This presentation shares information about PHD Virtual's Image-based backup for Citrix XenServer environments. This solution is a simple and cost effective alternative to those who are still wrestling with agents and writing scripts to perform backups.
3. Who We Are
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
• 13 quarters of record growth
• 6000+ customers
Industry leadership
• Two-time winner Best of VMworld
• 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
4. What Makes PHD Virtual Unique?
Unmatched Value:
Effective products:
• Powerful and scalable
• Value evident out-of-the-box
Easier to use:
• Easy to download, install and use
Lower cost:
• Priced at a fraction of the cost of competitors
Ultimate Fan Club!
“I can’t afford to spend much time managing backups.
PHD makes the process a piece of cake. How they put so much functionality into such
an easy to use product, I don’t know, but they did”.
- Marek Friedl, Hardt Equipment
“PHD Virtual allows you to easily deploy multiple Virtual Backup Appliances that
create unprecedented scalability, without the cost and complexity of other solutions.”
- Virtualization Blogger, Roy Mikes
6. PHD Virtual Backup & Replication
• Supports Citrix XenServer v6.1, v6.0 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
7. Image-based Comparison
Agent-based Image-based
Expensive Inexpensive
Difficult to deploy Easy to deploy
Limited Flexibility Supports almost all OS and databases
Works in physical and virtual
environments
Works in virtual environments
8. Backup Storage
Primary Storage
The VBA Architecture Advantage
Virtual Backup Appliance
100% Virtual Footprint
No Physical Servers
No Additional Software
Backup / Proxy Server
Physical Server
Operating System
Backup Software
SAN Attach (HBA)
Maintenance
Backup Storage
Primary Storage
VIRTUAL BACKUP APPLIANCE
OTHER PRODUCTS
VS.
Backup /
Proxy Server
9. 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
10. Full and Incremental Backup Mode
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Ideal Targets
Cloud
Network
(CIFS)
Dedupe
Tape
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
11. Application Aware
• Small application installed in the guest (PHD Guest Tools)
• Ensures application consistency
• Performs Microsoft Exchange Log Truncation
– Combined with Digiscope email recovery, provides a complete
data protection story for virtualized Exchange
• Executes additional scripts for other applications, such as
SQL server
– Before and after a snapshot
– After a backup
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log
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log
E0008DD4.
log
PHD Tools
Application Aware Backups – Exchange Log
Truncation
1. Snapshot is taken and PHDVBA communicates with the PHD Tools
2. PHDVBA performs the backup of your Exchange VM
3. PHDVBA communicates to the PHD Tools to truncate the Exchange logs.
13. 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
14. PHD TrueRestore™ Technology
Backup
Storage
Deduplicated
Backup 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
15. Virtual Machine Replication
• Replicate Virtual Machines for DR
– Single pass backup and replication
• No additional snapshots for replication
• Replicate without impacting production
– Intelligent Data Replication
– Replication Seeding
– Verify Replicated VM’s with Test Mode
16. Virtual Machine Replication
1 2
Virtual Machine Replication
1. Replication VBA Reads Backups
from PHD Backup Storage and
Rehydrates VM’s
2. Replication VBA Restores VM’s to
the Replicated VM Storage in a
“powered down” state.
Production
Host
Replication
Host
Production
Storage
Replicated
Storage
Backup Storage
De-duped & Compressed
Replicate VM’s for DR
Replicate From Backup Storage
No Additional Snapshots
Intelligent Data Replication
Optimized Virtual Machine Replication
17. PHD Virtual Open Export
PHD Virtual Open Export
1. PHD Virtual Open Exporter converts
Backups to compressed OVF Files.
2. (Optional) Tape backup software
sweeps OVF Files to tape storage. Tape
Storage
PHD Backup Storage
De-duped & Compressed
Windows
Tape Server
Temporary
Storage
1 2
Export Backups to Standard OVF
Backup Faster to Tape Storage
Archive Backups Offsite
Restore Without Any Software
Optimized Portability of Backup Data
Lets get started by helping you understand a little more about our company…PHD Virtual provides the absolute best value in backup & disaster recovery assurance virtual and cloud environments.We help customers dramatically reduce the costs and risk of recovery within SLAsMore than 6,000 customers worldwide rely on our products (our customers are a who’s who among the Fortune 500 and we serve 1000s of mid-market companies too)Thanks to the amazing reception we have had from customers we have had 13 consecutive quarters of record revenue growth – This makes us one of the fastest growing software companies around the globeAnd, as you can imagine, our company has been recognized as standing out from our peers by receiving numerous awards as well as a direct investment by Citrix
Have you ever sat through a presentation and struggled to understand how that company is different from competitive alternatives? We believe its very important that we help you understand what sets PHD Virtual apart.Our approach for delivering unmatched value can be summed up in 3 simple differentiators:We deliver effective data protection and infrastructure monitoring products that are powerful, scalable and deliver value in minutesOur products are exceptionally easy to use – you’ll never need to read a manual, take a training course and you can install and be fully configured in less than 10 minutes – what Apple is to consumer electronics – we are to virtualization managementOur products are priced at a fraction of the cost of competitive alternatives – great technology shouldn’t be so expensiveIts why our customers represent our ultimate fan club… read quote
Its also why we’ve experienced amazing growth – and we fully expect the growth to continue
Lets turn to our award winning products and start with our Data Protection product called PHD Virtual Backup and ReplicationPHD Virtual Backup and Replicationprovides advanced data protection powered by our unique Virtual Backup Appliance architecture. It is the #1 Virtual Backup solution and supports both VMware and Citrix.Let me start by covering few key items before we give you an overview of specific capabilities and how it compares against competitorsLike all PHD products, its super easy to use, it installs and configures in minutes, requires no training and you can literally set-it- and forget itFor most customers its all about time to recovery and you’ll find no one is faster – and no product performs faster – We know that backup windows are short – so you need a product that moves at the pace of your businessYou’ll find we use significantly less storage than any other alternative because of our powerful source-side de-duplication capabilities and incremental back-ups which store only changesOne of the key differentiators of our product is our Virtual Backup Appliance architecture. This patented capability is our secret sauceThe VBA plugs directly into the hypervisor Offers the most effective virtual backup at the lowest cost – because our unique VBA architecture requires no physical machines or 3rd party software - lets take a look at how it in more detail…
The VBA is truly unique. The best way to describe this is to help you understand how it compares to architecture delivered by our competitors – Competitive alternatives:Add complexity and cost:They require separate physical servers and 3rd party software deployed outside the virtual environment (Veeam for example requires a separate windows based proxy server –and you'll have to maintain this –patch it upgrade it, secure it…what a hassle! And you’’ need an adapter (HBA) for the storage)Load balancing and solving for fault tolerance is more complex tooHarder to scale: Ease and speed of scaling is a primary driver of virtualization –your backup product should never limit this benefitTo scale you'll need to deploy and manage multiple physical serversLets contrast the this approach to the PHD’s VBA:Simple and less expensive:The VBA has a 100% virtualized footprint. This means it deploys as a virtual appliance, is managed directly from the v-sphere or XenServer hypervisor and requires no physical servers or additional softwareAdditional VBAs are easily deployed which enables you to quickly meet your organizations performance requirements or fault tolerance needsScales Quickly and easily: You can quickly deploy VBAs to scale and meet to meet enterprise needs – and its all done seamlessly within your virtual environment