I am looking into Veeam Backup & Replication and using the trial to replace Backup Exec for good. The reason I have opted for Veeam is the ability to 'connect to the cloud' as we are starting to migrate some of our servers into AWS.
Ultimately we want to be able to replicate from VMware vSphere directly into EC2 instances (real time!) but I believe it is not possible??? Please someone correct me if i'm wrong.
Instead I have been testing the following:
- 1. Backup a VM from our VMware vSphere environment (located on site) to our veeam server (also located on site)
- 2. Transfer this compressed backup to a windows server we have on AWS (over a VPN connection so cloud edition is not used at all)
- 3. I then extract using Veeam's extraction tool to uncompress
- 4. I then convert the extracted files to OVF format using VMware's tool
- 5. I then upload to our AWS VPC using Amazon's EC2 command line tools
I want to be able to 'replicate' to AWS from our vSphere environment in as close to real time as possible but will settle for the next best thing if this cannot be done. I just don't quite know what that is at the moment. Can someone please help or point me in the right direction?