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Exagrid Product Review

The document discusses ExaGrid, a company that provides tiered backup storage solutions. It highlights ExaGrid's scale-out architecture, landing zone for fast backups and restores, retention tier for low-cost long-term storage, and ability to scale storage as data grows. It also describes how ExaGrid's approach provides faster backups and restores compared to inline deduplication appliances, as well as ransomware protection through delayed deletes and an air gap between the landing zone and retention tier.

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Exagrid Product Review

The document discusses ExaGrid, a company that provides tiered backup storage solutions. It highlights ExaGrid's scale-out architecture, landing zone for fast backups and restores, retention tier for low-cost long-term storage, and ability to scale storage as data grows. It also describes how ExaGrid's approach provides faster backups and restores compared to inline deduplication appliances, as well as ransomware protection through delayed deletes and an air gap between the landing zone and retention tier.

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Backup School

www.exagrid.com
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About ExaGrid
ExaGrid
• Largest independent vendor in the space
• Net Promoter Score of +73

100% focused on Tiered Backup Storage


• Highly differentiated architecture
• Winner of the most industry awards

Large customer base


• 10,000+ systems installed — worldwide
• 360+ published customer success stories

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5 Considerations for
Hyper-converged Secondary Storage for Backup with Deduplication

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Two Worlds: Low Cost Disk or Inline Deduplication Appliances

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The Best of Both Worlds: ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage

ExaGrid is the only Tiered Backup Storage with a disk-cache Landing Zone for backup
and restore performance tiered to a long-term retention repository for cost efficiencies
as well as a scale-out storage architecture that scales as data grows. ExaGrid is the
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Inline Scale-up Appliances Fall Short
Inline deduplication on the way to disk
• Slower ingest
• Longer backup window

All data is stored in deduplicated form


• Slow restores, VM boots, and tape copies

As data grows, only disk is added


• Backup window grows as data grows
• Ultimately forces a costly forklift upgrade

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Backup Application Inline Deduplication to Disk
Inline deduplication in the media server
• Slower ingest
• Longer backup window
• Can only deduplicate native backup data

All data is stored in deduplicated form


• Slow restores, VM boots, and tape copies

Deduplication ratios are low


• Uses more disk than target appliances
• Uses more bandwidth to replicate

Limited scalability
• Backup window grows as data grows

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ExaGrid – Simple and Flexible

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Fastest Backups and Shortest Backup Window
Unique / integrated landing zone
• Write backups directly to disk
• Avoid compute-intensive deduplication
• Adaptive deduplication

Benefits
• No inline processes to slow backups
• Fastest backups
• Shortest possible backup window
• Strong offsite RPO

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Fast Restores, VM Boots in Seconds to Minutes
Unique / integrated landing zone
• Most recent backups are in
undeduplicated form
• Eliminates data rehydration

Benefits
• Restores as fast as disk
• Tape copies as fast as disk
• VM boots in seconds to minutes

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Advanced Architecture for Instant Recovery

Instant Restore
Fast Backup

Fast Restore
Backup 1
Backup 2
Landing Zone
High speed landing zone. Backup 3
10TB
Most recent backup in Backup 4
complete form for Instant 10TB
Intact VMs for
Backup 5
VM Recovery InstantRestoreTM
Backup 6
Backup 7
Repository
5TB Backup 8
2:1 Compression
Backup 9

Byte-level deltas of 200GB 200GB 200GB 200GB 90TB backed up


compressed zones to 6.6TB
200GB 200GB 200GB 200GB repository space * 6.6TB

Backup 9
5
1
2
3
4

* Average dedupe ratio 20:1 after 16 backups exagrid.com | 11


Retention Tier
Second Repository Tier
• Long-term retention
• Deduplicated data

Benefits
• Low-cost long-term storage
Non-network-facing
• Ready for ransomware recovery
• Non-network-facing tier
• Immutable objects
• Delayed deletes

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Deletion Protection of Backup Data on ExaGrid

Ransomware sends instructions


via backup application to delete
ALL data on ExaGrid
or deletes it directly

Non-network-facing (tiered air gap)


Delayed deletes
• All retention data does not
delete for the policy time period
• Freeze system and restore

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Encryption Protection of Backup Data on ExaGrid

Data is encrypted or backed up


as encrypted data
from the backup application

Immutable deduplication objects


• As new data comes there are no
• Deletes, overwrites or changes
to the past dedupe objects
• New deduplication objects
• Are added
• All past retention is protected
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Fixed Length Backup Window

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ExaGrid Scalability – Scale-out

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ExaGrid Appliances in a Scale-out System
32 Appliances in a Single System – 2.69 PB Full Backup

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DR Scenarios
Private Cloud
• ExaGrid DR appliances in a customer’s
Data Center 2nd data center

Private Cloud

• ExaGrid DR appliances in a 3rd party


hosting/colo facility

Hybrid Cloud

• ExaGrid DR appliances in a 3rd party


cloud provider
• Pay by the GB/mo. – OPEX expense

Infrastructure to a Backup App Public Cloud


to ExaGrid appliances • For example, AWS

• Adaptive deduplication deduplicates and replicates in parallel


• 50:1 WAN bandwidth efficiency
• Bandwidth throttle and WAN encryption for data replication
• Configure the disaster recovery site to all repository to save cost
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Multi-site Data Center Disk Backup Topology

Multi-site Architecture
• 16 locations in a single
group – spoke and hub
• 50:1 WAN efficiency
across all sites
• Management from single UI
• Cross-site protection
between sites
• Consolidated DR copies
of backup reduces costs

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Works with Industry Leading Backup Applications
Heterogeneous Environments

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ExaGrid with Commvault - Improve the Storage
Economics
ExaGrid improves the storage economics of Commvault environments by
working with Commvault deduplication on to provide up to 20:1 reduction in
storage consumption.
• SAVE onsite and offsite storage and associated costs
• Use LESS WAN bandwidth
• NO change to Commvault configuration
• Can WORK with DASH Fulls
• Can WORK alongside DASH Copy

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Fastest Oracle RMAN Backups with Failover
Support of Oracle RMAN Channels

• Fastest backups with


ExaGrid landing zone
• Fast database restore
in seconds to minutes
from undeduplicated
data
• 2PB full database
backup in a single
system
• Performance load
balancing
• RMAN failover if any
appliance fails
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Unified Management Console: ExaGrid UI

Single interface Simple dashboard


across all systems gives quick view

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Stress-free Redundancy and Security
Redundant Hardware
• RAID6 with a hot spare drive guards against simultaneous
disk drive failures
• Redundant power supplies
• NIC teaming

Security
• Optional data encryption at rest
• FIPS 140-2 compliant / 256-bit AES
• Occurs at the drive level in nanoseconds
• Does not impact backup performance

• WAN encryption for secure data transfer

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Personal Touch - Maintenance and Support
Phone and Email Support
• Assigned level 2 customer support engineer
• Support staff are subject matter experts in backup applications

Customer Installable and Serviceable


• Self-installable with phone support and WebEx
• Self-serviceable hardware replacements, next business day delivery

All Releases Provided


• Point and full releases – includes all new features
• No license fees to track or renew

Health Status Monitoring


• ExaGrid monitors and notifies

No additional charge – All included in support program

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Comparison of Backup Storage Approaches

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Selected ExaGrid Global Customers
Manufacturing Banking Business
Business Services
Transportation / Retail Healthcare Insurance / Law Services Government

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How to size ExaGrid
• Detail Backup Software:
• Size of Data need to protect:
• Yearly Data growth rate:
• Backup Policy:
• Daily Incremental:
• Weekly Full:
• Monthly Full:
• Yearly:

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Thank You!

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