Commvault IntelliSnap for NetApp

Application-Consistent Backup

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Agenda
1. IntelliSnap for NetApp® solution overview
 Application workload
 NAS workload

2. Hypervisor backup and recovery

 VMware vSphere
 Hyper-V

3. Microsoft Exchange backup and recovery

4. Microsoft SQL backup and recovery
5. Oracle backup and recovery
6. Open Systems Data Protection

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IntelliSnap for NetApp solution overview

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Commvault IntelliSnap for NetApp (application workload)
Centralized Management

Application Awareness
Backup Catalog
VMware NetApp® Primary Data Hyper-V

IBM
Exchange MS/SQL SharePoint Oracle DB2 SAP MySQL
Domino

Unified Granular Restores from NetApp Snapshot® Copies, NetApp SnapVault®, or Tape

Multitiered Backup and

Disaster Recovery Streaming to Tape/ NetApp
NetApp AltaVault™
AltaVault

Thin replication

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Application workload coverage
Application iDataAgent Restore Granularity
NAS NetApp® NAS NDMP iDataAgent (iDA) Qtrees, directories, and files
VMware Virtual Server iDA Virtual machines (VMs), virtual
machine disks (VMDKs), and files
Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Server iDA VM and files
SQL Server SQL Server iDA Database (DB) and file group
Microsoft Exchange Server Exchange Database iDA Information store, data availability
group object, and e-mail
Oracle Oracle iDA DB and table
DB2 DB2 iDA DB
Microsoft Office SharePoint SQL iDA, SharePoint Server iDA DB and object
Server
Active Directory Active Directory iDA Object
Lotus Domino LN DB iDA, LN Document iDA DB, DB+trans logs, and doc

Protection with virtualization agent

Application iDataAgent Restore Granularity
Exchange Virtual Server iDA VMs, VMDKs, files, DB, and e-mail
SQL Server Virtual Server iDA VMs, VMDKs, files, DB, and file
group

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NetApp Commvault IntelliSnap for NetApp (NAS workload)
IntelliSnap
for NetApp Backup Catalog
Centralized Management

NetApp® NetApp
SnapMirror® SnapVault®

NDMP to
NAS data NetApp AltaVault™
Replicate in cascaded fashion
 Indexing using NetApp SnapDiff
 Live browse (NAS and VMware)
 Tape-out operation using Network Data Management NDMP to tape
Protocol (NDMP)
 Single-file NetApp SnapRestore® technology
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NAS benefits
 IntelliSnap for NetApp software creates a NetApp® Snapshot® copy and indexes the
contents
 Indexing uses NetApp SnapDiff API
 Indexing is optional for NAS data (deferred indexing)
 Incremental backups run incremental indexing and improve indexing performance
 When using both full and incremental backups, the index is maintained, even if the full backup is
aged off
 During a full backup, the existing index is copied and modified to create a new index
 The new index is incrementally updated with the changes in the current full backup

 The NetApp array is the client

 Directories, files, or qtrees can be restored as needed
 The volume revert option is available using NetApp SnapRestore® software
 Single-file SnapRestore is supported (LUN is restored as a file)

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NAS benefits (cont.)
 Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backup to tape uses dump or SMTape
to move the data to the tape or disk target
 LUN is backed up as a file in NDMP-based backup

 Supports cluster-aware backup extension

 Supports local, three-way, and remote backup topologies
 Enables tape discovery through cluster management LIF
 Allows data movement through either data LIF or intercluster LIF
 Set the preference in NDMP options

 Supports block-level increment

 NAS browse for SVM subclient content

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IntelliSnap for LUN data IntelliSnap
for NetApp

NetApp® NetApp
SnapVault® SnapMirror®

LUN data
Client with
File System
iDataAgent

Catalog

 Replicate in a cascaded fashion Copy to tape

 Back up by creating a NetApp Snapshot® copy and indexing the LUN contents
 Replicate with automated provisioning and catalog awareness

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IntelliSnap for LUN data

 Backing up LUN data requires a file system iDataAgent on the client system that is
accessing the LUN
 The file system data is quiesced (Windows Volume Copy Shadow Service) and a
NetApp® Snapshot® copy of the NetApp volume is created
 Mirroring and vaulting and movement to tape are supported
 For consistent replication, vaulting uses the Snapshot copy created by NetApp
SnapProtect® technology
 LUN clones are created and used during indexing operations

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Hypervisor backup and recovery

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VMware deployments on NetApp storage

 Commvault IntelliSnap for NetApp supports FC,

iSCSI, and NFS deployments of VMware
 Applications such as Microsoft SQL and
Exchange can be consistently backed up by
using the virtual server agent (only if the
applications are installed in a virtual machine
disk)
 Other applications require specific agents
running inside a virtual machine to perform
application-consistent backups

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Hyper-V deployments on NetApp storage

 Commvault IntelliSnap for NetApp supports FC,

iSCSI, and SMB 3 deployments of Microsoft Hyper-V
 All applications require specific agents running inside
a virtual machine (VM) to perform application-
consistent backups

Virtual Hard Disk

iSCSI/FC/SMB 3

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NetApp SnapProtect backup workflow (VSA)

1. Virtual machines (VMs) are VMware

quiesced, a NetApp® Snapshot®
copy is created, and VMs are VSA
released

NetApp
SnapProtect®
Secondary
storage
provisioning
NetApp
OnCommand®
Server 3. D2D replication with NetApp
SnapVault® and/or NetApp
SnapMirror® The virtual server agent (VSA) and
MediaAgent software must be installed
on each Hyper-V server

NetApp 2. OnCommand handles

SnapVault provisioning of secondary storage
copy by using resource pools and
Consistent provisioning policies for replication
Snapshot copies
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Proxy for VMware backups

MediaAgent
(VSA) NetApp®  A proxy is used to mount the NetApp Snapshot®
CommServe OnCommand® copies (the proxy should be managed by the same
VMware vCenter as in production)
 Virtual machines (VMs) are off-loaded to another
VMware ESXi host (proxy) to perform indexing
operations
Proxy  Production servers are not taxed for performance
ESX host
 Restoration can also be performed through a proxy
host
 MediaAgent (VSA) can be virtual for iSCSI- or NFS-
NFS/FC type datastores
Datastore  To set up a complete FC SAN environment, the
MediaAgent (VSA) must be a physical server
 Establish a connection iSCSI/FC to the SVM hosting
Production
ESX host the LUN so that the Commvault application can create
the mapping and mount the LUN (lun clone) on to
the proxy
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Live browse VMware indexing

Enabling granular recovery was the indexing method

Indexing before the live browse feature was added to
SnapProtect. The former indexing method did not
Virtual Server
Agent (VSA) support anything newer than EXT3 on Linux platforms.

VMware NetApp® NetApp

ESX proxy FlexClone® SnapProtect®
mount
server
Note: At this time, NetApp does not support live browse for Hyper-V.

Consistent NetApp
Snapshot® copies

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VMware RDM and Hyper-V pass-through disks
Raw device mapping (RDM)

 RDM support
 Data in RDMs cannot be protected using the virtual server agent (VSA)
 To protect data in RDMs (VMware and Hyper-V), you must use a file system agent or application
agent within the guest OS
 VMware RDM must be in physical mode (virtual mode is not supported)
 VMware RDM can be iSCSI or FC (for FC, a physical proxy is required)
 FC pass-through disks are not yet supported for Hyper-V

 Client direct-attached iSCSI (instead of RDM) is also supported

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Restore workflow

Array-based restore using

iSCSI and FC datastores NetApp SnapRestore®
employ copy-based restore
workflow

Copy

SnapRestore

Hypervisor

Proxy used for mounting

hardware NetApp® Snapshot®
copies while restoring

Application-consistent
primary and NetApp SnapVault®
Snapshot copies
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Hardware revert (NetApp SnapRestore software)

 Hardware revert can be performed for

FC- and iSCSI-type datastores
 This option is available by right-clicking
the NetApp® Snapshot® copy
 Before performing a hardware revert, the
LUN must be unmounted from the
VMware ESXi
 After the hardware revert is complete,
the respective LUN should be properly
mounted

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Tape backup (remote copy to tape)
When backing up VMware data to tape at a remote site, the sProxyESX registry key must be
added to the remote virtual server agent proxy to specify the IP or host name of the remote proxy
ESXi server.

Registry key goes here

Site A Site B

Production ESX NetApp® Remote proxy ESX

SnapVault®
or SnapMirror®

MediaAgent/VSA
Proxy ESX
(virtual host)

MediaAgent/VSA
(virtual host)

MediaAgent
attached to library

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Microsoft Exchange backup and recovery

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Microsoft Exchange deployment on NetApp
 Exchange on fabric-attached storage (FAS) and All Flash FAS
(AFF) (NetApp® LUNs)

VMDK  Exchange on NetApp E-Series storage systems

 Exchange on hybrid storage

 Exchange on virtual infrastructure (VMware and Hyper-V)

RAW RAW
device device
E-Series

FAS AFF
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Microsoft Exchange benefits
 Ability to back up large databases within a few minutes
 Ability to provide consistent backups by quiescing the database for a few seconds
 Multiple point-in-time NetApp® Snapshot® copies enable you to recover the database
to any specific point in time
 Fast recovery using an application-aware revert operation
 Ability to create Snapshot copies simultaneously on multiple databases using snap
optimization
 Ability to open or mount the database Snapshot copies on other clients without
restoring the database
 Ability to perform multistream restore operations from Snapshot copies

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Microsoft Exchange backup workflow
CommServe

6
1
JobManager Mount Exchange LUN for integrity
check (ExIntegCheck)

4
CVExchSnapBackup
Exchange MediaAgent
DAG server proxy server
3
2
CVMA (cvmountd) 5
CVExchSnapBackup VssSwProvider CVMA
(cvmountd)

HW NetApp®
Database/logs Snapshot® copy

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Backup hybrid exchange

 Microsoft Exchange iDataAgent is

installed on all nodes of the database
availability group
 Master client is configured Replica
DB B
Active

 Backup is always selected from the DB A

passive copy (passive copy must be

on NetApp®) Streaming
 To back up an active copy, create a NetApp
new backup subclient to configure the SnapVault®
NetApp E-Series Snapshot® copies NetApp
 Consider streaming using the SnapMirror®
extended Commvault licensing suite

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Microsoft Exchange on virtual infrastructure (VMware)
 VM–level backups using virtual server agent (VSA)

 Exchange data must live in virtual machine disks (VMDKs)

 Requires a base agent (file system iDataAgent) and the Volume Shadow
Copy Service (VSS) provider software

 VSS integration for database consistency

Datastore
 Option to perform log truncation during Exchange backup
VMDK
Note: Exchange database availability group using VSA is not supported.

Restore operation
 Exchange data, such as mail messages, can be restored from an offline
point-in-time virtual machine (VM) Snapshot copy to reduce impact on the
production Exchange Server

 Flat database files are recovered using VM–level granular recovery

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Exchange restore capabilities

 Hardware revert, reverts entire volume

 In-place restore, overwrites the existing database
 Seeds an Exchange data availability group database passive copy
 Exchange mining
 Restores individual mail from virtual server agent NetApp® Snapshot® copy using
Exchange offline mining tool

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Microsoft SQL backup and recovery

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Microsoft SQL deployments on NetApp

Active Replica
Failover cluster copy Copy
Always_ON
VMDK
CSV datastores
LUN
FC/iSCSI

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IntelliSnap for SQL

 Back up large databases (terabytes and petabytes) within a few minutes

 Create consistent backups by quiescing the database for a few seconds
 Multiple point-in-time NetApp® Snapshot® copies enable you to recover the database to
any point in time
 Recover quickly using application-aware revert operation
 Create Snapshot copies simultaneously on multiple databases using snap optimization
 Open or mount the database Snapshot copies on other clients without restoring
 Perform multistream restore operations from Snapshot copies

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SnapProtect for Microsoft SQL Server
Managed log backups
30-minute interval

 Perform full backups

6 p.m.
 Perform log backups
Database and logs
4PM 8 p.m.
MediaAgent
 Restore from NetApp® Snapshot®
copies
 Restore from log backups for point in
Application
Database
Server
corruption
time
at 6:42 p.m. Point-in-time
restore operation Log backups

Note: Log backups in SQL Server are performed by using a streaming backup rather than a Snapshot copy.
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Microsoft SQL Server failover cluster instance

 The Microsoft SQL Server iDataAgent manages backup and

restore operations and is installed on all nodes of the cluster

Failover cluster
 You can back up database, file, and file groups
 The backup operation is always performed through the active
LUN CSV
node of the cluster
FC/iSCSI

 The restore operation is copy-based

 Point-in-time restore operation
 Restore without recovery
 Out-of-place restore

Note: System databases are essential for the operation of the SQL Server instance. If you need to restore the SQL Server in a
system failure, the system databases (master, msdb, and model) must be backed up.
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SQL (Always_ON) cluster

 SQL iDataAgent is installed on all the physical nodes of the

Always_On cluster
 The copy to be backed up must be configured in SQL studio and
Active Replica
the priority set for failover to the passive copy as desired
copy Copy
Always_ON
 The restore operation is performed at the node level

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SQL Server on virtual infrastructure

 SQL on virtual machine disks (VMDKs)

 Create an application-consistent backup using virtual server agent at
the virtual machine (VM) level
 Truncate the database log after creating the NetApp® Snapshot®
copy
 Restore the entire VM to recover the database or restore the database
VMDK
datastores files using VMware granular recovery

VHD  SQL on virtual hard disks (VHDs)

 NetApp SnapProtect® for Open Systems
 Using SQL iDataAgent

Note: AG-level backup is not supported for SQL on virtual infrastructure.

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Proxy requirements

When performing IntelliSnap operations on a SQL Server, a proxy server must be used for:
 Creating backup copies
 Restore operations
 Snap integrity check

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Oracle backup and recovery

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IntelliSnap for Oracle
Oracle deployment on NetApp®

Oracle Database
Physical over NFS
Oracle ASM

Physical

Oracle Real Application

Clusters (RAC) over NFS

10GbE NFS
Oracle RAC over SAN (ASM)

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Oracle RAC over Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

LUN_01 Vol_01

SVM LUN_02 Vol_02

LUN_03 Vol_03

 Install Oracle iDataAgents on all nodes of the cluster

 What gets backed up?
 Oracle Database files that include data files (*.dbf) and backup control files (*.ctl)
 Archived redo logs
 Parameter files (SP file)

 Commvault IntelliSnap for NetApp® backs up separately for logs

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Oracle RAC over NFS

NFS_Ora1 Vol_01

SVM NFS_Ora2 Vol_02

NFS_Ora3 Vol_03

 Install Oracle iDataAgents on all nodes of the cluster

 What gets backed up?
 Oracle Database files that include data files (*.dbf) and backup control files (*.ctl)
 Archived redo logs
 Parameter files (SP file)

 NetApp® SnapProtect® backs up separately for logs

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Restore Oracle RAC

 Restore and recover an entire database to the same host

 Restore data from the NetApp® Snapshot® copy using RMAN
 Perform hardware revert operation
 Restore and recover an entire database to a previous point in time
 Perform an out-of-place restore operation

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Database cloning (Oracle and SQL)
Storage efficiency
Traditional system refresh
(Six physical database copies)

Production DR Dev QA Dev2 QA2 Training

NetApp® FlexClone® approach (two database copies, eight virtual systems)

FlexClone Volumes (Virtual)

Production DR FlexClone Dev QA Dev2 QA2 STG TST PoC Training

parent
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Database clone

 Cloned databases leverage NetApp® FlexClone® and Snapshot® capabilities to

clone application-consistent SQL and Oracle databases
 Cloned databases are application consistent, and the cloning activity can be
performed from the NetApp SnapProtect® management console
 SQL and Oracle Database cloning can be performed only on full backups
 Cloned databases can be attached to the same or any other SQL or Oracle
server
 Cloned databases can perform testing, development, and analytics
 Cloned databases are reserved based on the reservation period specified

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Back up to the cloud
Cloud backup using NetApp® AltaVault™

NFS and CIFS

mount configured
as disk library
MediaAgent Public or
private
cloud

Backup copy

NetApp
SnapProtect®
server

Caches recent
Deduplicates, backups locally Stores data in the
compresses, and and vaults public or private
encrypts everything to the cloud of choice
cloud

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Open Systems Data Protection

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Open Systems Data Protection (OSDP)

• OSDP is a full-volume, block-level incremental replication feature

• OSDP replicates heterogeneous data from source partitions and volumes from UNIX and Windows
clients to a NetApp® Data ONTAP® 7-Mode and clustered Data ONTAP destination appliance as a
single LUN with a single partition

• NetApp OnCommand® Unified Manager provisions the destination volumes to which data is replicated

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Open Systems Data Protection (OSDP) for Data ONTAP 7-Mode
and clustered Data ONTAP
OSDP for Data ONTAP 7-Mode OSDP for Clustered Data ONTAP

Destination NetApp Data ONTAP 7-Mode Clustered Data ONTAP

Transfer engine Logical replication NOSB SDK
iSCSI/FCP license Required Required
NetApp® SnapVault® license Required N/A
NFS license N/A Required
Provisioning NetApp DataFabric® Manager (DFM) 5.x NetApp OnCommand® Unified Manager 6.3p1
(OnCommand Unified Manager 5.x)
Data transfer Driven by DFM Driven by NetApp Open Systems Backup
Software Development Kit
Cascading support for Yes Yes
NetApp SnapMirror®

Note: For more information, refer to the Commvault books online.

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