#NLVMUG Inspiration! #1 Rubrik

All right, so today was the annual NLVMUG UserCon in the Netherlands, which is the biggest in the world actually! Great keynotes from VMware and Google and some cool other sessions. And i went home with a bunch of inspiration of which I would like to share some with you!

Rubrik

First of all Rubrik, with ChrisWahl on board (I actually went to a session of his "Learning to Learn", which was very, uhm scientific! :)).

I can't get to the fact that I only heard about these guys last week! I Immediately watched all the TFD videos and off course went to their booth today at NLVMUG. And during writing this post (so just now) I contacted Rubrik to get me some more info and pricing on these BRIKs!

The architecture

Rubrik simplifies backup in a way we haven't seen before!
It's build in a way where you only define SLA like settings, such as RPO and RTO. You only set things like take snapshots every (hour, day, month), keep snapshots for (days, months, years), archiver after and replicate. Very cool! See below.

It's a distributed scale-out architecture created out of "BRIKs". Which is the smallest entity you can buy, they are "Rack-and-go". Each BRIK is a physical appliance containing 4 nodes at the moment, and they currently support two models; the rubrik r344 (dense) and the rubrik r348 (denser). Each node within a brik has an 8-core haswell, 64GiB of RAM, a single 400G SSD and 3 times a 4TB or 8TB HDD and 10Gig Ethernet. Which combined in a 4 node, 2U BRIK is very dense! And they are doing 30.000 IOPS and 1.2GByte/s per BRIK!

Features

Currently they are only doing VMware, but almost all enterprise features are already available in their 2.0 release. Like inline deduplication & compressions, replication of backups, archiving to nfs, object-based or cloud, VSS integration, VADP, Instant recovery (seems somewhat like VEEAM vPower NFS, Instant search, full REST Api support and much more!

Instant search seems awesome. Rubrik has an index of all files within your VM's, not only Windows with NTFS, but also Linux (ext3, ext4, etc). And off course fast recovery! I watched the demo, it's instant all right! :)

They also support "Physical". I saw a demo of SQL in a TFD video and read about support today for Linux as well!

Already looking forward to their 3.0 release!