Scaled up VM-Level Protection now GA!

[UPDATED - 11/20/14, 7:32AM ET: VSAN notes, VCOPS link]

For people who love the idea of replication (local for recovery purposes and remote for DR purposes), but want it as software only (no hardware dependency at all), and with VM-level granularity - a new choice is now here.

"Hello World" from Recoverpoint for Virtual Machines.

You can get more here.

Think:

• software-only VM-level IO splitter
• software-only Recoverpoint Appliance
• Rich services - deep device counts, broad replication RPOs (from sync to async, time based, change based).
• snap and replicate techniques (think vSphere Replication as an example) = copies.  Recoverpoint is a continuous replication (journalled IO) technique - you can recover to any point in time.
• Local and Remote replicas
• Super efficient: compressed, deduped - in our experience the WAN efficiency is one of the highest of any replication approach on the market
• Larger scale than vSphere Replication.   Scale target is about 1000 VMs per vSphere cluster.

For EMCers, EMC partners, and EMC customers (talk to your partner/EMCer) you can play with Recoverpoint for Virtual Machines using vLab starting NOW (http://portal.demoemc.com)   

BTW - vLab our massive at scale (tens of thousands of labs every month, many times that in VMs created and destself-service portal for all our products and solutions - brought to the world on an Enterprise Hybrid Cloud build on the vRealize Suite on Vblock by the way!)

This means that ANY storage model - whether it's EMC XtremIO, a customer using VSAN, a customer using an NFS datastore - anything - can have rich replication capabilities.   BTW, one important note - there is a restriction on the current release where the VMs that are protected can be on anything, but the Recoverpoint journal needs to be on a VMFS datastore.   This will be lifted in the future (clearly it must be if RP4V will be included with EMC's Project Mystic - aka EMC's EVO:RAIL++ appliance).

Also, a great link I saw after posting - the always awesome Matt Cowger has created a VCOPS aka vRealize Operations adapter for Recoverpoint for VMs, aka RP4VM4VCOPS :-)  Get it here: http://www.exaforge.com/rp4vm4vcops/

Check out the demo from Itzik Reich below.   Expect it to be available for anyone to use freely (of course, if you want support, you need to purchase) and easily downloadable soon!

Comments

[Zach Dickinson]

Will this be available as a downloadable demo, similar to ViPR?

[Duhaas]

chad, would you mind clarifying if both local and remote destinations can exist or one or the other? everything i've read up until this point has said you can do one or the other.

also, can you also confirm that there is no SRM integration on day one?

[Prem]

This is simply a brilliant protection solution - very neat and I love the Open support capability!

[Chad Sakac]

@Zach - yes, it will - we just want to continue to make it a rock a little longer (after all, the public download is 100% community support). Expect it to post in a bit!

@Duhaas - RP does support simultaneous local and remote - BUT RP4VM does not - YET. You can do local, or remote for a given VM, but not both. Expect this to arrive in 2015. Personally in the meantime, I would use native ESX snaps for local.

@Prem - glad you dig it!

[Jay Weinshenker]

Chad, you say above " Expect it to be available for anyone to use freely (of course, if you want support, you need to purchase) " The website says Try EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines! Download the software at no charge for non-commercial use. and then on the download page says "• Try Before You Buy Readme,"

So I stay legal - is it trialware or is it free to use in production if I do not buy support? I'm not advocating using this in production without support, but your statement seems contradictory to what is said at the product page and I like my life lawyer free....

[Chad Sakac]

@Jay - thanks, and I also like my life lawyer free. As the sausage was getting made, at numerous phases people were getting differing impressions of what we're aiming for.

Use it as you see fit. There will be zero support. Anyone using it in production should license.

[Raimonds Martinovs]

Chad,
Quite a typical EMC sales pitch. EMC could have written virtual splitter code ages ago, yet they only realistically P2Vs existing physical Recoverpoint so that EMC can sell it, but only use iSCSI - which was really bad (I installed it once - never again). If you think I am afraid to put my name down below - don't. And do not get me started with VNX File/Celerra/Recoverpoint/Avamar/VNXe etc. and other EMC products. etc.

[Raimonds Martinovs]

Chad,
Technical true is almost always never welcome by sales people!!!
Unless you have nothing to hide!!!
And I am used to it - no big deal!!!
Raimonds.

[Ben]

This is an older thread now, but still valid. I'm curious what people are seeing for performance impacts when having async or sync replication enabled?