Arcserve UDP Technical Whitepaper en J89
Arcserve UDP Technical Whitepaper en J89
Arcserve UDP Technical Whitepaper en J89
ARCSERVE UDP
Technical Whitepaper
Whitepaper
CONTENTS
1 Overview 3
2 Three Reasons to switch to Arcserve UDP 4
3 Flexible Architecture 5
4 Key Features 6
4.2 Quick Recovery 6
4.2 Deep Cloud Integration 6
4.3 Comprehensive Backup 6
4.4 Streamlined Management and Advanced Reporting 6
5 Arcserve UDP Components 7
5.1 Unified Management Console (UDP Console) 7
5.2 Recovery Point Server (RPS) 7
5.3 Agentless VM Backup Proxy 8
5.4 Agent 9
5.5 Scalable Architecture 9
5.6 Arcserve 9000 Series Appliances 10
6 Fast and Flexible Recovery Options 11
6.1 Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) 11
6.2 Virtual Standby 12
6.3 Instant VM 12
6.4 Instant Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) 12
6.5 Application Recovery 13
6.6 Granular Recovery 13
6.7 Assured Recovery 13
7 Deep Cloud Integration 14
7.1 Disaster Recovery in the Cloud 14
7.2 Backup to the Cloud 15
7.3 Protect Workloads in Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Other Clouds 15
7.4 Protect Microsoft Office 365 16
7.4.1 Protect Emails in Exchange Online 16
7.4.2 Protect SharePoint Online Sites 17
7.4.3 Protect User Files on OneDrive for Business 17
7.5 Deploy Arcserve UDP in the Cloud 17
8 Comprehensive Backup and Management 18
8.1 Data Protection Plans 18
8.2 Global Source, Block-Level Deduplication and WAN optimization 18
8.3 Backup Replication and Retention 19
8.4 Hardware Snapsh 19
8.5 Tape Integration 20
8.6 RPS Jumpstart or “Offline” Synchronization 20
8.7 Storage Multi-Tenancy 21
8.8 Monitoring, Alerting and Advanced Reporting 22
9 Summary 24
10 About Arcserve 24
1 OVERVIEW
Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) combines industry-proven disaster recovery, backup and true global
deduplication technologies into an all-in-one solution that delivers every data protection capability you and your
business need through one stunningly simple management console.
Powered by heterogeneous, image-based technology that protects to and from any target, it unifies enterprise-ready
features without the complexity of traditional solutions.
Eliminate the need for discrete products, and:
• Safeguard your systems and applications in cloud, virtual and physical environments
• Reduce the risks of extended downtime by cutting RTOs and RPOs from days to minutes
• Scale up, down and out to the cloud on-demand, turning capabilities on and off without forklift upgrades
• Validate your RTOs, RPOs, and SLAs with built-in Assured Recovery™ testing
• Amplify storage efficiency by up to 20x with built-in global, source-side deduplication
• Reclaim up to 50% more time to spend on strategic IT initiatives
Arcserve UDP is based on a unified architecture for your entire IT ecosystem – including virtual, physical and cloud
environments. It includes innovative features such as:
• Unified management console
• Simple task-based data protection and availability plans
• Agentless backup for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV
• Backup of physical Windows and Linux servers
• Backup of, and recovery to, Amazon AWS EC2 and Microsoft Azure
• True global, source, block-level deduplication
• Advanced tape support, including single drives and tape libraries
• Virtual Standby for proactive Disaster Recovery
• Instant VM Recovery for DR on-demand
• Instant Bare Metal Restore
• Reboot-less Agent deployment
• Role-based access control and user administration
3 FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURE
The unified architecture of Arcserve UDP matches the growth of your IT infrastructure, consisting of the elements that
reside on a single server or distributed across multiple physical or virtual servers to enable full scalability.
Unified Architecture
4 KEY FEATURES
4.1 Quick Recovery
• Virtual Standby – maintain virtual copies of mission–critical systems on Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere,
Microsoft Hyper–V, Amazon AWS EC2 and Microsoft Azure for fast boot–up
• Instant VM – spin up business–critical system backups as virtual machines on–demand in Nutanix AHV, VMware
vSphere, Microsoft Hyper–V, Amazon AWS EC2 and Microsoft Azure
• Assured Recovery™ – schedule automated disaster recovery tests with advanced reporting for stakeholders
• Granular Recovery – restore individual files, mailboxes, emails, Active Directory objects, SharePoint databases,
site collections, sites, lists, and list items
• Mount Backups – attach backups as virtual drives in Windows and NFS shares in Linux for advanced insights
RPS RPS
Replication
VMware agentless
Hyper-V agentless
Nutanix AHV agentless
Image-based backup
Physical system backup
CIFS/NFS backup
Tape Backup
P2V migration
Instant VM, Virtual Standby, Workstation protection
LAN/WAN
Bare-Metal Recovery, Granular Recovery Remote office protection
WAN-Optimized
Replication
Automated DR testing
RPS
Back Up Server
RPS
Discovery
& Backup
Copy Of Backup (Synthetic Full)
5.4 Agent
The Arcserve UDP Agent can be installed on physical systems, virtual machines or cloud instances to allow users to
back up and restore locally, or to be managed centrally by the UDP console.
Larger Site
Management Console Tape Backup
Virtual Hosts
Virtual
Standby Proxy Virtual Hosts
Agentless Proxy
RPS
RPS
Model Effective Capacity Usable Capacity Form Factor CPU RAM SSD
9012 12 4
9024 24 8 1U Single 48 GB 480 GB
9048 48 16
9072DR 72 24
9096DR 96 32
9144DR 144 48
9192DR 192 64 2U Dual 192 GB 2x 1.9 TB
9240DR 240 80
9288DR 288 96
9360DR 360 120
9504DR 504 168 2U Dual 384 GB 2x 1.9 TB
Failover
RPS Arcserve
UDP Console
Virtual Standby Proxy
WAN-Optimized
Replication
RPS RPS
6.3 Instant VM
If the production system goes down, Arcserve UDP allows you to quickly spin up the virtual machine directly out
of the backup storage, without the need to recover or rehydrate the backup first. Instead, Arcserve UDP mounts
simulated storage drives directly to the hypervisor and provides the requested data on-the-fly.
With Instant VM, you can react quickly and reduce recovery times for business-critical systems, even if you have not
prepared Virtual Standby, initially.
Instant VM supports physical and virtual Windows and Linux system backups, and can utilize VMware vSphere,
Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure as the platform.
You can find all supported combinations in the Arcserve UDP Compatibility Matrix.
Centralized
Local & Remote Users Management
Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is one of the best options for off-site disaster recovery of IT systems, offering
availability even in the event of major disasters.
Arcserve UDP can spin up copies of your business-critical systems and applications in multiple clouds, including:
• The Arcserve Cloud, with Arcserve UDP Cloud Hybrid, a fully managed Disaster Recovery as-a-Service (DRaaS)
add-on to Arcserve UDP software and appliances
• Public Clouds, including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and compatible clouds to spin up Windows and Linux systems
• Private Clouds, including those powered by VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV and other platforms
To protect critical data from loss during major disasters, it’s advisable to store copies of backups off-site in the cloud.
Arcserve UDP natively supports storing copies of your backups in:
• Arcserve Cloud, with Arcserve UDP Cloud Hybrid, an affordable, fully managed Backup as a Service (BaaS) add-
on to Arcserve UDP software and appliances
• Public Clouds, including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and compatible clouds.
• Private Clouds
You can choose to store backups directly on the cloud storage, including Amazon AWS S3 and Azure Blob Storage, or
deploy a secondary Arcserve UDP RPS in the cloud to leverage native deduplication and WAN optimization.
7.3 Protect Workloads in Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Other Clouds
While Amazon, Microsoft and other cloud vendors do an excellent job at taking care of the infrastructure for their
cloud services, many IT organizations incorrectly assume that they also include backup with point-in-time recovery,
or recovery of data lost or corrupted by employees.
Many cloud vendors operate a shared-responsibility model, meaning they take responsibility for the software and
physical security of their data centers, but it’s the responsibility of each customer to protect data from human error,
internal and external security threats, and programmatic issues.
In short, it’s your responsibility to protect your cloud data and workloads from loss and corruption.
Arcserve UDP protects your cloud-based systems by creating backups in-cloud, on another cloud, or on-premises with
the same advanced capabilities available for on-premises system protection and recovery.
RPS
Office 365
User Mailboxes RPS
(Optional)
Microsoft Exchange
Much like hyperscale cloud providers, Microsoft Office 365 is limited in what recovery services are available – yet 92%
of IT organizations incorrectly assume that Office 365 includes point-in-time recovery of data.
Arcserve UDP allows you to regain control of your data with the most complete set of data protection capabilities
available for Office 365, and deployed with one web-based user interface.
Arcserve delivers robust Exchange Online backup and point-in-time granular recovery so you always have a separate
copy of your data available.
Securely back up an entire organization or select mailboxes to your on-premises storage, to your data center or to
your cloud on the schedule you define and control, and:
• Quickly recover mailboxes, folders or individual emails via a unified, web-based UI
• Reduce storage capacity requirements with built-in global deduplication
• Copy backups to tape devices, tape libraries and cloud storage, including Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage
• Maintain corporate and government compliance, including GDPR article 32 section 1a, with AES encryption and
role-based access control
• Migrate to Exchange Online safely by protecting your on-premises Exchange using the same UI and policies
• With Arcserve UDP, you can efficiently increase your retention periods for Exchange Online for months, and even
years, to comply with corporate and government regulations.
RPS
Office 365
OFFICE 365
Sharepoint
SHAREPOINT RPS
(optional)
Microsoft SharePoint
PROTECTION STRATEGY
Replication
Source RPS
RPS RPS
RPS ation
Replic Destination & Source RPS
Destination RPS
Source RPS
Incremental
Backups
Jumpstart Jumpstart
Export Import
SHIPPING
Customer / Department B
A
B
C
Customer / Department C
9 SUMMARY
Arcserve UDP combines industry-proven disaster recovery, backup and true global deduplication technologies into an
all-in-one solution that delivers every data protection capability you and your business need through one stunningly
simple management console.
Powered by heterogeneous, image-based technology that protects to and from any target, it unifies enterprise-ready
features without the complexity of traditional solutions.
Eliminate the need for discrete products, and:
• Safeguard your systems and applications in cloud, virtual and physical environments
• Reduce the risks of extended downtime by cutting RTOs and RPOs from days to minutes
• Scale up, down and out to the cloud on-demand, turning capabilities on and off without forklift upgrades
• Validate your RTOs, RPOs, and SLAs with built-in Assured Recovery™ testing
• Amplify storage efficiency by up to 20x with built-in global, source-side deduplication
• Reclaim up to 50% more time to spend on strategic IT initiatives
Find more details and to get a trial version, please visit the Arcserve website: www.arcserve.com.
10 ABOUT ARCSERVE
Arcserve provides exceptional solutions to protect the priceless digital assets of organizations in need of full scale,
comprehensive data protection. Established in 1983, Arcserve is the world’s most experienced provider of business
continuity solutions that safeguard multi-generational IT infrastructures with applications and systems in any
location, on premises and in the cloud. Organizations in over 150 countries around the world rely on Arcserve’s
highly efficient, integrated technologies and expertise to eliminate the risk of data loss and extended downtime while
reducing the cost and complexity of backing up and restoring data by up to 50 percent.
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