Question 1

Scenario:

A major multinational bank runs business-critical applications in a virtualized data center

Has multiple remote/branch offices (ROBO) across different geographic locations

Currently uses tape as its primary backup storage media for backing up virtual machines (VMs) and application data

Uses an agent-based backup solution for backing up data

Has a file-sharing environment in which multiple NAS systems serve all the users

The data is backed up from application servers to backup device

Approximately 25% of data in the production environment is inactive data (fixed content)

Organizations Challenges:

Backup operations consume resources on the compute systems that are running multiple VMs

Significantly impacting the applications deployed on the VMs

During NAS backup, the application servers are impacted

Data is backed up from these servers to the backup device

Backup environment has a huge amount of redundant data

Increases the infrastructure cost and impacts the backup window

Recovering data or VMs also takes more time

Branch offices also have limited IT resources for managing backup

Backing up data from branch offices to a centralized data center was restricted due to the time and cost involved in sending huge volumes of data over the WAN

Organization incurs a huge investment and operational expense in managing an offsite backup infrastructure at remote site

Organizations Requirements:

1. Need faster backup and restore to meet the SLAs

2. Need to eliminate redundant copies of data

3. Need an effective solution to address the backup and recovery challenges of remote and branch offices

4. Need to offload the backup workload from the compute system to avoid performance impact to applications

5. Requires a solution to overcome the backup challenges in NAS environment

6. Requires a strategy to eliminate backing up fixed content from the production environment

7. Requires a solution to reduce the management overhead and the investment cost in managing the offsite backup copy

Deliverables:

Recommend solutions that will meet the organizations requirements

Solution: ????