Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This episode of the Tech on Tap podcast, we brought in Veeam's tech evangelist, Michael Cade of the NetApp A team to discuss Veeam's latest release. Welcome to the Tech on Tap podcast. Hello and welcome to the Tech on Tap podcast. My name is Justin Parisi and on the phone with me today is the absent Glenn Sizemore.
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Chapter 2: Who is Michael Cade and what is his role at Veeam?
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I had to be prepared for Michael.
That's true. Michael. That's right. Michael's here today. So Michael Cade is in the office. He's actually here locally. We don't have to do it over a bad Webex connection. and have it kind of break up on us because I guess they don't have true internet over there. But yeah, so Michael Cade's here today.
He is a representative from Veeam, and he'll give us a little more information about who he is, and we're going to talk about the new release of Veeam. So Michael Cade, if you could tell us what you do at Veeam and why you're here.
Yeah, hi, Justin. Hi, Glenn. Yeah, so I'm a technical evangelist at Veeam Software and a member of the NetApp A team, so that's ultimately why I'm in town this week. What we want to talk about is Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 2 that's been released this week, bringing full support for ONTAP 9.1. It really goes back to...
what we already do with NetApp, I guess, so things around our backup from storage snapshots. So in a VMware world, we've got the ability to offload that VM impact from a VM snapshot down to the storage array using that awesome storage snapshot that NetApp brings to the party, and then be able to pull that data off there from a snapshot into our backup repository.
And that's another thing that we can talk about. So we've also released a data sheet this week prior to VMON. our event next week is around the E-Series as a backup repository. So there's ExpressPacks out there where we've jointly put them together, sized them accordingly so that they can be slotted in as a, let's say, a backup appliance.
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Chapter 3: What new features are included in Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 2?
We'll turn them into the FlexClone that's a space-efficient clone of the volume. We'll present that as a data store, and we'll spin up the virtual machines that we require, the Active Directory, the SQL Server, as well as the web server. in the specific order that we tell it. And then from there, it's in an isolated network. It's on that isolated vSwitch.
People, the dev team, test dev, troubleshooting, et cetera, can now jump into that on that space-efficient LAN or volume, work away on that, and then we can drop that down automatically from Veeam, tidying away all the flex clones, tidying away all the virtual machines from the VMware estate as well.
Yeah, I think that's killer, man. It's so killer because, you know, we've talked about it on this podcast many times. That is the core loop that really... brings value traditionally in NetApp's Snap Manager Suite, where our field is mostly familiar, right? It's, you know, the backups and the restores, that's business stakes. That's just table stakes, rather.
That's why you're there in the first place. But it's the ability to then take this thing that you're taking for basic business protection reasons and then leverage it to extract actual value from that is where it starts to get exciting. And where I think that you guys are potentially a little bit unique, I will admit I'm not a backup and restore guru these days, right?
I'm way too much heads down in NetApp land. But the ability to pull apart those desperate application workloads and build a logical application group, I forget what you called it just now, but then use that as the unit of cloning, I can, oh man, that is killer.
Yeah, so on that, obviously the benefits of that is that we're leveraging the production storage investment or potentially a disaster recovery investment in ONTAP. But also we have the same features and functionality wherever we're backing up to as well. So obviously the IOPS don't lie, right?
So if we're going to another storage that isn't your production or flash FAS, then it's not going to perform as fast. So it depends on what you need that lab for. But
Ultimately, some of the testing that we've been doing with your TMEs around the E-Series and the performance that we're seeing around presenting those backup files as a virtual lab from an E-Series, we're getting some great, great performance from that as well.
I mean, that's... It's a technique that we use internally at NetApp, and I've seen externally at customers. A quotable reference, which is a bit dated, but whatever, it's quotable, is our old bank-in-the-box solution with ING out of Australia. It's essentially just the problem of I have a team that needs to do something with a thing that is living in the public side of how my business runs.
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Chapter 4: How does Veeam integrate with NetApp technologies?
And Veeam have jumped right on that. And that's why we've got... A data sheet going out, as I mentioned, at the top of the show around those express packs and what they bring, what features and benefits they bring together.
And also I'm working on a performance white paper with ACASH, one of your E-series TMEs, and actually working out how many instant VM recoveries, and maybe I'll touch on what instant VM recovery is, but... Ultimately, how fast can we restore either a subset of virtual machines or a whole environment from that E-series?
And that's really the key benefit to that is that we're now going to have performance metrics that we can say, look, this is what we can do with this software and this hardware.
Yeah, so we're really talking full-stack partner integration, right, when a customer starts to consider Veeam, whether it's the native integration with our snapshots or our native replication through SnapMirror or SnapVault.
And then when you get to the need to actually get it into a new format to protect yourselves from format corruption, even though that never actually happens, a waffle, whatever, it's still best practice. we can provide you the cheap, deep, cost-effective methodology through our E-Series bundles.
Yeah, and it's really – so that E-Series is there to really pinpoint that 7, 14, 30-day retention. So it's going to be right next to your production workload. It's going to be there just in case anything happens to that production workload. It could just be a –
minimal outage but not for the the rack next to it which is where the e-series resides so we can then just leverage that and then that kind of brings me on to the next thing around another part of the the data fabric in in terms of alter vault so being able to go from those two copies of your data on two different media types there so they're on the same site but on two different media types we've then got the option to even extend that further by sending that 30 plus days over to an alter vault and then out into
maybe a public cloud, if that's the way you want to go as a business. But ultimately, the Ultravolt opens up so many different areas of container to store those backups off-site in a secondary location.
All right, Michael Cade, thanks so much for joining us today from Veeam. If you could tell us how we can get in touch with you on social media and what sort of blogs you have out there, go for it.
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