Transform your

Replication

Miroslav Vrane
miroslav.vranes@emc.com

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IT Data Availability Challenges

Addressing increasingly demanding business requirements

Dont you wish you could have gone back in time

to 30 seconds before your data corrupted?
Protecting business applications without disrupting the
business
Replicating large amounts of data without taxing resources
Feeling confident DR process is functioning properly

Cost, cost, and costhow to

keep the bill low?

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Replication Usage Is Increasing

"Increasingly, organizations of all sizes use
replication functionality as their first line of
defense within their data protection schemes.

Eric Sheppard, IDC Analyst

Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

8AM

10AM

12PM

2PM

4PM

6PM

8PM

10PM

12AM

3:27PM

CONTINUOUS
8AM

1PM

6PM

11PM

SNAPSHOTS
12AM

12AM

BACKUP

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Components and Topology

Application servers

Application servers

Physical or virtual, federated, clustered or standalone

Accesses data that needs to be replicated

Heterogeneous storage

RecoverPoint
appliances

Source or target for replicated data

Fibre
Channel/
WAN

Layer 2
Fibre Channel SAN

RecoverPoint appliance (RPA)

Connects to LAN and Fibre Channel (FC)/WAN for
replication management and replicating data
Connects to storage through Fibre Channel

RecoverPoint appliance cluster

A group of inter-linked RPAs, working together
closely, to provide replication services
RPAs in a RecoverPoint cluster are called nodes

Data Center

WAN bandwidth management

EMC & Non-EMC Arrays

VNX CLARiiON

Symmetrix

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VPLEX

Third party such as

IBM, HDS, LSI, HP

Reduce WAN bandwidth by up to 90% through

deduplication, compression, and write-folding
Cap replication bandwidth

Local Replication Process:

Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
2a. Host write
splitter
1. Data is split and sent to the RecoverPoint
appliance in one of three ways
2b. Intelligent-fabric
write splitter

3. Writes are acknowledged back

from the RecoverPoint appliance

4. The appliance writes data to the

journal volume, along with time
stamp and application-specific
bookmarks

2c. CLARiiON
write splitter

/A

/B

/C

rA

Production volumes

rB

rC

Replica volumes

Journal volume

5. Write-order-consistent data is
distributed to the replica
volumes

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Remote Replication Process:

Continuous Remote Replication (CRR)

1. Data is split
and sent to the
RecoverPoint
appliance in
one of three
ways

2a. Host write

splitter
2b. Intelligent-fabric
write splitter
2c. CLARiiON
write
splitter

/A

/B

/C

Local site

3. Writes are
acknowledge
d back from
the
RecoverPoint
appliance

6. Data is
received,
uncompressed,
sequenced,
and verified

5. Data is sequenced,
checked, deduplicated,
compressed, and
4. Appliance functions
replicated to the
remote appliances over
Fibre Channel-IP conversion
IP or SAN
Replication
Data reduction and
compression
Monitoring and management

rA

7. Data is written
to the journal
volume

rB

Remote site

rC
Journal volume

8. Consistent data is
distributed to the
remote volumes

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Recovery Consolidation
Journal recovery point timeline
Two days
ago

Now

Continuous recovery
points
Daily recovery points

Monthly

Weekly

Daily

Continuous

Weekly recovery points

Monthly recovery points

RecoverPoint snapshot
consolidation
Provides longer recovery
windows with same
storage
Optimizes usage of
journal storage
Helps eliminate concerns
for backup windows

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Consistency Groups for Applications

OE

CRM

CDP

SCM

CDP

Email

CG 1

CG 2

CRR

CRR
CRR

CG 3

CRR

Consistency Groups (CGs)

protect every volume in an
application

RecoverPoint ensures write

order consistency between
production and its replicas
Application recovery can be
independent of service level
agreements (SLAs)
Independently replicate
multiple applications
Organize replicas by application

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Distributed Consistency Group

Used for more performance (more write activity) than a single
RecoverPoint appliance provides for asynchronous replication

Spread LUN write activity across multiple RecoverPoint appliances

Avoids any bottlenecks caused by a single WAN connection
DISTRIBUTED CONSISTENCY GROUP OPERATION DURING ASYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION
Application
servers
Replica
volumes

RecoverPoint appliances:
Primary and three secondary

SAN/WAN

Production volumes

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WAN Deduplication
Replicate less data

Network
B

D
D

A
C
C

B
B
AA

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A
C
B
B
B
A
A C D

A
A

C
B

Based on key
EMC technology
from Avamar

Disaster recovery array

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Divide data into 512-byte blocks

Determine if blocks are unique or if they exist at replica
Compress and replicate only unique blocks
Sends data compressed, which is inflated at target
Create journal entry with existing and replicated blocks
Requires homogeneous GEN4 RecoverPoint appliances

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Bandwidth Reduction = Cost Savings

Bandwidth management lowers network requirements and
monthly lease costs
RecoverPoint includes:
Deduplication
Compression
Write-folding
I/O Prioritization

0
1

13

15

24
22

Compression gives
an 80% reduction
0

0
1

13

15

24
22

Replicated data
36 Mb/s writes

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15

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Compression and deduplication

gives a 90% reduction

0
3

Required
Bandwidth

Lease
Payments

Excess
Bandwidth

7.3 Mb/s
Fractional T3

$3,000/month

.1 Mb/s

7.3 Mb/s
Fractional T3

$3,000/month

3.7 Mb/s

$10,000/month

4 Mb/s

DS3

40 Mb/s

13

15

24
22

Traditional copy
uses 36 Mb/s
(no reduction)

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DS3

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Family Differences
RecoverPoint/SE

RecoverPoint/EX

RecoverPoint/CL

Supports VNX and CLARiiON

environments

EMC storage environments

Supports EMC and non-EMC

storage environments

Single VNX, CLARiiON, or Celerra

unified array per site

Array-based splitting only

Supports VNX, CLARiiON array-based

splitting only
Supports Unisphere management

300 TB of replicated capacity; up to 1

PB of total replicated capacity with RPQ

Multiple EMC arrays per site

Registered replication capacity per
array

Multiple arrays per site, EMC and nonEMC

Any splitter

300 TB of replicated capacity; up to Replicated capacity across all arrays

1 PB of total replicated capacity
300 TB of replicated capacity; up to 1
with RPQ
PB of total replicated capacity with RPQ

Common functionality
One solution for data protection, replication, and
disaster recovery
Local replication for LUNs in one SAN
Remote replication between LUNs in two SANs
Concurrent local and remote data protection that
combines local and remote replication
Heterogeneous operating system support
Disaster recovery for VNX series file systems

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Wizards automate production rebuild/restart

DVR-like recovery and consolidation reduces RPO and
RTO
Application integration for Microsoft Exchange and SQL,
other applications and databases
Support for application servers and federated servers
and storage
Synchronous or asynchronous local and/or remote
replication with optional dynamic selection policies

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Virtual RecoverPoint Appliance (vRPA)

Maximum simplicity and low TCO for VNX

Virtual appliance (vRPA) reduces TCO by up to 60%

Flexibility in resource allocation
Physical Appliance

Virtual Appliance

vRPA
RPA

VM

FC

VM

iSCSI

VPLEX
FC

VNX
Primary

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VNX
Remote

iSCSI

Journal

VNX
Primary

VNX Journal
Remote

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Unisphere for RecoverPoint

Simplified troubleshooting
Task oriented
REST APIs extensibility
and custom reports

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New in RecoverPoint 4.0

Enterprise-class data protection more affordable for VNX

SAVE UP TO 60%
With Virtual RPAs

REDUCED
NETWORK COSTS

Synchronous replication
over IP

7X CAPACITY
Scales to 2 PB

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SIMPLIFIED
MANAGEMENT

Task-based in Unisphere

INDUSTRY FIRST
for SRM FAILOVER
Restore VMware to any
point-in-time

PROTECT MORE
Replicate 4:1 or 1:4

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Todays IT Data Availability Challenges

Four categories

Any application
Any array
Any location
Any time

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Any Application
Reduce backup-windows from hours to minutes and saves on storage
space
Increase performance
Lowest recovery objective while testing and running DR processes

Speed applications backup with RecoverPoints bandwidth reduction,

data compression, and deduplication technologies
Bronze

Silver

Gold

Platinum

Bronze

Silver

Gold

Platinum

WAN

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Any Array

Protect data on any array

Application consistency between multiple arrays and multiple
applications

Not only does RecoverPoint protect data, it does it for any

vendors storage
VMAX Family
SRDF + RecoverPoint

VNX Family
Local and/or Remote
RecoverPoint

Any Vendor Array

with RecoverPoint

VPLEX
RecoverPoint

Remote

Remote
RecoverPoint
Local

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Local

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Any Location RecoverPoint Multi-Site

Support multi-site redundancy needs
Synchronous & asynchronous continuous local/remote replication
Up to 90% bandwidth reduction with data compression,
deduplication technologies, and synchronously over IP
Remote Replicas
Core site

Edge sites

Local Replica

Production

Multi-Site 4:1

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Multi-Site 1:4

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Any Time

Access your data as it existed at previous points in time

Traditional Solution

Few and inflexible ways to access

data from a previous point

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With RecoverPoint

Instant data access to earlier

versions of your data from
different points in time

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