VergeIO IOclone to Solve VM Snapshot Problem

VergeIO announced IOclone solution that solves the virtualization snapshot problem facing users today.

VMware and other virtualized environments suffer from highly inefficient snapshots and because of performance concerns, customers can only maintain a few active snapshots. This level of retention is insufficient for adequate data protection. With IOclone, customers can leverage the built-in global data de-dupe capabilities of VergeOS to create complete clones of Vms within milliseconds, regardless of VM size. Each clone is immutable and space efficient, initially consuming no additional capacity.

Hypervisors without the capabilities of IOclone require customers to use expensive array-based snapshots or integrate with backup software solutions, forcing customers into an expensive and complicated multi-step solution for data protection. By comparison, IOclone is a single-step process integrated into VergeOS. Once IT sets up a cloning policy, snapshots happen regularly without administrative intervention.

Now customers can create and maintain thousandss of space-efficient copies of VMs or even virtual data centers without impacting performance. Both the original production instance and clones perform at the full performance of the infrastructure. Clones are instantly available for use in testing, QA, and development purposes, or customers can create ‘golden masters’ and spawn hundreds or even thousands of VMs or virtual data centers (VDCs) from the original, again without impacting performance.

“Both clones and snapshots typically have some overhead in the capacity they consume and the processing required to use them. Clones typically have to make a copy of all of the metadata information, which means the cloning process takes some time upfront, but then they are ready to use and independent. Snapshots trade up front processing time and instead show performance degradation when in use or during clean-up,” said Greg Campbell, founder and CTO. “IOclone delivers the best of both. Because our deduplication is part of the metadata in our filesystem, we get all the performance and independence benefits of cloning without their upfront overhead.”

Customers can execute IOclone on the VM, the volume, or an entire VDC. In the same way that a VM is an encapsulation of a server, a VDC clone is an encapsulation of the entire data center. It includes all the VMs within the data center and all the storage and networking policies, delivering near-instant recovery.

IOclone does not require specialized storage controllers or storage data processing units. Thanks to the efficiency of VergeOS, it works with off-the-shelf servers using commodity flash and HDDs within the VergeOS environment. It is integrated into VergeOS and is available at no additional charge to VergeOS customers. Customers looking to migrate off VMware can leverage the company’s IOprotect and benefit from the immutable limitless protection of IOclone.

Resource:
Blog: Snapshots or Clones for Data Protection?