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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Data Domain 7.2 - What is new?

Performance & Security - these are flagship Data Domain features.
They are further improved in new Data Domain 7.2.
Let me invite you for short discussion about new DD 7.2 features.



Direct link to the above discussion about new DD7.2 features: https://youtu.be/m1XNy6IXzOo

What is new in Data Domain 7.2?
1.
Compliance - absolute lock for protected data

Data Domain allows you to absolutely block backups for a specified period of time. Thanks to this, neither ransomware nor hacker can hurt our data - we can always restore from Data Domain:

Data Domain blocks data removal / change for defined period of time (month / quarter / …) Hacker cannot change to bypass the lock - neither directly nor through the NTP server:

Version 7.2 further extends the flexibility of compliance. We can define the maximum time change applied to Data Domain and the maximum number of changes:

The compliance function is available in Data Domain hardware appliances:

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Further extension of Compliance (no removable lock) is Cyber Bunker:
https://youtu.be/jtgm2WHpFPk
described in the article:


2.
How much more space do we gain with new Data Domain models?

New Data Domain models compress new blocks more effectively thanks to dedicated compression card:

And we also gain more performance:

How much do we additionally gain thanks to compression card? The video shows the real numbers from production, worldwide Data Domain:

Let's assume that the old Data Domain would need 100TB for data storage.
New models (DD6900 / 9400/9900) will need
  • only 77TB for storing backups for securing your file system
  • only 85TB for storing backups for securing databases
Detailed explanation of the mechanism that makes new Data Domains to use less space for backups: https://youtu.be/xx-xZC9JtoM?t=191

3.
BoostFS = huge fast backup speed thanks to source de-duplication
For everyone!

BoostFS Live:

Data Domain 7.2 provides even faster BoostFS backups:

DD 7.2 increases the already super performance of BoostFS - - Real data from SQL backups:

4.
Recovery performance

Each recovery stream is split into multiple threads to speed up recovery!
As a result, even if we have Data Domain with a small number of disks, we achieve a big speed:

5.
Further optimization of Garbage Collection algorithms.

Data Domain provides huge performance – regardless if it performs internal processes or not. 
Thanks to this, it has over 50% market share:

How to set Data Domain cleanup parameters - live:

6.
Data Domain - algorithmic device:
https://youtu.be/m1XNy6IXzOo?t=924
focused on performance:
7.
Possibility to extend compliance for ever

8.
Data Domain allows for fast, frequent backups

9.
No visibility of source de-dup for production:


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The video is recording for customers/partners discussion.
Thank you very much all that took place in this event live!
Thank you for time, discussion and... fun!!!

Performance and Security!
BackupRecoveryGuy


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Friday, August 17, 2018

DP4400 backup/recovery appliance and… everything is ready!

Video about DP4400 (below there are links to each part of discussion):
      https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg


Presentation about DP4400:   

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Let’s imagine we have chosen our dreamed backup solution. It was not easy, we had to compare and check plenty of parameters. But it is over. We know what data protection is best for us.
Is it really over? Can we really just wait for delivery of our preferable solution?

Unfortunately not.  We still need to take care about:
  • Design
  • Implementation

Design is important. If we do not take care about proper design and we provide too few resources for:
  • Backup server
  • Media servers
  • De-duplication pool
  • Network

we can have poor backup/recovery performance best. More probably we will expirience instability of our backup solution or in the worst case data loss (f.e. because of currupted de-dup database).

Also implementation of the above take us weeks if not months. This is pain for OS guys, Virtualization guys, Network guys.

Do we really have to take risk (as company, personally) for design / implementation / maintenance?
Is there another approach?


DP4400
DP4400 is 2U backup/recovery appliance that is ready to backup our environment just after power on. The ease is not compromised with capabilities. We get top market features ready to run.
Just after power on and providing our IP addresses.

What functionalities does DP4400 provide?
DP4400 includes:
  • Software to backup/recovery of VMware, HyperV, OpenStack, databases, file systems, NAS devices, remote offices, laptops, … - any systemsBackup engine is based on the Avamar system
  • Media to keep our backups
    It is based on top market Data Domain technology and offers plenty unique features:
    • Best de-duplication (least storage required, least bandwidth required for replication)
    • No network usage during backup (source de-duplication)
    • Ransomware protection (locking backups)
    • ...
  • Finding any phrase in backups (GDPR)We get huge efficient Elastic Search engine
  • Cloud as Disaster RecoveryWe can replicate our Virtual Machines to Cloud and start them for Disaster Recovery / tests
  • Export old backups to cheap S3 storageDD technology within DP4400 has CloudTier functionality that moves old backups to cheap and secure S3 storage
  • ReportsOver 300 reports, analysis of problems, predictions of future provided by DP Advisor engine
  • Single console to mange the whole backup environment - our DP4400

DP4400 provides all the below beauty of backup solutions:




What about desing / implementation / maintance of DP4400?
DP4400 is 2U appliance that comes to us:
  • Installed
  • Configured
  • All components are properly tuned
  • All components have resources required to work with full power
  • Ready to backup / recover our data just after power on

We turn on our 2U device and we can enjoy the backup/recovery:




DP4400 is installed in rack - what do I need to do perform backup/recovery?
After power on DP4400, to perform backup/recovery we need to provide things that factory does not know:
  • our IP addresses
  • define what we want to backup (SQL, VMware, Hyper-V, Windows, laptops, remote offices, …)


What environments can DP4400 protect?

DP 4400 can backup:
  • Virtual Machines (VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack, ….)
  • Databases and applications (SQL, Oracle, Sybase, Exchange, Lotus, …)
  • Files (Windows, Linux, Unix, FreeBSD)
  • Remote offices (protected environment can be even far 100ms from DP4400)
  • NAS (Unity, Isilon, Netapp, ZFS)
  • Standalone servers
  • Laptops
And we can use Cloud as Disaster Recovery!


What features we can enjoy with DP4400?
Let me share with you some of the capabilities that we get within DP4400:
  • Backup from 100 to 1000 VMware Virtual Machines per hour
    Extremely important for ransomware attack – we almost not lose any data!
  • Every backup is full backup!
  • Restore of single file, table, mail from image level backups
  • Immediate repairing of damaged VM (2 minutes to repair 1TB VM)
  • Starting Virtual Machines directly from DP4400 with SSD disks
    Zero time recovery with SSD disks speed!
  • Excluding any files (pagefile.sys) / paths  from VMware image level backup
  • Built in global de-duplication, source de-duplication, smallest block size on the market
  • Very small pipe for replication between DP4400
  • Sending about 1% of data to another DP4400 to replicate backups
  • Finding phrases in backed up documents in less than 1 second!

All the above we always get - no matter which DP4400 we will order! All the features are ready to work, configured in every DP4400.


What are DP4400 options?
Let’s say I take under consideration DP4400. What options do I have?
DP4400 2U device that we can buy in the below capacities:
  • 8TB
  • 12TB
  • 16TB
  • 20TB
  • 24TB
  • 36TB
  • 48TB
  • 60TB
  • 72TB
  • 84TB
  • 96TB



We can buy any capacity and upgrade as many times as we want to higher capacities. For example:
  • We can purchase DP4400 12TB and upgrade to 16TB
  • We can purchase  DP4400 24TB net capacity
  • Upgrade to 48TB net capacity
  • And then upgrade to 72TB net capacity
  • And then upgrade to 96TB net capacity

The upgrade is easy because DP4440 always come with full capacity:
  • 24TB net for Entry Model
  • 96TB net for Full Model
Upgrade with the model is just by entering the license
So for example upgrading from 24TB to 60TB is just entering the license.

If we want to upgrade from entry level model (24TB) to full model (96TB) we get couple of disks that we or Dell put in and that is all!

How big DP4400 do I need to protect my environment?
You shall contact Dell EMC or Dell EMC partner for sizing DP4400 for your environment.
Anyhow, the rule of thumb tells us the DP4400 24TB net allows us to protect 25TB environment with 30 days retention and 10TB environment with 5 years retention. The same proportion we can use for bigger capacities.


What is the price?
For price you shall contact Dell EMC. Vendor claims that price is very attractive – less than buying components separately.
But we shall take under consideration that within the price we get:
  • No risk approach (full power, made by factory)
  • Implementation / configuration
  • All the hardware resources for backup/recovery solution


DP4400 presentation
DP4400 video
https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg

And below there links to topics covered in the video.
Why IPDA:
https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg?t=32
DP4400 – what it is:
https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg?t=344
DP4400 – one slide summary:
https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg?t=681
DP4400 – capacities, upgrades:
https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg?t=855
De-duplication within DP4400:
https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg?t=970
DP4400 – licensing, environment we can backup:
https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg?t=1145
Cloud as Disaster Recovery
https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg?t=1234
NAS backup by DP4400:
https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg?t=1501
Management, VMware backup, search and other features of DP4400:
https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg?t=1531
Initial configuration
https://youtu.be/tChSjT4Orcg?t=1685
Only successful recoveries!
BackupRecoveryGuys
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Friday, February 9, 2018

New Data Domain DD3300 - backup appliance focused on performance and reliability



30 min webcast about new DD3300:
      This Wednesday, 14 February, 13:00 CET (Vienna time)
Registration:
      http://dell.mywebinarplace.com/index.php?cmp=attendx_meeting&mt_number=78893985
Online invitation:
      https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6368746494429851650/

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We have available a new Data Domain model: DD3300.
DD3300 replaces existing DD2200. 

DD3300 gives a wide choice of capacities. We have 3 variants:
·        DD3300 4TB net
·        DD3300 16TB net
·        DD3300 32TB net
The values above gives us info, how much net space we have for de-duplicated backups.

As we know, Data Domain is extremely efficient de-duplicator, so the question is:
How can I judge, which of DD3300 fits to my environment?
Best approach is to use Dell EMC sizer via partners / integrators / distributors.
Anyhow below there is simple “rule of thumb”:
a.      DD3300 4TB net fits to environments between 0TB to 6TB
b.      DD3300 16TB net fits to environments between 3TB to 20TB
c.      DD3300 32TB net fits to environments between 12TB to 40TB
Number of TB in size of environment above means how much data we have on production to protect (front data). In other words this is the size of single full backup of all my data (without any compression / de-duplication).
For example, having VMware 8TB large and  2TB on standalone servers, it means I have environment with 10TB production data all together. And probably I shall think about DD3300 16TB.

Another question is, how long can I keep backups on DD3300?
Customers keep backups on Data Domain from 14 days to 5 years or even longer. The most common retention is 30 days.
If we want to keep data for long (years) on DD300, we shall choose for sure higher capacities (for example DD3300 16TB net for environment 5TB large).
If 1 month retention is fine for us usually DD3300 16TB is fine for environment about 12-17TB.
Again best is to use sizer from partners / vendor.

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Let’s have a look at speed of new DD3300:

 DD3300 offers huge 7TB/h backup speed. It means that FULL backup of 30TB environment we can have in something like 4 hours!
Anyhow, I would like to point to number of streams. DD3300 16/32 net gives us 90 parallel backup streams. Having good backup software we are able to backup almost 100 Virtual Machines in the same time! 
Or backup 80VMs and restore 20 VMs...

When you choose backup solution, take care about number of parallel backup streams. This gives huge flexibility for simultaneous backup / recovery / replication. It is even more important parameter than backup speed itself...

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CloudTier - automated moving old backups to S3 storage
DD3300 has built-in export of old backup to cheap S3 storage. This is called CloudTier.
So if we have long retention for backups (years), DD3300 will automatically move backups older than a month (for example) to S3 storage making free space for fresh backups.
No additional hardware is required, anyhow we need a license.

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What about the upgrades? Can I upgrade between DD3300 variants?
The possible scenarios are as following:
  • If we have bought DD3300 4TB net.
    We can upgrade from DD3300 4TB net to DD3300 16TB net.
  • If we have bought DD3300 16TB net.
    We can upgrade from DD3300 16TB net to DD3300 32TB net.

Upgrade can be performed by:
  • Dell EMC / authorized partner
  • By customers
    Dell EMC provides tutorials (pdf / video) how to add disks / memory…

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DD3300 among other models

The existing DD2200 is available until something like August 2018. 

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30 min webcast about new DD3300:
      This Wednesday, 14 February, 13:00 CET (Vienna time)
Registration:
      http://dell.mywebinarplace.com/index.php?cmp=attendx_meeting&mt_number=78893985
Online invitation:
      https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6368746494429851650/


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