Customer Scenario
Virtualization has become an important part of many organizations’ IT strategy for 2009 and beyond. The availability of both data and IT systems are at risk not only from natural disasters but also power outages, human error and hardware failures. To ensure that your company can quickly recover systems and data in the event of such an incident, it needs a reliable and cost-effective disaster recovery plan. The use of virtualization and data protection technology combined helps you control costs as your company grows, which is essential in any economic climate.
CA + Microsoft Solution
Hypervisor-Level Backups
Using Hypervisor-Level Backups, you deploy the CA ARCserve agent for Virtual Machine on the Hyper-V host machine. Doing hypervisor based backup has the advantage that the entire VM can be backed up. This helps in quick recovery of the entire virtual machine in case of a disaster or the need to clone a VM. Moreover, using CA ARCserve Backup’s unique patent pending capabilities, you could also achieve granular restores of files and folders from the full Image VM backup. What this means is you can do both types of restores from just one image backup of VMs from Hyper-V host, thus increasing your operational efficiency of managing backups and restores of Virtual Machines.
Replication and Failover for Virtualized Environments
Data replication technology keeps two servers (the primary/production server and a failover/replica server—typically running in a virtualized environment and housed at a remote location for disaster recovery) synchronized by copying the data and all subsequent changes from one to the other, in either an ongoing real time or scheduled manner. If the production server becomes unavailable for any reason, the replication software allows an administrator to manually failover, transparently redirecting users to the replica server, application and data. For high availability (HA), the replication technology also includes a fully automated failover option that will automatically start all applications on the replica and redirect users with no manual intervention.
Complete Data Lifecycle Management
CA XOsoft and CA ARCserve integrate to manage the lifecycle of a copy of data from the production server to replica server to tape for both physical and Hyper-V environments. In cases where data is protected within a data center or across the data center using CA XOsoft, it is highly efficient to use CA ARCserve Backup to backup the replicated data from replica servers to disk, use de-duplication while backing up disk for local access or to tapes for long term retention and archival purposes. CA ARCserve can then restore data directly from tape to the production server or to the replica server – whichever is most appropriate.
CA ARCserve® Backup
CA ARCserve® Backup is a high-performance, industry-leading data protection product that unites innovative data deduplication technology, powerful storage resource management (SRM) reporting, disk to disk to tape and virtual tape library (VTL) backup and extensive security measures — making it one of the market’s most secure, reliable and efficient methods of protecting the information residing on both your physical and virtual servers. With its wide range of powerful, centralized and easy-to-use management tools, CA ARCserve Backup helps you ensure the integrity and availability of your most important and strategic business asset — your data.
CA ARCserve Backup r12.5 extends the capabilities of the product with a host of robust new features and functionality including: enhanced virtualization support, access controls with auditing, password management for encryption keys, media assure, Oracle RMAN with 64-bit platform compatibility, and agent deployment packages – helping you mitigate business risk, increase operational efficiency, improve data protection and reduce costs – and ultimately enabling you to do more with less!
CA XOsoft™ Products
CA XOsoft Replication and CA XOsoft High Availability software products offer you combined business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities that provide you with multiple layers of protection including real-time WAN-optimized replication, continuous data protection (CDP), manual and automated failover, and automated DR testing – for your business-critical applications running on physical and virtual servers. CA XOsoft Replication and CA XOsoft High Availability protect your business critical applications and data such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, IIS, and Windows File Services, as well as Oracle and Blackberry Enterprise Server. CA XOsoft Replication is also available for Linux and UNIX applications. Replication and failover help keep your business going while CDP fills the “gap” between backup and snapshots to ensure fast and granular data recovery in case of accidental or malicious deletions and changes. Decrease your business risk and benefit from continued application availability and continuous data protection – during system failures, planned and unplanned outages and even natural disasters!
CA Instant Recovery On Demand
CA Instant Recovery On Demand is a comprehensive turnkey business continuity and disaster recovery managed service. This service offering combines our award-winning CA XOsoft High Availability software with automated failover.
