1. What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?
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What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?
Patrick McDonald
Principal Systems Engineer

2. Agenda Replication Director NetBackup Accelerator1
NetBackup Accelerator 2
Virtualization Enhancements 3
The agenda is divided into an introduction section followed by 7 sections covering the 7 major areas of enhancements and new features. The introductory section is not included in the agenda slide.
Note the presentation version number next to the Symantec logo. Check the download site for updated versions of this deck.
NetBackup Search and OpsCenter Enhancements 4
Cloud Enhancements 5
Deduplication Enhancements 6
Core Enhancements 7
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?
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3. NetBackup Vision: Driving Reduction In C.O.S.T.
Physical
Virtual
Arrays
Big Data
vSphere and Intelligent Policies
Intelligent Replication Management
CDP for VLDB and Private Cloud
Deduped, client direct, and Fast
3. Transforming the Operating Model
1. Optimize for Source Workloads
NetBackup Platform
Application Integration + Centralized Management
Appliances
IT Self Service
Search
Telemetry
Auto-configuration
Self-monitoring
At Symantec we are focused on reducing the overall C.O.S.T of Enterprise Data Protection by 80% over the next 5 years. How we do this is to provide our customers with a single data protection platform that enables the reduction of all elements of how you measure the expense and success of any data protection solution, these are:
C – Capital Expense (CapEx) - ensuring our data protection provides the lowest storage cost for backup data as well as optimizing the backup 
process to reduce the amount of data which is transported in order to perform backup and recovery
O – Operational Expense (OpEx) - driving out operating cost by removing the need to manage multiple solutions to provide complete protection and providing simple and turn key solutions that make easy to enable complete protection with NetBackup 
S – Service Level Attainment (SLA) - providing optimized solutions for the different workloads that are being protected that ensure SLAs are never missed
T – Transformation - providing within the platform the ability for organizations to continue to protect their environment as new technologies and initiatives transform their environment such as virtualization and cloud
In order to ensure the NetBackup platform addresses each of these measures, we focus on three key elements which are the enablers of this platform - during this presentation we look at how we NBU 7.5 delivers on these enablers and hence continues to deliver a platform that helps our customers continue to reduce the C.O.S.T of data protection.
The key enablers are:
1. Optimizing for the source workloads - ensuring we provide solutions that protect the different environments with as little impact to these source workloads as possible - examples of this are our client side dedupe and virtualization technologies - in NBU 7.5 we are extending these capabilities with NBU Accelerator and Replication Director
2. Allowing Freedom of Storage Choice - providing the ability for our customers to be flexible on their storage choice while providing technologies like dedupe built into the backup process and platform so we can minimize the storage cost of backups
3. Transforming the Operating Model - reducing complexity by providing a single solution that avoids the need for multiple point solutions and can be deployed and managed very simply with innovations like the NetBackup Appliances, VM Intelligent Policies and Ops Center.
2. Freedom of Storage Choice
Tape
Disk
Appliances
Cloud
Drive out cost with in-line, non-rehydrating,
mega-scale dedupe
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

4. NetBackup 7.5 Release Value Proposition
Extreme availability and performance in protecting mission-critical data and applications in physical and virtualized environments
Key Release Messages:
NetBackup Replication Director: Unified data protection management and granular recovery for network attached storage replication and snapshot deployments – driving optimization of source workloads
NetBackup Accelerator: Fast, intelligent backup technologies to address the increase in scale of data and reduction in backup and recovery windows – driving optimization of source workloads
Symantec V-Ray Virtualization: Continued delivery of market leading virtualization capabilities including application level recovery of mission critical applications and vSphere 5 – driving optimization of source workloads and transforming the operating model
Cloud-based Data Protection: Enabling the use of cloud-based offsite storage though the addition of bandwidth throttling, media server encryption and key management integration – driving freedom of storage choice
NetBackup Search: Proactive solution that couples backup, archive, index and search – driving transforming the operating model and freedom of storage choice
Deduplication: Continued delivery of Deduplication Everywhere strategy including improved WAN resiliency built into the NetBackup client and doubling of MSDP scale to 64TB – driving freedom of storage choice
Software and appliance form factors: In additional to all NetBackup 7.5 features, the appliances will also be secured with Symantec Critical System Protection and include WAN optimization functionality and support flexible use of up to 72 TB or storage – driving transforming the operating model and freedom of storage choice
This slide identifies some of the key features of the 7.5 release and how they work in the context of the key enablers identified in the previous slide.
Note that the 52xx appliance version of NetBackup 7.5 will be available at the end of April The 72 TB of storage can be configured as a mixture of AdvancedDisk and MSDP disk pools with a maximum of 64 TBs of MSDP storage.
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

5. NetBackup Replication Director
Replication Director is one of three major new features introduced in NetBackup 7.5 and is delivered in a “phase 1” form in this release. It is important to remember what is delivered in this release and what is planned for future releases so that you don’t set false expectations.
Replication Director builds on our hugely successful “OpenStorage” model of partnership by providing an API to allow partner array vendors to create integration points between NetBackup their own array management tools, ensuring that each array is managed in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations.
In the 7.5 release Replication Director only supports snapshots of NFS and CIFS presented file systems on NetApp storage arrays managed within a single NetBackup domain.
Subsequent releases of NetBackup will provide additional support including:
Block level device support (fibre and iSCSI)
Application (database) support
Hypervisor support (VMware and Hyper-V)
Expanded storage array vendor support
Cross domain replication/management (A.I.R. type functionality)
NetBackup Replication Director is a licensable option within the NetBackup Traditional licensing model and is sold per front-end terabyte. For customers using the NetBackup Platform Capacity licensing model, Replication Director is included in the NetBackup Platform Base – Complete Edition as well as the new NetBackup Platform Base – NDMP Edition.
Two FAQs are worth noting here:
Q: “Why does the initial release only support NetApp arrays?”
A: “NetApp are the largest player in the array market and were keen to invest in a joint venture with us. We believe the fact that NetApp have adopted this technology will encourage other vendors to follow.”
Q: “Have other vendors signed up to the Replication Director program?
A: “We are in talks with a number of other vendors and announcements will be made in due course.”
NetBackup Replication Director
Optimized For Source Workloads: Integrating Snapshot And Backup Management
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

6. Integrating Snapshots And Backup With A Single Management Interface
Note that this slide shows the “grand design” of Replication Director which will emerge over the next few releases. Features such as application support and cross-domain replication shown here are NOT available in NetBackup 7.5.
Replication Director reduces the administrative complexity around managing a combination of snapshots and backup by providing a unified NetBackup interface for configuration.
Configuration of primary storage replication and snapshots is achieved using familiar NetBackup terminology and management paradigms and policies.
SLPs control the whole process from initial snapshot creation through to long term backup storage including performing backups from snapshots.
Snapshot content is catalog in NetBackup and search and restore can be performed across both snapshots and backups.
During a typical sequence of operation:
NetBackup quiesces entire stack and verifies consistent state of application
A NetBackup policy initiates snapshot, replication of snapshot, and copy of replica to tape for archiving
NetBackup is “aware” of all copies of the data and applies different retention dates to each copy
Replication director reduces administrative overhead, reduces or eliminates the need for vendor-specific tools and knowledge and offers significant benefits in performance over conventional NDMP backup models.
Snapshot
Snapshot
Snapshot
Primary Data
Snapshot
Snapshot
Snapshot
Duplicate
Duplicate
Duplicate
Duplicate
Snapshot
Application Server (NetBackup Client)
SnapVault
SnapMirror
Production Data Center
DR Data Center
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

7. Replication Director: Integration through OpenStorage
NetBackup Master Server
8. Mount
Snapshot
9. Duplicate Snapshot
1. Quiesce
The following steps illustrate Replication Director manages the creation of snapshots and their replication to a secondary site where the snapshot can be exported to tape or disk storage as a backup image.
Note that in NetBackup 7.5 the two sites are part of the same NetBackup domain, in future releases Replication Director will have “auto image replication” capability to allow snapshots to be managed across domains.
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First, if necessary, NetBackup quiesces the application. (Note, only file system snapshots are supported in NetBackup 7.5, application support will be introduced in future releases.)
Then a snapshot is created.
The snapshot is replicated to secondary storage
Then the snapshot is replicated again to the secondary site
This snapshot is mounted on a media server
And duplicated to create a backup image for long term storage on tape or disk.
OpenStorage API
NetBackup Media Server or 52xx appliance
2. Create
Snapshot
3. Copy Snapshot
5. Copy Snapshot
to other site
7. Export Snapshot
11. Duplicate
Snapshot Vault
Snapshot
Snapshot Vault
Snapshot
Primary Data
Snapshot
Snapshot
Application Server (NB Client)
Snapshot
4. Replicate
6. Replicate
Snapshot
Site A
Site B
Filer/Array
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

8. Introducing Primary Storage Replication
Catalog
Replication
NBU Master DR Domain
NBU Master Production Data Center
Import Image
Policy
Backup
Fedex Replication
Backup
Image + Meta Replication
Snapshot
Filer/Array
Replica
Snapshot
Primary Storage Replication
Primary Storage Replication
Primary Data
Snapshot
Filer/Array
Snapshot Vault
Snapshot
Application Server (NB Client)
Filer/Array
Production Data Center
DR Domain
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9. Replication Director: 1 + 1 = One
Snapshot value add
Better RPO/RTO and operational recovery
Less impact on production applications
Efficient data storage and movement
NetBackup value add
Centralized data protection management
Automated movement across storage tiers
Off-host indexing for recovery and discovery
Tape support for long term retention
Searchable, granular recovery
The key message of Replication Director is simplicity of integration and how a single point of administration/control reduces the headache of managing a mix of snapshots and backups.
Replication Director unifies backup and snapshot technologies
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Snapshots capture data at points in time quickly and efficiently, minimizing the impact on applications and storing data efficiently for rapid recover in the sort term.
Integration with NetBackup simplifies management, improves search and restore capabilities and allows captured data to enter a lifecycle of storage for long term backup retention as well as short term protection.
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

10. NetBackup Accelerator
NetBackup Accelerator is another new feature that is being introduced in phases. NetBackup Accelerator’s primary “value add” is that it can dramatically reduce the time required to run full backups. It does this by building on the synthetic backup model we first introduced around 8 years ago in which a full backup is “synthesized “ from earlier full backups and incremental backups.
A NetBackup Accelerator full backup behaves like an incremental backup, capturing changes to the data since the last backup, but then synthesizes a full backup image on the backup server.
In the 7.5 release NetBackup Accelerator supports file system backups from Windows (NTFS) and Posix complaint UNIX/Linux file systems. On Windows environments it can utilize the NTFS Change Journaling feature to speed up the process of discovering changed files.
NetBackup Accelerator is licensed using the new NetBackup Data Protection Optimization Option which is available free of charge to existing users of the NetBackup Deduplication Option or as an upgrade for users of the Enterprise Disk Option and Platform Base License.
Some FAQs to note on this section:
Accelerator integrates with NTFS Change Journaling, you may be asked about integration with other change journaling (for example Storage Foundation on UNIX) these are planned for future releases.
You may be asked about TIR. TIR is not required for NetBackup Accelerator unless BMR is used (when it is enabled automatically)
You may be asked about licensing. NetBackup Accelerator is licensed using the new NetBackup Data Protection Optimization Option which is available free of charge to existing users of the NetBackup Deduplication Option or as an upgrade for users of the Enterprise Disk Option and Platform Base License.
NetBackup Accelerator
Optimized For Source Workloads: Reducing The Time And Resources Required To Backup
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

11. NetBackup Accelerator – reducing full backup times
Problem
Increasing data volumes mean full backups take increasingly more time
Increasing demand for data access reduces backup windows
Solution
Significantly reduce the time required to make full backups of file systems by efficiently determining changed files and segments and transferring only changed data to the backup server.
Full backups are synthesized from a combination of the changed and previous backups
Realized Value
Full backups to deduplication storage or cloud performed nearly as quickly as incremental backups.
NetBackup Accelerator is a new feature in NetBackup 7.5 aimed at significantly reducing the time to create full backups
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Continuous data growth and increased demand for data access make it increasingly difficult to make full backups without impacting users
NetBackup Accelerator uses a combination of change tracking, synthetic backup and deduplication to reduce the amount of data being sent to backup storage during a full backup
The time required to make a full backup, and thus the impact of running a backup to end users, becomes little more than that required for an incremental backup
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

12. Traditional Backup 1 2 2 3 3 4 1 4 IO cost: High CPU cost: Moderate
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CPU cost: Moderate
Usually low, but the duration is long
Network cost: High
Send all data
Storage cost: High
Store all data / including duplicates
Client
Backup Server 2
Application 2 3
Backup
server
Backup
agent 3
The traditional model of full and incremental backups impose high costs on most infrastructure components from the I/O system on the client to the storage on the server.
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Using synthetic backup can reduce the I/O and network traffic during backup but increases the CPU and I/O overhead on the media server. 4 1 4
File System
Synthesis
Engine
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

13. Server Deduplicating Backup1
IO cost: High
Read all
CPU cost: Moderate
Usually low, but the duration is long
Network cost: High
Send all data
Storage cost: Lower
Unique data only
Client
Backup Server 2
Application 2 3
Engine
Dedupe
Backup
server
Backup
agent 3
Using deduplicating storage on the backup server reduces the storage costs but does not affect the other overheads significantly.
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Again using optimized synthetic backup can go some way to reducing the I/O and network traffic during backup but at the cost of increased CPU overhead on the backup server. 4 1 4
File System
Synthesis
Engine
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14. Client Side Deduplicating Backup1
IO cost: High
Read all
CPU cost: High
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Network cost: Low
Unique data only
Storage cost: Lower
Client
Backup Server 2
Application 2 3
Engine
Dedupe
Backup
server
Backup
agent
Dedup 3 4
Client side deduplication reduces the network and storage overheads but increases the peak CPU loading on the client. 1 4
File System
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

15. NetBackup Accelerator1
IO cost: Low
Only changed data
CPU cost: Low
Less signatures
Network cost: Low
Unique data only
Storage cost: Low
Client
Backup Server 2
Application 2 3
Synthesis
Engine
Backup
server
Accelerator
agent 3 4
NetBackup Accelerator uses a combination of file tracking and backup synthesis to reduce I/O at all levels without impacting CPU loading.
The accelerator agent ensures that, after the initial full backup, only changed data is ever sent from the client to the backup server. Combining this with client side deduplication can reduce the network traffic even further as only changed segments of changed files need to be transmitted.
Unlike existing synthetic backup operations where the synthesis occurs independently from the backup, Accelerator full backups are automatically synthesized on the backup server at the time backup runs.
In NetBackup 7.5 Accelerator supports file systems backup on Windows (NTFS) and Posix complaint UNIX/Linux file systems. It can take advantage of the Windows Change Journaling feature in NTFS to further accelerate the discovery process. 1 4
File System
Change Tracking
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

16. NetBackup Accelerator in NetBackup 7.5
Support for file system backup offering significant benefits for:
Large file systems
File systems containing large numbers of files
NAS storage can be backed up quickly from clients over NFS/CIFS
Supported on all Windows, UNIX and Linux clients
Support for related NetBackup features:
Checkpoint restart
Multi-stream backups
Bare Metal Restore
Duplication to tape and disk including optimized duplication and auto image replication
WAN resiliency for Remote Office data protection
In NetBackup 7.5 the Accelerator feature only supports file systems backups. Support for applications and virtual machines are planned for future releases.
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NetBackup Accelerator can offer a significant benefit in any large file system backup where the rate of change of data is relatively low compared to the size of the file system. File systems containing large numbers of small files also benefit from Accelerator’s change tracking which quickly identifies the files that need to be backed up.
NetBackup Accelerator provides a viable alternative to NDMP backup of large NAS devices by allowing CIFS and NFS shares to be backed up through the clients they are presented to, taking advantage of Accelerator to keep backup times to a minimum.
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NetBackup Accelerator is supported on all Windows, Unix and Linux client platforms supported by NetBackup 7.5.
The OpenVMS client does not support Accelerator in this release but we plan to support it in a future release.
NetBackup Accelerator supports many of the existing file system backup features in NetBackup including checkpoint restart and multiple data streams. Because NetBackup Accelerator synthesizes the full backup as part of the scheduled backup job Accelerator backups can use SLPs and AIR to create duplicate copies.
Accelerator does not support the use of client encryption or client compression and these options are greyed out on the policy definition screen. When BMR is used the NTFS Change Journal capability on Windows is overridden.
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

17. Virtual Machine Protection Enhancements
Optimized for Source Workloads
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

18. VMware® Policy New VMware policy type – not FlashBackup-Windows
New VMware tab
All VMware settings consolidated on new tab
In NetBackup 7.5 there is a new policy type for VMware and it is no longer necessary to use the policy type of FlashBackup-Windows. However, for existing installations, the old policy type remains valid and there is no automated conversion of existing policies. Customers can manually convert their policies to the new type in their own time.
The new policy type includes a tab...
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...that has VMware specific settings on it
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

19. Hyper-V® Policy New Hyper-V policy type – not FlashBackup-Windows
New Hyper-V tab
All Hyper-V settings consolidated on new tab
The same is true for Hyper-V policies. Again there is a new policy tab...
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...that has Hyper-V specific settings on it
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

20. Media Server Load-Balancing For VMware Policies
ESX/i Hosts
Backup Hosts - Windows® Media Servers
Shared Backup Storage
VM backups jobs automatically select the least busy media server.
This provides:
Improved backup performance
High availability
Supports any/all backup destinations
There are 2 significant advantages to leveraging media server load-balancing:
The VM backup job will always run on the least-busy media server, which ultimately provides optimum backup performance
Until now, all scheduled VM backups would fail if the backup host was unavailable. Now, when using load-balancing, other media servers are available in the event of a downed media server.
So both performance and availability are improved for VM backups!
MSDP
Tape
Off Host Dedupe
OST Devices
Shared Storage Pools
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

21. New vCenter Fields For VM Intelligent Policy
New query builder variables, including:
Datastore Cluster: part of Storage Dynamic Resource Scheduling (SDRS)
Custom VM Attributes: user-defined vCenter variables
The VM Intelligent Policy continues to grow by offering new vSphere 5 and vCenter 5 variables to use in queries. Three noteworthy additions have been made:
vSphere 5 introduces a new storage concept called “Datastore Cluster”, which is fully supported. This is simply a collection of Datastores that acts as a single Datastore.
We’ve also added several new Datastore attributes.
Lastly, we’ve added the ability to include vCenter “custom attributes” into a query.
The last capability is very powerful! Users can add any new variable, or custom attribute, to vCenter. NetBackup will show these attributes enclosed in square brackets, in this format: [user_custom_attribute]. For example, users could add a custom attribute called NBU_DISABLE_BACKUP with a true/false value. As shown in the screenshot, that value can be tested in the query. So in this example, VMware administrators can manipulate the NBU_DISABLE_BACKUP attribute on a VM to control whether (or not) it will be included in the next scheduled backup.
That is just one example of the possibilities of leveraging vCenter custom attributes in the VM Intelligent Policy.
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

22. New VM Disk Exclusion Exclude boot disk Exclude data disks
When VM is provisioned from template (e.g. WS2008 R2 template)
Exclude data disks
When data is protected via agent in-the-guest (e.g. Oracle®)
Supported for Windows®, Redhat®, SuSE® VMs
Customers have frequently asked for the ability to exclude VMDKs from VM backups. There are 2 common scenarios:
They do not want to backup the OS, aka boot disk. In this case, they plan to use VM templates to recover the OS and file or application-recovery to recover the data.
They do not want to backup the data disks. In this case, they data is protected using another policy-type, e.g. Oracle. They only need to recover the VM, and Oracle backups will be used for data recovery.
Again, the VM Intelligent Policy come to the rescue by allowing users to optimize backups per their specific needs. By default, all VMDKs or virtual disks are included in a VM backup. But there is now an advanced setting to
Exclude the boot disk, or
Exclude the data disks.
This feature is available on any VM which supports file-level recovery: Windows, Redhat, and SuSE.
(Note: there are some implications when using this advanced setting with Application backups. Please consult the administration guide before using this feature with VM application backup.)
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

23. Backup Status Reported In vCenter Event Log
NetBackup option to log events into vCenter
Backup Success
Backup Failed
Snapshot Delete Failed
Another common request has been to report backup status within the vCenter console, also known as the vSphere client GUI. Now, you can have NetBackup report backup status directly into the vCenter console.
There are 3 events that can be reported:
Successful Backup
Failed Backup
Could not delete the VM snapshot after the backup
The last condition is important to the VM administrator, because the accumulation of VM snapshots can result in a VM performance penalty. With this visibility in the vCenter event log, VM admins now can react immediately and delete these snapshots directly. Otherwise, NetBackup will attempt to delete them later when the next backup is performed.
To manage volume, users can also choose to only report errors, and do not report successful backups.
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

24. Example: Backup Failed Event In vCenter Console
Here is a screenshot of a “backup failure” event as shown in the vCenter event log. It contains all of the necessary information for a VM administrator to forward to a NetBackup administrator, so they can quickly and easily investigate the failure.
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25. vSphere 5 Support – Datastore Clusters
VM policy can backup VMs by Datastore Cluster location
VM Recovery Wizard Can restore VM to Datastore Cluster
Datastore Cluster
Datastore
Another notable enhancement is the support of vSphere 5 “Datastore Clusters”. Simply put, a datastore cluster is a new vSphere 5 storage container for grouping datastores. Generally speaking, a datastore cluster in simply one, large datastore comprised of smaller individual datastore. Consequently, NetBackup policies can now protect VMs that reside on a datastore cluster. And the VM recovery wizard now accepts a datastore cluster as a recovery destination.
Here you can see a NetBackup browser for selecting a recovery destination of either a datastore cluster, or an individual datastore.
When restoring into a cluster, vSphere 5 automatically determines which datastore will be the actual destination, based upon vSphere storage policy criteria.
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

26. VMware Application Protection and Recovery
Optimized for Source Workloads
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27. Application Protection In VMs
Easy checkbox setup
Automatic application discovery via VM intelligent policy
Application-consistent VM backup
Optional database transaction log truncation
Any-level Recovery: VM, Files, Databases, Items
Previous versions of NetBackup offered sophisticated VMware virtual machine protection as well as advanced database protection with Symantec’s patent-pending Granular Recovery Technology (GRT). However, they were not integrated… database backups, with or without GRT, did not work with VMware VADP backups and required a separate backup pass, treating the virtual machine as if it were a physical machine.
NetBackup 7.5 does away with this limitation, saving time, disk space, and money by integrating these two technologies for VMware virtual machines. Now it’s possible to perform a high-speed VMware VADP backup of a database server while retaining all the features of NetBackup’s advanced database agents, including item-level granular recovery. All of this is done in one fast backup pass – no more redundant copies of the same data. You can recover data at any level – full virtual machines, individual files, entire databases, or specific objects and items within a database. These recovery options work in exactly the same way as they always have in NetBackup, so there’s no need to retrain operators and database administrators.
Setting up a VMware backup policy is easy – simple checkboxes allow you to select the types of databases that you’re protecting, optionally truncating database logs during the backup process. Virtual machines are automatically selected for backup using a VMware intelligent policy (VIP).
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

28. Application Protection - Details
Supported VMs: Windows Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server
NetBackup Windows Client in VM provides
Application-consistent VM snapshot
Application granular recovery
NetBackup for VMware provides VM backup
Types of recovery from VM backup
Available for VMware (Hyper-V support planned)
NetBackup’s new VMware application protection features work with Microsoft Exchange, SQL and SharePoint databases. The NetBackup client application must be installed in each virtual machine; the NetBackup client does not perform the backup itself, but it’s needed to assist with application consistency and granular recovery.
An entire VMware-based database server can be restored in one operation for one-step disaster recovery, as well as individual files in the VM. Database-level recovery options are similar to those available for physical machines – entire databases can be recovered in a single operation, and single objects and items in Exchange and SharePoint databases can be restored quickly and easily. Note that the database recovery options require the backup image to reside on disk, rather than tape or virtual tape libraries.
These features are currently not supported for Hyper-V virtual machines, but we expect to offer this capability in future NetBackup versions.
Recovery
Exchange
SharePoint
SQL Server
Media VM 
Any
File
Database
Item
n/a
Not Tape
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

29. New OpsCenter Features
OpsCenter, a free monitoring and reporting tool, and OpsCenter Analytics, its chargeable extended option, were introduced in NetBackup 7.0.
NetBackup 7.5 introduces three new features for OpsCenter, Search, Restore and view based access controls.
View based access control is simply a mechanism to control what clients and policies individual users can report on and restore from, however it is a significant step in terms of “multi-tenancy” support as it allows responsibility for selected clients to be delegated to individuals or groups.
The restore feature extended the “Oracle cloning” feature introduced in NetBackup 7.1 and provides a much simpler, easier to use restore interface than the current BAR GUI .
NetBackup Search – the third major new feature in NetBackup 7.5 – is a separate, linked application with it’s own server component. Like OpsCenter Analytics, NetBackup Search is a chargeable option (although the two components are licenses separately from each other). It is also important to note that the NetBackup Search server uses embedded technology that is only supported on Windows 2008R2 .
New OpsCenter Features
Simplified Operating Model: NetBackup Search, Operational Restore and View Based Access Controls
What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?

30. OpsCenter Makes Backup Better
Monitor
Report
Alert
For large organizations or enterprises with multiple locations and data centers, managing backup and recovery can be a challenge, especially if the goal is to improve efficiency and use of resources. NetBackup OpsCenter, introduced in NetBackup 7.0, offers out of the box reporting, alerts, and monitoring screens designed to streamline the operations of data protection.
New in NetBackup 7.5 are two features; Restore and Search and Hold. These features transform OpsCenter from a reporting, monitoring, and alerting tool into a product that can be used for administration purposes.
NetBackup Search is an e-discovery tool which allows backup administrators to easily complete requests from the Legal department to find information stored on backup tapes in the event of litigation. The current process is very expensive and manual in nature. NetBackup Search UI is integrated into OpsCenter with means customer can quickly and easily search across their entire NetBackup environment.
Now that we’ve covered the legal use case, let’s take a look at operational restores.
In today’s IT environment, companies are continually looking for way to reduce complexity and operational expenses. Operational Restore using OpsCenter is a great new feature that significantly reduces the time and complexity involved with restoring an accidentally deleted file or folder. Operational restore can find delete files/folder in virtual images as well as snapshots. Now, enable your front-line ticketing engineers to perform restore which will significantly reduce the load on the backup department.
Search
and Hold
New!
New!
Restore
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31. NetBackup Search Overview
Powerful legal search and hold tool designed to find and manage relevant files in your backup environment
Federated searches across domains increases searching performance
Create search queries based on custodians, user groups, date ranges, file locations, and file types
Save, edit, and export search queries for legal traceability
Robust image level holds management tools ensures data is preserved which helps to avoid legal sanctions
Hold reports in OpsCenter provide insight into size and duration of legal holds for visibility and chargeback
NetBackup Search provides a mechanism to index the file system metadata that is associated with backup images. That makes searching for relevant information simple, powerful, and fast. Once information is found, the user can take actions based on that information. NetBackup Search provides a robust legal hold mechanism which ensures that images relevant to a legal case are not inadvertently deleted or allowed to expire based on retention levels.
Furthermore, new reports in OpsCenter help the backup department communicate the impacts of legal holds on the environment and could be used for chargeback
Remember that the NetBackup Search server can only run on Windows 2008R2 – however it does not need to run on the same machine as the OpsCenter server or the NetBackup master server.
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32. NetBackup Search Example
A wide range of criteria can be used to define a Search and, once defined, the Search can be saved and executed on demand.
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When a Search is run the backups containing the requested data are listed and can be put on hold if required.
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33. NetBackup Search and Enterprise Vault
Discovery Solution
Discovery Accelerator
Backup is for recovery. Archive is for discovery.
The story has not changed. However, we have found that there are many companied with mountains of backup tapes. In these environments, it is nearly impossible to discovery what information is stored on these tapes. NetBackup Search provides a mechanism to search the meta-data of information stored in the backup environment. Once found, NetBackup Search provides tools to transfer this information into a true e-discovery repository where full content indexing and culling of data can be performed.
NetBackup Search helps customers align backup and archive.
Enterprise
Vault
Import into Archive
Meta Data Search
NetBackup OpsCenter
Full content indexing
Data classification
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34. OpsCenter View Based Access Control
Views group objects, for example clients, in OpsCenter.
Users can be granted roles related to the objects in a view.
Example:
Steve is a restore operator. We want only him to be able restores to selected clients.
Solution:
Create the view “LDN-Servers” grouping the servers
Create a user ID for Steve with the role of restore operator
Grant Steve access to the “LDN-Servers” View
New in OpsCenter 7.5 is the ability to combined roles and views.
A user role is designed to allow user a certain level of control. For example, we may only want a user or group of users to view reports. We would assign these users the role of reporter. If we want to allow the user to restore, we grant them the restore operator.
Views in OpsCenter are designed to shrink the window of what a user can see. For example, we could create a “view” of all windows servers in the US. In OpsCenter today, all users are granted the global view meaning they can see EVERYTHING
In 7.5, we are combining these feature, and we call it view based access control. Now we can assign a user a role and also only allow them the see certain clients applicable to their needs.
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For example, we may only grant Steve the view of windows file systems in the US as he doesn’t need to see the data in the EU or ASIA.
To do this we first create a “view” that includes the servers we want Steve to have access to.
Then we create a user identifier for Steve, giving him the role of “restore operator”
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Finally we associate the user identifier with the view. Steve can now see the servers in the LDN-Servers view and perform restores on them. He cannot see any other servers in the domain or perform any operations on them.
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35. The Problem with File Level Restore Today
Restore requests must go through backup department or highly trained staff
Restoring files is a resource intensive task
How do you restore the user’s files?
Gather as much information from the user as possible
Log into admin GUI
Browse NetBackup catalog
Restore the files
Confirm that you have restored the right files
The emphasis now switches from Search to restore.
Restore today is a job for the experts. Full server recovery is pretty straight forward but what if you’re just looking for a single file.
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This iterative process is time consuming and inefficient.
Repeat steps 3 to 5 as necessary.
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36. File Restore Using OpsCenter Operational Restore
OpsCenter 7.5 offers a restore user interface that is available to operators in a Web browser and provides powerful search capabilities that enables you to search and find the files or directories, even with limited information and service the restore request as quickly as possible.
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Search results appear within seconds and you can refine the search or selected the required files for restore. The “restore cart” feature allows you to do multiple searches and to batch up the requests for future processing.
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37. File Restore Using OpsCenter Operational Restore
Restore also offers the customer the ability to choose alternate copies of the file if needed. For example, the customer can choose to restore the file from a snapshot or from a DR bunker depending on their needs. This is accomplished via a easy to understand user interface designed with the backup administrator in mind.
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38. New Cloud Based Data Protection Features
Freedom of Storage Choice
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39. NetBackup Cloud Enhancements
New public cloud providers
AES-256 Encryption at the Media server
Clients
NetBackup 7.1 introduced the Nirvanix Cloud plug-in
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NetBackup 7.5 introduces support for three more cloud vendors, Amazon S3, AT&T Synaptic Storage and Rackspace Cloud Files
NetBackup 7.5 introduces support for 256 bit AES encryption at the media server – ensuring customers’ data is encrypted as it heads for the cloud
NetBackup 7.5 includes a cloud configuration wizard that also integrates configuration of the KMS server if customer selects encryption option. This greatly simplifies the setup of cloud integration.
NetBackup 7.5 provides bandwidth throttling to limit data transfer during peak times
NetBackup 7.5 provides reporting and chargeback via OpsCenter
NetBackup Accelerator is supported with the Cloud plug-ins.
Cloud Configuration Wizard
Bandwidth throttling
OpsCenter usage and chargeback reporting
Support for NetBackup Accelerator
Media server or
52xx appliance
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40. Deduplication Enhancements
Freedom of Storage Choice
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41. Deduplication across Clients
NetBackup Media Server Deduplication
Scalability Improvements
Now
64TB
Lowers the cost of deduplicated disk backups
Added support for iSCSI storage
Scalable
Architecture
2x Capacity
Media Server
Built-In Deduplication
32 TB
MSDP storage was introduced in NetBackup 7.0 with 16 TB capacity per node. In NetBackup 7.1 this was increased to 32 TB capacity per node.
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In NetBackup 7.5 this is doubled again to 64 TB per node.
MSDP also now supports iSCSI attached storage
And we have added a stream handler for EMC NDMP devices such as Celerra
Note that iSCSI support assumes some minimum performance criteria for the iSCSI devices.
Global
Deduplication across Clients
4 TB
Start
New stream handler for EMC NDMP backups
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42. Netbackup 5220 Backup Appliance
2U or 2U + 3U storage shelve
4 – 72B usable capacity (with N2.5)
Up to 64TB deduplication capacity (with 2.5)
Media/Master server
Deduplication: client or target
Connectivity
Fibre Channel
1 & 10Gb Ethernet
Replication
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43. Netbackup 5020 Deduplication Appliance
32TB usable capacity
Up to 192TB deduplication capacity with 6 nodes
Global deduplication
Connectivity
Fibre Channel
1 & 10Gb Ethernet
Replication
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44. Simple building blocks for solving complex problems
Appliances for enterprises of any size
Cloud
NetBackup 5000 Series
NetBackup 5000 Series
Dedupe clients
The NetBackup 5200 series provides tremendous flexibility for meeting the needs of organizations;
Location; remote or branch offices, regional office(s), datacenter, and disaster recovery sites
Environments: both physical and virtual
Deduplication at client, media server, or target
Deduplication either inline or post process
Tiered storage: disk, tape, and cloud. Also, OST third party products.
Protection; WAN efficient replication
Virtual Servers
NetBackup 5200 Series
NetBackup 5200 Series
Scalable to 192TB
Non-dedupe clients
DR site
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45. Core NetBackup Enhancements
Simplified Operating Model
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46. NetBackup Improved WAN Resiliency
NetBackup Clients at remote office
Client-side deduplication enabled
NetBackup Clients
Regular Media Server or 52xx Appliance
One of the most problematic areas when dealing with remote offices involves the networks connections between the central office and the remote offices.
In previous releases, if the network connection drops during a NetBackup operation, the operation will fail. To complete the operation, an administrator needs to restart the operation.
In NetBackup 7.5, if the network connection drops during a NetBackup operation, the operation will continue. NetBackup will recover the dropped connection without the need for administrator assistance.
This feature can be used with both client deduplication and regular backup types and works with all backup types and storage devices. The only combination that isn’t supported is client deduplication going directly to PDDO rather than via a media server. 2
Backup target at datacenter is a:
Client deduplication to deduplication Media Server
Non-deduplicated data to a media server with any supported storage 1 1
Deduplication Media Server or 52xx Appliance
Master Server 2
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47. Proliferations Clients Master Server Agents Mac®OS 10.7 AIX® 7.1
Sybase® / Informix® support on Solaris® 10 x64 (Sparc® parity)
Oracle 11g R2 support on zLinux®
Enterprise Vault 10
SharePoint® 2010 SP1 / Exchange® 2010 SP2
This slide lists the new platform and agent version support we have added in NetBackup 7.5 and can simply be read off from the screen.
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48. Proliferations continued.
Deduplication (client and media server)
AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1 MSDP and Client
Bare Metal Restore
Red Hat 6 and AIX 7.1 client support
Linux native multipath support
Solaris 10 x64/Sparc ZFS support
Virtualization
Windows/RedHat/SuSe file-level recovery on Hyper-V
RedHat/SuSe EXT4 file system support on VMware and Hyper-V
This slide lists the new platform and agent version support we have added in NetBackup 7.5 and can simply be read off from the screen.
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49. Auto Image Replication Support For BMR
Auto Image Replication Design
NetBackup BMR Master Domain A
NetBackup BMR
Master Domain B
BMR
Database
BMR Boot
Server
BMR
Database
NetBackup Clients
Import image
Site Recovery
using BMR
BMR config backup
BMR Config Import
Backup
Auto Image Replication is a complex and unique feature which requires some detailed explaining. The purpose of this slide is to provide a high level over view of the feature and emphasize the new support for BMR. Do not let yourself get bogged down in the details of A.I.R. during this presentation – set up a separate session to cover it if necessary.
Auto Image Replication is a mechanism for automatically replicating copies of mission critical backups between different NetBackup domains and greatly simplifies and speeds up recovery in the event of site loss. It also provides a mechanism for sending copies of backups to a “bunker” location for long term storage.
Auto Image Replication was originally introduced in NetBackup 7.1 and works with Symantec’s deduplication solutions (MSDP, PDDO and the 52xx and 50xx appliances) as well as OpenStorage devices that have plug-ins with the Auto Image Replication feature enabled.
In the 7.5 release Auto Image Replication can be used to replicate Bare Metal Restore information along with backups, simplifying and speeding up server recovery at the DR site.
Auto Image Replication uses Storage Lifecycle policies and the process works as follows:
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First a backup is written under SLP control in the source domain and a copy of that backup is written to storage that supports Auto Image replication
The SLP sends a copy of the backup to a suitable storage device in the source domain. Note the small red square next to the blue image. This red square denotes the catalog and BMR information which is sent along with the copy of the backup image.
The copied image is automatically detected in the target domain and the catalog and BMR information is imported into the databases on the target domain’s master server using a second SLP that has the same name as the SLP in the source domain.
Once imported this copy of the backup can be copied to other storage devices for long term storage.
And the backup can also be restored to a server in the target domain.
Bare Metal HW OR Hypervisor (VMWARE or HyperV) to restore
NetBackup Clients
Media server or 52xx Appliance
Media server or 52xx Appliance
Image
Image
Image
OST Optimized Duplication
Duplication
Source Domain (Production data center)
Target Domain
(DR data center)
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50. Other Core Enhancements
AdvancedDisk encryption support
Uses the same 256 bit AES encryption as the cloud plug-in
Catalog enhancements
Image meta-data consolidated into the relational database
Improves performance and catalog integrity
Liveupdate from policy/file
Liveupdate can work with a list of supplied client names or obtain clients names directly from backup policies
Removes the need to specify individual client names
Scalability/performance enhancements to job monitoring
Less resource intensive, faster response and improved scalability in job management as well as number of active job monitors .
NetBackup Product Improvement Program
Runs at install/upgrade time and anonymously collects key metrics about what is installed on what servers and sends it securely to Symantec support.
Also reports on installation problems to help us identify issues
Some other new features and enhancements to the core of NetBackup in the 7.5 release are:
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Encryption of data on AdvancedDisk storage – this uses the same encryption engine as the cloud plug-in but cannot be configured through the storage server wizard in this release.
Catalog image meta-data has been consolidated in the catalog relational database. This change is transparent to users but should provide benefits in terms of improved catalog backup speeds and reduced catalog cleanup times.
Liveupdate can now use a text file list of clients and extract the client list from a backup policy. This saves manually specifying the clients.
The performance and scalability of the job monitor have also been improved in the 7.5 release.
We also have an option that allows customers to send us information about their installations when they upgrade. Just simple stuff like the spec of the machine you’re installing on. It’s sent to us anonymously and we hope it will help us improve the product by improving our understanding of customer environments.
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51. What is new in NetBackup 5220?
NetBackup Accelerator
Up to 100x faster backups
VMware Protection in a Box
End-to-end virtual & physical machine protection
One Gateway, Many Clouds
Heterogeneous cloud gateway for backups
WAN Optimization
Up to 10x faster backups for high latency links
NetBackup 7.5 brings a powerful new set of feature to the appliance. This will be available as a software update beginning in late April In addition to the core update of NetBackup code, this appliance software update will also include unique features for the appliance.
NetBackup Accelerator – A key feature of NetBackup 7.5 improves our deduplication story be reducing the impact of dedupe backup on Windows clients. It allows customers to shatter their backup windows, something no other vendor can offer.
VMware Protection in a Box – The NetBackup appliance now offers native support of the VADP allow customers to scale VMware backup with less infrastructure (no separate windows proxy hosts).
One Gateway, Many Clouds – NetBackup 7.5 brings support for additional cloud storage vendors and the appliance also supports this functionality. More importantly, 3rd party clouds can be used as a storage target by NetBackup Accelerator resulting in a substantially faster backup to the cloud as only the changed blocks are written. This is ideal for long term storage of backup data with low RTOs and when customers wish to minimize their tape infrastructure.
WAN Optimization – This is a unique appliance feature that delivers faster data transfer during duplication and restore operations.
5220 Appliances are equipped with Symantec Critical Systems Protection to protect against hackers and other unauthorized access.
Secured with Symantec Critical System Protection
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52. What’s New In Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5?