Solution Brief:

Veeam + Lenovo
ThinkAgile VX
Business challenges

At a glance

Many organizations struggle with IT complexity and data center sprawl. Too muchtime is spent on manual processes and managing disparate and outdated silos ofIT server, compute, storage and networking devices. The result is an even greater
management and operations burden while taking valuable resources away fromfocusing on more strategic initiatives.
Today’s organizations need software-defined data center solutions (SDDC) that
consolidate IT resources into a single, cohesively managed pool of resources thatcan be flexibly shared across workloads to simplify IT, mitigate risk, lower costs
and enhance business agility.

ThinkAgile VX Series
As businesses strategize to create a SDDC, many are adopting VMware-based
solutions to take advantage of the integration and support provided by existing
investments in VMware SDDC technologies, like VMware vSphere. Lenovo
ThinkAgile VX is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solution that’s basedon VMware vSAN, which pools together server-attached storage. This allows
businesses to provision and manage storage while taking advantage ofthe administration and storage policies of vSphere.

Veeam Availability Suite provides
full support for VMware vSAN,
which enables faster backups
through smart logic that
reduces network traffic andenables backup and restore forthe storage policy associatedwith the VM.

Key benefits• Leverage Veeam’s industryleading backup, restore andreplication capabilities withthe hyper-converged and flashoptimized storage architectureof Lenovo ThinkAgile VX.

Lenovo’s VX consolidates silos of IT compute, storage and networking resources
to simplify IT, increase business agility and lower cost. To ensure the availabilityof critical business applications and data while maximizing ROI on HCI, data
centers need a solution that provides deep integration across these highly
virtualized, software-defined storage environments.

• Storage policy-based
management backup andrestore saves time during
recovery and maintains
the associated storage policy
even if a VM is restored toa different datastore on
dissimilar storage

Veeam Availability Suite™ is a ready-for-vSAN solution that provides uniquebackup and recovery options for ThinkAgile VX. This allows customers to deploy
a more integrated, highly efficient and cost-effective availability solution. Veeam
provides Lenovo VX customers with:• Veeam solutions havebeen tested extensivelyand are certified as
VMwareReady for vSAN

• The ability to expand capacity andperformance on demand.
• Storage policy-based management
backup and restore to recoverentire VMs, individual files andapplication items in minutes.
• End-to-end AES 256-bit encryption
to secure backup files and data at
the source in flight and at rest.

• Built-in deduplication and compression
to reduce storage and bandwidthconsumption.
• A VMware ready-for-vSAN-certified
solution designed and optimized specificallyfor the VMware platform Combining
Veeam® and Lenovo VX delivers ITsimplicity, mitigates business risk, enhances
efficiencies, maximizes ROI and enables IT
to move at the speed of business.

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How Veeam helps you leverage investments
in Lenovo ThinkAgile VX vSAN environments
Built specifically for virtual environments, Veeam Availability Suite operates atthe virtualization layer and uses an image-based approach for VM backup. Toretrieve VM data, no agent software needs to be installed inside the guest OS.
Instead, Veeam Availability Suite leverages ESXi snapshot capabilities to create
a compressed, deduplicated backup file. All backup files created by a job residein a dedicated job folder on a backup repository. The flexibility in placement of
the backup repository makes maintaining backups simple and affordable.
Veeam’s smart logic for processing vSAN datastores can leverage a virtual proxythat resides on the same ESXi host when using virtual appliance transport mode
where most of the virtual disk data resides. Veeam Availability Suite obtains
information from VMware vCenter about data distribution inside the vSAN
datastore — minimizing traffic over the network inside the vSAN cluster by
locally retrieving most VM data. There’s no need to change backup policies when
deploying Veeam on vSAN.
Veeam’s unified console ensures availability for your entire virtual infrastructurewith industry-leading features such as:• Instant VM Recovery®

Business benefits• Expand capacity andperformance on demand.
• Restore entire VMs & individual
files and application items
in minutes.
• Reduce storage and bandwidthconsumption with built-in
deduplication for faster ROI.
• Built-in, end-to-end AES 256bit encryption secures backup
files and data at the source
during backups in flightand at rest.

• Granular, application-item recovery with Veeam Explorers™
• Replicating a backup image of a VM
• New features that further leverage IT investments in modern storage and the cloud!"#$ !%&'()© 2022 Veeam Software. Confidential information. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN is a vSphere-native, software-defined storage platform built on industry-standard
x86 servers and components. Its distributed architecture allows for capacity and performance toscale independently by merely adding new drives to existing hosts - providing a simple, fast andefficient way to provision and manage storage at the server layer. Available in hybrid or all-flash
configurations, vSAN eliminates high storage costs and complexity that often inhibit deploying
a complete storage and backup solution.

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VMware vSAN All-Flash and hybrid architectures

Veeam Availability Suite
Veeam® provides a reliable and cost-effective backup and recovery solution todeliver verified, granular recovery of all your critical assets across any environment
or application, ensuring you achieve your SLAs and RPO/RTOs. Veeam delivers
Modern Data Protection for virtual, physical and cloud-based environments.
Veeam capabilities, including high-speed recovery and dataloss for all applications
and data. Together, ThinkAgile VX and Veeam create a hypervisor-converged,
flash-optimized storage architecture where performance and capacity can bescaled to maintain the availability requirements that face the modern dataprotection environment.
Veeam Availability Suite provides full support for VMware vSphere 6.5 including
vSAN 6.6, encrypted VM support, VMFS6 and VVol 2.0 support, SPBM backup
and restore and more.

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