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Enhancing VCB with esxRanger Professional 3.0

Enhancing VCB with esxRanger Professional 3.0. Azeem Mohamed Sr. Director, Marketing & Products. Vizioncore Overview. Founded in 2002 Launched esxRanger flagship product in April 2005; added three products in 2006 Headquarters in Chicago, IL; global presence with worldwide sales channel

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Enhancing VCB with esxRanger Professional 3.0

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  1. Enhancing VCB with esxRanger Professional 3.0 Azeem Mohamed Sr. Director, Marketing & Products

  2. Vizioncore Overview • Founded in 2002 • Launched esxRanger flagship product in April 2005; added three products in 2006 • Headquarters in Chicago, IL; global presence with worldwide sales channel • Proven solutions: More than 2,200 customers, 23,000 licenses, 450 partners

  3. Partnership Value “As an ecosystem partner for the VMware Infrastructure platform, Vizioncore delivers valuable toolsets…that allow users to more easily accomplish their objectives for their virtualized applications and servers.” -Karthik Rau, Senior Director, Infrastructure Product & Solutions VMware, Inc.

  4. Industry Expertise • VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide • Author Scott Herold • Director R & D • Industry White Papers: • ‘1-2’ Punch Backup Methodology • Top 10 Migration Upgrade Tips • Fastest Backups for VI3

  5. Financial Aegon FHL Bank of San Francisco Union bank and trust Bank of Oklahoma Government County of Orange County of LA Salt Lake County State of Colorado Education USC UC Santa Barbara University of Arizona University of Texas Vizioncore Customers Healthcare • Blue Cross • Beckman Coulter • City of Hope Medical Center • Gentiva Health Services • Palo Alto Medical Technology • National Semiconductor • Sprint • Texas Instruments • IBM Manufacturing • BP • Citgo • Dreyers Ice Cream • Red Bull • Aquila • Paccar Other Industries • AAA Auto • Disney • Assurant • CGI • DST Systems • GMAC Mortgage • Los Alamos Labs • MWH Global • Raytheon

  6. Vizioncore Product Portfolio • esxRanger Professional • Integration with VirtualCenter & VCB, new differential backups, file recovery, reporting repository and intelligent rules engine Fastest backup solution for VMware Infrastructure 3! • esxCharter • Real time performance monitoring & control for VI3 • Reporting of key ESX Server statistics – BILLBACK! • esxReplicator • Live replication of virtual machines for disaster recovery • esxMigrator • Migrate from ESX Server 2.5 to VI3 with ease and automation

  7. Business Continuity • Service Level Driven • Every application needs a backup!

  8. VMware Backup/Recovery Challenges • Reliability • Recovery time • Backup Overhead • Shrinking backup window • Disaster Recovery costs

  9. Back Up Methods • File level: • Inside the guest agents • Commvault, Tivoli, Legato, Veritas • Transactional or user data • Image level: • Complete copy of entire virtual machine • OS, application, data, file-level agents

  10. File Level Agents • Advantages • Restore individual files • Consistent transactional data • Challenges • OS recovery difficult/impossible • Guest/host resources heavily utilized

  11. Image Level • Disaster Recovery • Advantages • Up and running fast • Full virtual machine captured • Simple recovery • Challenges • Transactional data consistency

  12. VMware Consolidated Backup • Advantages • Image & File level backup • LAN free • Offloads backup • Challenges • Script driven • Lacks feature • Still requires 3rd Party tools • Backup automation • Restores! • Single target

  13. VCB Architecture

  14. “The Holy Grail!” Full image backup, Differential backup Full image restore, file level restore VirtualCenter integrated GUI VMotion & DRS aware VCB integrated! Comprehensive & Automated GUI-driven No agents VI3 enabled Compression Archiving LAN/WAN options esxRanger Professional V3.0

  15. esxRanger Professional GUI

  16. Deploying esxRanger Professional • Installed centrally • Windows Server (2K3 or XP) • Dot Net framework • Can be same as VirtualCenter or VCB proxy • If using VCB, must be proxy server • Note: VCB cannot be installed on VirtualCenter server • Will launch vcbMounter process • In background • Uses export method for image backup

  17. esxRanger Professional Standalone

  18. Differential Backups • Smaller backups • More frequency, less disk required • Compares all backups • To last full image or last differential • Looks for changes • Records data changes & compresses data • Performs backup to destination

  19. Differentials Engine

  20. esxRanger Professional GUI Backup in 3 easy steps! Recovery in 3 easy steps! Differential backup and restores! VCB & VC Enabled!

  21. esxRanger Pro & VCB Integration • Automates VCB Process from GUI option • I/O Intercept Engine • Leverages memory pages • Database and engine on esxRanger Professional server • Backup and compression performed in memory • Will redirect backups from export • To destination of choice (i.e. network share) • Prevents need to write on proxy, read off for backup • Does not need space on proxy • Will leverage fibre channel • LAN Free

  22. Combined Solution

  23. Successful Deployment! • Build 2003 proxy server • Install VCB framework • Install esxRanger Professional • Install VCB plug-in • Start backing up your virtual machines with the fastest VMWare backup solution!

  24. Fastest Backups – Period!

  25. Benefits of Combined Solution • Speed • LAN free, redirect, dedicated resources • fastest possible! • Performance • No overhead on network, host or guest • Disk space savings • No disk space requirement on proxy

  26. Comprehensive Backup Methodology • WEEKLY backups • Full virtual machine images with esxRanger Professional • DAILY backups • Differential with esxRanger Professional • Delta since last full image • Eliminate backup agents inside virtual machines for file-level backups • LEVERAGE VCB • Take backup load off ESX Server hosts & Network Detailed whitepaper available at www.vizioncore.com

  27. esxRanger Professional Benefits • Performance w/no overhead! – leverage VCB • Fastest backup - use esxRanger Professional • Flexibility – full or differential backups • D/R - full image or file level restores • Affordable – save $, reduce downtime

  28. Demonstration

  29. Quality & Excellence Product Review Rating: 8.1 “Overall, Vizioncore’s esxRanger is a slick and simple solution to backing up VMware virtual machines… if you run production VMware servers, this is definitely a worthwhile tool.” - Paul Venezia, InfoWorld, September 2006

  30. Summary • Built for VMware Infrastructure! • Leader - Image backups • Proven technology • Customers and Partners • Innovative & Unique • Image level approach • New technology additions to virtualization • Value • Immediate ROI, Low entry point

  31. Questions? • Contact us at: • www.vizioncore.com • sales@vizioncore.com • support@vizioncore.com

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