The following is an overview and the notes from the What's New in Avamar 7.1 Session from EMC World 2014
Presented by Phil George and
Joey Lei
@EMCProtectData / @EMCvPhilGeorge / @Leizerbeam
Blog - The Protection Continuum
Advanced Integration with
Protection Storage
- All
Workloads to DD Systems
- 336 Jobs / 500 connections now
supported
Cloud-Ready Data Protection
-
vCloud
Director Integration
- Avamar Plug-in for vCloud
Director - Comprehensive backup and recovery built right into vCloud
Director (policies assigned by tier when deployed through vCD)
- Powerful policy management
- Easier administration
- Multi-tenancy
- SP customization through API
(REST Based)
- vCloud Object
- ORG
- VDC
- Catalog
- vApp / vApp Template
- RabbitMQ is being used in an
effort for a more open model
- VM
Multi-Tenancy
- Secure vCenter Sharing Under a
Single vCenter
- vCenter Domains
- vCenter sub-domains
- User Authorization
- Access Control
- Avamar
Plug-in for vSphere Web Client
- Business Continuity
- VM Instant Access directly from
vSphere Web Client via NFS mount to ESX hosts
- Individual Drive restore
- Pre
and Post Script Support
- Prepare
- Stop services
- Truncate Logs
- Snapshot
- Cleanup
- Restart Services
- Snapshot removal
- Automated
Restore Rehearsal
- DR Recovery Readiness
- VM Backup Validation
- Schedule planned restores
- Wizard guided configuration
- Checks
- Boot and OS
- Application Start sequences
- Intelligent
Proxy Selection
- Prioritize for HotAdd Transport
- HotAdd Preferred (failover NBD)
- Try to find me a proxy within the local vicinity so I don't have to go
over the network.
- HotAdd Only - Always want this
VM backed up right here at this proxy (will fail if not accessible)
- Manually Selected Proxy
- Leverages local shared storage
network
- Increases Performance
- Prioritize Upgrades
- Simplifies deployment of proxy
upgrades
- Allows heterogeneous proxy
versions
- Scale-Out
NAS Data Protection (Isilon referenced)
- Challenges
- Single stream NDMP backups not
viable
- Manual configurations is error
prone
- Solution
- Automated split out of the OneFS
at the directory level
- File systems walks parallelized
- Multi-streamed to protection
storage
- Presented as a single full
backup for recovery
- Now supported on Avamar and DD
in 7.1
- Fast Incremental Support for
Isilon
- Ability to quickly detect change
without walking the entire FS on L1 NDMP backups
- Up to 3x Faster
- Microsoft
Updates
- SQL Server 2014 with Hybrid Cloud
- Primary DB on-prem secondary
cloud based
- Avamar leverages availability
groups
- Backups from secondary DB - if
you are hybrid this will be completed over the WAN and could cause
- Exchange 2013 SP1 / SharePoint
2013 SP1 (Both on Windows 2012 R2)
- Multi-stream - 2x Faster
Restores from DD
- Search - Granular search on
mailboxes
- Pull up a search at the database
level
- SharePoint - Granular Recovery
now supported
- RBS - Remote Block Storage to
Externalize BLOB's that leads to 95% SQL Data Reduction
- RBS Granular Recovery in Avamar
7.1
- Mount the backup to a temp
file system and do a granular restore using tools such as Kroll
Ontrack
- System
Management
- Management API's
- Create and manage tenant portals
- Custom web portals
- Create end user (internal) and
tenant (BaaS) user interfaces
- Full backup and recovery
operations in portals
- Report on activities and events
- Tenant on-boarding
- Define tenants or business unit
constructs
- Central policy management
- Assign clients to tenants
- Multi-system management
- Define capacity management
policies
- Balance cap across resource
pools. Tenants can live on one
or many resource pools across the Avamar environment
- Third party key management
- RSA Enterprise Key Management
- Externalizes key generation for
encrypt at rest
- HA, secure key vault
- Simplifies audits
- Randomized Encryption Keys
- Backup
Recovery Manager - FREE DOWNLOAD FOR ALL AVAMAR OWNERS
- Now on your mobile devices
(Android / iOS)
- Installs directly on your mobile
device
- Supports Avamar, networker and
Data Domain systems
- Multiple system inventory View
- View health and capacity status
on the go
- View job results, progress and
detailed status on the go
- Mobile Alerts - quickly check
alerts on the go
- Enhanced job management control
- Stop,
Start, Restart, and Recover from your mobile device!