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    Cohesity SnapTree TM

    Executive Summary:
    The 24/7 nature of today’s enterprise requires that Recovery Time Objectives
    (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) are reduced to a minimum. Cohesity
    Data Protect is built on patented Cohesity SnapTree technology to deliver a
    robust data protection strategy that delivers (i) Protection from accidentally
    deleted files, application crashes, data corruption (ii) Data retention for long
    Cohesity SnapTree
    periods of time to satisfy compliance and regulatory requirements (iii) Low RPO Benefits
    & RTO with a distributed web scale platform for secondary storage infrastructure.
    •A
     chieve faster backup and restore
    Challenges with current Snapshot technologies: Data protection in legacy with reduction in RTO and RPO
    storage solutions leverage copy-on-write/redirect-on-write snapshot technology windows by over 90%
    to create copies of data. These snapshots of a file system at a particular given
    point in time form a chain, tracking the changes made to a set of data and
    •O
     btain pay as you grow scaling
    form the basis for organizing and storing copies of data. Every time a change
    that ensures maximum data
    is captured, a new link is added to the chain. As these chains grow with each
    reduction while backups are
    and every snapshot, the time it takes to retrieve data on a given request grows
    readily available for instant
    because the system must re-link the chain to access that data. This process is
    recovery and clone capability
    highly inefficient and is unable to cope with the growing demands of achieving
    shorter RPO and RTO windows.
    •L
     ower Total cost of ownership
    Cohesity SnapTree™ Technology (TCO) by limiting storage growth
    from multiple data copies
    Cohesity has brought innovation to data protection through the SnapTree
    technology. SnapTree is a ‘Distributed-Redirect-on-Write’ (DROW) snapshot
    mechanism that provides speed and scalability in addition to the inherent
    benefits of RoW snapshot. The design is optimized for write performance so
    any changes are redirected to new blocks. Additionally, all nodes participate in
    this process thereby leveraging the scalability elements of the Cohesity cluster.
    SnapTree is available as part of Cohesity DataPlatform.

    Comparison between Traditional snapshots and Cohesity SnapTree

    Traditional snapshots Cohesity SnapTree

    Read/write Degrades as the number of No change as the number of


    performance traverses to reconstruct data traverses to reconstruct data from
    increases linearly with time. any snapshot is fixed.

    Number of Limited by performance impact Unlimited because data change


    snapshots of frequent snapshots particularly does not result in accesses needed
    with write intensive workloads. to retrieve the data. Moreover, the
    High data change rate will mean snapshots are distributed across all
    high IO (reads/writes) overhead nodes in a cluster, hence the term
    on any changes/updates after DROW snapshots.
    snapshots are taken.

    RPO Order of hours to days. Order of minutes.

    RTO Since snapshots are not fully SnapTree provides fully hydrated
    hydrated, RTO times are high with snapshots to recover quickly to a
    traditional snapshots. certain point in time.

    Instantaneous with SnapTree.


    Cloning for test/
    One Platform.
    Several vendors consolidate
    dev purpose changes to build out periodic full
    copies. This can take significant
    time due to traversing the entire Infinite Possibilities.
    snapshot chain.

    Storage Inefficient due to periodic fulls Efficient by eliminating the need to


    consumption required to consolidate data do periodic fulls.
    changes over time.
    Cohesity’s patented SnapTree technology allows Datafile reconstruction using Conventional Snapshot images

    businesses to take a large number of snapshots at


    any time interval with uncapped retention policies, S0 S1 S2 S3 Sn Unbounded
    accumulated
    without ever affecting performance or consuming traverses (n) to
    reconstruct
    additional space. Cohesity’s DROW implementation A B C0 C1 C2 C3 Cn A, B, Cn
    keeps track of changes by writing the changed data
    to new blocks.
    Datafile reconstruction using Cohesity SnapTree images

    SnapTree creates a tree of pointers that limits the


    S0 S1 S2 S3 Sn
    number of traverses it takes to retrieve blocks of Always fixed traverses
    (2 in this example) to
    data, regardless of the number of snapshots that reconstruct
    A, B, Cn
    have been taken. SnapTree uses a B+ tree data
    structure (Fig 1) such that access to any point in
    the tree takes a fixed number no matter how many A B C0 C1 C2 C3 Cn
    snapshots there are, without having to rebuild any
    chain linkage. Time

    Fig 1. Cohesity SnapTree technology helps create snapshots without


    incurring the recovery penalty of traversing the entire snapshot chain
    seen in traditional snapshot architecture.

    Because SnapTree is implemented on a distributed Cluster


    file system (Fig 2), every node sees the same
    Node 1 ... Node 2 ................ Node n
    nested structure of the chain with a fixed depth
    independent of where the actual data is stored in
    the cluster. Keeping the snapshots fully hydrated
    improves the recovery times of any snapshot from
    t0 to tn because it does not incur the time penalty of
    S0 S1 S2 S3 Sn
    traversing the entire chain of changes. Each of these Every node in the
    cluster sees fixed
    snapshot clones is fully hydrated so that businesses traverses (2 in this example)
    to reconstruct A, B, Cn
    can achieve fast RTO and near-continuous RPO
    objectives. SnapTree is available as part of Cohesity
    DataPlatform. A B C0 C1 C2 C3 Cn

    Time

    Fig 2. Distributed-Redirect-on-Write’ (DROW) snapshot ensures that


    every node sees the same nested structure of the SnapTree

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