Business continuity and disaster recovery for VPC reference architecture
As described in Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) overview, BCDR is important for all cloud-based applications. In this article, you will learn about specifics of BCDR in the Satellite reference architecture.
Workloads in VPC reference architecture
Workloads on virtual server instances
If you are running virtual server instances and not trying to get your application designated as Financial Services Validated, then you can consider Snapshots for VPC. Snapshots for VPC is a regional offering that lets you create a point-in-time copy of your block storage boot or data volumes. The initial snapshot you take is a full backup of the volume. Subsequent snapshots of the same volume are incremental; only the changes since the last snapshot are captured. You can select a snapshot during instance provisioning, and restore a new, fully-provisioned boot volume to start the instance. You can also create and attach a data volume from a snapshot within a running virtual server instance.
For more information, see General procedure for creating and using snapshots.
Workloads on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
If you are running Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud and not trying to get your application designated as Financial Services Validated, then you can consider Portworx. Portworx is a highly available software-defined storage solution that you can use to manage local persistent storage for your containerized databases and other stateful apps, or to share data between pods across multiple zones.
See Storing data on software-defined storage (SDS) with Portworx for more information.
Backup and disaster recovery for IBM Cloud services
In addition to backing up your workloads and having the capability to restore service in the face of a disaster, your BCDR strategy needs to consider all of the IBM Cloud services in your deployment. See Backup and disaster recovery for IBM Cloud services.