Cloudstack / KVM support

[MdegierNL]

Hi,

We are currently working on setting up a Cloudstack Environment as a replacement for VMware (Cloud director and vCenter).
Currently we are using Veeam B&R for backups and would like to continue to use it.

Are there any plans for a Cloudstack integration with Veeam?

[cody.ault]

Hello Marcel,
We have had a few requests for the platform. We're not currently developing an integration. You can continue to leverage agents for data protection and leverage API's from CloudStack to build a list if VMs to add to a protection group or use infrastructure management tools to push out agent software.

[bhrvi]

I'd love to lend my weight to this request. We are currently making the same transition from VMware to Cloudstack/KVM and staying with VBR would be an ideal solution.

[MdegierNL]

Yeah, maybe they could take a look at the OpenNebula integration for Veeam and implement it the same for Cloudstack?
Since both Cloudstack and OpenNebula use KVM as the Hypervisor.

[cody.ault]

While under the hood, quite a few number of platforms are based on libvirt > Qemu/KVM, the top-level APIs that make up the management plane are often quite unique to the different platforms. There is a technology partner that has contributes to CloudStack that is interested in looking at the UHAPI to see if they can create a translation layer for the platform. There's no ETA on when or if it will work out at this time.

[trulycloud]

We are in the very same place. Broadcom are terminating the majority of Private Cloud providers despite the goal to grow. Seems now they only want on-prem so-called private cloud.

We reviewed our options, and CloudStack really stood out as a replacement. We are using Libvirt with KVM as per their instructions. Annoying that Veeam with ESXi as the hypervisor is supported by CloudStack. We have reviewed Proxmox, but we needed CloudStack to orchestrate things and having Proxmox sit under CloudStack seems a bit pointless.

CloudStack > Veeam is already there for integration
Veeam > CloudStack > KVM is what is needed

I don't believe normal users will take this route unless they're in a large organisation, but I think service providers will see much greater uptake.

[rohitsb]

Hi Marcel and others,

It's true that CloudStack already supports Veeam B&R with VMware/vCenter since last many LTS releases. My team and I at ShapeBlue are developing Veeam B&R integration with CloudStack & KVM that leverages Veeam's UHAPI.

More details - we've a MVP working but it hit a blocker for user-self service backups, as Veeam B&R v13 currently doesn't have an API or powershell command that allows to programmatically create jobs with a VM attached, or to be able to clone a dummy job (say a job with a dummy tag) and later attach VMs to it. We're currently exploring options. In absense of a workaround for self-service backups, we'll still publish the integration to at least empower admins & operators to do B&R actions from Veeam (we've tested full backup and restore from Veeam which is working in the MVP, through a worker VM that runs on CloudStack managed KVM host).

Regards.

[MdegierNL]

Hello Rohit,

That's very good to hear. For self-service users could also use Enterprise Manager, does that work with your integration?
Also, you mention v13 and some missing API / Powershell commands, does this also apply for v12?

I'm very interested in the development of this integration, can you maybe post some updates in this topic when there is some development?
And some out-of-the-box thinking from my side: would this also enable backup from VMware and (instant) recovery to Cloudstack/KVM?

With kind regards,

Marcel de Gier

[bhrvi]

Hi Marcel and others,

It's true that CloudStack already supports Veeam B&R with VMware/vCenter since last many LTS releases. My team and I at ShapeBlue are developing Veeam B&R integration with CloudStack & KVM that leverages Veeam's UHAPI.

More details - we've a MVP working but it hit a blocker for user-self service backups, as Veeam B&R v13 currently doesn't have an API or powershell command that allows to programmatically create jobs with a VM attached, or to be able to clone a dummy job (say a job with a dummy tag) and later attach VMs to it. We're currently exploring options. In absense of a workaround for self-service backups, we'll still publish the integration to at least empower admins & operators to do B&R actions from Veeam (we've tested full backup and restore from Veeam which is working in the MVP, through a worker VM that runs on CloudStack managed KVM host).

Regards.

Great stuff! B&R actions from Veeam are really the important part to us, anyway. Looking forward to seeing it.