ExaGrid-Veeam Solution Enhances Backup Performance
CMMC’s data consists of SQL and Oracle databases, a large Microsoft Exchange server, as well as other application and file servers. Leclair backs up critical data in incrementals on a daily basis, and with a full backup of the environment on a weekly basis. In addition, full backups are copied to tape each month, for archiving.
Switching to the ExaGrid-Veeam solution has greatly reduced the backup windows, especially for one of CMMC’s largest servers. “When we used NetBackup, it took up to five days to back up one of our larger servers that runs Microsoft Windows. We’ve enabled the Microsoft deduplication and it is great, because storing the server took up 6TB, but we found after rehydrating that server, that there is actually 11TB of data stored on that server, which we didn’t realize until we used Veeam. Using the ExaGrid-Veeam solution, the backup window for that server has been reduced from five days to two days,” said Leclair. “A benefit to the ExaGrid-Veeam solution is how much better the backup performance is because of the synthetic backups and because data is backed up right to ExaGrid’s Landing Zone. It takes all the load off our VMs, and our users don’t feel anything,” he added.
ExaGrid writes backups directly to a disk-cache Landing Zone, avoiding inline processing and ensuring the highest possible backup performance, which results in the shortest backup window. Adaptive Deduplication performs deduplication and replication in parallel with backups for a strong recovery point (RPO). As data is being deduplicated to the repository, it can also be replicated to a second ExaGrid site or the public cloud for disaster recovery (DR).