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What’s New in NetBackup: The Vision and Roadmap

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3. Simplify the Operating Model • Appliances

• Self-monitoring

• Auto-configuration

• IT Self Service

• Telemetry

• Search

2. Provide Freedom of Storage Choice

Disk Appliances Cloud

Drive out cost with in-line, non-rehydrating, mega-scale dedupe

Tape

1. Optimize for Source Workloads

Physical Arrays Big Data

Accelerator Replication Director

DB Agent Support

Virtual

V-Ray

Building the NetBackup Platform 3 Key Investment Areas

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What’s Now in NetBackup. A Recap on our leading Data Protection Features Today…

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NetBackup Auto Image Replication (A.I.R.) Introduced in NetBackup 7.1

Challenge:

• The cost, risk, and time consuming process of trucking tapes to a disaster recovery facility

Answer:

• Fast and scalable disaster recovery

• Automates replication of backup images from one site to another

• Minimized storage footprint and bandwidth impact with deduplication

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NetBackup VM Intelligent Policy Introduced in NetBackup 7.1

Challenge:

• Manual and time consuming process to ensure all VMs are protected

Answer:

• The ability to automate virtual machine protection on the fly, wherever they may reside

• Auto discovery and protection of virtual machines

• Auto load balancing to optimize backup performance

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Challenge:

• Missed backup windows due to increased data growth

Answer:

• Speed up your backups by up to 100x or more!

• Reduce traditional full backups to the speed and cost of incrementals

• Meet the most demanding SLAs

NetBackup Accelerator Introduced in NetBackup 7.5

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NetBackup Replication Director Introduced in NetBackup 7.5

Challenge:

• Complexity of managing snapshots being used as backup separately from other backups.

Answer:

• A solution that integrates the support of snapshot and replication technologies,

• Simplifies management and recovery of snapshots from a single console.

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What’s New in NetBackup 7.6.

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Disclaimer

“Any information regarding pre-release Symantec

offerings, future updates or other planned modifications

is subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec and

therefore subject to change. This information is provided

without warranty of any kind, express or

implied. Customers who purchase Symantec offerings

should make their purchase decision based upon

features that are currently available.”

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ESX

CBT

VM

• VMware Support using VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT)

– Full backups in the time similar to an incremental

– Supports file and folder, SQL, Exchange and SharePoint backups

– Maximum Recovery: VM, File, SQL, Exchange, SharePoint, GRT, Documents, Items from every Accelerator full backup

– Accelerator incremental backups can also be used with VMware Instant Recovery, improving RPO

• Impact

– Dramatically reduced backup times without sacrificing recovery

NetBackup Accelerator in NBU 7.6

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What’s New in Replication Director 7.6

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VMware, Application, and Block Array Support

Fast, efficient array based replication

Backup to tape

Or Index from Snapshot

Creates Restore options

Catalog

NetBackup Admin Console

VMware on NFS

Windows and Linux files, MS/SQL and Exchange on

VMDKs Physical Oracle on NFS

Windows, Linux and Unix File data on NetApp and EMC

Block devices

Support for NDMP indexing

Indexing acceleration using SnapDiff API

NDMP Policy Wildcards

SLP windows

VMware Instant Recovery in NBU 7.6

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• Instantly power on any protected VM from disk backup target

– No need to restore VM first

• Uses standard NetBackup backup images

– No need to change any backup process

• Support with all Symantec disk based solutions

– Basic disk, Advanced disk, PDDO, MSDP, NetBackup appliance

• Once powered on, VM is 100% available

– After power-on, VM disks transferred to ESXi storage (Storage VMotion)

– Storage VMotion ensures no disruption of service

ESX/ESXi

NAS

SAN

NetBackup NFS Datastore

VMware vCloud Support in NBU 7.6

• NetBackup automatically interrogates vCloud Director (vCD) to discover newly provisioned VM’s

– Automatically protects any newly provisioned VMs (vApps)

– Select VM’s based on vCD objects: Org vDC, vApp, vCD server

• NetBackup supports public and private vCD implementations

• Direct integration with vCD backup API

• Enhanced V-Ray restore options are supported

– Recovery of vApp/vOrg with 1 or more VMs.

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vCenter Integration in NBU 7.6

• NetBackup reporting and VM restores made available to the VM administrator via a vSphere plug-in

• Integrated using standard vSphere Client

• Reports include:

– Most recent backup

– Backup timeline

– Success and failure

reporting

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• Automatic discovery of Oracle instances requiring backup

• Improved/simplified backup scheduling

– Single schedule operation, archive log schedule

– Implements standard files system features like checkpoint restart and job activity reporting

• Dynamic backup script creation

– No need to maintain scripts

• Supports data protection solutions outside of RMAN

– ASM and crash consistent snapshots

• New policy management framework

– Will be extended to other features and agents in future releases

Oracle Policy Framework in NBU 7.6

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SLP scheduling for secondary operations

• Windows control when duplications can occur

– One schedule can be used with multiple SLPs

– Works on a per operation basis – different copies can be made at different times

• Duplication can be delayed until the source copy is due to expire

• Significant reductions in image processing times/overhead

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Targeted Auto Image Replication

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• Allows different images in the source pool to be replicated to different target pools

– Data is only sent to the specified target

• Allows different retentions for different replica destinations.

• Allows the choice of target import SLP from source domain.

New combo box to select import SLP name configured

in Target domain.

New combo box to select available trusted master

server.

NDMP Wildcard Support

• What

– Wildcards now supported for NDMP backup selection

– ALL_FILESYSTEMS directive available

– Exclude lists now supported

• Problems Solved

– Simplifies specifying what is to get backed up

– New volumes can now get automatically backed up

• Customer Benefit

– Simplifies specifying backup selections

– Ensures new volumes get backed up in next available backup window

– Optimize performance by controlling number of jobs/streams in backup

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BMR Integrated Physical to Virtual (P2V)

• Windows P2V integrated in the BMR console

• Combine BMR Windows backup + VM Recovery Wizard

• Eliminates VM network boot for P2V recovery

ESX/ESXi

Windows VM

BMR

Windows Server

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OpsCenter Enhancements in 7.6 – Important Changes

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Access Control

Integration with LDAP and Active Directory User Group-based Authentication

Monitoring

Improved OpsCenter Getting Started Process

3rd Party Cloud Storage Monitoring (S3, Rackspace, Atmos)

Alert Grouping

Compatibility

Windows 2012 Server Support

Published OpsCenter DB Schema For Custom Reporting

Web Services Infrastructure on every NetBackup 7.6 Master Server

Improved NetBackup Appliance Hardware Monitoring and Notification

New Appliance-specific Reporting

Appliance Monitoring

Large customers with multiple appliances and/or a mix of appliance and traditional

master server deployment will be able to monitor, report, and alert for all masters

Centralized NetBackup Appliance Monitoring

• Centrally monitor multiple NetBackup 50x0 and 52x0 series Appliances

• Centralized Appliance hardware alerting display

• Connect to and manage Appliances centrally when needed

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Search and Hold Enhancements in 7.6

• Create Image holds without running the Indexing process

• Optimized mass restore for NBU Search

• Stand alone index server for NBU search

• Why should you care?

– Reduce operational costs by removing Media server dependency

– Better able to protect the Indexing server

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A View of our Platform Approach NetBackup Appliances

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NetBackup 5230

NetBackup 5030

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NetBackup 5200

NetBackup 5220

50X0 : 52X0 Generation Comparison


NetBackup 5020 NetBackup 5030

3Gb/s SATA Disks 6Gb/s SAS Disks

8 CPU cores “Westmere”

12 CPU cores “Sandy Bridge”

32GB RAM 64GB RAM

Single Chassis Modular Chassis

Assembled in U.S. and Ireland

NetBackup 5220 NetBackup 5230

Same storage capacity options

8 CPU cores “Westmere”

12 CPU cores “Sandy Bridge”

48/96 GB RAM 64/128 GB RAM

4 PCIe 2.0 slots 5 PCIe 3.0 slots

Broader I/O configuration

Batteries in the NetBackup Appliances

• In our first 2 Generations of Appliances, we used Lithium ION battery packs to protect the write cache on the RAID controllers in the event of power failure.

• Worked well but….

– Lithium ION have a limited number of charges

– Lithium is not exactly “Eco friendly”

– “Learn Mode” has a temporary impact on performance every month.

• Super Capacitor / NVRAM is the new solution and used on the NetBackup 5230 and 5030

– In the event of power loss, the information in the Write Cache is written to NVRAM power by a “Super Capacitor” within 30 seconds.

– Eliminates Lithium from the solution

– 2,000,000 + hour MTBF reliability

– Charges in seconds upon server boot: No more learn mode



NetBackup 5230 I/O configurations

Fibre Channel Ports on the NetBackup 5230

• Fibre Channel Ports have two states: Initiator and Target

– Initiator ports are used to connect to Target ports on storage

• Tape

• NAS/Filer

• Replication targets

– Target ports are used for connection to the fabric and are the end point for SAN clients

• The 5230 needs to be configured as a Fibre Transport Media Server

• If NOT configured as a Fibre Transport Media Server, all Fibre Channel ports are Initiators.

• When the 5230 IS configured as a Fibre Transport Media Server, the two (2) ports that are Target ports will be the right port of the HBAs in the top right of the NetBackup 5230 as viewed from the rear of the 5230


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SYMANTEC VISION 2013

Performance Test Results and AutoSupport Update

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5230 by the numbers

• 30% Faster Peak Client Dedupe Performance

• 155% Faster Peak Target Deduplication

• 50% Faster Restore Speed


5230 – 2.5.2 5220 – 2.5

Backup - Peak Throughput Client Deduplication 100 Streams

30.85 TB/hr 23.66 TB/hr

Backup – Peak Throughput Target Deduplication 100 Streams

8.33 TB/hr 3.85 TB/hr

Restore – 8 streams, 80 GB of data 331 MB/s 213 MB/s

* TB = 10^12 bytes = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes

AutoSupport News New in 7.6

• Opt-Out Registration – enables us to contact customer faster


New in February 2013

• Symantec Portal displays appliance health

https://mysupport.symantec.com

https://mysupport.symantec.com


New Software Tools Coming soon in the N 2.6 (NBU 7.6-based) release


Roadmap Disclaimer!

Any information regarding pre-release Symantec offerings, future updates or other planned modifications is subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec and therefore subject to change. This information is provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Customers who purchase Symantec offerings should make their purchase decision based upon features that are currently available.



“Appliances come with tools to make your job easier”

Appliance Diagnostics Center

Easing the Pain of Infrequent Jobs

• Collect Log Files

• Test and Diagnose Network Issues

• Appliance Rollback

• Policy Migration


Automating Log File Collection and Distribution


Checking Network Connectivity


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• Site is totally unavailable

• Devices are too.

• Recovery is done from off-site images

• Rebuild site

Site Failure Hardware Failure Software Issue

• Failure of entire system or discrete component (disk failure, processor, memory, ethernet interface, power supply)

• Hardware replacement and repair.

• Storage or database problem

• File system corruption, software error, disk driver error.

• Repair operation, possible data reseed/recovery

User Error

• Botched the configuration

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“Undo back to last Tuesday.”

Appliance Rollback



Select Preview Validate Rollback

The appliance automatically creates checkpoints before and after every upgrade.

You have the option to create one checkpoint too.



Preview what is going to be changed. The rollback will also show if there will be a version rollback.



Before rolling back to the checkpoint, the appliance performs a validation step to check for pre-conditions that ensure the rollback will succeed.


Policy Migration

CURRENT SOLUTION

Making it easier to introduce new appliances into your environments


NDMP/NAS

Databases ESX

Virtual Servers File systems

NDMP/NAS

ESX

Virtual Servers File systems Databases

Current AFTER

90% full

Space freed

Automated through a Migration Utility

CURRENT SOLUTION

ESX

Virtual Servers

Seed new appliance

Automatic policy conversion

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Go to Manage > Migration Utility to open the tool


* Available in the appliance GUI only.

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1 Choose clients, policies

2 Gradual non-disruptive data migration

3 Policies updated automatically

Migration Utility

• What backup workloads to migrate to the new appliance

– Example(s): Move all of the Oracle database clients. Move file system(s) A, B, C…

• When to perform the migrations

– Example: Start 8 hour migration tonight at 9:00PM.

The backup administrator

chooses:

The tool automates:

About the Migration Utility

• Seeding

Copy the last full backup image

• Adjusting the backup policies

Modifying the backup policies to use the new storage destination

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Observe how the migration window fills as you select policies.

Start migration immediately, or schedule it to start at time hh:mm.


Services


I want to replace my master server with

an appliance. Is it possible to migrate the

catalog?

Answer: Yes


Catalog Migration & Consulting Services

Answer: It depends on the complexity of the migration -- very simple, simple or complex merges and splits.

How?


Level of Migration Scope How

1 Very simple migrations

• *nix to appliance

• No hostname changes

• 7.5.0.4 or above

Follow TECHNOTE 203048

2 Simple migrations

• *nix or Windows to appliance (platform change)

• Hostname changes

• Version upgrades (6.5.6+)

• New deployment of Target

Available through consulting*

3 Complex merges or splits

• *nix or Windows to appliance

• Qualified cluster transitions

• Target already deployed

• Source versions from 6.5.6+


4 Appliance to Appliance migrations and merges

• Migrating or merging of 2 or more appliances


* New Tools Reduce Consulting Engagement Time by 30-60%

NetBackup Versions Cluster

Transitions? 6.5.6 7.0.x 7.1.0.x 7.5.0.x

Source

Windows

64 bit / 32 bit ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

UNIX ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Compatibility Matrix


Appliance Versions (NBU version)

N 2.0.x (7.1.x) N 2.5.x (7.5.x)

Target Appliance NBU 52x0 ✔ ✔

• The following tables list the supported source and target versions for Level 1, 2 and 3 migrations.

So… Let’s Remember: NetBackup 5230 Backup Appliance

• New hardware platform

– Increased disk access from 3Gb/s to 6 Gb/s

– Increased number of cores from 8 to 12, with faster processors

– Increased RAM: 64GB on 4TB systems, and 128GB on > 4TB systems

– Broader I/O configurations: 10Gb Ethernet standard on each 5230 option

• Greater performance at both source and destination

– Source: Improved client direct deduplication performance

– Target: Increased backup rates by 2-25x through improved file system performance

• Expanded capacity: scalable from 4TB to 76TB

• Increased VMware support: protects up to 4,800 VM’s

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5230 by the numbers

• 30% Faster Peak Client Dedupe Performance

• 155% Faster Peak Target Deduplication

• 50% Faster Restore Speed

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5230 – 2.5.2 5220 – 2.5

Backup - Peak Throughput Client Deduplication 100 Streams

30.85 TB/hr 23.66 TB/hr

Backup – Peak Throughput Target Deduplication 100 Streams

8.33 TB/hr 3.85 TB/hr

Restore – 8 streams, 80 GB of data 331 MB/s 213 MB/s

* TB = 10^12 bytes = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes

Thank You !

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Alberto Sigismondi Francesco Russo