Avamar 7 2010

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EMC Avamar
Never back up the same data twice

Agenda
 Today’s data protection reality
 The usual answers
 Avamar overview
– How it works
– Flexible deployment
 Avamar solves customer
challenges
 Summary

Today’s Data Protection Reality
 Data growth is immense
 Companies want more data protected
 Time required for backup is expanding
 Backup hampered by tape’s unreliability
and poor performance
 Virtual machines pose unique backup
challenges
 Increasing volume of data at remote
offices
 More data stored locally on desktops
and laptops
Pressure to meet the changing
needs of the business

The Usual Answers
 Backup to tape, or stage to disk, and
then archive to tape
 Manually move tapes offsite for
disaster recovery
Traditional backup and recovery
 Inefficient and slow, ~200% of primary
data moved across the network weekly
 Tedious, multi-step recovery process
 Risks the loss or theft of unencrypted
tapes in transit
 Data is difficult to recover and leverage

Avamar Overview
Backup and recovery software with integrated
global, source data deduplication
 Reduces the size of backup data at the source—
before it is transferred across the network
 Delivers fast, daily full backups using existing infrastructure
 Reduces network bandwidth for backup by up to 500 times
 Deduplicates across sites and servers, reducing total
backup disk storage by up to 50 times
 Cost-effectively stores daily full backups on disk—reducing
or eliminating the need for tape
 Ideal for protecting VMware environments, remote offices,
LAN/NAS servers, and desktop/laptop systems
Avamar Software
Avamar Data Store
Avamar Virtual
Edition for VMware
Avamar
server
deployed as
a virtual
appliance
Agent-only
or deployed
on qualified,
industry-
standard
servers
Fully integrated
software/hardware
offering

Avamar: How it Works
Global, sub-file data deduplication
At the source—Deduplication before data is transported across the network
At the target—Assures coordinated deduplication across sites, servers, and over time
Granular—Small, variable-length sub-file segments guarantee most effective deduplication
 Send and store each
atom only once
 Avamar
backup repository
 Break data into atom (sub-file,
variable-length segments of data)
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Remote
Site 2 Modified Instance
EMC Avamar
Never Backup the Same Data Twice
Data
Center
Only unique data
segments are
backed up
 First Instance
New data segment
identified and
backed up
Avamar: How it Works
Simple example of global, sub-file deduplication
Remote
Site 1 Duplicate Instance
Data already backed up,
so only unique IDs stored
(20 byte pointers)
Deduplication server
(stored backup data)
A B C D
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C
D
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Avamar: Real-World Results
Avamar daily full backups versus traditional daily full backups
Data Type
Amount of Primary
Data Backed Up
Amount of Data
Moved Daily
Windows file systems 3,573 GB 6.1 GB
Mix of Windows, Linux, and UNIX file systems 5,097 GB 11.7 GB
Engineering files on NAS (NDMP backups) 3,265 GB 24.2 GB
Mix of 20% databases, 80% file systems
(Windows and UNIX)
9,583 GB 80.0 GB
Mix of Linux file systems and databases 7,831 GB 104.2 GB
Source: EMC
While results will vary by data type and mix, Avamar can
dramatically improve backup performance and efficiency

Avamar’s Innovative Architecture
 Redundant Array of Independent
Nodes (RAIN) architecture
– Each server node includes CPU, memory,
and internal disk storage
– Provides high availability and fault tolerance
across nodes
 Grid architecture for online scalability
and performance
 Daily Avamar server integrity checks
 Data recoverability verified daily
 RAID protection from disk failures
 Available for Avamar software and
Avamar Data Store
U.S. Patent No. 6,826,711
Avamar Server
Verified
checkpoint
Utility and
spare node
Parity across
storage nodes

Avamar’s Centralized Management
 Centralized management of multiple
Avamar systems
 Intuitive, web-based interface
 At-a-glance dashboards
 Capacity reporting and alerting
 Facilitates “set and forget” deployment
in smaller enterprises
 Improves efficiencies and streamlines
management in remote/branch offices
 Specialized management interface for
desktop/laptop clients
Policy-based, multi-site management
over existing network bandwidth

Avamar Server Deployment Options
Avamar Software Avamar Data Store Avamar Virtual Edition
for VMware
Fully integrated
hardware/software solution
with single point of support
Single-node Avamar server
running as a virtual machine
(virtual appliance)
Software for industry-
standard servers
Avamar
VM
Resource
Pool
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
Avamar
VM
Avamar
VM

Avamar’s Flexible Deployment

Avamar Data Store
 Complete EMC backup, recovery, and disaster recovery
offering
– Avamar backup and recovery software with integrated source/global
data deduplication
– EMC-certified hardware built to order—fully configured and delivered
 Built-in high availability
– Avamar RAIN technology
– Spare node, RAID
– Redundant power distribution
– Redundant switches, NICs for automatic failover on user’s network
 Simplifies
– Purchase (single vendor, certified hardware)
– Deployment (minimizes onsite setup)
– Service (single vendor support)
Fully integrated software/hardware solution

Avamar Data Store
 Avamar Data Store
– Scalable with up to 52.8 TB of deduplicated disk capacity
– Equivalent of up to several petabytes of cumulative traditional disk
or tape backup storage
– Reduces required backup disk storage by up to 50 times
– High availability and reliability with RAIN architecture, RAID, daily
integrity checks, and redundant power, switches, and NICs
 Avamar Data Store single node
– Supports 1 TB, 2 TB, and 3.3 TB licensable deduplicated storage
capacity configurations
– Equivalent of up to 114 TB of cumulative traditional disk or tape
backup storage
– Designed for easy deployment at remote offices
– Offers fast, local recovery without dependence on a WAN
Flexible deployment options

Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware
 Industry’s first deduplication virtual appliance for backup,
recovery, and disaster recovery
 Leverages existing ESX servers and storage
– Can use existing iSCSI, SAN, or DAS disk storage
 Replication (of applications and storage) eliminates
shipping tapes
– Replicate between virtual Avamar servers and physical Avamar
servers
 Facilitates rapid, cost-effective deployment and return on
investment
 Supports VMotion for deployment flexibility
 Up to two Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware virtual
appliances per VMware ESX server for scalability
Avamar server deployed as a virtual appliance
Avamar
VM
Resource
Pool
x86 Architecture
Avamar
VM
Avamar
VM

Avamar Data Transport
 Policy-driven process
exports and restores
Avamar deduplicated
data to and from tape
 Searchable file-level
catalog eases and
speeds restoration
 Leverages existing
backup software
(e.g., EMC
NetWorker)
Export deduplicated
data to tape for long-
term storage
Fewer tapes for lower costs—
up to 50 times reduction in long-term storage costs
Replicates selected
Avamar server data to
data transport node
residing on ESX servers
Avamar backs up clients
to Avamar server
Tape
vault
Avamar coordinates
export of data transport
replica through tape
backup system
NetWorker/
NetBackup
server/
storage
node
Avamar grid ESX server Existing backup
server
Resource
Pool
x86 Architecture
Transport
Node
Transport
Node
SAN/LAN

Avamar Supported Operating Systems
and Applications
Application modules
 IBM DB2 9.1, 9.5, 9.7
 IBM Lotus Domino 6, 7, 8
 Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010
 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
 Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005, 2008
 NDMP (EMC Celerra with DART 5.5, 5.6)
 NDMP (NetApp Data ONTAP 6.5, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.1x.
7.2, 7.3.x)
 Oracle 9i, 9.2, 10, 10g, 10gR2, 11g, 11gR2
VMware infrastructure
 ESX 3.0.x, 3.5, 3i
 vSphere 4
= ESX client operating system-certified using RHEL 4 client
(support within virtual machines depends on VMware support of
client operating system)
Client operating systems supported
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Vista and XP
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 on zLinux
Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 9.0
Solaris 8, 9, 10, 10 x86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8, 9, 10, 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10SP3 on zLinux
 Apple Macintosh OS X 10.4.x, 10.5.x, 10.6.x
 CentOS 4.x, 5.x
 Debian 4, 5
 Free BSD 6.2
 HP-UX 11.0, 11iV1, 11iV2, 11iV3
 IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1
 NetWare 6.5
 Novell Open Enterprise Server OES SP2
 Oracle Enterprise Linux R5
 SCO OpenServer 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7
 SCO UnixWare 7.1.3
No charge for client agents or
application modules

Avamar Solves Key Backup
Challenges
 VMware environments
 Remote office/branch office (ROBO)
 LAN/NAS servers
 Desktop/laptop

Virtualization changes server, application, and information paradigm…
backup must evolve to deliver even greater consolidation and value
VMware Backup Challenges
Virtual
Server A
Virtual
Server B
Virtual
Server C
Old Paradigm
Physical environment: Low overall server
utilization and plenty of bandwidth for backup
New Paradigm
Virtual environment: High overall server
utilization and little bandwidth for backup
20% resource utilization 80% resource utilization
100%
80
%
40%
0%
60%
20%
CPUUtilization
100%
80
%
40%
0%
60%
20%
CPUUtilization
Server A Server B Server C
ESX server
Hardware
Shared physical resources

Avamar’s Optimized Backup for
VMware Infrastructure
 Optimal location: Reduces data at the source
– Data deduplicated at VM guest or proxy server (source)
– Duplicated data never traverses congested shared physical resources
– Data moved during backup is reduced from ~200% to ~2% of primary data
weekly
– Deduplicates data globally across virtual machines and/or VMDK (virtual
machine disk) format files
 Optimal granularity: Sub-file, variable-length segments
– VMDK is one large file; any changes cause an incremental/full traditional
backup
– Fixed-length segment deduplication solutions fail due to frame offset
– Avamar efficiently moves only new, unique variable length data segments
 Ideal for the protection of VMware environments
– Delivers fast, daily full backups over existing virtual and physical infrastructure
– Enables greater server consolidation by eliminating backup bottlenecks
– Maximizes value from VMware
Avamar deduplicates at the optimal location and level
of granularity

Avamar Solutions for VMware Infrastructure
Flexible, fast, efficient, and reliable backup and recovery
 Universal support for all vSphere 4 backup options
– Daily full guest- and image-level backups
 vStorage API integration
– Greater backup and restore flexibility
 VMware vCenter Server integration
– Single point of management within Avamar for all VMware backup
options
Avamar and VMware vSphere 4 integration

Avamar’s Optimized Backup for VMware
Infrastructure
Avamar efficiently protects virtual machines
Up to…
 95% reduction in data moved
 90% reduction in backup times
 50% reduction in disk impact
 95% reduction in NIC usage
 80% reduction in CPU usage
 50% reduction in memory usage
All backups are stored as “virtual full
backups,” ready for immediate restore
Enables greater server consolidation
ratios without overtaxing CPU utilization
Avamar moves ~2% weekly
Traditional moves ~200% weekly
Resource
Pool
x86 Architecture
Resource
Pool
x86 Architecture

Avamar Backup for VMware Guests
 Avamar agent resides inside each
virtual machine
 Fast, daily full backups
 Deduplicates data within the virtual
machine, as if they were physical
servers
 Moves minimal backup data
– Reduces resource contention and
accelerates backups
 Provides file-level restore for
Windows, Linux, and Solaris
Resource
Pool
x86 Architecture
= Avamar Software Agent

Avamar Image-Level Backups through
Storage APIs
 Avamar agent resides on the proxy
server
 Fast, daily full backups
 Deduplicates within and across
VMDK files
 Supports both file-level (Windows
only) and image-level recovery
 Avamar replication provides
disaster recovery for VMDKs
vStorage API
virtual proxy
server with
Avamar agent
Resource
Pool
x86 Architecture
Physical server
Virtual Machines
Avamar client software runs
on the proxy server
SAN
storage
Avamar
server
Mount
= Avamar Software Agent

Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)
Backup challenges and Avamar solution
 The “Achilles’ heel” of data protection
– More than 4 million remote offices in the U.S.
– Remote office data growing at more than 50% per year*
– Most back up to tape and move unencrypted tapes offsite
– Often unskilled, untrained IT staff at remote sites
 Avamar remote office/branch office backup is
simple, safe, and manageable
– Extend data center protection to the edge
– Fast, daily full backups and one-step recovery through
existing WAN/LAN links
– Avamar agent-only deployment for smaller offices (no extra
local hardware)
– Eliminate distributed tape management/infrastructure
– Mitigate risk involved with manually shipping tapes
– Data encrypted in-flight and at-rest for security
*Source: Gartner
“Avamar enabled us to
reduce administrative
support requirements by
80%, reduce backup
windows by 90%, and
recover lost files and
servers in minutes
rather than hours.”
— Mike DePhillip,
Backup Administrator,
Virginia Department
of Motor Vehicles

NAS Filer Backup and Recovery Challenges
 Limited backup windows
– Daily full backups desired, but not feasible
 Limited backup and recovery performance
– Single filer controllers have limited resources and can
become a bottleneck
– Incomplete backups leave data at risk
 Limited network links and disk storage
– Redundant data limits performance of network/
infrastructure and requires more disk storage
 Impact on end users
– When backups exceed allotted window, end users compete
for the NAS resources (poor response, lower productivity)
 NDMP licenses
– Traditional NAS filers require expensive NDMP licenses to
support backup and recovery

Avamar NAS/NDMP Backup Accelerator
 How it works
– Avamar Accelerator uses NDMP to communicate to source NAS device
– Accelerator requests only modified data daily
– Accelerator performs source-based deduplication on modified data
 Only new modified segments are sent to Avamar Data Store
– Source and global deduplication occur at Accelerator
 Avamar’s NDMP backups are ready for immediate recovery
– Avoids time-consuming task of restoring weekly full, plus daily incremental, backups
 Fast, efficient daily full backups for EMC Celerra and NetApp Filers
NAS device
(EMC or NetApp)
LAN LAN/WAN
Avamar NDMP
Accelerator
Avamar
Data Store

Before Avamar
After Avamar
Daily
Incre-
mental
Avamar Optimized Backup for NAS Filers
 Eliminates time-consuming, traditional
full NDMP backups
– Daily deduplicated full backups
– Up to 10-times faster than traditional
NDMP backups
 Fast recovery from full backup image
– Eliminates hassle of recovering from last
good full and subsequent incremental
backups
 Flexible recovery
– Restore full file system or single file to
Avamar client or NAS device
– Allows flexible disaster recovery solutions
 Cost-effective disaster recovery
– Backup data is encrypted
– Easily replicated offsite through existing
WAN bandwidth
Weekend
Full
Weekend
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Incre-
mental
Daily
Incre-
mental
Daily
Incre-
mental
Daily
Incre-
mental

Avamar Desktop/Laptop
End-user initiated
restore
Windows or Mac OS X
Desktop/Laptop Backup Challenges
and Avamar Solution
 Puts power in end-users hands
– Eliminates Help Desk for restoring
data to desktop or laptop
– End users restore their data anytime,
anywhere
– Self-managed restores
– Document-level search engine
– Multiple language support
 All the benefits of Avamar backup
– Data deduplicated at the source
– Daily full backups—up to 10-times
faster
– Minimal impact on PC and network
resources during backupAvamar Data Store

Avamar’s Unique Value
 Deduplicates data at the client (source)
– Fast, daily full backups through existing infrastructure
 Deduplicates data globally
– Reduces required backup disk storage by up to 50 times
 Fast, single-step recovery
– Eliminates hassle of recovering last good full and subsequent
incrementals to reach desired recovery point
 Recoverability verified daily
– Daily server integrity checks; data recoverability verified daily
 High availability
– RAIN architecture and replication—no single points of failure
 Centralized management
– Streamlines administration and management of remote backups
 Flexible deployment options
 Complete solution from EMC
– Backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and data deduplication

 Global data deduplication defuses
the explosion of backup data
– Fast, daily full backups through
existing networks
– Backup disk storage reduced by up to
50 times
 Alters the fundamental economics
of disk versus tape
– Accelerate shift to disk as primary
medium for backup
 Key element of EMC’s next-
generation backup portfolio
Avamar Transforms Backup and Recovery

EMC Services for Avamar
Derive maximum value
Consulting Services
 Align service levels and Reference Architectures with business requirements
Implementation Services
 Minimize risk, accelerate implementation, and speed time to value of new
technologies
Operational Assurance Services
 Post-implementation operational best-practice knowledge transfer
 Performance optimization and tuning
 Process recommendations for improvement
 Training recommendations
Residency Services
 Fill missing skill gaps with Avamar services professionals—typical contract
three or more months
 Tailor best-practice recommendations, knowledge transfer based on in-depth
understanding of your environment
Designated Support Engineer
 Senior support resource resolves product support issues quickly

Avamar
Data Store
NetWorker and Avamar Integration
How it works
 Integrated client is a standard feature of NetWorker
 NetWorker represents the Avamar Data Store as a
deduplication node
 Deduplication is enabled through NetWorker
Management Console
 Save process gathers metadata and sends it to the
NetWorker server and data to the deduplication node
 On recovery, required deduplication data is requested,
and full dataset is restored at client
Clients
NetWorker
NetWorker
Storage
node
Disk, VTL,
Tape
ServerManagement
Console
NetWorker
MetadataData
Metadata
NetWorker
Deduplication
node
Data

Unify—See—Act
 Automatically collect data from across data
protection infrastructure
 Transform disparate data into new insights,
actionable information, and service-level
agreement statistics
 Make better, faster decisions to meet service
level agreements, correct issues, and drive
efficiency
Payback typically 12 months or less
 Reduces costs with automation and new
insight that drives efficient use of people and
infrastructure
 Improves compliance, lowers risk with
greater visibility into service-level agreement
recoverability statistics
 Minimizes complexity with a single,
integrated view across the environment
Single view for data protection
management, including backup
applications, replication, and
continuous data protection (CDP)
Data Protection Advisor
Unified monitoring, analysis, and reporting

EMC Data Domain and Avamar
Retain, replicate, recover
Deduplicate everything
without changing anything
Never back up the
same data twice
Simplify backup, archiving, and disaster
recovery with easy integration across workloads,
infrastructures, and backup software
Revolutionize your backup by moving less
data to solve your toughest VMware, NAS,
and remote-office backup challenges
Avamar deduplication
backup software
Data Domain deduplication
storage systems

USE CASE
Mecklenburg County
Backing up NAS Filers through the Avamar NDMP Accelerator
“The Avamar system
has been absolutely
bulletproof since it was
fully implemented, it’s
part of our strategy to
reduce overall costs
and provide more
efficient public services
—advantages that can’t
be over-emphasized in
today’s economy.
— Jason Girad,
Storage Engineer

USE CASE
St. Peter’s Health Care Services
Backing up a VMware infrastructure
Before Avamar
 Data center redesign focused on server consolidation
and virtualization
 Concern about traditional, tape-based backup in
VMware environment
 Backup windows strained; physical resources
overburdened
With Avamar
 Deployed agents within virtual machines
 95% reduction in data moved
 90% reduction in backup times
 Major reductions in NIC, CPU, and memory usage
 Centralized management and control
“Avamar provides a huge
time and cost savings
for backup of multiple
virtual machines.”
With Avamar, we can
centrally manage all of
our backups, and we
also gain the ability to
rapidly restore data
down to the file level.”
— Curtis Damhof,
Network Manager,
St. Peter’s Health Care Services

USE CASE
Global Industrial Manufacturer
“Avamar was much less
expensive than our
other backup and
recovery options. But it
also provides us faster
data restores, more
backup capacity, and
scalability to meet future
data protection needs.”
— Company spokesman,
global industrial manufacturer
Before Avamar
 Struggling to meet backup, recovery, and reliability goals
across extended enterprise
 Lengthy backup windows caused by increasing data volumes,
threatening network performance
 Expanding existing backup solution would require second
master server, two additional tape silos, 16 new LTO tape
drives
With Avamar
 Backup for VMware (24 ESX servers, 332 virtual clients)
 Avamar agents installed in VM guests
 Eliminated physical tape management
 Reduced backup and recovery administrative burden
 Backup performance increased ten-fold
 Backup network traffic reduced by 95%

USE CASE
Fortune 20 Healthcare Supplier
Before Avamar
 Growing VMware environment struggles to meet backup
window
 Daily tape backup and offsite tape shipments—risky slow
recovery
 Unable to quickly replicate data through WAN for disaster
recovery
With Avamar
 Global deduplication effective within and across VMDK files
 More than 70% reduction in first backup and average of 99.7%
thereafter
 Compared to traditional alternatives, testing showed:
– Avamar moved 20% of the data that Symantec PureDisk moved
– Avamar moved 190% less data than traditional tape backup software

USE CASE
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
Remote-office/branch-office backup
Before Avamar
 73 remote offices, backup to local, direct-attached tape
drives
 No local IT staff
 Daily backup required five hours per site; six hours to
restore entire server
With Avamar
 Four hours to back up all 73 offices through existing
WAN (56k-T1) to central Avamar server
 45 minutes to restore entire servers; files restored in
seconds
 Centralized management and control
“Avamar enabled us to
reduce administrative
support requirements
by 80%, reduce backup
windows by 90%, and
recover lost files and
servers in minutes
rather than hours.”
— Mike DePhillip,
Backup Administrator,
Virginia DMV

USE CASE
Corporate Express
Remote office/branch office backup
Before Avamar
 Storage demands were rapidly increasing
 Tape library was reaching slot capacity and upgrading was not
ideal due to age and maintenance costs
 Needed to control costs and simplify data management
 Backup and disaster recovery was time consuming
With Avamar
 Reduced stored data by more than 50 percent—from 92 TB to
44 TB
 Achieved significant financial savings
 Enabled disk-based backups to be completed in 30 minutes,
compare to six hours in the past for tape
 Reduced restoration times for business-critical data from
24 hours to minutes
“We were blown away
by the simplicity of the
management interface
and the comprehensive
capabilities offered by
Avamar. After carrying
out a proof of concept,
we clearly understood
the benefits Avamar
would bring to our
business.”
— Mark Jones, Technology
Infrastructure Manager

USE CASE
A Global Pharmaceutical Company
Remote-office/branch-office backup
Before Avamar
 Strain developing and deploying a coherent IT strategy for
more than 250 sites, 100,000 employees
– Lacked consistent IT infrastructure
– Cumbersome tape backup solution was overextending staff and overtaxing
virtual machines
 Escalating capital and operation costs
With Avamar
 Deployed from templates within a virtual application pack
 Reduced backup time by more than 75%; slashed cycle time
for offsite data replication
 Minimized impact on network bandwidth
 Reduced storage costs by eliminating tape backup and
slashing storage requirements
“When we compared the
total cost of ownership
of EMC Avamar to that
of traditional backup,
we found that Avamar
cost less yet provides
exponentially better
data protection and
service levels.”
— Head of Storage Services
Global pharmceutical
company

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