EMC AVAMAR

Deduplication backup software

and system

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IT Pressures

2009 2020
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DATA DELUGE BUDGET DILEMMA

Transformation

INFRASTRUCTURE SHIFT COMPLIANCE and DISCOVERY

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EMC Avamar
Deduplication backup software and system

 Reduces backup time and network load

– Client-side deduplication

 Daily full backups and one-step recovery

Avamar
VM
 Optimized for physical and virtual
environments
 High availability and reliability
 Lowers costs and risks
 Integrated with EMC Data Domain

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Solve Backup Problem Areas
Uniquely suited for the most challenging backup environments

Virtualization

Remote Office NAS

Avamar

Enterprise Desktop and

Applications Laptop

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Avamar—Unlike Anything Else in the
Industry
Reduce:
 Data moved by 99%

 Backup storage by 95%

 NIC usage at the client by 95%

 Backup times by 90%

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Deduplication Is the Enabler
Move and store less data

Network

B
D A
A
A
C C
B B
B
A C D
D 1. Divides data into variable-length sub-file
segments
2. Determines if segments are unique or duplicate
3. Backs up only unique data
4. Sends data compressed and encrypted

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Real-World Results
Avamar daily full backups vs. traditional full backups

Amount of Primary Amount of Data

Data Type
Data Backed Up 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

dramatically improves backup performance and efficiency

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Replicate Smarter Using Existing
Networks
Avamar 99% efficiency reduces or eliminates need for tape

OFFSITE REPLICATION WITHOUT REPLICATION AFTER DEDUPLICATION

DEDUPLICATION

Replicate Only Unique

Daily Changes

Primary Site Remote Site Primary Site Remote Site

Maximize efficiency, drives down costs for business continuity

and disaster recovery protection

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Shorten Backup/Recovery Times
Avamar shrinks backups and speeds data recovery

TRADITIONAL BACKUP AVAMAR BACKUP

Long backup cycles Up to 90% faster backups

Laborious restore process Simple, one-step recovery

Meet strict SLAs for RTO and RPO

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Recover Reliably
High availability and data integrity

Parity across
storage nodes • Redundant Array of Independent
Nodes (RAIN) architecture
• Grid architecture for online
scalability and performance
Virtualization • Daily Avamar server integrity and
data recoverability checks
• RAID protection from disk failures
• Up to 124 TB of deduplication
Utility node
Spare node backup capacity
• Includes replication for disaster
Verified
checkpoint recovery

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Flexible Deployment Options
Avamar Data Store options meet your needs
Avamar Data Store Avamar Virtual Edition
Single Node Virtual Appliance

Remote Offices VMware Environments

• Sized for distributed office workloads • Avamar server, in a virtual machine

• Centralize via replication (required) • Guest and (VADP) image backups
• Fast backup, one-step, local recovery • Fast, changed-block recovery
AVE

Avamar Data Store Avamar “Business Edition”

Scalable RAIN Grids

Enterprise Environments Mid-Market Environments

• Scalable nodes • Single node, sized for small data centers

• RAIN and high availability • Optional replication for DR/centralization
• Up to 124 TB • Lowest $/TB Avamar solution

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Recover in One Step

 Every backup is a “full” backup

 Restore single files or full directories directly to the client

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Simplify with Scalable Management
Avamar manages multi-sites from a single location

• Intuitive, web-based interface

• At-a-glance dashboards
• Capacity reporting and alerting
• Specialized management
interface for desktop and
laptop clients

Policy-based management over existing network bandwidth

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Optimized for VMware Backup
 Guest-level backup
– Provides application consistency

 Image-level backup
– Supports vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP)
– Changed Block Tracking
– Windows and Linux, Proxy VM Load Balancing

 Tight VMware vCenter Server integration

 One-step, file-level recovery from image
backup
 Qualified on VCE Vblock Infrastructure
Platforms
 Deployable as a virtual appliance with the
Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware

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Microsoft Hyper-V Protection
 Guest-level backup and recovery
– Provides application consistency
 Image backup and recovery
– Complete protection of virtual machines (VMs)
– Federated Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes backup and
recovery
– Recover VMs to alternate Hyper-V servers
– Granular Level Recovery (GLR) for faster restores

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Avamar for NAS
Efficient backup, recovery, and replication for NAS

LAN LAN/WAN

Avamar NDMP
Accelerator

NAS device Avamar

(EMC VNX family, Data Store
EMC Celerra, or NetApp)

• Avamar NDMP Accelerator requests only modified data daily (level 1 dumps)
• Fast daily full backups and data are deduplicated at the NDMP Accelerator
• Avamar NDMP backups are ready for immediate recovery

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Avamar for Desktop/Laptop Backup
A single, scalable solution from edge to data center

• Convenient, nondisruptive backups

End-user-initiated
restore • End-user self-service recovery
• Document-level search engine
• Multi-language support
• Cross-platform restore
• No “per-client” fees
Windows or Mac OS X
.
.
.
Avamar
Data Store

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Avamar for Enterprise Applications
Integration with Data Domain offers speed and scale

• Avamar directs backups to

NAS
optimal appliance based on
workload attributes
• Avamar manages backups,
restores, replication, and
VM
maintenance for all
Avamar Client systems
DD Boost
Avamar Data Store
DB

Oracle, SQL Server,

Exchange, SharePoint,
SAP, Sybase, VMware,
Hyper-V, IBM DB2

SharePoint
Data Domain System

DD Boost

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Avamar for Remote Offices
Leverage existing WAN bandwidth
Direct to Local Single Node or AVE
Replicate to Main Data Store
• Large remote offices LARGE REMOTE OFFICE
with strict SLAs for
recovery may choose
to deploy the Avamar
Single Node or AVE
• Small remote offices
Direct to Avamar Data Store
simply need to deploy in the Data Center

the Avamar agents on SMALL REMOTE OFFICE

the servers (clients)

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Avamar Streamlines Enterprise
Backup and Recovery
Direct to Local
Avamar Agents Only PRIMARY DATA CENTER Avamar Data Store
Direct to Main Data Store Replicate to Main Data Store

DESKTOPS AND LAPTOPS LARGE REMOTE OFFICE

Avamar Protects at the

Guest and the Image Level
SMALL REMOTE OFFICE SECONDARY SITE
VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS

Virtual Infrastructure

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Extended Retention
Export to VTL or Tape

Avamar Data Domain

Data Store System

Avamar Management UI Data Domain

Virtual System with
Disk-Based Edition DD VTL
Backup/Restore AVE

Export
or
Restore (Import)
Avamar Client Media Access
Node
Tape Library
or VTL

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Voice of the Customer
Improves Backup Time 36x
“Before we implemented Avamar, our full tape backups would run for more
than 72 hours and often included failed backups. Now, after completely
eliminating tape from our environment and with Avamar, we have achieved
92% data deduplication with Avamar, and most of our backups complete in
just two hours.”

“The Avamar NAS solution has been absolutely bulletproof. Our end users
no longer have slowdowns in system performance because a weekend
backup ran into Monday morning.”

“We’re basically virtualizing everything we can with VMware. Avamar helps us

manage this transition more efficiently and reliably by giving us a standard
way to manage both physical and virtual backups.”

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Summary
• Comprehensive backup and recovery for:
– Virtual, NAS, enterprise applications,
remote office and desktop/laptops
 Deduplicated daily full backups
– Shorten backup/recovery times
– Improve bandwidth efficiency
– Shrink storage requirements
• One-step recovery is fast and easy
• Purpose-built backup appliance
– Turnkey solution; reliability designed in

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Avamar Supported Operating Systems
and Applications
Client Operating Systems Supported
 Apple Macintosh OS X 10.5.x, 10.6.x, 10.7.x
 CentOS 4, 5, 6
 Debian 4, 5, 6
 Free BSD 6.2, 8.2
 HP-UX 11.0, 11iV1, 11iV2, 11iV3
 IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1
 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise,
Ultimate
 Microsoft Windows Vista and XP
 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard and
Enterprise
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, 5, 6
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 on zLinux
 NetWare 6.5
 Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) SP2, OES 2
 Oracle Enterprise Linux 5, 6
 SCO OpenServer 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7
 SCO UnixWare 7.1.3, 7.1.4
 Solaris 9, 10, 11
 Solaris 10 with Solaris Clusters
 Solaris 10 with VCS
 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9, 10, 11
 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10SP3 on
zLinux
 Ubuntu 10, 11
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Application Modules
 EMC NDMP (Celerra DART 5.5, 5.6, 6; VNX OE for File 7.0)
 IBM DB2 9.1, 9.5, 9.7
 IBM Lotus Domino 6, 7, 8, 8.5
 Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010
 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, 2010
 Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012
 NetApp NDMP (ONTAP 6.5, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.1x. 7.2,
7.3.x, 8)
 Oracle 9i, 9.2, 10, 10g, 10gR2, 11g, 11gR2
 Oracle RAC
 SAP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2
 Sybase 15.0.x, 15.5.x
Virtualized Infrastructure
 Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
 VMware vSphere (ESX/ESXi) 4.X 5.X
No charge for client agents or application modules
Items in green were added with Avamar 6.1
For a complete listing, see the
Avamar Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix
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