TOP REASONS TO CHOOSE EMC OVER VERITAS NETBACKUP

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1 TOP REASONS TO CHOOSE EMC OVER VERITAS NETBACKUP 1 EMC HAS THE MOST EFFICIENT DEDUPLICATION ON THE MARKET EMC Data Domain was designed from the ground up with data deduplication and data protection in mind. Deduplication is not a bolt-on to a tape- centric solution. Therefore, Data Domain does not suffer from the performance and scale limitations that bolt-on architectures have. This translates into less infrastructure needed to support performance and retention SLAs. With Data Domain s superior deduplication, costs and bandwidth usage are reduced and it provides a tremendous impact at scale. Veritas Appliances do not use global dedupe. You cannot pool them and you cannot dedupe against them. Instead, you must create multiple islands of deduplication; therefore decreasing efficiency. Customers have found the NetBackup Database will grow significantly with the combined use of deduplication and NetBackup Accelerator. The clients may also experience growth due to the track log. And this in turns compounds the difficulty of Disaster Recovery. On average, Veritas customers require 3x the amount of storage. Data Domain s high speed, variable length deduplication reduces storage requirements by 10 to 30x. At these ratios, this is a huge storage savings. Veritas uses fixed-length deduplication, which is less efficient. Veritas NetBackup uses limited stream handlers in an effort to improve their poor deduplication. It is only supported for a few workloads such as file backup, NetApp NDMP, VMware, and Hyper-V. EMC Data Domain is plug n Play; NetBackup deduplication requires weeks planning and extensive roll out windows with NetBackup s most complex features, the 14 step program. Synthetics, SAN Client, Stream handlers with no sizing or guidance, roll your own which causes architecture bloat post sale. 2 EMC (DDBEA) DD BOOST FOR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS Modules for using EMC Data Domain DD Boost together with native data protection functionality from: SAP HANA SAP with Oracle (BR*Tools) Oracle (RMAN) Microsoft SQL IBM DB2 EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) for monitoring and reporting on the various sources. These modules allow application administrators (DBAs) to work with their own HANDOUT

2 interfaces and workflows, yet still move data to protection storage in an efficient manner. This means that instead of having to install third party backup software and giving another team the control over scheduling and workflow, the DBAs now control, when and if they protect their data. In some applications they even stay in control of moving this data offsite, simply specifying that the Data Domain target should perform what is known as a Managed File Replication to one (or more) Data Domain system(s). Recovery of the data can take place from any of these systems. For some of the systems, replication can be controlled by writing to different folders in the Data Domain system, if they write to one that is enabled for Data Domain tree replication, the data is moved offsite as soon as the backup is done, write to one where it isn t and data stays onsite. The whole point of developing this functionality is that in many organizations, there is a rift opening up between what application owners demand and require and what the IT operations department can deliver. Eventually, you see everyone rolling their own solutions and creating the dreaded silos that breed cost, complexity and poor interoperability. The figure below shows how simple the DDBEA deployment design is compared to Veritas Copilot deployment design. DDBEA has native direct application to Protection Storage design keeping deployment and operational costs to a minimum. DD Boost for Enterprise Applications addresses one of these rift creating scenarios, namely the classic problem that DBA s does not want someone else to interfere with their often very complex environments, in this case through traditional backup and recovery backup applications. NetBackup s Copilot Copilot should not be compared to DDBEA as DDBEA is a native RMAN backup utility to which DBA s are accustomed to using. A more accurate comparison would be NetWorker and NetBackup. The NetBackup Copilot feature requires Backup admins and DBA to work on integrating the solution. DDBEA writes directly to deduplicated storage where a NetBackup appliance is carved to use Advanced Disk for initial dump and a postscript process to update the NetBackup and RMAN catalogs. EMC Data Doman has supported all the competitor options and has since 2011.

3 The figure below shows how Veritas Copilot deployment is. It is a post-process nonnative integration method. The Database is dumped to the non deduplicable storage and then Veritas scans that dump and after copies to a deduplicable like storage. Its design is much more complicated than an EMC solution. In addition, there s no optimized data transfer like DD Boost and no advanced feature support like Oracle multiplexing, Veritas has marketed the Copilot feature as game changing for their users but in fact it is very simplistic and something we ve actually supported with NetWorker for several years already. 3 EMC HAS SUPERIOR PROTECTION CAPABILITIES IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT EMC Data Protection Suite supports not only change block tracking backup, but also change block tracking restore. With Data Protection Suite Instant Access, an image can be accessed instantly and run from the Data Domain system. This provides the end user access during a critical time period when the end user cannot wait (even a few minutes) for a restore back to the production environment. Veritas NetBackup proposes using the SAN Transport Type Method of backing up VMware that involves using the SAN and FC rather than IP. Veritas claims this improves performance however; this is costly due to FC connectivity and the physical servers needed. It is also risky because SAN Zoning is the only security and the proxy needs full access to ALL virtual machine (VM) data stores, meaning data stores can accidently get corrupted and/or deleted. Avamar uses virtual, auto-load balancing proxies requiring no additional configuration or management to protect VMware. To scale your virtual environment in a NetBackup environment requires adding physical NetBackup 5230 s or 5330 s or physical media servers to scale the number of simultaneous snaps. EMC leverages lightweight virtual proxies to allow customers to easily and dynamically scale the number of simultaneous snaps and backup streams needed to meet their backup windows. EMC follows VMware best practices to enable fast and efficient backups that are done at the hypervisor level. The value to this approach is that it allows the customer to determine how and where to run their work loads. Veritas NetBackup provides V-Ray which allows scanning of the VMDK s for image and file level recovery in one pass. However, EMC is the industry leader with VMware integration and first to market with this technology over two years ago.

4 Veritas NetBackup offers a feature called Virtual Machine Intelligent Policy (VIP) which enables auto- detection for new, moved or cloned VM s for automatic backups. The reality of using this feature is that it requires knowledge of SQL scripting and debugging any time changes are made to the VM environment. There can be a certain degree of risk in missing VM s for backup due to scripting error/oversight. VIP is also known to be slow and complex, and it needs to be scheduled to run periodically. EMC does this automatically without any configuration using its tight integration with vcenter. EMC Data Protection Advisor s integration with VMware enables the tracking of performance, resource consumption, data protection, and conflicting backup job schedules, as well as movement of host images between VMware systems. Data Protection Advisor tracks virtual data movement with assigned protection policies for both backup and replication to provide confidence that virtualized mission-critical applications are protected. 4 EMC DATA PROTECTION SUITE OFFERS SUPERIOR DATA DOMAIN INTEGRATION Data Protection Suite can leverage Data Domain Boost (DD Boost) for backups. Parts of the deduplication process are distributed to the backup or application server to reduce network utilization and remove media servers from the data path to reduce costs/improve performance. This reduces proxy resource usage by 20-40%, improves Data Domain ingest rates by 50%, and reduces LAN link usage by 80-99% during backups. DD Boost integration enables Data Protection Suite to support a larger environment with less infrastructure when using Data Domain protection storage. Through a single management point, you can configure Data Domain for backup with the backup admin's interface. It also reports on the state of the Data Domain system. Data Protection Suite has the ability to use the standard cloning process to control the Data Domain replication process with Clone Controlled Replication. Backup admins can use a standard tool to manage the process and let Data Domain manage the data movement. Both the backup and the replication are managed via the catalog. To do this with NetBackup, SLP s are required. There is no ability of applying a schedule such that the replication can be done at a certain time and the whole process must work or it will have to be started from the beginning. Data Protection Suite offers synthetic/virtual full Backups that allow you to maintain a current full backup on the Data Domain system using a series of incremental backups. This capability saves storage and bandwidth and increases the speed of the backup. 5 EMC DELIVERS ADVANCED MONITORING, ANALYSIS, AND REPORTING OF THE BACKUP ENVIRONMENT Data Protection Suite provides a comprehensive set of monitoring, analysis, and reporting capabilities that are excellent, especially when compared to Veritas NetBackup. Data Protection Advisor supports many backup products; including all EMC backup products, as well as Veritas NetBackup, Backup Exec, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, HP Data Protector, CA Arcserve, Oracle RMAN, CommVault Simpana, Physical Tape Library, VTL, and VMware VDP.

5 With such broad backup coverage, DPA can manage without vendor lock-in of Veritas NetBackup. Veritas NetBackup s OpsCenter only reports on its own software and hardware. With EMC Data Protection Advisor, you ll be able to unify and automate monitoring, analysis, and reporting across data protection environments while reducing complexity, lowering costs, and eliminating manual efforts. You generally need a minimum of 3 main consoles to manage a Veritas environment (NBU Java/Win Admin Console, NBU Appliance Console, and OpsCenter). They look nothing alike and have zero integration across them. Also, OpsCenter and the NBU Appliance Console have nothing comparable to Data Domain Management Center in terms of centralized management of multiple Appliances. OpsCenter has a very basic dashboard for some hardware alerts and there s no centralized management of NetBackup Appliances. 6 EMC PROVIDES SUPERIOR DEFENSE AGAINST DATA INTEGRITY ISSUES EMC Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture provides the industry s best defense against data integrity issues through inline write and read verification, continuous fault detection, and self-healing to ensure there is no corruption during the backup process- a unique differentiator. Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture includes a self-healing file system, which continuously "checks" the protection data stream for errors and corrects them. The customer is assured that critical data is protected, recoverable, accessible, and not corrupted. This is critically important as data-loss in a dedupe environment is much more impactful. NetBackup Appliances do not provide continuous data integrity checking. The dedupe engine from Veritas doesn t have anything equivalent to the DD file system and the SISL Invulnerability Architecture. Instead, it relies on replication only for its data availability. Logically, for every NetBackup Appliance you purchase, you will also need to purchase a mirror NetBackup Appliance to replicate the data to in order to provide a higher level of availability. That scenario provides better protection than any single NetBackup Appliance can provide but it is still not equivalent to the protection we offer with DIA.

6 7 EMC PROVIDES SNAPSHOT MANAGEMENT EMC Data Protection Solutions deliver end-to-end data protection and recovery for environments that require snapshot backup functionality that makes tracking and restoring snapshot backups simple by cataloging the snapshots from multiple arrays and array types. EMC offers intelligent pairing for VMAX which automatically identifies an available LUN to synchronize with a specified source LUN. EMC provides snapshot management retention policies that manage the lifecycles of the snapshot savesets. EMC offers cradle to grave management of the snapshot and the backup process which includes configuration, management, reporting, backup, replication and recovery of snapshots. The ability to catalogue/index/discover snaps not created by NetWorker is a differentiator unique to Networker; NetBackup does not have this capability. NetWorker supports more application types vs. NetBackup Replication Director, such as DB2, Oracle and SAP with Oracle. Networker supports more arrays/ platforms than NetBackup Replication Director. Veritas provides Replication Director which manages snapshots but is a very NetAppcentric solution whereas EMC supports EMC block arrays, EMC NAS Filers, VNX, NetApp and RecoverPoint. In fact, many of the snapshot features they support are only supported on NetApp devices. 8 EMC PROTECT POINT DELIVERS INDUSTRY LEADING PROTECTION STORAGE WITH PRIMARY STORAGE Not only is EMC delivering world class deduplication and backup software solutions EMC is now leading the industry with eliminating resource impact on application hosts. ProtectPoint provides the performance of snapshots and the functionality of backups while protecting mission critical data on industry leading protection storage. Reliable Protection ensures recovery with the industry s best defense against data integrity issues.

7 9 EMC HELPS YOU MEET YOUR RECOVERY TIME OBJECTIVES (RTO) With Data Protection Suite, there is no need to search the tapes to recover a file. All Data Protection Suite backups are full backups ensuring efficient recovery, and recovery is sent compressed. 10 EMC DISASTER RECOVERY (DR) IS MUCH EASIER WITH LESS RISK With EMC Data Protection Solutions, customers can replicate backup and archive data off-site faster and reduce bandwidth requirements by 99% for safe, efficient disaster recovery. Data Protection Suite provides backup and restore awareness across sites utilizing clone awareness and a tight integration with Data Domain. NetBackup Automated Image Replication (A.I.R.) was never meant to be a complete site wide DR solution for Veritas customers. It was only meant to be a site to site, or NBU domain to NBU domain or Cloud, replication of small amounts of customer s mission critical data only. There is no automated method to restore backups directly from the target domain to clients in the source domain. A.I.R. is not catalog replication and it can t replicate pre-existing backup image data. Also, at the primary site, there is no control of the duplicated copy after it has been sent to the DR site. It could be lost, moved or deleted without you being aware and it can only be fully managed from the DR site- so there s an element of risk and uncertainty.

8 A.I.R. does not provide the comprehensive DR solution that EMC does. In most cases NetBackup recommends to replicate outside normal backup windows. This drastically changes customers Recovery Time Objective (RTO). As data lands on a Data Domain system, it will immediately begin replicating it to a DR site. To meet strict DR requirements, EMC Data Domain Replicator software can replicate at 52 TB/hr over a 10 GB network connection. Data Domain systems only replicate unique compressed data across the network, requiring a fraction of the time, bandwidth and cost of traditional replication methods. This can reduce WAN bandwidth requirements up to 99%, making network-based replication fast, reliable and cost-effective. For the highest level of security, data being replicated between Data Domain systems can be encrypted by using the standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Data Domain systems provide flexible replication topologies including full system mirroring, bidirectional, many-to-one, one-to- many, and cascaded. In a many-to-one deployment, data from up to 540 remote offices can be replicated to a single Data Domain DD9500 system. 11 LEADING THE INDUSTRY IN PROVIDING PARTNERS, RESELLERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS RESTFUL WEB SERVICES. RESTful services offer the benefits of a modern open interface in a robust fashion. Unlike CLI and CLI scripting, the REST API is designed to maintain backwards compatibility in future releases. EMC software DPS solutions are exposing their software using REST for customers and partners to enable, Custom reporting, automation of management services, integration to existing management platforms etc. 12 EMC DATA PROTECTION SUITE IS CLOUD- ENABLED EMC CloudBoost is cloud-enabling technology that facilitates secure, automatic, efficient long-term retention of backups in private or public cloud. CloudBoost eliminates the risks of tape, reduces cost, and increases IT and business agility by extending the reach of EMC Data Protection Suite to resilient, hyper-scalable cloud storage. Veritas offers support for Cloud based platforms using their NetBackup Appliances as gateways. However, the weaknesses and inefficiencies of their appliances actually puts NetBackup s customers data at risk and results in a higher Total Cost of Operation. In addition to improving performance and scalability, CloudBoost s split-plane architecture separates data from metadata, enabling native support for a wide range of object stores. Private clouds supported by CloudBoost include EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), EMC Atmos, and OpenStack Swift. Public clouds supported by CloudBoost include AT&T Synaptic, Amazon Web Services S3, Google Cloud Storage (including Nearline), and Microsoft Azure. EMC 2, EMC, the EMC logo, are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. Mozy and MozyEnterprise are registered trademarks of Mozy, Inc. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Published in the USA. 7/2016. Handout H EMC believes the information in this document is accurate as of its publication date and is subject to change without notice.