Assessing Disaster Recovery Options for Business Continuity
1. Assessing Disaster Recovery
Options for Business
Continuity
Mike Colson, Senior Solutions Architect
Tres Vance, Senior Solutions Architect
October 18th, 2018
Raise the BAR on Data Protection and Continuity
25. Why Work With An APN Partner?
• Provide you value-added software and
services across virtually every use case
• Accelerate your engagement with AWS
• Provide you with specific AWS expertise
• Optimize your architecture to take
advantage of AWS
APN Partners can:
26. APN Storage Technology Partner Use Cases
Solutions that utilize
AWS to enable recovery
strategies focused on
RTO and RPO
requirements
BCDR
Solutions that leverage
Amazon Glacier for
durable and cost-
effective long-term data
backup
Archive
Solutions that leverage
file, block, object, and
streamed data formats as
an extension to on-
premises storage
Primary Storage
Solutions that leverage
Amazon S3 for durable
data backup
Backup & Restore
27. Amazon EFS
File
Amazon EBS
Amazon EC2
Instance Store
Block
Amazon
S3/SIA
Amazon Glacier
Object
Data Transfer
Partner
Connectors
S3 Transfer
Acceleration
Storage is a platform: AWS Storage Maturity
Storage
Gateway
Snowball,
Snow*
Amazon
Kinesis
Firehose
AWS Direct
Connect
28. Architecture #1: Cold Disaster Recovery
Backup & Recovery, Pilot Light
• Systems are in either a standby or powered off state
• Data is replicated as needed to meet the required RPO
• Virtual systems are replicated and updated periodically
• Physical systems are manually rebuilt as EC2 instances and powered on only for updates.
Partners
AWS Direct
Connect
VPN
Gateway
Internet
or or
S3 API
On-Premises
Cloud (AWS)
AWS Region
Amazon S3/SIA VM Import Bucket
Hypervisor
Server Local Storage
Exported VM VM Export Server
Supported IP
Protocols
Corporate Data Center
Amazon EBS
Cold Imported VM
(EC2 Instance)
S3 Endpoint
Customer Workload
(In Standby)
Virtualized Storage
Server (EC2)
Imported VM
Replication Protocol
29. Architecture #2: Warm Disaster Recovery
Warm Standby, Multi-Site
• Systems running, but without applications started
• Data is replicated as needed to meet required RPOs
• Virtual systems are replicated to reflect changes,
• Physical systems are manually rebuilt and configured as EC2 instances, which are
in a running state, without applications started.
Partners
AWS Direct
Connect
VPN
Gateway
Internet
or or
S3 API
On-Premises
Cloud (AWS)
AWS Region
Amazon S3/SIA VM Import Bucket
Hypervisor
Server Local Storage
Exported VM VM Export Server
Supported IP
Protocols
Corporate Data Center
Amazon EBS Running Imported
VM (Restart After
Update)
S3 Endpoint
Customer Workload
(In Standby)
Virtualized Storage
Server (EC2)
Imported VM
Replication Protocol
30. Commvault Ties Together On-Premises and Cloud Data Strategies
– Back up to the
Cloud
– Back up in the
Cloud
– Disaster Recovery
to the Cloud
– Workload
Portability
– Archiving to the
Cloud
AWS and Commvault combine to minimize networking, storage and infrastructure costs,
while providing the business a sound data protection and disaster recovery strategy.
Amazon Glacier
Protection of AWS Workloads
Indexed / Versioned / Deduped / Encrypted
On-Premises to AWS
Migrated Workloads & DR
Disk Pool
Amazon S3, S3-IA Amazon S3, S3-IA
Indexed / Versioned / Deduped / Encrypted / Snapshots
Storage Arrays
Server OSes
Endpoint
Applications
Databases
Virtual Machines
Large Files
Big Data
SaaS
Cloud-Native
Commvault Orchestrates the Enterprise
31. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
OS-based continuous
block-level replication
1-minute Any-to-Cloud
Image Conversion
Minimal footprint
replication staging area
Replicate any applications
from physical / virtual /
cloud-based machines
No disruption or reboot
of source machine(s)
Designed for busy
databases without
impacting performance
32. Health Quest: Pain-free Disaster Recovery
Background
• Located in New York
• Integrated delivery healthcare system; supports accessible continuum of care
• Services 250 doctors in four hospitals
• 6,000 employees
Customer Concerns
• Avoiding the large capital outlay to rebuild its secondary site
• Scaling up disaster recovery to meet growing infrastructure demands
• Simplifying disaster recovery management for an undermanned IT team
• Complying with HIPAA regulations
Solution Offered
• CloudEndure Disaster Recovery with full AWS integration for hundreds of
servers
Success Metrics
• Real life application RPO < 2 minutes
• Hundreds of machines successfully protected
• 50% reduction in disaster recovery costs
34. Financial Services addresses GDPR compliance challenge
with Sungard Cloud Recovery AWS
Financial services company develops and markets
highly specialized automated debt recovery systems.
Challenges:
• Had to improve RPO for GDRP compliance
Solution: Sungard AS CR-AWS as an SLA-backed
service for DR
Benefits:
• Tighten RPO to under 4 hours and improve RTO
• Attain GDPR compliance and avoid significant
financial fines
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35. Storage Use Cases
aws.amazon.com/backup-recovery/partner-solutions
Backup and RecoveryPrimary Storage Archive BCDR
Solutions that leverage file, block,
object, and streamed data
formats as an extension to
on-premises storage
Solutions that leverage Amazon
S3 for durable data backup
Solutions that leverage Amazon
Glacier for durable and cost-
effective long-term data backup
Solutions that utilize AWS to
enable recovery strategies focused
on RTO and RPO requirements
Consulting
Consulting services that provide
implementation capabilities in one
or more core storage categories