Top 10 things a NetBackup Administrator must know about virtualization, SDDC and Cloud Abdul Rasheed, George Winter, John Kjell

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1 Top 10 things a NetBackup Administrator must know about virtualization, SDDC and Cloud Abdul Rasheed, George Winter, John Kjell Enterprise Virtualization Geeks 1

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3 Top 10 Session Topics That Did Not Make The Cut 10) Top 10 Reasons why Al Gore Really Did Invent the Internet 9) Top 10 Facts that Finally Prove the Moon Landing was Faked 8) Top 10 Words that Almost Rhyme With "Peas 7) O.J. Simpson's Top 10 Prison Complaints 6) Top 10 Ways the Vision Conference Would Be Improved If PowerPoint Was Outlawed 3

4 Top 10 Session Topics That Did Not Make The Cut 5) This is off topic but who in here will admit they have actually gone to see the Celine Dion show? 4) Bernie Madoff s Top 10 Investment Tips 3) Top 10 Expressions that Sound Dirty but Really Aren't 2) Top 10 Numbers Between One and Ten 1) Top 10 Jobs with More Security than a Symantec CEO 4

5 Hypervisors: The work horses in a modern data center 5

6 Hypervisors A piece of software that enables multiple virtual machines to be run on same hardware resources Two types of hypervisors Bare Metal Hypervisors (VMware ESXi) Hosted Hypervisors (VMware Workstation) Trivia What type is Hyper-V? Oracle VM for SPARC? KVM? Do you need to backup hypervisors? Why, Why not? How? 6

7 Hypervisor Managers: They sort of work like our managers! 7

8 Hypervisor Managers The software to manage multiple instances of hypervisors and virtual machines VMware vcenter Server Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Usually provided with a database backend Trivia Do you need to backup Hypervisor Managers? Why, Why not, How? 8

9 Hypervisor APIs for Backups: The contractors to get the job done 9

10 Backup APIs for Hypervisors Interfaces using which backup vendors can plug into hypervisors and hypervisor managers VMware vsphere: vstorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) Microsoft Hyper-V: Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) Key services Hypervisor level snapshots for virtual machines Data transport methods from storage Agentless vs. agent-assisted backups Trivia Is it possible to backup Hyper-V virtual machines through SAN? Yes/No? How/Why? 10

11 Backup Data Transport: From Point A to Point B 11

12 Backup Data Transports The methods of moving data from primary storage to secondary storage vsphere SAN Transport, Network (NBD) transport, hot-add transport Hyper-V local and alternate host backup Transport optimizations Change blog tracking (why, examples etc.) Detecting deleted blocks NetBackup Accelerator for VMware Trivia Is there a way to eliminate transport altogether? 12

13 Storage Snapshots: Snapshot of snapshots 13

14 Storage Snapshots A way to create recovery points quickly on primary storage itself Crash consistent or application consistent? May be replicated to another primary storage target May be copied to secondary storage NetBackup Replication Director for VMware Trivia How do you prepare for DR readiness with storage snapshots? 14

15 Cloud: It is more than taking hypervisors to the sky 15

16 Cloud The promise of zero CapEx for end users CapEx reduction through resource pooling for providers OpEx reduction through automation and self-service Three kinds Public cloud Private cloud Hybrid cloud Trivia Can you have private cloud in the sky? Why or why not? 16

17 Software-Defined Data Centers: Your private cloud on premise 17

18 Software-Defined Data Centers A data center where compute, storage and networking is virtualized, pooled and allocated to applications using a software based orchestration layer A good example for a private cloud Journey to SDDC has three phases Abstract and Pool Automate Empower Trivia How do you virtualize networking? 18

19 Cloud Management Platforms: The VMware way 19

20 Cloud Management: The VMware way A crash course on VMware s approach to cloud Day One vsphere, vcenter, vcenter Orchestrator vcloud Director and vcloud Automation Center Day Two vcloud Automation Center Day Two+ vcenter Operations Management Suite Trivia vcac IaaS has a component from Dynamic Ops called VRM. What does VRM stand for? 20

21 Cloud Management Platforms: The Other way 21

22 Cloud Management: The other way A crash course on Microsoft s approach to cloud Same as VMware: Day 1, Day 2, Day 2+ Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager, Orchestrator, Operations Manager Microsoft App Controller, Service Manager A crash course on OpenStack s approach to cloud Trivia Swift (Object store) Nova (Computer) Ceph, Cinder (Storage) Glance (Images) Neutron (Networking) Who supports more versions of the Windows OS, Microsoft or VMware? 22

23 IT as a Service: This is the nirvana of modern IT 23

24 IT as a Service Delivery model for IT services where End users can self-select services Subscription or pay-as-use pricing Eliminate/mitigate fixed costs for end users Reduced fixed costs for providers with resource pooling IT as Service is a promise of SDDC 24

25 Summary 25

26 Summary The term cloud covers a lot of territory Newer, complicated technologies difficult for many to implement Cloud technologies don t change the solution as much as they change the location & administrative tasks Cloud technology s designed to provide simple, easy solutions Cloud location has specific security & performance implications The Backup Admin s job can change dramatically At all times, keep with you a cheat sheet that lists the meanings of all the new acronyms 26

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