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NetApp
Data ONTAP
Storage & Data Protection
Techniques
2
NetApp Integrated Data Protection and
Business Continuity Solutions
Continuous
Operations
Synchronous
Clusters
MetroCluster™
Asynchronous
Replication
Block-Level
Incremental
Backups
Asynchronous SnapMirror®
Application
Recovery
Daily
Backup
SnapVault®
SnapRestore® (currently not usable by Veeam)
Cost
Availability
Snapshot™ Copies
Local Restore
Remote Restore
Capability
Remote Recovery – Low RTO
NetApp
Approach
– Clustered ONTAP
Shared Storage
Tiers
Traditional Storage Infrastructure
Unix NFS Administration
NIS Server
Windows CIFS Administration
Virtualized Servers
Microsoft Active
Directory
Non-virtualized
/home/dir
Servers
Oracle
NFS
Windows
Clients
LUN Administration
Big Data Content
Exchange Server
Servers
CIFS
ISCSI
SQL Server
FCoE
FCP
Workloads & Users
A
B Ethernet
C
D
FC
Switch
Switch
Policy-Based Data Management
Tier 3
Tier 2
/vol/exch/backup
/vol/exchlun
/vol/orcl/backup
/vol/eng/users
Tier 1
Unified Data Network
FCP FCoE iSCSI
CIFS/SMB NFS/pNFS
/vol/user/backup
B
C
A
/vol/oracldata
Asynch
Replication
A
D
B
/vol/oraclmirror
Backup and Administration
Multivendor SAN
/vol/sqllun
Synch
Replication
/vol/sqllun
NetApp Snapshot Techniques
Faster backups
Disk and network efficient
Online access to 100’s of full backups
Primary Storage
Secondary Storage
Active
LUN / File System
A
B
Snapshot 1
C
C’
D
Snapshot 2
No re-baseline,
just
cycle
on forever
Baseline
transfer
on first
backup
Delete
Snapshots,
Transfer
Store
Recreate
only
only
incremental
incremental
full
copy
of
changes
data
changes
For
desired
retention
on
secondary
without impacting others
5
1
2
3
4
Data blocks
Snapshot 3
C’
A
B
Snapshot
Backup 1
C
D
D
Snapshot
Backup 2
Snapshot
Backup 3
RPO ?
Conventional Backups vs Snapshots
-Veeam Backup Processing only 1-4x a day
-Solution: Use Storage Snapshots between the Backups
Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots
(VMware)
Low RPO
Snapshot
Explorer for
Storage Snapshots
FAS Series
Efficient
Replication
SnapMirror
SnapVault
Full VM (array based)
Low RTO
Veeam Restore
Guest files (17 file systems)
Exchange Items
SharePoint Items
Active Directory Objects
SQL Server Databases
FAS Series
This feature is included in Veeam Backup Free Edition. Application Items are limited for export only in Free Edition.
Each and every NetApp Customer can use it for VMware Restore out of NetApp Scheduled Snapshots
Multiple restores from snapshots
Standard VM Backup
VM snap lifetime
With NetApp Integration
VM snap lifetime
Storage
Snap
•
•
High Load at Snapshot committ at Storage
Can take some time ( hours )
Delete Storage
Snap
Faster commit with less data. Nearly instant VM
Snapshot commit. Use of Storage Snapshot for
Backup
Backup VMware with Storage Snapshots
Example of a standard VMware API
backup from a slow storage
 ~34 min open VMware VM
Snapshot in this example.
 Veeam uses parallel Disk backup to
reduce time window but the
Snapshot is open for a long time.
 This leads to a ~28min Snapshot
commit with high IO at Storage and
performance impact on the VM
With Veeam
Backup from Storage Snapshots
VM Snapshot is open for a few seconds and can be committed in few seconds.
This works with FC/iSCSI … AND… NFS Datastores.
Veeam Snapshot Orchestrator
– Use Veeam as a NetApp Console
– Create manual snapshots directly from Veeam interface
– Schedule Snapshot-only “backup” jobs (lowest RPO)
– SnapMirror and SnapVault orchestration for single-pass backup into two
destinations (instant “Backup Copy”)
Create manual snapshot
Scheduled snapshot creation
Configure secondary destination
Every 10 min
for 1 day
crash
consistent
Snapshots
(= 144)
Every 4h
for 1 week
ApplicationConsistent &
ApplicationAware
Snapshots
(= 42)
Every 1 day
for 1 month
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Veeam Backup
(= 30 Restore Points)
Every 4h
for 1 month
SnapMirror/
SnapVault update
(= 180 Snapshots)
+ optional GrandfatherFather-Son (GFS) retention
weekly 5 restore points
monthly 12 restore points
yearly 2 restore points
to disk or tape
*.vbk
Restore Source
Restorable Objects
Snapshot with VMware VMs
Instant VM Recovery
-
Primary Snapshot
VM Recovery
-
SnapMirror/SnapVault Snapshot
Win/Linux/Unix Instant File Level Recovery
-
Crash Consistent or Application
Consistent
AD/Exchange/SharePoint Single Object Restore
SQL DB Restore
…
Veeam Backups
-
On Disk
-
On Tape (with Disk staging)
Same as above +
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MS SQL Single DB Restore with logfile roll forward
(with enabled Veeam logfile backup)
SureBackup (OnDemand Labs + automatic restore
tests)
Universal Application Item Recovery
It is important to not hit the max number of Snapshots per NetApp Volume (hard limit 255, never plan more
than 250) with multiple Veeam Jobs. So the following recommendations should be considered:

VMware Datastore Level Scope is recommended for Veeam Jobs if you want to use Veeam NetApp
Snapshot Orchestration.

It is recommended to place only 1 VMware Datastore on a NetApp volume.

If only Veeam Snapshot Orchestration is used, follow the NetApp recommendations for Datastore Size and
VM count. But if Veeam Backups are created on top of Veeam NetApp Snapshot Orchestration, we highly
suggest to use not more than 15TB of VMware used data on a single VMware Datastore, which lead in not
more than 8TB Veeam single full backup files. It is technically possible to grow beyond that.

If you process Application Consistent Snapshots, keep an eye on the processing time for it, it can take a
while for volume snapshot creation. Less VM count (round about 40-60VMs) per Datastore is helpful.
Firmware
Data ONTAP 8.1 or higher (NetApp FAS, FlexArray (V-Series) and IBM N series)
Supported Access Protocols
NFS, iSCSI or Fibre Channel (FC)
ONTAP-Modes
7-Mode or Clustered-ONTAP
Cloning
Use of traditional LUN Cloning possible, but FlexClone Licenses are recommended for 7 mode
systems.
SnapVault/SnapMirror Licenses
If you want to use SnapVault or SnapMirror relevant NetApp licenses are needed.
Data Platform
VMware VMDK
Licensed per virtualization host socket
Restore out of NetApp Snapshot (Primary/SnapMirror/SnapVault)
known as Veeam Explorer for NetApp SAN Snapshots (VMware)
Veeam Backup Free Edition including Application Single Object Export (Enterprise Edition includes
Application Single Object Restore to original places). Snapshots can be triggered manual or by
non Veeam scheduler.
Veeam Backup from NetApp Storage Snapshot and
Veeam NetApp Snapshot Orchestration (VMware)
Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Plus Edition or
Veeam Essentials Enterprise Plus Edition or
Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Plus Edition
Daily Backup
30 Restore
Points
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Daily Backup
30 Restore Points
*.vbk
*.vbk
+ optional GFS
retention
weekly 5 restore points
monthly 12 restore points
yearly 2 restore points
+ optional Tape
retention
weekly 5 restore points
monthly 12 restore points
yearly 2 restore points
*.vbk
Restore Source
Veeam Backups
Restorable Objects
*.vbk
Instant VM Recovery
-
On Disk
VM Recovery
-
On Tape (with Disk staging)
Win/Linux/Unix Instant File Level Recovery
AD/Exchange/Sharepoint Single Object Restore
MS SQL Single DB Restore with Logfile Roll
forward (with enabled Veeam logfile backup)
SureBackup (OnDemand Labs + automatic restore
tests)
Universal Application Item Recovery
A lab performance test of the Veeam Availability suite at NetApp® Labs Munich
shows that backup speed does not serve as a limiting factor for the modern data
center, when customers use Veeam® Backup & Replication™ in combination with
NetApp EF- or E-Series storage.
LAN (1Gbps)
FibreChannel (16Gbps)
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A single Veeam Backup & Replication server (2 year old Hardware) was
able to scale to 700MB/s. A nearly linear performance increase was
achieved when additional Veeam proxy/repository servers were added.

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