A Technical Deep Dive on Protecting Acropolis Workloads with Rubrik

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Author
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@ChrisWahl
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@ Rubrik.com
Networking for VMware Admins
MVP (PowerShell)
VCDX #104 (DCV & NV)

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4. Data Management: 1990s to Present
1990s – Present
Backup &
Replication
Software
Backup Storage
Backup
Software
Backup
Servers
Backup
Proxies
Replication Catalog
Database
Tape Off-site ArchiveBackup Storage
a
Dedupe
Metadata
2000s – Present
Data Management: 2000s to Present

5. Meet Rubrik Cloud Data Management
Backup
Software
Backup
Servers
Backup
Proxies
Replication Catalog
Database
Tape Off-site ArchiveBackup Storage
a
Dedupe
Metadata
Private Public
Software fabric for orchestrating apps and data across clouds. No forklift upgrades.

6. How It Works
Quick Start: Rack and go. Auto-discovery.
Rapid Ingest: Flash-optimized, parallel ingest
accelerates snapshots and eliminates stun.
Content-aware dedupe. One global namespace.
Automate: Intelligent SLA policy engine for
effortless management.
Instant Recovery: Live Mount VMs & SQL.
Instant search and file restore.
Secure: End-to-end encryption. Immutability to
fight Ransomware.
Cloud: “CloudOut” instantly accessible with global
search. Launch apps with “CloudOn” for DR or
test/dev. Run apps in cloud.
Nutanix AOS
SLA Policy Engine
Log Management
Private Public
NAS
AHV Hyper-V
VMware VMwareVMware VMwareVMware VMware

7. Your Data Center Today
Backup Proxy
Production Environment
Backup Server
Search Server
Disk-Based
Backup
Tape Archive Offsite
Tape Vault

8. Rubrik Simplifies Your Data Center
Scale Out
Scale Out Rubrik
Replication + Long-Term
Retention + Search
Private
Production Environment

9. One Multi-Purpose Platform Beyond Backup
Rubrik Cloud Data Management
Backup &
Recovery
Disaster
Recovery
API-first Architecture
Archival &
Compliance
SearchCopy Data
Management
Analytics

10. New Hotness in the 4.0 “Alta” Release

11. Enterprise Cloud Service Delivery
App
AHV
Provision Any App, Anywhere
Deliver App
Data Services
via Rubrik
App
Backup & Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Archival &
Compliance, Copy Data Management, Search,
Analytics

12. Overview of Rubrik’s support of AHV
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14. Let’s Start by
Understanding the
Workflow
Snapshot Phases

15. Snapshot Phases
Adaptive Throttling
Pre-Snapshot
Guest Script
Create Nutanix
Snapshot
Query Changed
Regions
Create Snapshot
Metadata
Ingest the
Snapshot
Delete Snapshot
and Cleanup
Post-Snapshot
Guest Script
Victory!

16. Adaptive Throttling
Pre-Snapshot
Guest Script
Create Nutanix
Snapshot
Snapshot Phases
Check to make sure the
workload is within
tolerance parameters to
be protected.
Perform any user-
defined activities prior to
the snapshot.
Request a new snapshot
via the AOS v3 API.

17. Query Changed
Regions
Create Snapshot
Metadata
Ingest the
Snapshot
Snapshot Phases
Changed Region
Tracking (CRT)
Indicates the regions
that have changed. Also
indicates zeroes and
hence helps avoid
reading zeroes during
the first full backup.
Logic to collect and
determine the best
placement of data within
the Rubrik distributed file
system (Atlas).
Disk(s) added to Volume
Group for ingest over
the iSCSI Data Service
IP. Data is ingested by
reading the snapshot
disks’ data into Rubrik
Atlas using 1 MB chunks
with some calculated
parallelism via the IP
configured for iSCSI
Data Services.

18. Snapshot Phases
Perform any user-
defined activities after
the snapshot is merged.
Remove snapshot and
any idempotence
identifiers created for
persistence.
Data is protected and
reported by the Rubrik
CDM dashboard and
any other alerts / hooks.
You win!
Delete Snapshot
and Cleanup
Post-Snapshot
Guest Script
Victory!

19. VM Level Snapshots

20. Digging Deeper into Requesting a Snapshot
Defines a VM snapshot
• Name of the snapshot
• Snapshot consistency type
• application-consistent
• crash-consistent
• Location agnostic id
• Expiration timer
• Consistency group id
• Cluster reference
• Resources
• Entity UUID
Spec
Snapshot metadata
• Last update time
• Kind of snapshot
• “vm_snapshot”
• Snapshot name
• Creation time
• Parent (VM) ref
• Owner (user) ref
• Entity version
• UUID
Metadata
Version of the API
• 3.0
API Version

21. Defines a VM snapshot
• Name of the snapshot
• Snapshot consistency type
• application-consistent
• crash-consistent
• Location agnostic id
• Expiration timer
• Consistency group id
• Cluster reference
• Resources
• Entity UUID
Spec
Snapshot metadata
• Last update time
• Kind of snapshot
• “vm_snapshot”
• Snapshot name
• Creation time
• Parent (VM) ref
• Owner (user) ref
• Entity version
• UUID
Metadata
Version of the API
• 3.0
API Version
Digging Deeper into Requesting a Snapshot

22. Sample
code
using
PowerShell

23. Rubrik RESTful APIs – Nutanix Cluster Endpoints

24. Rubrik RESTful APIs – Nutanix VM Endpoints
Plus many more …

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vSphere Virtual Machine Management
Learning VMware vSphere
VCDX #243

27. Demo Agenda
Easy Integration
with AHV
Working with an
SLA Policy
Real-time Data
Search

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29. Tampa Bay Rays
THE CHALLENGE
• Lengthy and unreliable file-level recovery and restore times
• Management complexity with tape and disk
• Inefficient workflow and replication
THE SOLUTION
• VM and file-level backup and recovery
• Global real-time le search
• Data archival to public cloud
RESULTS
• Immediate annual hard savings of $80-$100K
• Near-zero RTOs & 15x data reduction
• Significant reduction in daily management (from 3-4 hours/day
to 10 minutes/day)

30. Galliker Transport
THE CHALLENGE
• Complex management with legacy solution
• Unreliable and failing backups with manual job scheduling
• Lack of scale and support with previous approach
THE SOLUTION
• Automated SLA management to ensure reliability of backups
• Data archival through NFS to meet compliance and legal requirements
• Global search to find mission critical data in seconds
RESULTS
• 20 minute deployment time and easy integration with Nutanix
• Reduction of management time from 2 hours/week to mins/week
• Instant recovery in seconds

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Chris Wahl
chris.wahl@rubrik.com | @ChrisWahl
Rebecca Fitzhugh
rebecca.fitzhugh@rubrik.com | @RebeccaFitzhugh