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Rethink Your Disaster

Recovery

Jason Dea

Product Marketing Manager


What You Will Learn

The Challenges of Protecting your Servers

How to Complete your DR Architecture

Save Money and Improve Performance

What’s New?


The Need for Disaster Recovery


The Need for Protection

*April 3, 2008 – Building The Business Case for Disaster Recovery Spending – Forrester**Jan. 25, 2010 – The State of Enterprise IT: 2009 to 2010 - Forrester

of enterprises have declared a disaster or experienced a major business disruption*

of enterprises have indicated that improving disaster recovery capabilities is a high priority**

Power Failure 42% - Natural Disaster 33% - IT Hardware Failure 31%

78%

Critical Priority 30% - High Priority 48%

76%


Two Traditional Approaches


How to be Protected

Disaster Recovery by Duplication

Disaster Recovery by Back-up


DR by Duplication

• Focus is on protecting application

– Local cluster

– Duplicate hot site

– Like for like infrastructure

• High performance, but at what price?

– Near Zero RTO, RPO

• High cost

– Duplicate infrastructure

– Cost x2


DR by Back-up

• Focus is on protecting data

– Tape back-up

– Imaging

• Poor performance

– Slow RTO, RPO (days)

• Cost effective, but at what price?

– How do we get the data backin to a useable state?

– How long to rebuild the server?


The Challenge


Balancing Three Challenges

ConsolidatedDisasterRecovery


Technology Overview


Workload: The (New) IT Paradigm

A workload is an

integrated stack of

application, middleware,

and operating system

that accomplishes a

computing task

A workload is portable

and platform agnostic–

it can run in physical,

virtual or cloud

computing environments

A workload or a

collection of

workloads makes

up a business

service, which is

what the end user

consumes


The PlateSpin® Solution


Bridging the GapCompleting your DR architecture

• Fast RTO and RPO

• Duplicate Resources

• Costly and Complex

• Slow RTO and RPO

• Over Commitment of

Recovery Resources

Duplication Backup


Consolidated RecoveryLeveraging Virtual Infrastructure for Protection of Physical servers

Solution

• Replication of workload into an off-line virtual machine

• One click failover

• One click test restore

• Flexible failback

Benefits

• Drastically reduce TCO and RTO while achieving whole workload protection

• Improving RPO through incremental synchronization

• Simplify testing with bootable backups

Physical production servers

Virtual Recovery Hosts

Physical production servers


Backup to

Flexible Images or

Virtual Machines

Incremental

replication

PlateSpin Protect enables whole-workload replication of server workloads.

Easy to testOne-click

failover

PlateSpin ® Protect

Physical

Servers

Virtual

Hosts

Blade

Servers

Image

Archives

Workload Decoupled

from Hardware


PlateSpin® Forge

Protects up to 25 workloads out of the box

PlateSpin Forge Includes:

• Storage

• Replication software

• Remote management interface

• Hypervisor

Plug In and Protect DR Solution for :

• Medium enterprises

• Branch or field use for large enterprises

• Hosted recovery

World’s first disaster recovery hardware appliance with embedded virtualization


Virtual Protection—Real ROI


The Solution in the Physical World

DR across WAN

25 Servers $125,000

50 licenses for clustering $99,950

25 Backup licenses $23,975

Total $248,925


ROI with PlateSpin Forge®

PlateSpin Forge 525 $57,745

Priority Support $14,400

Peace of mind priceless

Total $72,145

DR across WAN


What do Customers Have to Say?


Nichols College

“Disaster recovery solutions can be very complex ... PlateSpin Forge

is very straightforward. There’s just one piece of hardware to

manage. It’s low maintenance, and has low overhead. Without it, we

certainly would have spent more money on another disaster recovery

solution that would have required more resources to support it.”

Customer Results

www.novell.com/success/nichols_college.html

South Tahoe Public Utility District

“Without PlateSpin Forge in place, we would have really been

scrambling, as it could easily take 25-30 staff hours to get a new server

up and running ... With PlateSpin Forge, we had the new server up and

running within just three to four hours.”

www.novell.com/success/south_tahoe_public_utility_distric.html


Features and Benefits


Key BenefitsHeterogeneous Workload Protection

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How does it work?

Step 1 - Add workload: PlateSpin discovers the workload information (OS, volumes, etc)

Recovery Cloud

Production Server

Step 2 – Configure and prepare: PlateSpin creates and prepares a VM on the virtual infrastructure

Step 3 – Replicate the WorkloadPlateSpin replicates the whole workload into the virtual environment and replicates changes on a pre-defined schedule afterwards

Recovery Cloud

One solution to protect all Windows and Linux workloads (physical and virtual)


Key BenefitsRapid Failover In the event of a disaster, recover failed workloads in minutes

How does it work?

Step 1 – Offline workload detectedPlateSpin notifies the administrator that the protected workload(s) have gone offline

Step 2 – User initiates the failoverThe user initiates the failover through a web based user interface, a mobile device or through an API

Step 3 – Workload is failed-overPlateSpin powers on and configures the replica VM on the virtual infrastructure

Recovery Cloud

Failover a single workload, a business service or the whole site


Key BenefitsFlexible FailbackIn the event of a disaster, recover failed workloads in minutes

How does it work?

Step 1 – New or Repaired target discoveredPlateSpin discovers the new or repaired target production server

Step 2 – Failback to bare metal or Sync to repaired ServerThe user can initiate a live failback to either bare metal server or repaired original for maximum flexibility

Step 3 – Business as usualPlateSpin shuts down the recovery VM and replaces it with the newly configured production machine

Recovery Cloud

Don’t get stuck in DR mode, seamlessly recover back to normal


Key BenefitsTesting and Reporting

Test Network

Protected workloads can be tested at any time without affecting the production environment

How does it work?

Step 1 – Test FailoverPlateSpin Protect powers on the replica VM and attaches it to a test network

Step 2 – InspectionWorkloads running in a test environment can be inspected either manually or by running automated scripts

Step 3 – Test ReportPlateSpin Protect captures test information (the time to recover, user comments, etc) and generates test reports.

Recovery Cloud

Test a single workload

or the entire business service

Run tests to stay compliant

Automate testing through the Protection API


What’s New?


Linux Protection

.Net Application Server

LAMP Server

PlateSpin Forge

(Remote Site)

Block Based replication

Block Based replication


Windows Cluster Protection

Clustered Email Server

Virtual Recovery

(Remote Site)


Protection SDK

Integrate PlateSpin Protect with the existing infrastructure through the Protect API.

Leverage provided SDK samples to quickly write your own scripts


Smart Replication Management

Maximize replication capacity without overloading the system


PlateSpin Forge – New Hardware

Based on the latest generation hardware

- Dual Intel Nehalem processors

Now included in every model

- Remote Access Controller

- 32 GB memory

- 2 iSCSI capable Network Cards


PlateSpin Protect - New Interface


More Information available:

www.novell.com/products/forgewww.novell.com/products/protect

http://www.novell.com/products/forge

http://www.novell.com/products/protect

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