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SUCCESS STORY
Modern Data Protection Built for Virtualization
National Bank of Abu Dhabi Trusts Veeam For Fast Recovery in Virtual Environment “Between superior recovery capabilities and built-in features that help us make the most of virtualization, Veeam is a hassle-free, plug-and-play, virtualization-aware backup solution. It has an arsenal of options that are a must-have for any modern virtual datacenter.”
— Mahmoud Yassin Lead Systems and Security Engineer National Bank of Abu Dhabi
INDUSTRY:
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The National Bank of Abu Dhabi has one of the largest banking networks in the United Arab Emirates with 124 branches and 478 ATMs, as well as the largest global network with 57 branches in 19 countries. Since 2009, it has been ranked each year as one of the world’s 50 safest banks by Global Finance magazine.
CHALLENGE: The legacy backup tool had several limitations including slow and unreliable recovery.
The Business Challenge The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has received multiple accolades from the technology community including the prestigious ACN Arab Technology Award and the Asian Banker Award. NBAD is at the forefront of investing in technological improvements to remain an innovative leader in the financial sector. That explains why NBAD was an early adopter of virtualization. Approximately 80 VMware vSphere servers host more than 800 virtual machines (VMs) that run critical applications from Blackberry, Citrix and Microsoft. When the legacy backup tool failed to recover VMs quickly and reliably, the IT team began researching alternative solutions. “We are responsible for supporting a financial institution where 24x7 uptime and data availability are key requirements, in addition to providing IT services in a timely manner,” said Marwan El-Tawashi, Senior Systems Engineer for NBAD. “Our backup tool had several limitations that affected our virtual environment, and a lengthy recovery process was the most troublesome. Recovering a VM could take 45 to 60 minutes, and we didn’t want to inconvenience internal users. Another limitation was related to snapshots. The legacy tool took multiple simultaneous and uncontrollable snapshots that impacted our production ESXi environment. “Adding new VMs to backup jobs presented an additional limitation. When we created VMs for a cluster or datastore, we had to take the time to add them manually. The final limitation was not being able to perform Linux file-level recovery from snapshots. We needed a virtualization backup solution with the necessary features and capabilities to resolve these issues.”
The Veeam Solution After considering several backup and recovery solutions, the IT team narrowed its options down to two, including Veeam® Backup & Replication™. Team members identified three major differences between Veeam and the other tool: ease of deployment and management, built-in features and recovery capabilities. “The first thing we noticed about Veeam was how easy it was to install and use, unlike the other tool, which required agents to be installed on each VM to be backed up,” said Mahmoud Yassin, Lead Systems and Security Engineer. “Backup jobs with Veeam are dynamic. If we add a new VM to a cluster, it’s automatically included in the backup of that cluster.”
SUCCESS STORY
SOLUTION: Veeam Backup & Replication™
RESULTS: • Fast, reliable backup and recovery ensure 24x7 data availability • Built-in features leverage the benefits of virtualization • Virtualization-powered data protection built for the modern datacenter
About Veeam Software Veeam® is Modern Data Protection™ - providing powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solutions that are Built for Virtualization™ and the Cloud. Veeam Backup & Replication™ delivers VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, recovery and replication. This #1 VM Backup™ solution helps organizations meet RPOs and RTOs, save time, eliminate risks and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Backup Management Suite™ provides all the benefits and features of Veeam Backup & Replication along with advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the backup infrastructure. Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) extends enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center and also offers monitoring and reporting for the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure. Veeam also provides free tools for the virtualization community. Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has over 20,000 ProPartners and more than 80,000 customers worldwide. Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland and has offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com
The second difference is built-in features. Veeam offers whole VM replication, while the other tool can only replicate backups between datastores. Veeam also has builtin intelligence to ensure simultaneous backups and snapshots don’t burden the production environment. And, Veeam has built-in deduplication and compression. Backup files require 25% less storage space than before; therefore, NBAD anticipates saving thousands of dollars in storage purchases each year. “The third major difference, and the most important, is recovery capabilities,”Yassin continued. “With Veeam we can recover any virtualized application quickly. None of the backup tools we’ve used or researched was able to perform Linux file-level recovery from backup snapshots. Even restoring a file from a Windows VM was complex. Veeam is different. It supports multiple platforms and offers easy recovery.” Veeam Backup & Replication provides powerful, easy-to-use, agentless and affordable recovery of virtualized applications and data for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. The IT team’s favorite Veeam feature is Instant VM Recovery™ because it helps recover a failed VM in as few as two minutes. Before Veeam, internal users had to wait up to 60 minutes while the team provisioned storage, extracted the backup and copied it to production. With Veeam, VMs are started directly from backups. Veeam also recovers files from any guest operating system and file system from a backup without booting the VM. “Another recovery capability we’re looking forward to using is Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft Exchange,”Yassin said. “We’ve had requests from administrators and users to recover Exchange items in a short timeframe, and once we virtualize Exchange we believe Veeam will help us meet this need.” Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange provides instant visibility into Exchange backups, advanced search capabilities and quick recovery of individual Exchange items including emails, contacts and notes. “Between superior recovery capabilities and built-in features that help us make the most of virtualization, Veeam is a hassle-free, plug-and-play, virtualization-aware backup solution. It has an arsenal of options that are a must-have for any modern virtual datacenter,”Yassin concluded.
The Results Fast, reliable backup and recovery ensure 24x7 data availability When Veeam Backup & Replication is compared with NBAD’s legacy backup tool, backup with Veeam is five times faster and recovery is 10 times faster. With Veeam, the IT team can recover individual objects from any virtualized application without agents, additional backups or software tools. Built-in features leverage the benefits of virtualization Unlike legacy backup tools that are complex, costly and don’t offer enough capabilities for virtualization, Veeam provides built-in features that help enterprises capitalize on virtualization. For example, they can replicate VMs between datacenters for migration, onsite for high availability or offsite for disaster recovery (DR); take advantage of deduplication and compression to conserve backup storage; and rely on multi-hypervisor support to protect all VMs from one console. Virtualization-powered data protection built for the modern datacenter Veeam was built exclusively for virtualization, unlike legacy backup tools that add virtualization components as an after-thought. Veeam delivers a solution that enhances data protection and DR for more than 73,000 customers worldwide.
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Download free trial www.veeam.com/backup
Modern Data Protection Built for Virtualization
National Bank of Abu Dhabi Trusts Veeam For Fast Recovery in Virtual Environment “Between superior recovery capabilities and built-in features that help us make the most of virtualization, Veeam is a hassle-free, plug-and-play, virtualization-aware backup solution. It has an arsenal of options that are a must-have for any modern virtual datacenter.”
— Mahmoud Yassin Lead Systems and Security Engineer National Bank of Abu Dhabi
INDUSTRY:
Financial services COMPANY:
The National Bank of Abu Dhabi has one of the largest banking networks in the United Arab Emirates with 124 branches and 478 ATMs, as well as the largest global network with 57 branches in 19 countries. Since 2009, it has been ranked each year as one of the world’s 50 safest banks by Global Finance magazine.
CHALLENGE: The legacy backup tool had several limitations including slow and unreliable recovery.
The Business Challenge The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has received multiple accolades from the technology community including the prestigious ACN Arab Technology Award and the Asian Banker Award. NBAD is at the forefront of investing in technological improvements to remain an innovative leader in the financial sector. That explains why NBAD was an early adopter of virtualization. Approximately 80 VMware vSphere servers host more than 800 virtual machines (VMs) that run critical applications from Blackberry, Citrix and Microsoft. When the legacy backup tool failed to recover VMs quickly and reliably, the IT team began researching alternative solutions. “We are responsible for supporting a financial institution where 24x7 uptime and data availability are key requirements, in addition to providing IT services in a timely manner,” said Marwan El-Tawashi, Senior Systems Engineer for NBAD. “Our backup tool had several limitations that affected our virtual environment, and a lengthy recovery process was the most troublesome. Recovering a VM could take 45 to 60 minutes, and we didn’t want to inconvenience internal users. Another limitation was related to snapshots. The legacy tool took multiple simultaneous and uncontrollable snapshots that impacted our production ESXi environment. “Adding new VMs to backup jobs presented an additional limitation. When we created VMs for a cluster or datastore, we had to take the time to add them manually. The final limitation was not being able to perform Linux file-level recovery from snapshots. We needed a virtualization backup solution with the necessary features and capabilities to resolve these issues.”
The Veeam Solution After considering several backup and recovery solutions, the IT team narrowed its options down to two, including Veeam® Backup & Replication™. Team members identified three major differences between Veeam and the other tool: ease of deployment and management, built-in features and recovery capabilities. “The first thing we noticed about Veeam was how easy it was to install and use, unlike the other tool, which required agents to be installed on each VM to be backed up,” said Mahmoud Yassin, Lead Systems and Security Engineer. “Backup jobs with Veeam are dynamic. If we add a new VM to a cluster, it’s automatically included in the backup of that cluster.”
SUCCESS STORY
SOLUTION: Veeam Backup & Replication™
RESULTS: • Fast, reliable backup and recovery ensure 24x7 data availability • Built-in features leverage the benefits of virtualization • Virtualization-powered data protection built for the modern datacenter
About Veeam Software Veeam® is Modern Data Protection™ - providing powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solutions that are Built for Virtualization™ and the Cloud. Veeam Backup & Replication™ delivers VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, recovery and replication. This #1 VM Backup™ solution helps organizations meet RPOs and RTOs, save time, eliminate risks and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Backup Management Suite™ provides all the benefits and features of Veeam Backup & Replication along with advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the backup infrastructure. Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) extends enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center and also offers monitoring and reporting for the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure. Veeam also provides free tools for the virtualization community. Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has over 20,000 ProPartners and more than 80,000 customers worldwide. Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland and has offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com
The second difference is built-in features. Veeam offers whole VM replication, while the other tool can only replicate backups between datastores. Veeam also has builtin intelligence to ensure simultaneous backups and snapshots don’t burden the production environment. And, Veeam has built-in deduplication and compression. Backup files require 25% less storage space than before; therefore, NBAD anticipates saving thousands of dollars in storage purchases each year. “The third major difference, and the most important, is recovery capabilities,”Yassin continued. “With Veeam we can recover any virtualized application quickly. None of the backup tools we’ve used or researched was able to perform Linux file-level recovery from backup snapshots. Even restoring a file from a Windows VM was complex. Veeam is different. It supports multiple platforms and offers easy recovery.” Veeam Backup & Replication provides powerful, easy-to-use, agentless and affordable recovery of virtualized applications and data for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. The IT team’s favorite Veeam feature is Instant VM Recovery™ because it helps recover a failed VM in as few as two minutes. Before Veeam, internal users had to wait up to 60 minutes while the team provisioned storage, extracted the backup and copied it to production. With Veeam, VMs are started directly from backups. Veeam also recovers files from any guest operating system and file system from a backup without booting the VM. “Another recovery capability we’re looking forward to using is Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft Exchange,”Yassin said. “We’ve had requests from administrators and users to recover Exchange items in a short timeframe, and once we virtualize Exchange we believe Veeam will help us meet this need.” Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange provides instant visibility into Exchange backups, advanced search capabilities and quick recovery of individual Exchange items including emails, contacts and notes. “Between superior recovery capabilities and built-in features that help us make the most of virtualization, Veeam is a hassle-free, plug-and-play, virtualization-aware backup solution. It has an arsenal of options that are a must-have for any modern virtual datacenter,”Yassin concluded.
The Results Fast, reliable backup and recovery ensure 24x7 data availability When Veeam Backup & Replication is compared with NBAD’s legacy backup tool, backup with Veeam is five times faster and recovery is 10 times faster. With Veeam, the IT team can recover individual objects from any virtualized application without agents, additional backups or software tools. Built-in features leverage the benefits of virtualization Unlike legacy backup tools that are complex, costly and don’t offer enough capabilities for virtualization, Veeam provides built-in features that help enterprises capitalize on virtualization. For example, they can replicate VMs between datacenters for migration, onsite for high availability or offsite for disaster recovery (DR); take advantage of deduplication and compression to conserve backup storage; and rely on multi-hypervisor support to protect all VMs from one console. Virtualization-powered data protection built for the modern datacenter Veeam was built exclusively for virtualization, unlike legacy backup tools that add virtualization components as an after-thought. Veeam delivers a solution that enhances data protection and DR for more than 73,000 customers worldwide.
Learn more
www.veeam.com © 2013 Veeam Software. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 12202013
Download free trial www.veeam.com/backup
