Disaster Recovery 2'0

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Disaster Recovery 2.0 Presented by Bob
Graney bgraney_at_eaglerockalliance.com
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Food for Thought

• To go forward, you must backup.
• Cardinal rule of computing

• If it wasnt backed-up,
• then it wasnt important.
• The Sysadmins motto

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Agenda

• Realities of Disaster Recovery Today
• Industry Trends / Statistics
• Disaster Recovery Components
• External Waves
• Financial Tsunami
• Going Green

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Questions Posed

• Disk based backup versus tape based. Do I still
  need tape?
• Replication options host, network, application
  specific and array based solutions. Which is the
  right approach for my organization?
• How can snapshots be used to improve recovery
  times?
• Why is virtualization having such a big impact on
  DR strategies?
• What infrastructure systems need to be self
  healing to ensure application recovery?
• How do WAN accelerators fit into the DR strategy?
  Do they work in all scenarios (live replication
  versus replicating backups offsite)

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DR Realities

• Production environments have grown more complex
  with increasing availability requirements
• 24 X 7 always on Internet apps
• Work from home ? increased availability for all
  apps
• Days of KO backup job _at_ 600 PM and send the
  tapes offsite the next morning are Going or
  Gone!
• Manual business recovery workarounds are just a
  fond memory

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DR Realities

• Has your DR capability kept current?
• Are you trapped in a tape based recovery
  strategy?
• Are critical applications missing from DR
  strategy?
• Does your test program validate recovery
  objectives?
• Can you hit the defined RTOs?
• Time for declaration, travel etc. included? Are
  they realistic?
• Good mix of exercises across all critical
  applications?

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DR Proclamations

• Tape is dead Long live Disk!
• Not quite dead yet but only disk for critical DR
• Tape may be only option for single site and SMBs
• Still needed for long term retention (archive)
  requirements
• Also good for less critical systems with RTO in
  days/weeks
• Infrastructure needs to be resilient
• Recover AD better not be Step One of DR plan
• Has the tape catalog been recovered at the DR
  site?
• Work from Home has/will be the dominant work area
  recovery platform

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The Need for Resiliency
A New Paradigm Has Emerged
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Disaster Recovery Components
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DR 2.0 Planning

• It is the maintenance that kills you
• How manual is your update process?
• Do you have a tool or database in place?
• Is there a current application / server map?
• All applications or specific to certain data
  centers? Just in scope or just DR?

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DR 2.0 Testing

• Is there a documented Test schedule? Enforced?
• Different examples of two tests per year
• 1 mainframe 1 one distributed
  application
• 1 big (almost all) 1 little (NetBackup,
  one DB)
• 1 50 of apps 1 the other 50
• Another approach
• All apps with defined DR solution are tested
  every 18 months
• Plans updated/enhanced as a result of testing?
• Are walkthroughs done effectively?

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DR 2.0 Data Center Availability
The Uptime Institute, Inc. has developed a four
Tier classification approach to facility
infrastructure functionality that addresses the
need for a common benchmarking standard.
Availability considerations on site
infrastructure should use this standard. www.uptim
einstitute.org/
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DR 2.0

• Migration from Hot Site vendors to Internal
• Coincides with migration to DR replication
  solutions
• Co-Lo facilities as part of Internal strategy
• Outsourcing getting multi-faceted
• Infrastructure support
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Cloud Computing

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DR 2.0 Cloud Computing

• It started with SaaS
• Salesforce.com / LDRPS
• Cloud vendors now looking toprovide scalability
  performanceflexibility
• Vendors
• Web 2.0 (Google, Amazon)
• Traditional IT (IBM, MS)

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DR 2.0 Cloud Computing

• Cloud DR Considerations
• Risk Profile has changed
• Risk is diversified by moving app/data off
  corporate network
• Negotiate/define DR SLAs in contract
• Consider compliance requirements
• Where is my data stored?

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DR 2.0 WAN Accelerators

• Who are the players?
• Riverbed has mindshare Also Cisco, Bluecoat,
  Juniper
• Types of environments
• Branch to Data Center vs. Data Center to Data
  Center
• Application Specific WAN Optimizers
• Common apps are CIFS, HTTP
• Also Oracle, SQL
• Drivers to implementation
• Data Center consolidation
• Software As a Service (SAAS)
• Branch environments

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DR 2.0 Case Study
International Law Firm Critical Applications MS
Exchange Files / Doc Mgmt Voice
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DR 2.0 Case Study
Wan Accelerators Eliminated Resynch
bottleneck Kept Bandwidth requirements
down Reduced data loss (RPO) Improved Recovery
Time (RTO)
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DR 2.0

• Work from Home Deployment
• Supplement / replace fixed workarea recovery
• Major Deployments
• VPN
• Citrix
• Remote Desktop Protocol

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DR 2.0 Recovery Tier Chart
1 Point-of Failure data protected to the time
of disaster 2 Intra-Day data protected
periodically during the business day 3 Last
Capture data protected via tape which is
typically last nights backup cycle
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DR 2.0

• High Availability Candidates
• Directories/Authentication
• Active Directory (AD)
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• Network Routing
• Domain Name Service (DNS)
• Disaster Recovery Candidates
• Firewall and other security devices
• Data backup system

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DR 2.0 Virtualization Defined

• Virtualization is the creation of a virtual
  layer between the actual physical element and the
  virtual interface. The virtualization layer
  shields the user from hardware differences and
  masks changes to the actual element.
• There are four areas of IT where Virtualization
  is making inroads
• Network Virtualization Established technology
  including the use of VLANS, VPNs
• Server Virtualization Great fit for DR/Test/Dev
  environments. Production also.
• Storage Virtualization Gaining traction in the
  market. It is the pooling of physical storage
  from multiple devices into what appears to be a
  single storage device.
• Desktop Virtualization The latest hot topic in
  this space. Tremendous potential to simplify
  workarea recovery, but requires network bandwidth.

Bottom Line Server Virtualization is a game
changer. Storage Virtualization is
just starting. Desktop is TBD
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DR 2.0 Server Virtualization

• 1,038 VMware customers from North America, Europe
  and Asia Pacific
• 45 of respondents cited business continuity as
  main driver for virtualization deployment.
• Server consolidation - 2nd most popular reason

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DR 2.0 Virtualization

• Server Virtualization
• Vendors VM Ware, MS Hyper V, XenSource
• DR Variations V2V, P2V, V2P
• Primarily Windows moving slowly into Linux
• Watch out for management issues

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DR 2.0 Virtualization Case Study

• International Manufacturing Company
• Outsourced iSeries platform with RTO 24 hours
• Windows environment with no DR capability

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DR 2.0 Virtualization Case Study
International Manufacturing Company
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DR 2.0 Disk vs. Tape

• DR of critical apps must be on disk
• Tape adds too much risk
• Tape means 1 to 2 days of data loss. Is that
  acceptable?
• Cost differential between Tape / Disk is closing

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DR 2.0 Data Replication

• Replication options
• Array based
• SAN (also NAS)
• iSCSI is gaining traction on Fiber Channel
• Host (Server to Server)
• Application specific
• Oracle, Exchange, SharePoint etc.

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DR 2.0 Data Replication

• Replication vendors
• Array based
• SAN EMC, Hitachi, IBM
• NAS NetApp, BlueArc
• Host
• DoubleTake, NeverFail
• Application specific
• Oracle, MS and others

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DR 2.0 Data Backup

• Advances in Data Backup Systems
• Data De-duplication
• 20-50x or more compression ratio often achieved
• Continuous Data Protection
• Snapshots

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Surviving The Meltdown

• Current financial environment will drastically
  impact us all.
• What can the BCP / DR professional do about it?
• Option 1 Hide in a corner and wait for 2010
• Option 2 Get proactive identify cost
  effective solutions

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Surviving The Meltdown

• Tighten up plans
• Identify Top Two Risks address them
• Reallocate funds
• Gap Analysis
• Install saving technologies
• Virtualization
• WAN Accelerators
• IP based replication

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Going Green

• By 2008, Gartner estimates that 48 of all IT
  budgets will be spent on energy alone.
• The energy used to power the nations data
  centers doubled between 2000 and 2006, and could
  double again in another five years.

Network World 10 Ways to make your data center
more efficient Federal Times.com - Huge
savings seen in power-hungry data centers
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Going Green

• Server Virtualization
• Data De-duplication
• Hot / Cold aisle - blanking panels / vinyl
  curtains
• Storage Consolidation
• Server Shut Down

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Final Thoughts

• Thank You !