recovery as a service technical deep dive

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Speakers

Pat O’Day Chief Technology Officer,

Bluelock (@ODayP)

Craig Herring Sales Engineer,

Bluelock (@craigeherring)

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•  Architecture

•  Implementation

•  Demo

•  How to make the next move

Recovery-as-a-Service

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Foundational Material

If you aren’t familiar with RaaS, we recommend the following introductory webcasts for the basics:

View at: http://www.bluelock.com/resources/webcasts/

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Achieve a More Cost Effective DR Footprint

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Virtual Datacenters

Virtual Datacenter Components •  CPU •  RAM •  STORAGE (DISK) •  NETWORK

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Bluelock Virtual Datacenter (4 Series for DR - RaaS)

Virtual Datacenters for DR •  only

during replication •  During testing or a disaster

event : , network capacity, and are added dynamically from the cloud

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LET’S DIVE DEEPER

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Virtualization refresh •  Hardware virtualization or

platform virtualization refers to the creation of a virtual machine that acts like a real computer with an operating system.

•  Virtualization creates the ability to take physical servers and condense them to run multiple instances of servers on one physical server.

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PRODUCTION BACKUP

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HQ HQ

Retail Store

30+  loca)ons  

Retail Store

Retail Store MPLS network

Regional Retail Headquarters

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COMPONENTS OF RAAS

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RaaS Components (at your datacenter)

•  Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA)

•  Zerto Virtual Machine (ZVM)

•  Virtual Protection Groups (VPG)

•  VMware vCenter™ Plug-in

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To-Cloud RaaS

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Production: Your datacenter Recovery: Vegas or Indy

Internet

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DATA MIGRATION AND SEEDING

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VPG 2

Incremental Sync

Full Sync of VPG 1

VPG 3

Network

Incremental Sync

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Optimizing replication (Data compression)

Plenty of bandwidth (initially)

Initial replication – raw feed

RAW replication feed overwhelmed network until

compression turned on

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RPO Fluctuation

Nightly maintenance degrades RPO and Recovery Point options (due to burst of ephemeral data)

Initial seeding of new VMs,

creates bursts

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Optimizing replication (Ephemeral data)

Plenty of bandwidth (initially)

Nightly maintenance degrades RPO and Recovery Point options (due to burst of ephemeral data)

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Optimizing the solution Exclude swap and temp disks from

replication to reduce maintenance burst

Private, Paygo, Flexible replication circuit eliminates

paying for in/out Internet bandwidth and only for high

bandwidth when needed

Burstable bandwith makes adding/seeding VMs to

protection simple without impacting RTO

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Preset to Exclude Swap and Temp Disks

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MAKE YOUR NEXT MOVE

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Taking the Next Step

Where you are now

•  DR isn’t a priority •  DR is too expensive •  Connecting to the cloud is

complex •  Cloud is too risky

•  Not in our skill set to plan

and manage DR

Your Next Step

•  Start the conversation •  Get a quote for one app •  Try it

•  For DR, evaluate if this is true anymore, or old thinking.

•  If you see the value, a cloud service provider can get you there.

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