Planning for offsite disaster recovery

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Hey guys,

Our environment consists of VMware vCenter/ESXi and Veeam. We run backup copies which are stored on an iSCSI drive from AWS.

We are looking to build a disaster recovery plan utilizing the cloud (AWS). Please comment /recommend .

1) Utilize S3 within Veeam (on premise) for our backup.

2) From AWS, have a Windows Server with another Veeam Server (second server). We currently have an on premise Veeam Server

3) Restore the VMs within AWS if whenever the data center faces a disaster.

[Seve CH]

I am no specialist on AWS... but why are you using iSCSI on AWS? I consider iSCSI ultra-fragile and using the internet to reach it (VPN or not) is something that would never cross my mind.

[veremin]

Yes, the configuration with ISCSI looks somewhat strange, the recommended approach is to add AWS S3 as an object storage repository and subsequently use it as a backup target. Thanks!

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I am no specialist on AWS... but why are you using iSCSI on AWS? I consider iSCSI ultra-fragile and using the internet to reach it (VPN or not) is something that would never cross my mind.

A decade ago we wanted to get away from a traditional NAS hardware. So AWS offers storage via iSCSI with NTFS/share permissions. Eventually we got a new hardware NAS and left the AWS as a backup feature.