Hello and welcome to this presentation on accelerating your back ups and recoveries with Quest QoreStor. My name is Adrian Meyer, I'm a Senior Product Management Consultant and Technology Strategist at Quest. In this presentation, you'll learn Quest QoreStor can accelerate and optimize your backup data all the way from its source to the cloud. Let's get started. So what is QoreStor? QoreStor is a software defined secondary storage solution that provides deduplication, compression, and encryption technologies. It's platform agnostic, in terms of which backup solution, it supports up to 13 of those. It has unique protocol accelerators. It includes replication, encryption, for in-flight and arrest data sets, has a level of multi tendency to stop data bleed, includes SecureConnect WAN technology, allowing secure replication and a level of resilience over high latency WAN links.
It also has a cloud tier technology and a performance tier as well, providing cloud storage solutions as well as high performance recovery. It also includes a new technology, called object direct, we'll look at a bit closer a bit later in the presentation. It also has an archive tier as well, which can leverage longer term cold storage in the cloud. So overall, the idea of QoreStor is that it saves you money, reduces your storage costs, and also helps to complete to back up strategies, getting data offsite with replication and tiering solutions. QoreStor is different to most deduplication solutions. Most of those are tied to specific hardware. QoreStor is not like that at all, QoreStor is completely software defined. So you can actually even have this as a binary that you can install yourself. It will run on hardware of virtually any vendor out there in the marketplace, can run in a virtual machine, it could also run in cloud. So you can either build your own solution or we can help build one for you, wherever you actually need to run that solution.
So how does QoreStor integrate with Veeam. So let's take a quick look at this. Here's a simple layout with a couple of proxies in store. Just to help load balancing data sets, the first thing we do is replace the target with QoreStor. So once the target's set up and running and added into Veeam, we can actually then think about how we're going to move the data sets. We have a small piece of software that we install the proxies, and this piece of software is what we call our rapid plug-in, and it enables us to actually do the acceleration of data sets and provide source site deduplication for all data coming out of those proxy servers.
So when we start with our first back up job, you will even notice any data we've already got stored in the same job, and actually start removing data straight away from the network. And the next time we run another job, and it doesn't have to be the same one, it could be any job, all of the data you already have stored is compared with any new incoming data. So if the blocks look the same, then we'll just remove those. So they don't actually have to travel across the network at all. Now what does this do? Well, this obviously reduces the amount of network traffic that we have. But more importantly, it provides you with more bandwidth available at the target storage, which then in turn allows you to do more in the same amount of time. And of course, if you want to do more, you have also the ability to improve your recovery point objectives as well by getting more done.
So once we have the data stored in QoreStor, we can start thinking about moving that out to cloud. One the important things to do is to understand the costs and how we can actually use QoreStor to crush those cloud costs for you. So let's have a quick look at a QoreStor instance that has data stored in it already. So here you can see we've ingested over 150 terabytes of data into this particular QoreStor instance. It's deduplicated and compressed that, and it's storing it very, very well in a roundabout 4.3 terabytes of storage. So it's done a great job at the first element of actually reducing the amount of data we have stored. So if that ingested 150 terabytes, I can actually choose which data I want to send out to cloud. So in this piece, in this particular server instance, we have around about 29 terabytes of that 150 plus terabytes that we wanted to push out to cloud. And we further deduplicated that, and we further compress that down, so we actually then get to see that data set being really reduced.
And eventually that data set then gets moved out to cloud is very small indeed. So we've gone from 29 terabytes down to around about 66 gigabytes. That also includes a metadata map construct as well, and allows you to recover any kind of data should your QoreStor instance actually fail, we can reattach it to another one, and you have access to your data again. So tiering to the cloud with QoreStor is very, very easy. It's completely automated. So how does this work with Veeam? Well, you can set up your proxy servers in your environment just as you would normally install the rapid plug-in if you want to accelerate the data sets across the network, and actually install your QoreStor service. Now in this example, we actually have some that are on site and offsite. One of them is running hardware, one of them is running in a virtual machine.
So first we then take our data set in its large format, and then we start doing our backup jobs, we get our source site deduplication, and the data starts flowing into QoreStor. Now with that solution that's offsite somewhere else, you might want to replicate that in, and it
