and abroad famous enterprises. By the end of 2008, the total number of employees in China had exceeded 1,200.

NN has always attached great importance to the construction of IT system, set up a complete set of business systems including ERP, OA, CRM system, and set up a tape-based backup/recovery system to meet the requirements of data protection. However, with the development of the company's business, the complexity of IT systems and the rapid growth of data volume, the total amount of data in the business system has exceeded 5TB, and the amount of data that needs to be backed up every day is around 1~2TB, so huge volume of data on the original tape-based backup/recovery solution has great challenges.

According to NN's IT system support supervisor, their original backup/recovery solution, which is backed up directly to the tape system by the production system, is not only time-consuming and laborious when it is backed up, but when there is data loss, the administrator has to spend a lot of hours looking for tapes, returning data, and often facing the predicament of tape recovery failures. At the same time, long backup times lead to the urgency of backup windows, and as the volume of data surges, the backup process has begun to affect the performance of the business system, "production systems directly backup to tape (sure) is slow, and the backup does not cover all the data, often to work time is still in the backup, Therefore, it also affects the performance of the operating system of the company. "

In addition, the IT environment of NN is due to a large number of VMware ESX virtual servers, as well as multiple remote offices and remote sites across the country, how to protect the data of virtual servers, data loss in remote offices and remote Web sites, or even when disaster or failure crashes can quickly rebuild the site, is also a challenge that must be addressed. "Offsite site data security We also attach great importance to the original backup/recovery solution is difficult to recover the crash site in a short period of time, we need a way to quickly restore remote offsite sites." ”

Real-time backup does not affect host performance, system Recovery is not more than 10 minutes

The main business systems of NN run in Windows, sharing data between departments through shared files, as well as a subset of VMware ESX Virtual Server systems and Oracle/sql databases in the business system. As a result, users have locked the primary protection data for the company's CDP into Windows business Systems, VMware virtual servers, oracle/sql databases, and shared folders.

By installing the Disksafe and database agents on all application servers, the data of the business system is backed up in real-time to the mobile CDP Storage Manager in the San with a minute snapshot, based on the policy of the Administrator, as the Disksafe uses the filter of the physical disk layer Drive technology allows you to perform all replication and write operations with minimal kernel resources, without the need for host disk space to stage the data, so the entire backup process has little impact on the server's business performance, and is a "real-time backup" with no backup windows at all.

When a recovery file is needed, the administrator can retrieve the required documents in just a few simple steps and restore the success rate up to 100%. In the event of a system failure outage, you can recover from a copy of the reserved disk directly in the flight's CDP Storage Manager and restore the system to its previously operational state, and the time and operational difficulty of disaster recovery through the Pegasus CDP will be significantly reduced compared to traditional tape recovery methods, The entire recovery process will not exceed 10 minutes.

Eliminate backup time, improve recovery efficiency, and ensure business continuity

By deploying the CDP, it was easy to make backup/restore headaches for system administrators. Completely exempt from the original more than 10-hour backup operation, and no longer worry about backup failures. Real-time backups based on minute-level snapshots make the recovery process smoother and take advantage of point-in-time snapshots to restore data to any time you need it. Because it is directly from the disk to restore, time and manpower have saved a lot. The recovery time is shorter and more efficient, protecting the company's business continuity to the maximum. The management and operation of the CDP is also very simple, in a unified intelligent console can easily complete a series of backup, recovery operations, system administrators do not have to learn a lot of new knowledge, so that administrators can have more time to do other work.

After the application of the CDP, the original IT department spent on backup/recovery, as well as the entire data protection time significantly shortened, which not only makes the enterprise's data security risk greatly reduced, the speed of data backup/recovery greatly increased, and liberated a large number of IT staff and workloads, This improves the operational reliability and security of enterprise IT operations and business systems. "The original data that could be recovered in two days can be restored in a few minutes, while the CDP helps us quickly complete the protection of the virtual server and, through its good support for VMware, completes the VMware-based disaster recovery solution, which fully protects the data security of the offsite site. The need for offsite disaster preparedness has been completed. ”

Ding Feng Hu Jiashong
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Solve data protection challenges for VMware Virtual environments