Easy Installation and Configuration with Both Backup Applications
The City of Kingston installed an ExaGrid system at two of its sites. “Installation was very simple; we had both sites up and running in half a day,” said Gray. As the city adds more appliances and increases the storage capacity of its ExaGrid systems, the IT team plans to eventually implement replication for disaster recovery.
ExaGrid appliances contain not just disk but also processing power, memory, and bandwidth. When the system needs to expand, additional appliances are simply added to the existing system. The system scales linearly, maintaining a fixed-length backup window as data grows so customers only pay for what they need, when they need it. Gray backs up the city’s data in daily incrementals and weekly synthetic fulls. A large amount of data is backed up at each of the sites, about 100TB at one site, and 60TB at the other, mostly consisting of Microsoft Exchange data, as well as file servers and application data. Most of the backup environment has been virtualized and is backed up to ExaGrid using Veeam, with the remaining physical servers, mostly Oracle databases, backed up to ExaGrid using Micro Focus Data Protector.
The ExaGrid system is easy to install and use and works seamlessly with all of the most frequently used backup applications, so an organization can retain its investment in existing applications and processes.