Data Deduplication Provides 61:1 Compression for VMware Images
Ipswich backs up a wide variety of data to the ExaGrid system, including SQL, file data, and VMware images. The Council backs up its VMware images directly to the ExaGrid system and has been receiving data deduplication rates as high as 61:1.
“We are expanding our use of VMware and it would have been a real challenge to put the images onto tape. ExaGrid’s data deduplication technology does a fantastic job at compressing our VMware images, and our recovery times have really improved. We can recover a VMware server in about ten minutes. With tape, recovering the same VMware server would have taken half a day,” said Gaskin.
Gaskin noted that restoring data from the ExaGrid is significantly faster than with tape. “With tape, we had to retrieve the right tape from our offsite storage site, catalog it and read the file in. The whole process could take hours and hours. However, restoring data from the ExaGrid takes no time at all. It’s far more efficient and it frees up our time to focus on more important things,” said Gaskin.
ExaGrid's turnkey tushen faifai na tushen tsarin ajiya yana haɗa abubuwan tafiyar kasuwanci tare da ƙaddamar da bayanan matakin yanki, yana ba da mafita mai tushen faifai wanda ya fi tasiri sosai fiye da kawai tallafawa diski tare da cirewa ko amfani da cirewar software na madadin zuwa faifai. ExaGrid's ƙwararren ƙwararren matakin yanki yana rage sararin faifai da ake buƙata ta kewayon 10:1 zuwa 50:1, ya danganta da nau'ikan bayanai da lokutan riƙewa, ta hanyar adana abubuwa na musamman a cikin madogarawa maimakon ƙarin bayanai. Deduplication Adaptive yana aiwatar da cirewa da kwafi a layi daya tare da madadin. Kamar yadda ake cire bayanai zuwa ma'ajiyar, ana kuma maimaita shi zuwa shafin ExaGrid na biyu ko girgijen jama'a don dawo da bala'i (DR).