Solution brief

HPE StoreOnce
Backup with Veeam
Driving performance and cost-efficiency
through storage integration

In the Always-On Enterprise, more and more workloads

“Veeam proved its value a are mission-critical and are being deployed on virtualized
second time when one of infrastructure, leading to virtual machine (VM) sprawl.
our critical VMs became
Unfortunately, this has created a staggering Add to that the potential for unforeseen
inoperable after a change. increase in the amount of backup storage circumstances leading to backup failures,
The issue hadn’t been space required, which ultimately results and you may find your backup—and more
in storage inefficiencies. Virtual machine importantly, the recovery—isn’t as reliable
identified during testing, sprawl and increased data storage size as it needs to be, increasing your exposure
and it was initially unclear requirements have also caused legacy to data loss and downtime.
why the change had caused backup tools to become impractical
due to shrinking backup windows, cost,
an outage. Had this situation manageability, and poor performance. IT departments need a
persisted, it could have data protection solution to
Data backup and availability are critical
caused an airport disruption business requirements that have to be planned
address evolving needs
and a reputational knock. and deployed correctly. HPE StoreOnce,
combined with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst
IT departments need a solution that can:
However, Veeam restored and Veeam, addresses the challenges • Deliver industry-leading performance
to meet growing data volumes and
the VM quickly, and we faced by backup administrators who need to
consolidate and improve storage efficiencies shrinking backup windows—Reduce
placed it back in service.” while addressing these common problems. impact on VM workloads without the need
for backup agents, and store multiple
– Sherif Darwish, Head of IT infrastructure, • Backup sprawl—As you add VMs, simultaneous backup streams—or full
Gatwick Airport hosts, and storage to keep pace with synthetic backups—to a single device at
demands, you may need to add more breakneck speeds with HPE StoreOnce
backup infrastructure in order to maintain Catalyst. This shortens backup windows
your backup window. This increases the and accelerates recovery, so you can regain
overhead needed to run multiple backup access to data when you need it the most.
processes and manage additional devices.
• Keep pace with data and VM growth
• Backup overspill—If your overnight to enable future-proofing with easy
backup solution can’t complete the scale-out—With HPE StoreOnce
backup in time, it may spill over into the pay‑as‑you‑grow architecture, you can
working day. This means slower system start small and scale up to 2240 TB (raw)
performance for your users or application or 1728 TB (usable) capacity, without any
inaccessibility. You may have to terminate disruption to service. Simply add expansion
the process in mid-backup—resulting in shelves or couplets. Plus, Veeam’s simple
incomplete protection. per-socket licensing structure scales
• Unreliable backup and recovery— easily to protect all your VMs as your
Managing virtual machines, snapshots, environment grows.
backup agents, and planning appropriate
backup schedules, is a complex task.
Solution brief

With HPE StoreOnce you can achieve

up to a • VM recovery

95%
• Guest OS recovery
Web Mail Database • Microsoft® application item recovery
VMs VMs VMs • Efficient deduplication

reduction in your backup footprint.1

Catalyst HPE StoreOnce
Hypervisor (local)
Veeam server

HPE StoreOnce is the industry‑leading Data center/primary site

disk-based deduplication and backup
target device. HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Figure 1. HPE StoreOnce backup with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst and Veeam.
is a backup and recovery optimized
device type that uses a more efficient
protocol than NAS or VTL for faster • Lower ongoing backup costs—The Ready to overcome the
HPE StoreOnce federated deduplication
performance. Another significant
advantage of Catalyst is that it controls solution provides highly efficient backup
virtualization backup
where the backup data deduplication storage that reduces the size of data stored challenge?
processing takes place (i.e., application
server, backup server, or the target
on disk. Instead of storing duplicate data,
deduplication lets you store only unique You wouldn’t choose to operate your company
device) to optimize the use of available
server resources and network bandwidth. data blocks, and places pointers to them without property liability and other key
when other instances of the same data insurance. Why put your valuable data assets
blocks are needed—without having to store at risk? You never know when or where a
them more than once. With HPE StoreOnce, disaster will strike, so let us evaluate your
you can achieve up to a 95% reduction environment and propose a solution that
in your backup footprint, reducing your improves data protection and availability
cost per gigabyte of storage while also across your organization while reducing
increasing the number of recovery points. complexity and lowering costs.

• Deliver reliability—With the combination Insuring your data with HPE StoreOnce and
of HPE StoreOnce and Veeam, you can Veeam means you can be confident that it is
be confident your data was backed up protected, recoverable, and readily available.
reliably and that applications are available. This allows you to meet stringent backup
HPE solutions are uniquely designed to windows while reducing your management
offer full redundancy and autonomic restart overhead, complexity, and cost. It seamlessly
to reduce single point hardware failures.2 integrates into your virtual environment
1
S toreOnce deduplication ratio from HPE internal
• Provide restore flexibility—Veeam allowing simple, agentless deployment, along
lab tests has shown 20:1 reduction in data. The
results are not typical and the number could image‑level backup allows for fast, efficient, with reduction and consolidation of storage.
vary based on number of factors including
data change rate, backup retention, etc. and flexible VM recovery. It also includes
2
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