EMC AVAMAR FOR VMWARE

ESSENTIALS Optimized Backup and Recovery

• Optimized VMware Guest and for VMware Environments
Image-level backup

• Supports VMware vSphere

Leading IT Transformation
• Integrated into vCloud Suite and Server consolidation with VMware® provides many benefits to IT organizations,
vRealize Automation
including reduced costs, simplified provisioning, faster server deployment, decreased
• Leverages Changed Block data center footprint, and lower power consumption. As the total amount of data
Tracking (CBT) and disk-level
stored on virtual machines that share common resources increases, traditional backup
granularity for faster backup
and recovery solutions have difficulty meeting backup SLAs and prevent additional virtualization.

• Thin-provisioned recovery EMC® Avamar® provides variable-length client-side deduplication to accelerate the
virtualization journey by providing extremely fast and efficient backup and recovery
• Universal multi-threaded proxy
with load balancing for increased for the VMware environment. Avamar protects virtual machines (VMs) by
throughput deduplicating data at the client—so that only new, unique, sub-file, variable-length
data segments are sent during daily full backups. This dramatically reduces the
• VM Instant Access from image
stored on Data Domain Systems
daily impact on the virtual and physical infrastructure by up to 99 percent as
• Centralized management fully compared to traditional full-backup methods. While traditional backup software moves
integrated with VMware vCenter upward of 200 percent of the primary backup data on a weekly basis, Avamar moves
as little as two percent over the same seven-day period—removing backup
• Integrated into vSphere Web Client bottlenecks and enabling even greater levels of virtualization. Avamar backs up data
globally across physical and virtual servers. For virtualized environments, flexible
• Automated restore rehearsal
backup options include guest- and image-level backups. Avamar is certified and
• Multi-tenancy for VMs across a tightly integrated into the VCE® VblockTM Systems and VSPEX® converged
single vCenter
infrastructure platforms.
• Global variable-length
deduplication reduces total backup
storage by up to 95 percent Guest-Level backup and Recovery
A lightweight Avamar agent is installed inside each virtual machine (VM) as a guest
• RAIN for high availability, daily and deduplicates the data moving only the unique changed blocks through the ESX
data recoverability verification
server to the Avamar Data Store. Since only changed blocks are moved, Avamar
reduces resource contention and shortens backup times. Avamar achieves the highest
• Extended retention: backup
to VTL or tape for compliance levels of deduplication at the guest-level while providing application consistent hot
backups. Fast file-level restore ensures business continuity with minimal latency.
• Ideal for both virtual and physical
servers, business-critical
applications, NAS Servers, remote
offices, desktops/laptops

DATA SHEET
 Image-Level backup and Recovery
"Optimized backup for VMware…
Avamar does it unbelievably well!" Avamar is tightly integrated to the vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) for
- Stephen Rayda CTO at Purdue agentless backups. Deduplication and backup executes on a multi-threaded universal
Pharma proxy VM, off-loading the backup from any of the VMs where the applications are
running.

Through vSphere, each VM is dynamically mounted to the proxy without physically

moving data across the network, enabling Avamar to back up numerous virtual
machines in just minutes. To maximize backup throughput, Avamar uses a load
balancing algorithm across multiple proxy VMs. Instead of being locked into using only
a single proxy for a set of VMs, Avamar leverages numerous proxies and sends a
backup job to an available proxy. Automated proxy management is included providing
zero-touch VMDK snapshot management and cleanup. Avamar also takes advantage
of VMware’s Changed Block Tracking (CBT) to further speed up the backup and
restore processes. VMware presents only changed blocks to the Avamar software,
where each block is broken into variable length segments and further evaluated for
uniqueness.Only the unique segments are sent for backup, achieving the fastest
"The future of our primary business
backup possible. Conversely, the restore process also leverages CBT for faster
from a backup and recovery
perspective is based on the Avamar recovery. Avamar understands the current state of the VM and determines the
platform. With the EMC solutions, required blocks from the last backup, restoring the VM in just minutes. Avamar
we've been able to deploy a true enables full VM or file-level restore to the original VM, an existing VM or a new VM—
Backup as a Service model and expand directly from the Avamar user interface. Also available with image backups is disk-
our primary business to offer level granularity that enables Avamar to back up specific virtual disks, thus reducing
compliant backup services." - Kevin backup times and backup storage. Thin-provisioned recovery speeds the restore
Dohrmann CTO at Cosentry
process and reduces required storage. For VM images stored on a Data Domain
Systems, a VM can be instantly accessed and while running be vMotioned back to the
production environment.

"We experienced an explosion in costs

with our disk-based managed service.
EMC Avamar provides us with a cost-
effiective, centralised backup and
recovery capability that is reliable,
trustworthy and efficient. The solution
has paid for itself in just eight
months." - James Goodman
Infrastructure Architect at Alliance
Trust

Protecting vCloud & vRealize Deployments

Avamar provides the industry’s most comprehensive solution for protecting VMware's
vCloud Director (vCD) and vRealize Automation deployments. vCD & vRealize
provision software-defined data center services as virtual data centers that provide
virtualized compute, networking, storage and security resources. Avamar has
embedded its backup and recovery services right into vCloud and vRealize, so they be
can be shared and distributed in a multi-tenant model, as a managed resource. These
resources are assigned to Org VDCs, and through that assignment exposed to tenants
"We would not be able to reach our for consumption in protecting vApps. Avamar provides the first standard backup API
virtualization goals without the state- for VMware cloud providers.
of-the-art backup and recovery that
Avamar provides." Service Providers and enterprise admins can backup native vCD & vRealize constructs
by applying polices (e.g. Gold, Silver, Bronze) from a set of catalogs at the Org, vDC
Craig Wuerzberger
and vApp levels, which enables service tiers of protection. Other solutions today
Systems Engineer at Sub-Zero
Group, Inc. simply create service accounts for vCloud access and perform backup and recovery
operations externally. With this native feature set extension approach, and providing
all backup resources without an additional software package to orchestrate and
manage, end-users will be confident to consume public cloud resources – accelerating
CLIENT ENVIRONMENTS SUPPORTED adoption of hybrid clouds.
OPERATING SYSTEMS

• VMware ESX Easily Manage the Virtual Environment

• vSphere 4.X, 5.X, 6.X The Avamar user interface and its integration into vCenter simplify backup
management of the virtual environment. Auto-discovery of all VMs and their
protection scheme clearly provides insight of the protection status. It is very easy to
HARDWARE
define backup groups and policies. Avamar also provides Dynamic Policies, so as VMs
Flexible deployment options include are added to the group, they will automatically inherit the backup policy- making it
Avamar Data Store, Avamar replicated even faster to manage the virtual environment and ensure all VMs are protected.
single nodes, Avamar Virtual Edition, Automated proxy management is included providing for zero-touch VMDK snapshot
and Data Domain Systems via Data management and cleanup.
Domain Boost Software.

Protecting a VMware View Environment

The best approach for protecting an entire VMware View infrastructure is to protect
the key components independently using the Avamar client software agents. This
approach helps companies avoid the infrastructure costs of duplicating the entire
VMware View environment for the purposes of backup. As a best practice, user home
directories and virtual desktop templates should be stored on a centralized shared
storage device. Avamar's industry leading NDMP Accelerator node protects NAS
storage devices that can access data using NFS, CIFS, or NDMP. Avamar enables the
recovery of the individual components that make up the VMware View environment.
Individual components can then be manually brought back into the VMware View
environment based on the level of recovery required.
 Flexible Deployment Options
CLIENT ENVIRONMENTS SUPPORTED
Avamar provides various deployment options depending upon specific use case and
OPERATING SYSTEMS
recovery requirements. The Avamar Data Store is a turnkey backup and recovery
• VMware ESX solution that integrates Avamar software with EMC-certified hardware and RAIN
• vSphere 4.X, 5.X, 6.X architecture for streamlined deployment and high availability. A replicated Avamar
single-node or the Avamar Business Edition is ideal for smaller businesses or remote
offices with strict SLAs. The EMC Avamar Virtual Edition consists of EMC Avamar
HARDWARE
software and a virtual storage appliance (up to 4TB) on a VMware ESX® Server a
Flexible deployment options include Hyper-V Server, or deployed on Microsoft Azure. Avamar is integrated through EMC
Avamar Data Store, Avamar replicated Data Domain Boost software to send the VM image data directly to a Data Domain
single nodes, Avamar Virtual Edition, system. Now customers can unify their data protection process with the leading
and Data Domain Systems via Data deduplication software and hardware in the industry; achieving the highest
Domain Boost Software. performance and most scalable backup and recovery solution. Avamar is integrated
into VCE® VblockTM Systems and VSPEX® converged infrastructure platforms for
optimized VMware data protection.

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