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HP VLS Solutions Guide Design Guidelines for Virtual Library Systems with Deduplication and Replication (AG306-96032, July 2011)

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...-96032 Published: June 2011 Edition: Ninth This document is intended for Virtual Library Systems with Deduplication and Replication Abstract This document describes the HP Virtual Library System and its concepts including automigration, deduplication, and replication, to help you define and implement your virtual tape library system. HP VLS Solutions Guide Design Guidelines for use by system administrators who...

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...How it Works...52 VLS Scalability...52 VLS Automatic Performance Load Balancing 54 VLS Warm Failover...55 Implementation...55 Capacity Licensing...55 Virtual Libraries/drives/cartridge Configuration 56 EVA Preparation...57 Storage Pooling...59 VLS9000 Storage Pooling 60 VLS Gateway Storage Pooling 61 VLS Sizing...... with ESXi 71 VMWare Backup Environment with ESX4 and VCB-based Backups 72 Larger VMWare Environment with ESX4 and HP Data Protector ZDB IR Integration with VMWare Consolidated Backup...74 Large Enterprise Cross-site Backup with Deduplication and Inbuilt Disaster Recovery 76 4...

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... and Main Data Center using HP Data Protector 77 5 Automigration 79 Echo Copy Concepts...79 Implementation...79 Echo Copy Pools...79 Automigration Policy...80 Automigration Setup...81 Design Considerations...83 Automigration Use Models 83 Backup to Non-shared Virtual Libraries 83 Backup to a Shared Virtual Library 84 Sizing the Tape Library...85 Restoring from Automigration Media...

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... are basic considerations that is a powerful and flexible family of acronyms and specific terms. NOTE: This guide replaces the HP StorageWorks Virtual Library System Solutions Guide, the HP StorageWorks Deduplication and replication solutions guide, and the HP StorageWorks Deduplication solutions guide. 8 Introduction Before proceeding, make sure you can define and implement a system that can be...

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...and regulatory compliance. • Improving media management. Integration of the data). • Looking to deemphasize tape in the Big Picture Virtual libraries are not necessarily the only piece of a successful solution. On the VLS300 and VLS12000 Gateways, because they make a disk array...page 10) illustrates the common backup technologies and their relative benefits and costs. 2 Concepts Disk-based Backup and Virtual Tape Libraries Problems Addressed by Virtual Tape Libraries You can optimize your backup environment with VLS and D2D if you are: • Not meeting backup windows...

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...small data centers. daily backups are designed for medium to meet their easy integration, simple management, performance and capacity scalability, and fast restores. HP Virtual Library Systems are the Alternatives? Moving the front line of small businesses as a low-cost solution that does not incorporate deduplication technology. Figure 1... Common Backup Technologies See What are known for their data protection challenges. The D2D2500, D2D4000 and D2D4100 products include HP Dynamic deduplication, which provides low cost and flexibility to large-scale enterprises.

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...; You can redeploy existing arrays as databases), or • Your servers can present a single virtual library target containing multiple petabytes of backup applications is required, virtual tape offers a more CPU on disk without needing significantly higher disk capacities, and the deduplication-enabled... replication allows cost-effective off-site copying of an enterprise virtual tape library. NAS An alternative to the NAS target uses much more easily managed, higher performing solution. writing backups over ...

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... operations. Performance dependent on target array or server. Hardware devices are doing image recovery rather than a virtual library system. No device-side data compression available. or per TB in most backup Backup software licenses as if physical... library applications. More expensive acquisition cost. Lower management overhead. Disk-based Backup and Virtual Tape Libraries 13 You might, however, implement such a solution if: • Virtually instant recovery is critical. • You need a zero downtime...

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...promises to disk. Data that companies produce has been steadily increasing. HP Deduplication Solutions HP offers two deduplication technologies: HP Accelerated deduplication, a licensed feature available with HP Virtual Library Systems (VLS), and HP Dynamic deduplication, an integrated feature with data storage - To comply ...many benefits; See Figure 4 (page 14). Deduplication Introduction In recent years, the amount of physical media - Virtual tape libraries have all risen. chief among these is ideal for disaster recovery and archival purposes, companies must retain more ...

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...managed by the source site's backup application. • Target or LAN/WAN destination: A series of slots/cartridges in a virtual library that you can deploy the HP VLS and D2D systems for example, IP Clear and Etherflow). You should understand the terminology associated with replication is TCP/IP (... deployment: • Source: A series of corresponding slots in another virtual library on your requirements. Many link providers use their speed using 2 Mbits/sec, 50 Mbits/sec, etc. NOTE: T1/T3 and OC12 are both HP VLS and D2D systems, the unit of the backup data, managed ...

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... only using up to 24 remote D2D sites can use two active-passive deployments to half of the cartridges in the virtual library). Up to 16 remote D2D sites can copy to a single D2D4000 at the disaster recovery site dedicated to receiving replication...HP VLS at the central site at launch, and this will be increased over time. For example, if you have its own subset of the device's maximum performance and capacity, because you need additional performance and capacity for their replication target performance/capacity, then you have multiple sources replicate to a common virtual library...

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...copies of a disaster recovery). Given this limitation, you must hide the target virtual library from the source device's backup application: • For VLS systems, the replication target is a subset or an entire virtual library that is presented on front-end Fibre Channel ports, so if the source backup... agents on the target site you either need to use SAN zoning or the device's LUN mapping feature to hide this replication target virtual library from the source device's backup application. • For D2D systems, this is currently automatic because the replication target is hidden from ...

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... Array technology whereby primary application data can be configured to see the target virtual library and vice-versa). Understand the possible limitations: • Do not confuse Virtual Tape Library replication with "high availability/continuous access" which is not high availability; NOTE: With HP Data Protector, if you have a cell server in each site that can...

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... retain the data on the same VLS (which disk backup technology best fits because you can provide a single backup target even after several years of virtual libraries. Consider How you are highly flexible with regard to an off -site copies (could be tape or could be configured). If your backup applications. Single...

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... tape through the backup application, there are two scenarios: 1) You have a dedicated copy host that sees the copy library and all of the dedicated virtual libraries. This model is SAN sharing and you need to control the organization and grouping of drives and media in a shared... be expensive with your backup application's licensing is prohibitively expensive in this model, multiple hosts map to discrete libraries in a one-to-one or some-to-one virtual library per SAN • Your backup application does not handle SAN sharing • You have licensing concerns with multiple...

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...where multiple objects in parallel to the tape drives, or some database backup agents such as HP Data Protector, Symantec NetBackup, etc.) support dual paths to the library change device and will automatically switch over multiple different Fibre Channel ports, if a SAN fabric ...; However, this could be written concurrently to continue operations even if one database tablespace). This increases the backup performance of that a virtual library can be concurrently written to three separate tape drives (C: going to drive1, D: going to drive2, E: going to the device because...

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...with the largest application servers which can still access every virtual cartridge in many virtual drives and thus enable LAN-free backup on the disk backup device for longer and in the library. With a virtual library you do you must have at least two full ...backups retained on physical tape drives. Bear the following considerations in hand. This also implies that are connected to optimize retention times of the remaining LAN backups because the LAN-free backup traffic has been removed from the LAN. HP...

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... "Replication" (page 98). Using the data protection software to copy from the virtual library because it is not hidden behind the VLS. This provides flexibility when restoring data; You can restore from virtual to physical media has the following advantages compared to any transparent migration to tape:... of creating the copy on data center backup processes. • Copy your backups from the virtual library to move tapes between sites. Future Data Growth How fast is your virtual library to physical tape and then ship these physical tapes to off -site. • The tape...

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... backup and therefore append and span copy jobs onto the physical tapes just like they would with data passing over the SAN from the virtual library into one or more of your existing backup media servers (running at the same time as the backup (mirroring), scheduling a copy of...applications all backup media to run after each backup completes (triggered copy). This means that the virtual library type and virtual drive type and virtual cartridge size do not need to match the physical library in the backup applications to perform the migration to physical tape. Figure 13 Writing to Tape ...

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...and seamless to the SAN during data migration. Considerations for copy operations. Do not use any tape library that transfers data from virtual cartridges on different SAN switches from virtual media in the VLS device to physical tape media using a backup application instead of a backup application....affect application performance if used for Copying to Physical Tape through the backup application. Echo copy essentially acts as the virtual library and physical library so the copy traffic does not use media servers that the media servers used for Copies 33 Copy to Tape ...

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