Veeam Backup From SAN Snapshots Supporting HP Systems

Veeam Software, Inc. will enable backup from SAN snapshots supporting HP StoreVirtual VSA, HP StoreVirtual (LeftHand, P4000 series) or HP StoreServ (3PAR) storage.

This new capability is included in Veeam Backup & Replication v7.

Backup from Storage Snapshots improves RPOs of VMware backup and reduces the impact of backup activities on the production environment.
 
Better RPO
Storage snapshots are ideal as a source of backup because they have no impact on production workloads. However, storage snaphots are not true backups, because if the SAN goes down, the snapshots are lost along with the SAN. For true backup, the data must be moved to another storage device. Until now, there have been no convenient, robust tools to perform backup from storage snapshots. Backup & Replication v7 makes the entire process easy to use, more robust and 20 times faster, creating true backups and replicas from which IT can restore from if the SAN has completely melted down.
 
Developed by Veeam, Backup from Storage Snapshots minimizes the impact on VMs by enabling a backup job to keep a VM snapshot for a brief moment only. Unlike existing solutions, it leverages VMware changed block tracking (CBT) to reduce backup time for incremental backups.
 
Consequently, customers can create backups from storage snapshots up to 20 times faster than can the competition, thanks to CBT, instant data store mount and other techniques developed by Veeam. As a result, organizations no longer need to rely on daily backups alone for I/O intensive workloads. IT admins can make as many backups and replicas as often as they like, from several times a day to once every 5 to 15 minutes, including business hours (which improves RPO), with little to no impact to the production environment.
 
The announcement of this new capability builds on last year’s release of Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots, which enabled the recovery of VMs and individual items directly from periodic SAN snapshots allowing for greatly improved RTO for recoveries from SAN snapshots.
 
"With backup and replication using storage snapshots, IT is no longer limited by the traditional off-hours backup," said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. "Instead, IT can backup three or four times every hour if they desire, ensuring that in the event that some or all of the production environment goes down, little, if any, data will be lost. It’s not a feature we’re selling separately, but will instead be included in Veeam Backup & Replication v7, Modern Data Protection that’s Built for Virtualization."
 
Backup from storage snapshots will be included in Veeam Backup & Replication v7, which will be released in Q3 2013.