A Technical Deep Dive on Protecting Acropolis Workloads with Rubrik
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This document discusses Rubrik's integration with Nutanix AHV and provides an overview of Rubrik's data management capabilities. It includes demos of backing up a Nutanix cluster with Rubrik, using Rubrik's SLA policies to automate data protection, and performing real-time search across all protected data. Case studies are presented showing how Rubrik helped the Tampa Bay Rays and Galliker Transport improve backup reliability, reduce management overhead, and achieve faster recovery times.
A Technical Deep Dive on Protecting Acropolis Workloads with Rubrik
- 2. Tweets Writer Co-Host Instructor Technologist Author Microsoft VMware @ChrisWahl @ WahlNetwork.com @ DatanautsPodcast.com @ Pluralsight.com @ Rubrik.com Networking for VMware Admins MVP (PowerShell) VCDX #104 (DCV & NV)
- 4. Data Management: 1990s to Present 1990s – Present Backup & Replication Software Backup Storage Backup Software Backup Servers Backup Proxies Replication Catalog Database Tape Off-site ArchiveBackup Storage a Dedupe Metadata 2000s – Present Data Management: 2000s to Present
- 5. Meet Rubrik Cloud Data Management Backup Software Backup Servers Backup Proxies Replication Catalog Database Tape Off-site ArchiveBackup Storage a Dedupe Metadata Private Public Software fabric for orchestrating apps and data across clouds. No forklift upgrades.
- 6. How It Works Quick Start: Rack and go. Auto-discovery. Rapid Ingest: Flash-optimized, parallel ingest accelerates snapshots and eliminates stun. Content-aware dedupe. One global namespace. Automate: Intelligent SLA policy engine for effortless management. Instant Recovery: Live Mount VMs & SQL. Instant search and file restore. Secure: End-to-end encryption. Immutability to fight Ransomware. Cloud: “CloudOut” instantly accessible with global search. Launch apps with “CloudOn” for DR or test/dev. Run apps in cloud. Nutanix AOS SLA Policy Engine Log Management Private Public NAS AHV Hyper-V VMware VMwareVMware VMwareVMware VMware
- 7. Your Data Center Today Backup Proxy Production Environment Backup Server Search Server Disk-Based Backup Tape Archive Offsite Tape Vault
- 8. Rubrik Simplifies Your Data Center Scale Out Scale Out Rubrik Replication + Long-Term Retention + Search Private Production Environment
- 9. One Multi-Purpose Platform Beyond Backup Rubrik Cloud Data Management Backup & Recovery Disaster Recovery API-first Architecture Archival & Compliance SearchCopy Data Management Analytics
- 10. New Hotness in the 4.0 “Alta” Release
- 11. Enterprise Cloud Service Delivery App AHV Provision Any App, Anywhere Deliver App Data Services via Rubrik App Backup & Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Archival & Compliance, Copy Data Management, Search, Analytics
- 12. Overview of Rubrik’s support of AHV • • • • • • • • • • •
- 14. Let’s Start by Understanding the Workflow Snapshot Phases
- 15. Snapshot Phases Adaptive Throttling Pre-Snapshot Guest Script Create Nutanix Snapshot Query Changed Regions Create Snapshot Metadata Ingest the Snapshot Delete Snapshot and Cleanup Post-Snapshot Guest Script Victory!
- 16. Adaptive Throttling Pre-Snapshot Guest Script Create Nutanix Snapshot Snapshot Phases Check to make sure the workload is within tolerance parameters to be protected. Perform any user- defined activities prior to the snapshot. Request a new snapshot via the AOS v3 API.
- 17. Query Changed Regions Create Snapshot Metadata Ingest the Snapshot Snapshot Phases Changed Region Tracking (CRT) Indicates the regions that have changed. Also indicates zeroes and hence helps avoid reading zeroes during the first full backup. Logic to collect and determine the best placement of data within the Rubrik distributed file system (Atlas). Disk(s) added to Volume Group for ingest over the iSCSI Data Service IP. Data is ingested by reading the snapshot disks’ data into Rubrik Atlas using 1 MB chunks with some calculated parallelism via the IP configured for iSCSI Data Services.
- 18. Snapshot Phases Perform any user- defined activities after the snapshot is merged. Remove snapshot and any idempotence identifiers created for persistence. Data is protected and reported by the Rubrik CDM dashboard and any other alerts / hooks. You win! Delete Snapshot and Cleanup Post-Snapshot Guest Script Victory!
- 20. Digging Deeper into Requesting a Snapshot Defines a VM snapshot • Name of the snapshot • Snapshot consistency type • application-consistent • crash-consistent • Location agnostic id • Expiration timer • Consistency group id • Cluster reference • Resources • Entity UUID Spec Snapshot metadata • Last update time • Kind of snapshot • “vm_snapshot” • Snapshot name • Creation time • Parent (VM) ref • Owner (user) ref • Entity version • UUID Metadata Version of the API • 3.0 API Version
- 21. Defines a VM snapshot • Name of the snapshot • Snapshot consistency type • application-consistent • crash-consistent • Location agnostic id • Expiration timer • Consistency group id • Cluster reference • Resources • Entity UUID Spec Snapshot metadata • Last update time • Kind of snapshot • “vm_snapshot” • Snapshot name • Creation time • Parent (VM) ref • Owner (user) ref • Entity version • UUID Metadata Version of the API • 3.0 API Version Digging Deeper into Requesting a Snapshot
- 23. Rubrik RESTful APIs – Nutanix Cluster Endpoints
- 24. Rubrik RESTful APIs – Nutanix VM Endpoints Plus many more …
- 26. Tweet Blogger Co-Host I have a job! Author VMware @ RebeccaFitzhugh @ technicloud.com @ vbrownbag.com @ Rubrik.com vSphere Virtual Machine Management Learning VMware vSphere VCDX #243
- 27. Demo Agenda Easy Integration with AHV Working with an SLA Policy Real-time Data Search
- 29. Tampa Bay Rays THE CHALLENGE • Lengthy and unreliable file-level recovery and restore times • Management complexity with tape and disk • Inefficient workflow and replication THE SOLUTION • VM and file-level backup and recovery • Global real-time le search • Data archival to public cloud RESULTS • Immediate annual hard savings of $80-$100K • Near-zero RTOs & 15x data reduction • Significant reduction in daily management (from 3-4 hours/day to 10 minutes/day)
- 30. Galliker Transport THE CHALLENGE • Complex management with legacy solution • Unreliable and failing backups with manual job scheduling • Lack of scale and support with previous approach THE SOLUTION • Automated SLA management to ensure reliability of backups • Data archival through NFS to meet compliance and legal requirements • Global search to find mission critical data in seconds RESULTS • 20 minute deployment time and easy integration with Nutanix • Reduction of management time from 2 hours/week to mins/week • Instant recovery in seconds
- 32. @nutanix #nextconf @RubrikInc Thank You - Visit Booth G1 Chris Wahl chris.wahl@rubrik.com | @ChrisWahl Rebecca Fitzhugh rebecca.fitzhugh@rubrik.com | @RebeccaFitzhugh