EMC RecoverPoint

Maximize RecoverPoint Continuous Remote Replication (CRR) performance and meet your RPOs over any WAN

Data protection is an essential part of business continuity and disaster recovery. EMC RecoverPoint is a data protection solution that provides local, and remote continuous data protection, allowing for any point-in-time data recovery. In the event of data loss or corruption, data can be recovered across arrays and applications to a consistent state. Applications can be quickly restarted, resulting in shorter downtime.
While EMC RecoverPoint provides an efficient data protection solution, longer distance WAN connections can undermine replication performance. High latency, bandwidth contention, or out-of-order or dropped packets can result in missed RPOs and potentially failed replication.

EMC and Silver Peak

E-Lab Proven

EMC and Silver Peak compiled results for RecoverPoint from joint testing conducted with EMC and real-world customer examples. Silver Peak was able to help RecoverPoint sustain consistent replication throughput in networks with higher latencies. The example below shows replication between east and west coast sites in the United States over an IP VPN. Typical network latency was 80ms with a 1% rate of packet loss.

Figure 1. Replication time versus RPO across an IP VPN with 1% packet loss, 80ms latency 

Regional replication over Internet VPN— Hopkinton, MA to Santa Clara, CA

  • 64 gigabytes (GB) of data per hour replicating over a 45 Mbps network connection
  • RPO: 2 hours
  • Latency: 80ms
  • Packet loss: 1%
  • RecoverPoint compression and deduplication enabled
  • Replication before Silver Peak:
    • Throughput: 24.5 GB/hour
    • Time to replicate: 2 hrs, 48 minutes (missed RPO by 48 minutes)
  • Replication with Silver Peak software enabled:
    • Throughput: 174.6 GB/hour 
    • Time to replicate: 36 minutes 
  • 7X increase in replication throughput

How Silver Peak can help

While EMC RecoverPoint provides an efficient data protection solution, longer distance WAN connections can undermine replication performance. High latency, bandwidth contention, or out-of-order or dropped packets can result in missed RPOs and potentially failed replication.
Silver Peak software eliminates the network inefficiencies that can reduce replication throughput. Silver Peak overcomes distance limitations between source and target RecoverPoint appliances by accelerating replication traffic and efficiently using all of the available bandwidth. Silver Peak also protects accelerated traffic with real-time AES encryption without impacting performance. Use Silver Peak software with EMC Recover Point to:

  • Protect more data and get consistent, high replication throughput even over poor quality networks
  • Replicate over longer distances by overcoming latency
  • Maximize available bandwidth for replication
  • Accelerate Continuous Remote Replication without making any changes to the network
  • Encrypt and accelerate traffic between Silver Peak instances at wire speed, using an AES-256, IPSec VPN

Silver Peak’s storage-specific reporting makes it easy for a storage professional to manage the Silver Peak implementation and get useful information. Silver Peak software uses storage-friendly terms that show the data replicated (in bytes) and replication performance. Reports segment storage traffic by type (replication and / or backup), and application (such as EMC RecoverPoint or EMC SRDF/A). Metrics display per minute, per hour, and per day and include a 10¬-day graph showing changes made over a weekend.  

With EMC RecoverPoint and Silver Peak Velocity Replication Accelerator (VRX) software, you can protect all of your business-critical data and replicate consistently, regardless of network problems or distance.  

Benefits

  • Meet Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). Replicate more data in less time to remote locations.
  • Replicate over longer distances. Eliminate distance limitations between source/target devices.
  • Improve business continuity. Maintain redundant data centers in distant geographies for rapid recovery from disasters.
  • Lower disaster recovery costs. Eliminate costly dedicated networks for replication; avoid bandwidth upgrades.

Resources

  • Silver Peak VRX Replication Acceleration software makes replication acceleration easy and affordable.
  • Bandwidth congestion, latency, and dropped packets are all common challenges associated with replicating data between storage systems across an IP Wide Area Network (WAN). Any one of these problems can impede the replication process or prevent it from happening entirely. These issues can also increase WAN infrastructure costs and have a significant impact on the total cost of ownership (TCO) for offsite data protection.
  • EMC VNX is a unified storage system that provides options for customers of any size. Smaller businesses can utilize the VNXe as an affordable solution to store and protect their data. For medium-sized to enterprise businesses, the VNX is a flexible high performance solution to all storage and data protection needs. For businesses with replication requirements, the VNX family can utilize EMC RecoverPoint. Additionally, VNXe can use VNX Replicator for less demanding environments.
  • New Zealand’s top internet business has chosen Silver Peak data acceleration software to enhance the performance of its EMC RecoverPoint remote data protection environment. By deploying the Silver Peak VRX virtual software with EMC RecoverPoint, the Trade Me Group reduced the time it takes to replicate data between its Wellington and Auckland facilities by 90 percent, enabling the company to easily meet its recovery point objective (RPO).
  • This solution sheet describes the EMC VSPEX solution using EMC RecoverPoint and Silver Peak Velocity Replication Acceleration software. The VSPEX program offers pre-packaged solutions to help customers deploy a Proven Infrastructure faster, without the risk and complexity of the traditional build-your-own approach.
  • This document provides detailed configuration steps and best practices for deploying Silver Peak replication acceleration software with EMC RecoverPoint for data protection across any network. This document builds on the VSPEX Proven Architecture for RecoverPoint, EMC document #H12298. Test and validation results are also included in Chapter 6.