SOLUTION BRIEF

Continuous Data
Protection
Near-Zero RPOs for Mission-Critical VMs

Key Benefits• Near-Zero Data Losspowered by I/O journaling
with recovery points at each
event at every few seconds• A single platform with a

Unified Policy Engine forsnapshots (for businesscritical applications) as wellas continuous protection (formission-critical applications)• Not all failures are thesame—nor should be yourrecovery strategy. Choose
from Crash-consistent,
Application-consistent, andSnapshot-based restores tooptimize your applications’return to operation

Continuous Data Protection from Cohesity delivers near-zero RPOs for your mission-critical VMware
virtual machines. Near-zero RPOs mean almost every change and every I/O is protected, and in thecase of disaster, minimizing your data loss and downtime.
Leveraging vSphere APIs for I/O filtering (VAIO), Cohesity intercepts I/Os between the protected
VM and its underlying storage. This approach captures changes and helps reconstructing a copy ofyour VM directly on Cohesity. As a journal-based solution, Cohesity maintains a journal of all I/Os
received from the VM. Built-in intelligence allows the periodic consolidation of log deltas and thefoundational VMDK. The implication: fully-hydrated recovery points, at any point in time—ensuringnear-zero RPOs and rapid RTOs.
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) ensures that you recover all of your data, not just most of it.
CDP delivers real-time protection for VMware vSphere virtual machines, augmenting your existing
snapshot-based data protection strategy. The solution delivers:• Enterprise-class data resiliency• Operational simplicity with high fault tolerance• Efficient flexibility

Enterprise-Class data resiliency
Gain peace of mind and operational efficiency with Cohesity’s journal-based approach to dataprotection of VMware environments. CDP is designed to intercept all real-time I/Os of VMware VMs
and continuously replicate the I/Os to the Cohesity DataPlatform. The result: the ability to truly
recover to any point in time.
CDP shifts the narrative from time-based backups to event-based backups—every change or I/O isbacked up.

6:58

11:00

2:00

Every x hours/minutes

5:00

6:00

6:07 6:08

6:42

Continuous Series of Recovery Points

Figure 1: Single Policy For Snapshot-Based and Continuous Streaming Recover Points

SOLUTION BRIEF | Continuous Data Protection

Operational Simplicity with High Fault
Tolerance

Efficient Flexibility

By using a journal-based approach, the solution provides aVMware vSphere environments, Cohesity customers have options:continuum of recovery points for high levels of data resiliency.
Cohesity makes achieving this level of data resilience effortless.
No additional infrastructure or policies are required. No additional
hardware is required to leverage CDP.
And with Cohesity, you can define both snapshot-based workflows

CDP augments your existing data protection strategy. In protecting
Choose from point-in-time, crash-consistent restores that leverages
VAIO, application-consistent point-in-time recovery, and full VADPbased snapshot backups.
Cohesity CDP supports archival, replication, and cloning operations
as well, pushing the capabilities of your infrastructure.

and continuous data protection actions with a single backup andrecovery policy, simplifying management. As illustrated in Figure 1,
based on their unique requirements, IT organizations can mix-andmatch snapshot-based approach with continuous data protection ina single policy that ensure most critical data is always protected.

Achieve higher data resilience with near-zero RPOs. Learn more at www.cohesity.com© 2021 Cohesity, Inc. All rights reserved.
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