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Real World Virtualized
Storage, Backup and
Recovery
Today’s Agenda
• Top 5 Reasons to Obtain Virtualized Storage, Backup and Recovery Solutions
• Virtualizing Mission Critical Business Applications
• Virtualization: A Better Way to Manage Storage Resources
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in a Virtualized Environment
• Desktop Virtualization
• The Virtual Infrastructure as a Stepping Stone to the Cloud
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Why Turn to PCS for Virtualized Storage,
Backup and Recovery Services?
Deep technical expertise and premier certifications
Why Turn to PCS for Storage Virtualization,
Backup and Recovery Solutions?
Top-tier partnerships
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Deep Sector-Specific Expertise for Backup, Recovery
and Virtualized Storage Solutions
For over two decades, 95% of our clients continue to
engage PCS to execute on their vision.
Healthcare
Financial
Biotech
U4li4es
Manufacturing
Retail/Online
Top 5 Reasons to Implement Storage Virtualization
1. Get more out of existing resources by pooling
common infrastructure
2. Reduce datacenter costs by reducing physical infrastructure
and improving the server to administrator ratio
3. Increase availability of hardware and applications
for improved business continuity
4. Respond quickly to market changes through
dynamic resource management
5. Improve desktop manageability and security
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Virtualization Cuts Costs,
Reduces Downtime
Virtualizing Enterprise Applications
• Run enterprise applications such as Exchange, SQL, Oracle, and SAP
with outstanding performance and reliability
• Double the performance of your Exchange Infrastructure
• Guarantee application service levels by scaling applications dynamically
• Accelerate the application lifecycle with provisioning on demand
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Move Applications With Ease
vMotion allows administrators to move Exchange workloads to more
powerful hardware without outages or costly system re-engineering.
Accelerate Application Upgrades
A vApp—a golden image of the application—can be provisioned on
demand onto the production infrastructure
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Reduce Software License Costs
SQL/Oracle Database Consolidation Reduces Software Costs by >70%
Which Applications Have You Virtualized?
• Exchange
• SQL Server
• Oracle
• SAP
• SharePoint
• Java
• Hadoop
• None of the above
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Virtualization: A Better Way to Manage
Storage Resources
• Significantly improve storage resource utilization and flexibility
• Reduce management overhead and increase application uptime
• Leverage and compliment existing storage infrastructure
Zero Downtime Migration of Virtual Machine
Disk Files
VMware Storage vMotion lets you perform live migration of virtual machine
disk files across heterogeneous storage arrays with complete transaction
integrity and no interruption in service.
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Scale Storage Across Boundaries
• Virtualized, shared storage can span multiple servers
• All machines can dynamically access shared resources
such as storage pools
• VMware VMFS allows virtualization to scale beyond the
boundaries of a single system
Enterprise Storage Virtualization
Virtualized, shared storage can span multiple servers
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VMFS for Access to Pools of Storage
• Increases resource utilization by giving multiple virtual machines shared
access to a consolidated pool of clustered storage
• Enables IT organizations to greatly simplify virtual machine provisioning
by efficiently storing the entire machine state in a central location
• Provides automated cluster file system capabilities
• Simplifies provisioning and administration of virtual machines
VMFS Architecture
VMFS allows virtualization to scale beyond
the boundaries of a single system.
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Backup and Recovery Strategies
for the Virtualized Environment
Next generation solutions for backup and recovery:
• Speed Backup—reduce VMware backup times by up to 90%
• Simplify Recovery—get one-step VMware recovery at the file, image,
or site level
• Save Resources—reduce backup storage by 40-60X
Backup and Recovery Strategies
for the Virtualized Environment
Most backup solutions backup everything.
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Backup and Recovery Strategies
for the Virtualized Environment
Deduplicating data at the source reduces data and network use.
Backup and Recovery Solutions
for the Virtualized Environment
Fast, efficient backup and recovery through a complete software and
hardware solution.
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Backup and Recovery Solutions
for the Virtualized Environment
• Daily full backups in a fraction of the time
• Recover data in a single step
• Reduce backup windows by up to 90%
• Cuts network bandwidth for backup by up to 99%
• Global deduplication reduces total backup storage by up to 95%
• Integrated with EMC Data Domain systems for optimized application-
specific backup
Backup and Recovery Storage Systems
for the Virtualized Environment
Reduces storage requirements by 10-30x, making disk cost-effective for
onsite retention and highly efficient for network-based replication to
disaster recovery sites.
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Backup and Recovery Storage Systems
for the Virtualized Environment
• Qualified with leading enterprise backup and archiving applications
• Integrates easily into existing storage infrastructures
• Delivers throughput of up to 31 TB per hour
• Complete more backups sooner while putting less pressure on limited
backup windows
Backup and Recovery Software
for the Virtualized Environment
NetWorker is the only backup software application to provide seamless
integration with Avamar and Data Domain.
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Backup and Recovery Software
for the Virtualized Environment
• Simplified, centralized and automated backup and recovery for
heterogeneous enterprise data
• Easy management, installation and administration
• Automated online protection of database, email, content management,
and ERP applications
• Tiered protection, data duplication and flexible recovery options
• Secure management with enhanced authentication and encryption
Protecting Business Continuity
With Virtualization
• Reduce downtime from both planned and unplanned outages.
• Simplify infrastructure and processes.
• Expand protection by cost-effectively extending business continuity
plans to more applications.
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Business Continuity Ensured
VMware vSphere makes it possible to reduce both
planned and unplanned downtime
Disaster Recovery in the Virtual Environment
• The entire system – OS, application, and data – is encapsulated
as a set of virtual machine files
• Typical recovery times drop from an average of 40 hours to an
hour or less
• Consolidated hardware infrastructure at the production and failover
sites reduces costs
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Disaster Recovery Simplified
vSphere Site Recovery Manager automates the failover
and migration of virtual machines to a secondary site.
What’s the State of Your DR Readiness?
• I have a plan for disaster recovery
• I don’t have a disaster recovery plan
• I’ve tested my disaster recovery plan within the last 6 months
• I already had to use my disaster recovery plan
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Desktop Virtualization
• Delivers rich, personalized virtual desktops as a managed service
• Provides centralized automated management for increased control
and cost savings
• Improves business agility while providing a flexible high performance
desktop experience for end-users across a variety of network conditions.
VDI – is it for you?
• I’m considering virtual desktops
• I’ve tried it, and it’s not for me
• I’m going to VDI in a limited way.
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VMware View Delivers Business Agility
and Maximum Service Availability
• Creates desktops from a single integrated platform
• Dynamically allocates resources to enable highly responsive
and available environments to end users
• Provides BYOD (bring your own device) capabilities, with simple
and secure access for end users
VMware View for Desktop Virtualization
VMware View delivers a personalized experience for end-users
across sessions and devices.
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Are You Participating in the
BYOD Revolution?
• Yes, I think it’s a very productive approach for my company
• No, I’d rather keep more control over my company’s data
• I’ll consider it when more security is in place
Virtual Infrastructure as a
Stepping Stone to the Cloud
• Built on the foundation of virtualization, the cloud is the new model for
the delivery of IT services
• Cloud infrastructure is delivered on-demand so end users can consume
virtual resources with maximum agility
• Cloud infrastructure consolidates datacenters and deploys workloads on
shared infrastructure with built-in security and role-based access control
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Virtual Infrastructure as a
Stepping Stone to the Cloud
VMware vCloud Director lowers capital and operating costs of
your IT infrastructure:
• Enables the consolidation of virtual infrastructure across
multiple clusters
• Encapsulates application services as portable virtualized apps
• Deploys services on-demand with isolation and control
VMware Vcloud
vCloud Director delivers infrastructure as a service with security,
extensibility, portability and control
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VMware Automates Datacenters for Greater
Responsiveness and Agility
• Eliminates manual and repetitive tasks, increases ROI and frees
IT for strategic projects
• Minimizes risk and improve compliance with IT and business policies
• Reduces configuration issues by maintaining consistent systems
across the datacenter
• Allows IT to increase responsiveness and accelerate time-to-deployment
for new services
Virtualization is the Foundation of the
Next Generation Data Center
• Server virtualization for reliable and high performance mission critical
applications
• Storage virtualization for sharing storage resources across the virtual
environment
• Business continuity and disaster recovery faster and easier across
the enterprise
• Automated datacenter operations for maximum responsiveness
business agility
• Desktop virtualization for BYOD support and greater end user
productivity
• A stepping stone to the cloud
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