ExaGrid Helps Arpège Offer Quality Service to Its Customers
Arpège installed ExaGrid systems at its primary site and at a DR site. The company uses ExaGrid to back up the 500+ websites it hosts and to store data for over 400 customers, which is mostly in database form.
“There is so much value in using ExaGrid; the system’s landing zone and security features help us better serve our customers. ExaGrid has allowed us to increase our retention to eight days, so now we can recover data instantly from the landing zone if it is within that timeframe. Plus, using ExaGrid and Veeam allows us to instantly restore a VM. Of particular importance, ExaGrid allows us to be sure that customer data is secure and cannot be accessed by anyone else,” said Mr. Orieux.
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 so that an RTO and RPO can be easily met. Available system cycles are utilized to perform deduplication and offsite replication for an optimal recovery point at the disaster recovery site. Once complete, the onsite data is protected and immediately available in its full undeduplicated form for fast restores, VM Instant Recoveries, and tape copies while the offsite data is ready for disaster recovery.
ExaGrid and Veeam can instantly recover a VMware virtual machine by running it directly from the ExaGrid appliance in the event that the primary storage VM becomes unavailable. This is possible because of ExaGrid’s Landing Zone – a high-speed disk cache on the ExaGrid appliance that retains the most recent backups in complete form.
Once the primary storage environment has been brought back to a working state, the VM running on the ExaGrid appliance can then be migrated to primary storage for continued operation