A business is currently using a tape backup solution with third-party backup software and doing the off-siting for Disaster Recovery. In an effort to minimize the costs for managing IT they would like to use tapeless backups and virtualize their environment.
They have the following, additional requirements:
- Introduce data deduplication for their backup
- Protect their database servers running on VMs
- Achieve highest level of deduplication
- File level restores for all the virtual machines
What should you advise the customer to deploy?
An EMC customer wants to implement a backup solution for their virtual machines. They are interested in Avamar deduplication features. In addition, they want to minimize the backup capacity required. Their ESX environment is running optimally with sufficient resources.
Which backup method will provide the most optimized capacity?
A new VMware virtual machine has been created and will be protected with Avamar guest level backup. In addition, image level backups are not able to be performed in this environment.
What can be done to provide quick, full system restores with an RPO of one day while keeping backup times low?
An EMC customer has Windows virtual machines running in a VMware vSphere environment protected by an Avamar multi-node server using guest level backups. They are concerned with the RTO of these virtual machines.
Which method would provide the lowest RTO?
An EMC customer is looking for options to back up their smaller remote sites with easy remote management, so they want to use Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE). Before installing ESX hardware at the remote sites they want to do a proof of concept using the existing ESX 4.1 server that they have at the data center.
They provisioned 2 TB of virtual disks using VMAX thick provisioning with RAID 5 protection and zeroed out all blocks using eager zeroing. They tested the backup of three servers and do not see an improvement.
According to best practices, what should the customer have done to avoid performance issues?