Converged Data Protection andRecovery for Microsoft Hyper-V
Looking for a modern and efficient data protection and recovery
solution for your Microsoft Hyper-V Infrastructure?
Organizations are increasingly adopting Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization
platform, and are faced with the challenge of identifying a modern solution thatprotects and recovers their critical business information and applications. These
new solutions are required to have shorter Recovery Points and faster Recovery
Times to accommodate growing business demands.
Legacy data protection and recovery solutions were designed more than adecade ago and were engineered for traditional workloads. These solutions areunable to keep-up with today’s modern business needs. Data protection andrecovery typically consists of a complex mix of expensive point solutions fortarget storage, backup software, media servers, proxies, replication, and disasterrecovery.
Modern workflows are complex and require a simple, efficient, and cost-effective
way to keep the data and information protected. Cohesity DataProtect is
specifically designed to solve this problem with an entirely new approach fordata protection and recovery for Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure.
Simple and Efficient Data Protection and Recovery for Microsoft Hyper-V
Infrastructure
Cohesity provides the only hyperconverged platform that eliminates thecomplexity and operational inefficiencies of a traditional data protection andrecovery solution. Cohesity DataProtect will consolidate your end-to-end dataprotection and recovery infrastructure – including target storage, backup,replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. It eliminates data protection andrecovery silos by converging all your backup infrastructure on a single unified
scale-out platform.
Cohesity provides simple management with a single easy to use and manage
UI, and policy-based automation. Accelerate your recovery points and recovery
times while cutting data protection costs by 50%. Cohesity natively integrates
with all the leading public clouds for long term archival, tiering and replication.

Microsoft Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V

Traditional Data Protection & Recovery

Cohesity Data Protection & Recovery

Tape LibraryMedia Servers

Master Servers

DataProtect

Web-scale platform for Secondary Data
Target Storage

Key Benefits• Simple management with a single
easy to use and manage interface• Accelerate data protection withsub-5 minute RPOs and nearinstant RTOs
• Automated data protection andrecovery• Tight integration with MicrosoftHyper-V 2012 R2 and Hyper-V
2016• Build a multicloud data fabricwith native cloud integration forarchival, tiering and replication

Legacy Data Protection

Cohesity + Hyper-V

Multiple product silos

One validated solution: Cohesity
software and Hyper-V

Complex Management

Simple Management

Fragmented deduplication

Global Deduplication

Slow RPOs and RTOs

<5 minute RPOs, near-instant
RTOs

Disruptive upgrades / expansion

Non-disruptive upgrades /expansion

Limited cloud integration

Native cloud integration

Cohesity and Microsoft Hyper-V Seamless Integration
Cohesity DataProtect is tightly integrated with Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 and Hyper-V 2016 at multiple levels to provide
a simple, most efficient, reliable and fastest data protection and recovery possible.
Microsoft SCVMM
Hyper-V HostPolicies

VSSCohesity
Agent

CBTHyper-V 2012 R2Backups

RCTHyper-V 2016
Backups

ROBO/Edge
Dataplatform
Virtual Edition

Fast Recovery

DataProtect

DataPlatform

Cloud
Dataplatform
Cloud Edition• Automated data protection and recovery: System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) integration enables Cohesity to automatically register all the Hyper-V VM disk objects (VHD or VHDX). This allows users to assign simple SLApolicies to VMs or groups of VMs in the Cohesity UI and automate data protection and recovery.
• Agentless Change-Block Tracking for Hyper-V 2012 R2:> With WMI, VSS and Cohesity Change Tracking with Hyper-V 2012, WMI APIs are used to discover the VM properties. Cohesity Change Tracking Driver tracks the changed areas within the virtual disk files (VHD and VHDX).
Cohesity agent interacts with VSS to trigger the VM snapshots and with the changed area information only thechanged areas will be backed up. The data itself is transferred from Cohesity’s secure layer from the primarystorage onto Cohesity platform and the virtual disk files will be kept fully hydrated.
• Instant Recovery for Hyper-V 2016:> Cohesity enables instant recovery at scale, for 100s or 1000s of VMs, and to any backup point in time for Hyper-V 2016. For Hyper-V 2016 Cohesity creates an instant clone of the protected VMs, and presents the cloned
data on an SMB share to the Hyper-V hosts. The SMB share serves as the primary storage volume for the initial
phase of the recovery. Once the VMs are up and running, Cohesity initiates a live migration of the VMs to theoriginal storage volume.
> WMI and RCT (Resilient Change Tracking) with Hyper-V 2016: Cohesity uses the WMI APIs to trigger and manage the snapshot creation and deletion, and integrates with Microsoft’s RCT to backup just changed blocks. The
data itself is transferred from Cohesity’s secure layer from the primary storage onto Cohesity platform and thevirtual disk files will be kept fully hydrated.
• Hyper-V integration services and VSS: Cohesity uses the Hyper-V integration services to trigger app-consistent snapshots of the VMs.

Beyond Data Protection: Making Your Data Productive
Traditional data protection solutions only provide an expensive insurance policy. The data is unproductive until the disasterstrikes. Cohesity takes a completely different approach. Data is valuable, and Cohesity puts your secondary data to productive use. Once the data is protected on Cohesity, it can be used to support multiple use cases.
• Build a multicloud data fabric to support disaster recovery, test/dev, and application migrations across multicloud environments.
• Provide developers with instantaneous access to zero-cost copies of your data to accelerate test and dev processes.
Perform custom analytics jobs of your protected data directly on the Cohesity cluster, without having to copy data to a
separate analytics cluster.
• Easily analyze your data, whether to ensure compliance or to extract valuable insight from your backups. Cohesity exposes
distributed NFS, SMB and S3 interfaces to provide file and object storage. Eliminate the need to manage multiple silos,and converge your files and object storage on the same platform used for your data protection.

Native Integration with Public Cloud Providers
Cohesity provides native integration with all the leading public cloud providers including Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft
Az ure, Amazon S3 and Glacier. Cohesity can leverage the cloud for the following use cases:

Cloud Platform

MicrosoftAzure

Cloud Storage

CloudArchive
CloudTier

DataPlatform

S3 / NFS
compatible cloud

DataPlatform Cloud Edition
CloudReplicate

Cloud VM

Cloud VM

Cloud VM

CloudArchive: Replace tape rotations and vaulting with long-term archival to the cloud. Enable Google-like wild-card
search on your local Cohesity cluster to quickly identify data archived in the cloud. Recover to the original cluster or to anew cluster.
CloudTier: Leverage compelling cloud economics with native cloud integration for data tiering. Colder data is automaticallytiered to the cloud to increase the capacity of the Cohesity cluster.
CloudReplicate: Replicate your data to a Cohesity cluster running in the cloud to create a multicloud data fabric that
supports disaster recovery, test/dev and analytics.
Cohesity provides organizations using Microsoft Hyper-V the ability to bridge the traditional “islands of secondary storage”
by leveraging the truly global file system and storage efficiency technologies built into the Cohesity DataPlatform. Thesecapabilities help customers in transforming their data centers from silos of dark data to highly efficient, next-generation
web-scale Enterprise IT.

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