EMC Avamar
Never back up the same data twice
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Agenda
 Today’s data protection reality
 The usual answers
 Avamar overview
– How it works
– Flexible deployment
 Avamar solves customer
challenges
 Summary
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Today’s Data Protection Reality
Pressure to meet the changing
needs of the business
 Data growth is immense
 Companies want more data protected
 Time required for backup is expanding
 Backup hampered by tape’s
unreliability and poor performance
 Virtual machines pose unique backup
challenges
 Increasing volume of data at remote
offices
 More data stored locally on desktops
and laptops
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The Usual Answers
 Backup to tape, or stage to disk, and
then archive to tape
 Manually move tapes offsite for
disaster recovery
Traditional backup and recovery
 Inefficient and slow, ~200% of primary
data moved across the network weekly
 Tedious, multi-step recovery process
 Risks the loss or theft of unencrypted
tapes in transit
 Data is difficult to recover and leverage
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Avamar Overview
Avamar Software
Agent-only
or deployed
on qualified,
industrystandard
servers
Avamar Data Store
Fully integrated
software/hardware
offering
Backup and recovery software with integrated
global, source data deduplication
 Reduces the size of backup data at the source—
before it is transferred across the network
 Delivers fast, daily full backups using existing infrastructure
 Reduces network bandwidth for backup by up to 500 times
 Deduplicates across sites and servers, reducing total
backup disk storage by up to 50 times
 Cost-effectively stores daily full backups on disk—reducing
or eliminating the need for tape
Avamar Virtual
Edition for VMware
Avamar
server
deployed as
a virtual
appliance
 Ideal for protecting VMware environments, remote offices,
LAN/NAS servers, and desktop/laptop systems
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Avamar: How it Works
Global, sub-file data deduplication
 Break data into atom (sub-file,
variable-length segments of data)
 Send and store each
atom only once
 Avamar
backup repository
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At the source—Deduplication before data is transported across the network
At the target—Assures coordinated deduplication across sites, servers, and over time
Granular—Small, variable-length sub-file segments guarantee most effective deduplication
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Avamar: How it Works
Simple example of global, sub-file deduplication
Data
Center
 First Instance
 Duplicate Instance
Remote
Site 1
 Modified Instance
Remote
Site 2
EMC Avamar
Never Backup the Same Data Twice
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Only unique data
segments are
backed up
A
Data already backed up,
so only unique IDs stored
(20 byte pointers)
B
C
E
1
New data segment
identified and
backed up
D
A
B
C
D
E
Deduplication server
(stored backup data)
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Avamar: Real-World Results
Avamar daily full backups versus traditional daily full backups
Data Type
Amount of Primary
Data Backed Up
Amount of Data
Moved Daily
Windows file systems
3,573 GB
6.1 GB
Mix of Windows, Linux, and UNIX file systems
5,097 GB
11.7 GB
Engineering files on NAS (NDMP backups)
3,265 GB
24.2 GB
Mix of 20% databases, 80% file systems
(Windows and UNIX)
9,583 GB
80.0 GB
Mix of Linux file systems and databases
7,831 GB
104.2 GB
Source: EMC
While results will vary by data type and mix, Avamar can
dramatically improve backup performance and efficiency
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Avamar’s Innovative Architecture
Avamar Server
Verified
checkpoint
U.S. Patent No. 6,826,711
 Redundant Array of Independent
Nodes (RAIN) architecture
Parity across
storage nodes
– Each server node includes CPU, memory,
and internal disk storage
– Provides high availability and fault tolerance
across nodes
 Grid architecture for online scalability
and performance
 Daily Avamar server integrity checks
Utility and
spare node
 Data recoverability verified daily
 RAID protection from disk failures
 Available for Avamar software and
Avamar Data Store
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Avamar’s Centralized Management
Policy-based, multi-site management
over existing network bandwidth
 Centralized management of multiple
Avamar systems
 Intuitive, web-based interface
 At-a-glance dashboards
 Capacity reporting and alerting
 Facilitates “set and forget” deployment
in smaller enterprises
 Improves efficiencies and streamlines
management in remote/branch offices
 Specialized management interface for
desktop/laptop clients
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Avamar Server Deployment Options
Avamar Software
Avamar Data Store
Avamar Virtual Edition
for VMware
Avamar
VM
Avamar
VM
Avamar
VM
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
Resource
Pool
Software for industrystandard servers
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Fully integrated
hardware/software solution
with single point of support
Single-node Avamar server
running as a virtual machine
(virtual appliance)
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Avamar’s Flexible Deployment
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Avamar Data Store
Fully integrated software/hardware solution
 Complete EMC backup, recovery, and disaster recovery
offering
– Avamar backup and recovery software with integrated source/global
data deduplication
– EMC-certified hardware built to order—fully configured and delivered
 Built-in high availability
–
–
–
–
Avamar RAIN technology
Spare node, RAID
Redundant power distribution
Redundant switches, NICs for automatic failover on user’s network
 Simplifies
– Purchase (single vendor, certified hardware)
– Deployment (minimizes onsite setup)
– Service (single vendor support)
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Avamar Data Store
Flexible deployment options
 Avamar Data Store
– Scalable with up to 52.8 TB of deduplicated disk capacity
– Equivalent of up to several petabytes of cumulative traditional disk
or tape backup storage
– Reduces required backup disk storage by up to 50 times
– High availability and reliability with RAIN architecture, RAID, daily
integrity checks, and redundant power, switches, and NICs
 Avamar Data Store single node
– Supports 1 TB, 2 TB, and 3.3 TB licensable deduplicated storage
capacity configurations
– Equivalent of up to 114 TB of cumulative traditional disk or tape
backup storage
– Designed for easy deployment at remote offices
– Offers fast, local recovery without dependence on a WAN
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Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware
Avamar server deployed as a virtual appliance
Avamar
VM
 Industry’s first deduplication virtual appliance for backup,
recovery, and disaster recovery
 Leverages existing ESX servers and storage
Avamar
VM
– Can use existing iSCSI, SAN, or DAS disk storage
Avamar
VM
 Replication (of applications and storage) eliminates
shipping tapes
– Replicate between virtual Avamar servers and physical Avamar
servers
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
Resource
Pool
 Facilitates rapid, cost-effective deployment and return on
investment
 Supports VMotion for deployment flexibility
 Up to two Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware virtual
appliances per VMware ESX server for scalability
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Avamar Data Transport
Avamar grid
ESX server
Transport
Node
Existing backup
server
NetWorker/
NetBackup
server/
storage
node
Transport
Node
SAN/LAN
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
Resource
Pool
Avamar backs up clients
to Avamar server
Replicates selected
Avamar server data to
data transport node
residing on ESX servers
Tape
vault
Avamar coordinates
export of data transport
replica through tape
backup system
Export deduplicated
data to tape for longterm storage
 Policy-driven process
exports and restores
Avamar deduplicated
data to and from tape
 Searchable file-level
catalog eases and
speeds restoration
 Leverages existing
backup software
(e.g., EMC NetWorker)
Fewer tapes for lower costs—
up to 50 times reduction in long-term storage costs
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Avamar Supported Operating Systems
and Applications
Client operating systems supported
Application modules
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate

IBM DB2 9.1, 9.5, 9.7
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise

IBM Lotus Domino 6, 7, 8
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010
Microsoft Windows Vista and XP

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.0, 4.0, 5.0

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005, 2008
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 on zLinux

NDMP (EMC Celerra with DART 5.5, 5.6)
Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 9.0
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NDMP (NetApp Data ONTAP 6.5, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.1x.
7.2, 7.3.x)
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Oracle 9i, 9.2, 10, 10g, 10gR2, 11g, 11gR2
Solaris 8, 9, 10, 10 x86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8, 9, 10, 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10SP3 on zLinux
VMware infrastructure
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Apple Macintosh OS X 10.4.x, 10.5.x, 10.6.x

CentOS 4.x, 5.x

ESX 3.0.x, 3.5, 3i

Debian 4, 5

vSphere 4

Free BSD 6.2

HP-UX 11.0, 11iV1, 11iV2, 11iV3

IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

NetWare 6.5

Novell Open Enterprise Server OES SP2

Oracle Enterprise Linux R5

SCO OpenServer 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7

SCO UnixWare 7.1.3
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= ESX client operating system-certified using RHEL 4 client
(support within virtual machines depends on VMware support of
client operating system)
No charge for client agents or
application modules
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Avamar Solves Key Backup
Challenges
 VMware environments
 Remote office/branch office (ROBO)
 LAN/NAS servers
 Desktop/laptop
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VMware Backup Challenges
Virtualization changes server, application, and information paradigm…
backup must evolve to deliver even greater consolidation and value
New Paradigm
Physical environment: Low overall server
utilization and plenty of bandwidth for backup
Virtual environment: High overall server
utilization and little bandwidth for backup
100%
CPU Utilization
CPU Utilization
Old Paradigm
80
%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Server A
Server B
Server C
20% resource utilization
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100%
80
%
60%
ESX server
Hardware
40%
20%
0%
Shared physical resources
Virtual
Server A
Virtual
Server B
Virtual
Server C
80% resource utilization
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Avamar’s Optimized Backup for
VMware Infrastructure
Avamar deduplicates at the optimal location and level
of granularity
 Optimal location: Reduces data at the source
– Data deduplicated at VM guest or proxy server (source)
– Duplicated data never traverses congested shared physical resources
– Data moved during backup is reduced from ~200% to ~2% of primary data
weekly
– Deduplicates data globally across virtual machines and/or VMDK (virtual
machine disk) format files
 Optimal granularity: Sub-file, variable-length segments
– VMDK is one large file; any changes cause an incremental/full traditional
backup
– Fixed-length segment deduplication solutions fail due to frame offset
– Avamar efficiently moves only new, unique variable length data segments
 Ideal for the protection of VMware environments
– Delivers fast, daily full backups over existing virtual and physical infrastructure
– Enables greater server consolidation by eliminating backup bottlenecks
– Maximizes value from VMware
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Avamar Solutions for VMware Infrastructure
Flexible, fast, efficient, and reliable backup and recovery
Avamar and VMware vSphere 4 integration
 Universal support for all vSphere 4 backup options
– Daily full guest- and image-level backups
 vStorage API integration
– Greater backup and restore flexibility
 VMware vCenter Server integration
– Single point of management within Avamar for all VMware backup
options
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Avamar’s Optimized Backup for VMware
Infrastructure
Avamar efficiently protects virtual machines
Traditional moves ~200% weekly
Up to…
 95% reduction in data moved
VMware Virtualization Layer
 90% reduction in backup times
x86 Architecture
 50% reduction in disk impact
Resource
Pool
 95% reduction in NIC usage
Avamar moves ~2% weekly
 80% reduction in CPU usage
 50% reduction in memory usage
All backups are stored as “virtual full
backups,” ready for immediate restore
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
Enables greater server consolidation
ratios without overtaxing CPU utilization
Resource
Pool
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Avamar Backup for VMware Guests
 Avamar agent resides inside each
virtual machine
 Fast, daily full backups
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
Resource
Pool
 Deduplicates data within the virtual
machine, as if they were physical
servers
 Moves minimal backup data
– Reduces resource contention and
accelerates backups
 Provides file-level restore for
Windows, Linux, and Solaris
= Avamar Software Agent
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Avamar Image-Level Backups through
Storage APIs
vStorage API
virtual proxy
server with
Avamar agent
Virtual Machines
Mount
x86 Architecture
 Supports both file-level (Windows
only) and image-level recovery
Resource
Pool
Avamar
server
= Avamar Software Agent
 Fast, daily full backups
 Deduplicates within and across
VMDK files
VMware Virtualization Layer
Physical server
 Avamar agent resides on the proxy
server
SAN
storage
 Avamar replication provides
disaster recovery for VMDKs
Avamar client software runs
on the proxy server
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Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)
Backup challenges and Avamar solution
 The “Achilles’ heel” of data protection
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–
–
–
More than 4 million remote offices in the U.S.
Remote office data growing at more than 50% per year*
Most back up to tape and move unencrypted tapes offsite
Often unskilled, untrained IT staff at remote sites
 Avamar remote office/branch office backup is
simple, safe, and manageable
“Avamar enabled us to
reduce administrative
support requirements by
80%, reduce backup
windows by 90%, and
recover lost files and
servers in minutes rather
than hours.”
– Extend data center protection to the edge
– Fast, daily full backups and one-step recovery through
existing WAN/LAN links
– Avamar agent-only deployment for smaller offices (no extra
local hardware)
– Eliminate distributed tape management/infrastructure
– Mitigate risk involved with manually shipping tapes
– Data encrypted in-flight and at-rest for security
— Mike DePhillip,
Backup Administrator,
Virginia Department
of Motor Vehicles
*Source: Gartner
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NAS Filer Backup and Recovery Challenges
 Limited backup windows
– Daily full backups desired, but not feasible
 Limited backup and recovery performance
– Single filer controllers have limited resources and can
become a bottleneck
– Incomplete backups leave data at risk
 Limited network links and disk storage
– Redundant data limits performance of network/
infrastructure and requires more disk storage
 Impact on end users
– When backups exceed allotted window, end users compete
for the NAS resources (poor response, lower productivity)
 NDMP licenses
– Traditional NAS filers require expensive NDMP licenses to
support backup and recovery
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Avamar NAS/NDMP Backup Accelerator
 How it works
– Avamar Accelerator uses NDMP to communicate to source NAS device
– Accelerator requests only modified data daily
– Accelerator performs source-based deduplication on modified data
 Only new modified segments are sent to Avamar Data Store
– Source and global deduplication occur at Accelerator
 Avamar’s NDMP backups are ready for immediate recovery
– Avoids time-consuming task of restoring weekly full, plus daily incremental, backups
 Fast, efficient daily full backups for EMC Celerra and NetApp Filers
NAS device
(EMC or NetApp)
LAN
LAN/WAN
Avamar
Data Store
Avamar NDMP
Accelerator
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Avamar Optimized Backup for NAS Filers
 Eliminates time-consuming, traditional
full NDMP backups
Before Avamar
Weekend
Full
Daily
Incremental
Daily
Incremental
Daily
Incremental
Daily
Incremental
Daily
Incremental
Weekend
Full
– Daily deduplicated full backups
– Up to 10-times faster than traditional NDMP
backups
 Fast recovery from full backup image
– Eliminates hassle of recovering from last
good full and subsequent incremental
backups
After Avamar
 Flexible recovery
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
Daily
Full
– Restore full file system or single file to
Avamar client or NAS device
– Allows flexible disaster recovery solutions
 Cost-effective disaster recovery
– Backup data is encrypted
– Easily replicated offsite through existing
WAN bandwidth
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Desktop/Laptop Backup Challenges
and Avamar Solution
Avamar Desktop/Laptop
End-user initiated
restore
 Puts power in end-users hands
– Eliminates Help Desk for restoring
data to desktop or laptop
– End users restore their data anytime,
anywhere
– Self-managed restores
– Document-level search engine
– Multiple language support
 All the benefits of Avamar backup
Windows or Mac OS X
Avamar Data Store
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– Data deduplicated at the source
– Daily full backups—up to 10-times
faster
– Minimal impact on PC and network
resources during backup
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Avamar’s Unique Value
 Deduplicates data at the client (source)
– Fast, daily full backups through existing infrastructure
 Deduplicates data globally
– Reduces required backup disk storage by up to 50 times
 Fast, single-step recovery
– Eliminates hassle of recovering last good full and subsequent
incrementals to reach desired recovery point
 Recoverability verified daily
– Daily server integrity checks; data recoverability verified daily
 High availability
– RAIN architecture and replication—no single points of failure
 Centralized management
– Streamlines administration and management of remote backups
 Flexible deployment options
 Complete solution from EMC
– Backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and data deduplication
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Avamar Transforms Backup and Recovery
 Global data deduplication defuses
the explosion of backup data
– Fast, daily full backups through
existing networks
– Backup disk storage reduced by up to
50 times
 Alters the fundamental economics
of disk versus tape
– Accelerate shift to disk as primary
medium for backup
 Key element of EMC’s nextgeneration backup portfolio
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EMC Services for Avamar
Derive maximum value
Consulting Services
 Align service levels and Reference Architectures with business requirements
Implementation Services
 Minimize risk, accelerate implementation, and speed time to value of new
technologies
Operational Assurance Services
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Post-implementation operational best-practice knowledge transfer
Performance optimization and tuning
Process recommendations for improvement
Training recommendations
Residency Services
 Fill missing skill gaps with Avamar services professionals—typical contract
three or more months
 Tailor best-practice recommendations, knowledge transfer based on in-depth
understanding of your environment
Designated Support Engineer
 Senior support resource resolves product support issues quickly
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NetWorker and Avamar Integration
How it works
NetWorker
 Integrated client is a standard feature of NetWorker
 NetWorker represents the Avamar Data Store as a
deduplication node
 Deduplication is enabled through NetWorker
Management Console
Clients
Data
 Save process gathers metadata and sends it to the
NetWorker server and data to the deduplication node
Metadata
NetWorker
 On recovery, required deduplication data is requested,
and full dataset is restored at client
Metadata
Management
Console
NetWorker
Avamar
Server
NetWorker
Storage
node
Data
Deduplication
Data Store
node
Disk, VTL,
Tape
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Data Protection Advisor
Unified monitoring, analysis, and reporting
Unify—See—Act
 Automatically collect data from across data
protection infrastructure
 Transform disparate data into new insights,
actionable information, and service-level
agreement statistics
 Make better, faster decisions to meet service
level agreements, correct issues, and drive
efficiency
Payback typically 12 months or less
Single view for data protection
management, including backup
applications, replication, and
continuous data protection (CDP)
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 Reduces costs with automation and new
insight that drives efficient use of people and
infrastructure
 Improves compliance, lowers risk with greater
visibility into service-level agreement
recoverability statistics
 Minimizes complexity with a single, integrated
view across the environment
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EMC Data Domain and Avamar
Retain, replicate, recover
Deduplicate everything
without changing anything
Never back up the
same data twice
Simplify backup, archiving, and disaster recovery
with easy integration across workloads,
infrastructures, and backup software
Revolutionize your backup by moving less
data to solve your toughest VMware, NAS,
and remote-office backup challenges
Data Domain deduplication
storage systems
Avamar deduplication
backup software
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USE CASE
Mecklenburg County
Backing up NAS Filers through the Avamar NDMP Accelerator
Before Avamar
 Rapid data growth straining existing tape infrastructure
 Inadequate bandwidth for data replication
 NAS Filer full backups taking 72 hours to complete
 High cost of tape-based backup
Solution
“The Avamar system has
been absolutely
bulletproof since it was
fully implemented, it’s
part of our strategy to
reduce overall costs
and provide more
efficient public services
—advantages that can’t
be over-emphasized in
today’s economy.
 Avamar NDMP Accelerator
With Avamar
— Jason Girad,
Storage Engineer
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 Time to complete full backups was reduced from 72 to two
hours
 Reducing the tape backup process resulted in annual savings
of $50,000
 New backup efficiencies have freed up IT staff
 Improved data recovery speeds
 Compliance with government regulations
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USE CASE
St. Peter’s Health Care Services
Backing up a VMware infrastructure
Before Avamar
 Data center redesign focused on server consolidation
and virtualization
 Concern about traditional, tape-based backup in
VMware environment
“Avamar provides a huge
time and cost savings
for backup of multiple
virtual machines.”
 Backup windows strained; physical resources
overburdened
With Avamar
With Avamar, we can
centrally manage all of
our backups, and we
also gain the ability to
rapidly restore data
down to the file level.”
— Curtis Damhof,
Network Manager,
St. Peter’s Health Care Services
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 Deployed agents within virtual machines
 95% reduction in data moved
 90% reduction in backup times
 Major reductions in NIC, CPU, and memory usage
 Centralized management and control
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USE CASE
Global Industrial Manufacturer
Backing up a VMware infrastructure
Before Avamar
 Struggling to meet backup, recovery, and reliability goals
across extended enterprise
 Lengthy backup windows caused by increasing data volumes,
threatening network performance
“Avamar was much less
expensive than our other
backup and recovery
options. But it also
provides us faster data
restores, more backup
capacity, and scalability
to meet future data
protection needs.”
 Expanding existing backup solution would require second
master server, two additional tape silos, 16 new LTO tape
drives
With Avamar
— Company spokesman,
global industrial manufacturer
 Backup for VMware (24 ESX servers, 332 virtual clients)
 Avamar agents installed in VM guests
 Eliminated physical tape management
 Reduced backup and recovery administrative burden
 Backup performance increased ten-fold
 Backup network traffic reduced by 95%
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USE CASE
Fortune 20 Healthcare Supplier
Backing up a VMware infrastructure
Before Avamar
 Growing VMware environment struggles to meet backup
window
 Daily tape backup and offsite tape shipments—risky slow
recovery
 Unable to quickly replicate data through WAN for disaster
recovery
With Avamar
 Global deduplication effective within and across VMDK files
 More than 70% reduction in first backup and average of 99.7%
thereafter
 Compared to traditional alternatives, testing showed:
– Avamar moved 20% of the data that Symantec PureDisk moved
– Avamar moved 190% less data than traditional tape backup software
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USE CASE
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
Remote-office/branch-office backup
Before Avamar
 73 remote offices, backup to local, direct-attached tape
drives
 No local IT staff
 Daily backup required five hours per site; six hours to
restore entire server
“Avamar enabled us to
reduce administrative
support requirements
by 80%, reduce backup
windows by 90%, and
recover lost files and
servers in minutes
rather than hours.”
With Avamar
— Mike DePhillip,
Backup Administrator,
 Four hours to back up all 73 offices through existing
WAN (56k-T1) to central Avamar server
 45 minutes to restore entire servers; files restored in
seconds
 Centralized management and control
Virginia DMV
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USE CASE
Corporate Express
Remote office/branch office backup
Before Avamar
 Storage demands were rapidly increasing
 Tape library was reaching slot capacity and upgrading was not
ideal due to age and maintenance costs
 Needed to control costs and simplify data management
 Backup and disaster recovery was time consuming
“We were blown away
by the simplicity of the
management interface
and the comprehensive
capabilities offered by
Avamar. After carrying
out a proof of concept,
we clearly understood
the benefits Avamar
would bring to our
business.”
With Avamar
 Reduced stored data by more than 50 percent—from 92 TB to
44 TB
 Achieved significant financial savings
 Enabled disk-based backups to be completed in 30 minutes,
compare to six hours in the past for tape
 Reduced restoration times for business-critical data from
24 hours to minutes
— Mark Jones, Technology
Infrastructure Manager
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USE CASE
A Global Pharmaceutical Company
Remote-office/branch-office backup
Before Avamar
 Strain developing and deploying a coherent IT strategy for
more than 250 sites, 100,000 employees
– Lacked consistent IT infrastructure
– Cumbersome tape backup solution was overextending staff and overtaxing
virtual machines
 Escalating capital and operation costs
“When we compared the
total cost of ownership
of EMC Avamar to that
of traditional backup,
we found that Avamar
cost less yet provides
exponentially better
data protection and
service levels.”
With Avamar
 Deployed from templates within a virtual application pack
 Reduced backup time by more than 75%; slashed cycle time
for offsite data replication
 Minimized impact on network bandwidth
 Reduced storage costs by eliminating tape backup and
slashing storage requirements
— Head of Storage Services
Global pharmceutical
company
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