Remote backup to vCloud Air

[JAlvarez]

Is vCloud Air supported for remote VM backups via CloudConnect on Veeam Backup and Recovery? There is a Veeam listing on the vCloud Air marketplace but it has no reviews.

https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/sto ... vcloud-air

Searching these forums I found a thread stating it is not supported, but the response was a year ago.

veeam-backup-replication-f2/vmware-vclo ... 28769.html

Thanks.

[Vitaliy S.]

You can definitely use a Cloud Connect VM hosted in vCloud Air to store VM backups made by "on-prem" backup servers. This will give you an ability to follow 3-2-1 rule and store your backups in the offsite location/cloud. As to the ability of restoring VMs directly to vCloud Air, then the answer in the referenced topic is still valid. Hope it helps!

[JAlvarez]

Thanks for your prompt response.

Storing backups on vCloud Air does meet the offsite backup requirement of the 3-2-1 rule. Yet not being able to restore VMs on the remote network makes the RTO for disaster recovery too high for many applications. For applications that only need offsite backup storage, Amazon Glacier and others would be much more cost effective than vCloud Air.

Can vCloud Air be a target for Veeam VM replicas? It is feasible to failover to a replica via the VMware snapshot manager,e.g. without the Veeam Enterprise Manager or console, so using replicas could make a failover to vCloud Air feasible.

Also, can the Veeam network extender appliance be deployed in vCloud Air?

[Vitaliy S.]

Can vCloud Air be a target for Veeam VM replicas? It is feasible to failover to a replica via the VMware snapshot manager,e.g. without the Veeam Enterprise Manager or console, so using replicas could make a failover to vCloud Air feasible.

No, it cannot because of the reasons described in the topic you've referenced.

Also, can the Veeam network extender appliance be deployed in vCloud Air?

Don't think you need it, since currently it is no possible to restore/replicate to vCloud Air directly.