Automated Disaster Recovery for Mixed Server Environments

Copyright © FalconStor Software 2013 · All Rights Reserved

March 22, 2011

Ralph WynnSr. Director Technical

Marketing

Automated Disaster Recovery in Mixed

Server Environments

Copyright © 2013 FalconStor Software · All Rights Reserved

Automated Disaster Recovery in Mixed Server Environments

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Agenda

• Company Background• The FalconStor Vision• Data Protection Realities• Product Demonstration



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• 23 in country offices• 24/7 follow the sun support• Development in Asia and

US• Localized Marketing• Local Sales

World View – Local Presence

• Founded in 2000 (NASDAQ:FALC)

• Leader and innovator of: • Virtual Tape Library

(VTL) • Storage

Virtualization (NSS)• Continuous Data

Protection (CDP)

Company Snapshot

Company Overview



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ANY TIME

Support for Multiple Continuous Snapshots

RPO Most Granular Recovery

PointRTO

Fastest Possible Recovery Time

ANY DATA

All Major ApplicationsAll Major Databases

All Major Email SystemsStructured and

Unstructured DataLarge and Small

ANY WHERE

All Major Operating Systems

All Major ProtocolsLAN and WAN

ExpertiseSAN, NAS, DAS

Virtual or Physical Local or Remote

Our Vision



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Our Business is Protecting Your Business

STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION & DATA MIGRATION

FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS)

DATA DEDUPLICATION

FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS)

BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY

FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP)FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS)

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Data Protection Realities

The Importance of Automation



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Disasters Can Strike At Any Time…

Natural

Infrastructure

Human



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Data Protection is Business Critical Increased Regulation and Compliance Demands• HIPA, Sarbanes Oxley, FFIEC, all financial institutions are

required to establish a comprehensive BCP • Data Growth >50% per annum(1)

• Meta Data Management Becoming Mission Critical

Decreased tolerance for Risk• Aging Infrastructure, Terrorist Actions, Violent

Weather, Denser Population Centers

Human ErrorIntentional DeletionAccidental DeletionMisplaced MediaAdministrative Error

Software/HardwareApplication FailureSoftware BugPower FailureDisk CrashData CorruptionServer Failure

Causes of Data LossCauses of Data Loss Costs of Losing DataCosts of Losing Data

Industry Cost per hour

Brokerage firm $6,500,000

Telephone sales 69,900

Home shopping 199,500

Credit card sales 2,600,000

Catalog sales 90,000

Airlines 89,500

(1) Source: IDC Digital Universe 2010

Hardware 25%

Software 25%

Network 20%

Human 15%

Natural14%

Other 1%



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Files

Email

Database

Disaster Recovery Challenges

The Facts

• The Backup Window is shrinking, if not vanishing completely

• Data loss or corruption is often due to limited hardware, software malfunction, or human errors

• Most file restores are performed locally• Restore from traditional tape backup

takes too long• Remote Disaster Recovery is complex

and expensive

The Challenge

Traditional backup and recovery solutions cannot meet today’s aggressive Service Level Agreement requirements.



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A recent study conducted by InfoWorld shows how organization prepare for disaster

•Q3: Describe the level of automation of your DR and data protection processes at your organization. •Base: 189 total qualified respondents: 60 large enterprises, 44 medium enterprises, 85 small enterprises

Entirely manual processes

Mostly manual processes

Even mix of manual and automated processes

Mostly automated processes

Entirely automated processes

5%

19%

41%

28%

7%

Level of Disaster Recovery and Data Protection Automation

LEs Mes SEs

7% 7% 7%

28% 30% 27%

50% 30% 41%

13% 25% 20%

2% 9% 5%



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Traditional Recovery1. Repair Hardware.2. Install OS.3. Reboot.4. Download OS Patches.5. Apply OS Patch 1.6. Reboot.7. Install OS Patch 2-?8. Reboot.9. Install Main Application.10. Reboot.11. …… ….. … …. …

Basic Recovery without Automation

Multiple steps Done Manually!!!



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Unifying Backup and Disaster Recovery

SQLExchangeSharePoint

FC/iSCSI

Backup Server

Mission Critical Apps

1000 Bootable SnapshotRecovery Points

Tape Library

Instant AvailabilityEliminate BU Window

File Server Oracle

FC/iSCSI

Virtual ServerPhysical Server

FC/iSCSI

Many to 1 any-to-any Replication30 Min. Recovery from Site Failure

WAN

DR: P2P, P2V

ROBO



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Unexpected Recovery Procedures During DR

DATA

Which disks belong to which server?

How should disks be presented?

SERVERS

Which server is physical and which should be

virtualized?

Which hypervisor is used and what is the P2V method for that

hypervisor?

What is the order of recovery for the

services?

NETWORK

What is the IP address that should be used for

each server?

Which network should the server be connected

to?



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All These Steps Are Documented…But Can The Results Be Consistently Reproduced?

• Steps and procedures condensed into stacks of documents– Usually are not updated as

environment changes

• Complex and Time Consuming– Makes rehearsals difficult, no

verification done until a disaster

• Manual process and lacking consistency

• May not be difficult – Not practiced frequently, errors are

bound to happen



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RecoverTrac™ Technology Redesigns Your Disaster Recovery Plan

• RecoverTrac technology automates complex, time-consuming and error-prone DR procedures

• RecoverTrac tecnology allows definition of all IT resources; for recovery

– Servers– Hypervisors; VMware & Microsoft Hyper-V– Clusters– Storage– Recovery sites; local, remote or multiple– Associated IT inventories at recovery sites

• RecoverTrac AND remote replication are standard features of FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) and FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS)



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Automated Recovery

Primary Site

DR Site

FalconStor CDP

Service-Oriented Disaster Recovery

FalconStor RecoverTrac™

• One click automated site failover and failback• Native support for physical machines as

well as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines

• Customized support for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Linux data disks

• P2P, P2V, V2V Recovery

RecoverTrac™



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RecoverTrac™ Automated Disaster Recovery

• Any Service. (Service-oriented Recovery)– Service Oriented Data Protection– System, Service, or Site

• Any Time. (Rapid Recovery)– Get Running in Minutes!

• Any Place. (A2A Recovery)– Anywhere 2 Anywhere

• Recover to virtually anywhere

– Replication Safety Net



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Solution Deployment Options

• All FalconStor solutions are available as software (SAK), Appliances, or Virtual Appliances

Storage Appliance• Server + storage in a single

physical device• Pre-configured amount of

storage

Gateway• Connects to external and

third-party storage devices

Virtual Appliance• Built on top of VMware • Deploy via image to any

certified server

NSS/CDP



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Next Steps

• For more information visit:– Website : http://www.falconstor.com/cdp – Solution Videos: http://www.falconstor.com/videos/ – Contact Sales or Local SE: [email protected]

• Watch a Demonstration!– www.falconstor.com/demos

http://www.falconstor.com/cdp

http://www.falconstor.com/cdp

http://www.falconstor.com/videos/

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.falconstor.com/demos

Copyright © FalconStor Software 2013 · All Rights Reserved

Contact usCorporate Headquarters

2 Huntington QuadrangleMelville, NY 11747

USATel: +1 631.777.5188

Support: +1 [email protected]

Asia Pacific Headquarters20 Science Park Road

#02-04A/5, Teletech ParkSingapore Science Park 2

Singapore, 117674Tel: +65-6361-2450

[email protected]

European Headquarters58 rue Pottier

78150 Le ChesnayFrance

Tel: [email protected]

Thank you.Any questions?

Ralph Wynn

[email protected]

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