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Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments 101

January 2015 (Version 7.1.1)

Data Protection for VMware

Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V

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Common Elements

Tivoli Storage Manager For Virtual

Environments

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Original Backup Solution for VMs: Business as Usual

 Backup Agent in each VM/Guest

 Manage Agents, Backups & Schedules just like a physical server
 Volume of Guests creates a management headache
 Easy to overload the physical machine’s resources LAN
 LAN-Only (except for certain specific configurations)
 BMR is 2-step process and may require BMR software
– Define and configure a new VM
– Restore

Benefits:
 In-VM agents interface better with applications
 In-VM agents allow better file-level archiving and searches through
backups
TSM Server

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Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments

 Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments provides hypervisor-level data

protection solution for Virtual Machines
– Backups stored on Tivoli Storage Manager Server
– Retention policy controlled by Tivoli Storage Manager Server
 Two components for different virtualization environments:
– Data Protection for VMware
– Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V
 Uses hypervisor-level snapshot technology to protect virtual machines and
perform progressive imcremental backups
– Hyper-V - VSS Snapshots (Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service)
– VMware - CBT Snapshots (VMware Change Block Tracking)

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Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments Benefits

 Leverages virtualization snapshotting capabilities to allow for online or offline Backup of Virtual Machines
 Allows for full and progressive incremental backups of virtual machines
 Intelligent controls choose machines or groups of machines for a given backup job
 VM backups can exploit all TSM features like:
 Native compression
 Deduplication LAN
 VTL/Hardware deduplication/compression
 LAN-Free
 DR Replication, etc.
 Policy-Based Versioning
 Protection against storage hardware failure or corruption
 Support for recovery of files from VM backup
 Enables much easier Bare Machine Recovery (BMR) TSM Server
SAN
Virtual vStorage
Backup server or
Hyper-V Server

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Virtual Machine Protection
Backup
TSM Server
Disk

Copy Disk

Tape
On-site

Optical
DVD/CD
Offsite Tape
Copied to

Virtual Machines
vCenter Server
Other

Tiered Storage Pools

Restore

• Optimization for VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines

• Incremental ‘forever’ backups Benefits of TSM for Virtual Environments
 Integrated with TSM
• Automatic virtual machine (VM) discovery  Multiple Recovery options from single-source image-
• Automatic migration of VMs between hosts level backup
 Centrally Managed
• Restoration of VMs to alternate locations  Fast and efficient incremental block-level backups
• File level recovery from image backups
• VMware Admin can manage backups & snapshots with VMware admin interface
• Additional optimization for VMware environments

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Data Protection for VMware

Tivoli Storage Manager For Virtual

Environments

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TSM for Virtual Environments – DP for VMware
 Data Protection for VMware vSphere
 Use vStorage API for Data Protection to interface
with VMware hypervisors or vCenter
 Single-pass backups of individual VMs, including
block-level incremental backup
 Full VM, volume or file-level restore capability LAN
from single backup
 Progressive Incremental Backup (block-level
incremental forever) SAN
TSM Server
 Offload backups from hypervisor to vStorage vStorage Backup
backup server Server

 Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server

Integration

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vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)

 Latest generation of VMware’s data protection framework

 Leverages snapshot capabilities of vSphere
 Centralized off-host backups
– Off-Host backup server reads directly from SAN
 vStorage Backup Server (Backup Proxy) can be a physical or virtual machine
 API supports multiple data paths (transport methods); SAN, LAN, LAN+SSL and HotAdd (HotAdd is
used when running vStorage Backup Server as a VM)
 Incremental, differential (not implemented in TSM for VE), and full-image backup and restore of virtual
machines
 Coordinates creating clean recovery point using VMware logical snapshot
– Coordinates with guests if VMware Tools is installed
– On Windows Guests, interfaces with internal VSS functions
– Can invoke pre-snapshot and post-snapshot scripts
 Changed Block Tracking (CBT) allows for TSM Progressive Incremental backup of vSphere environment

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VADP – What Happens During a Backup

 During backups, VMware creates a temporary snapshot of VM:

– VMware device driver flushes buffers on filesystem within VM
– VSS Provider interfaces with OS, File System & VSS Writers (Applications and system
components)
– Snapshot of VM is taken (.VMDKs are frozen)
– Redo log is created – all writes are redirected to redo log
– VM is backed up
– VM Snapshot is deleted, causing Redo log data to be applied to original .VMDKs
– Backup complete
 Every step involves I/O
 The faster the backup, the sooner performance impacting snapshots can be removed!

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Example Backup Flow with TSM for Virtual Environments

 TSM for VE contacts vSphere to get list of VMs to

backup
– The list will be processed one VM at a time
 VMware creates a logical snapshot of the virtual LAN
machine
– For each machine, at backup time
 vStorage Backup Server reads VM data directly over
the SAN
– LAN if SAN pathway is not available
SAN TSM Server
 Backup stream proceeds with the next vm
Physical vStorage
 Process can have multiple parallel backup Backup server. For
streams on 1 or more backup servers LAN-Free to TSM,
backup server must be
a physical machine

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TSM Progressive Incremental – Block-Level Incremental Forever
 Daily Backup flow for Incremental Backups will be the same
 VMware creates a logical snapshot of the virtual machine
 Block-level incremental backup is much smaller & quicker than periodic full backup

• Removes the requirement

for Full backups, after the
initial full

• Significantly reduce the

vStorage Backup Server
quantity & resource LAN
requirements for ongoing
data protection
SAN
• Significantly reduce the TSM Server
storage required in TSM
storage pools (irrespective Physical vStorage
of compression and Backup server
deduplication settings)
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TSM for Virtual Environments Scalability

 Multiple vSphere Backup Servers

can be defined, with each running
multiple data mover agents, if
required Hypervisors
H1 H2 H3
 Backups can be distributed across
multiple data movers
 Policies allow a large number of
Backup
backup streams to be run B1 B2 B3 Servers
– Rules control how many run
against a single hypervisor
engine or datastore TSM Nodes
– Avoids overloading a single B1 B2 B3
resource
 TSM has visibility to entire vSphere DC1
DataCenter from any data mover
and the vCenter Plug-in

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Virtual Machine Restore from TSM

 TSM for VE recovers VM to the original hypervisor

or DataStore VM configuration
 Or redirect restore to other VMware characteristics can be
infrastructure parts changed as part of restore
 Supports any OS

 TSM for VE contacts vSphere to define &

configure the VM
LAN
 Data written directly to the DataStore via SAN (if
SAN pathway exists)
SAN
 Once the restore completes, the VM is ready for
use

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Instant Volume Recovery from TSM backups

 TSM for VE can recover a volume

(partition) to the original machine, or
any with the same OS (Linux or LAN
Windows)
 To begin the Instant Restore:
 Start the TSM for VE recovery
agent
 Select the volume from TSM
backups
 Begin the restore
 During the restore, users,
applications & the OS will behave SAN
as if the restore completed
instantly!

 After the volume is restored, there is no need

to disconnect users or applications already
using it during the recovery

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File-Level Recovery from TSM Backups

 TSM for VE allows a previous backup

of a volume (partition) to be mounted
to the original machine or a machine LAN
of the same OS (Windows or Linux)

 To begin the file recovery, start the

TSM for VE Recovery Agent and
select the volume within TSM, then
click Mount

 Can copy files just like copying SAN

between 2 local volumes You can also perform other
functions to the mounted
volume (searches,
consistency checking, etc.)

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Application Recovery from TSM backups

 TSM for VE is integrated

with Data Protection for
Exchange and Data LAN
Protection for SQL Server
 DP for Exchange allows
Individual Mailbox and Item
Level Restore from an
Database on a backed-up
virtual machine
 DP for SQL Server allows
Full SQL Server database SAN
restore from a database on
a backed-up virtual machine

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Data Protection for VMware Graphical User Interfaces
 Data Protection for Vmware v7.1.1 supports multiple GUIs
– vCenter Plug-in for vSphere client (unchanged at 7.1.1)
– Stand-Alone Web Interface (unchanged at 7.1.1)
– IBM Data Protection Extension for vSphere Web Client (new to 7.1.1)

Task status
posted here

User selects one or

more VMs

Similar to other VMware operations, data

protection tasks would take user to a dialog page
or wizard to complete steps

Pull-down action (or

right-click) for ad-
hoc backup

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TSM for Virtual Environments vCenter Plug-in Reports
Activity Status, Backup Type Summary, Occupancy

Virtual Environment
Cognos Reports are
also included in
Tivoli Common
Reporting, along
with other TSM
reports.
Can also report on
occupancy of backups on
TSM server.

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Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V

Tivoli Storage Manager For Virtual

Environments

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Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V

 Provides online data protection for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual

machines
 Virtual machine backup and restore
 Supports both full backup and incremental forever
methodologies
 Instant access to virtual machine files using the TSM Recovery
Agent
 Protects Hyper-V virtual machines running in
– Windows 2012
– Windows 2012 R2 failover cluster

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Data Protection for Hyper-V Facts and Install

 Data Protection for Hyper-V Facts

 Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V hypervisors
 No off-server data mover
 Backup and restore GUI and commands part of the Backup Archive Client
 Uses same Recovery Agent as Data Protection for Vmware
 Integrates with 7.1.1 Operations Center for creating schedules and monitoring

 Install
 Backup Archive Client, Recovery Agent & DP for Hyper-V license bundled in single
package
 BA Client and license installed directly on Hyper-V servers
 Recovery Agent can be installed on any physical or virtual machine
 Requires reboot

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Data Protection for Hyper-V Graphical User Interfaces
 TSM BAC GUI, Recovery Agent, and Command Line Interfaces

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Restore Hyper-V VM

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Hyper-V Recovery Agent for File Level Restore

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Operations Center Integration for Monitoring and Scheduling

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