Adding and deleting Veeam Backup
You can add the Veeam® Backup service to your Cloud Director site instance if you did not include it in your instance order. You can delete the Veeam service from your instance if you no longer need the backup service.
For multitenant instances, you must install the Veeam service after you provision your virtual data center (VDC).
Before you delete the Veeam Backup service from your instance, review the following considerations.
- Block storage backups are permanently deleted.
- IBM Cloud® Object Storage offload storage backups are maintained for seven days after the service removal, and then is permanently deleted.
- You have seven days after the Veeam service is deleted to open a support ticket to restore backups. For more information, see Contacting IBM Support.
- The Veeam base, hosts, and license charges continue until the end of month.
- Storage charges stop as the storage areas are permanently deleted.
Procedure to add Veeam Backup to VCF as a Service instances
- In the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VCF as a Service from the left navigation pane.
- In the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service table, click the Cloud director sites tab, then click an instance name.
- Click the Add-on services tab.
- Click Available services.
- On the Add-on services window, toggle Veeam Backup on.
- Review the new cost, select the confirmation checkboxes, and click Add.
Procedure to delete Veeam Backup from VCF as a Service instances
- In the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VCF as a Service from the left navigation pane.
- In the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service table, click the Cloud director sites tab, then click an instance name.
- Click the Add-on services tab.
- Click the vertical overflow menu in the Veeam Backup panel and click Delete.
- In the Delete add-on service window, review the considerations, and enter Veeam Backup to confirm that you want to delete all Veeam backup services from your instance. Click Delete.