Good afternoon communities .
I am having difficulty defining and end to end solution using two separate VEEAM + AWS features .
( Azure would also work , but AWS looks more streamlined for direct restore as there is no conversion of vmdks )
We run vSphere 6.5 on prem and use VEEAM9.5u4 with about 710VMs , mostly Centos , with some Windows .
Roughly 130TB used for all tiers , PROD , DEV and UAT with limited block based backup repo space.
I have two requirements going forward , but they appear to be two separate VEEAM features .
1 > I want to use SOBR Scale out to AWS S3 IA for longer retention and off site backups.
This appears easy enough to do , although RPO of closed off backup cycles would be more than a week old under default behavior .
2> I want to use AWS EC2 as a DR site for on prem vSphere .
From KBs it appears EC2 restores cannot be done from S3 object based , and requires me to push from on prem repos . ( On prem that could be lost/down during DR invocation )
Options appear to exist where I can spin up an expensive $ per GB EC2 EBS VM , and use that as a secondary target for daily backups .
But that would cost a lot more than just S3 , and could even mean i need to push data upstream x2.
Once to S3 for all VMs to have longer retention using SOBR .
Once to EBS/EC2 for my DR critical PROD VMs using secondary target on top of my on prem copy during backup job .
Is there a way to "mount" the S3 object based storage from EC2 in the event of DR ?
This is certainly possible from an AWS point of view , but from what i can gather VEEAM cannot restore directly from that source .
Also i believe a lot of the metadata would still sit on my on prem repo .
In other words , can i use Scale out capacity repository , and use that same copy of data as continuity restore option ?
Fortunately enough our apps are fairly stateless , and continuity SLA is 7 days . ( RPO = 7 Days , RTO = 2-3 Days )
Can anybody guide me towards an end to end hybrid model in current versions of VEEAM?
It appears v.10 could answer some of these questions .
Thank you in advance .
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Re: Mixing VEEAM AWS intergration features
Can you provide the KB article mentioned? I'm wondering cause it's absolutely possible to restore VMs to AWS EC2 from backups stored in Capacity Tier. Thanks!2> I want to use AWS EC2 as a DR site for on prem vSphere . From KBs it appears EC2 restores cannot be done from S3 object based , and requires me to push from on prem repos . ( On prem that could be lost/down during DR invocation )
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Hello , if that is the case , that is wonderful . The wording in this KB led me to believe it must be from my on prem . Reading it now , it does not clearly state that .
However , is metadata not mostly stored in my in prem device ? So in the event i lose my on prem DC ( FULL DR ) , this might not work
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... l?ver=95u4
However , is metadata not mostly stored in my in prem device ? So in the event i lose my on prem DC ( FULL DR ) , this might not work
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... l?ver=95u4
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Re: Mixing VEEAM AWS intergration features
Correct, you can restore VMs to EC2 from backups stored in Capacity Tier - no issues with that.
If you loose your on-prem environment, you will first need to:
- either recreate backup server by restoring its configuration
- or deploy new backup server and recreate Scale-Out Backup Repository along with Capacity Tier
After that, you will be able to restore VMs to EC2.
Thanks!
If you loose your on-prem environment, you will first need to:
- either recreate backup server by restoring its configuration
- or deploy new backup server and recreate Scale-Out Backup Repository along with Capacity Tier
After that, you will be able to restore VMs to EC2.
Thanks!
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