Architecture pattern for deploying Veeam on VMware Cloud Foundation consolidated architecture
This architecture pattern explains how to deploy Veeam® on VMware Cloud Foundation for VPC consolidated architecture deployment in IBM Cloud VPC. With Veeam, you can increase the resiliency of your VMware Cloud Foundation instance and the workloads that are running on it through a secure backup and recovery solution.
An overview of this architecture pattern is shown in the following diagram.
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Deploying Veeam on VMware Cloud Foundation consolidated architecture deployment
The following diagram introduces the high-level steps to deploy Veeam on a VMware Cloud Foundation consolidated architecture. In this architecture pattern, Veeam VBR is deployed on an IBM Cloud VPC Virtual Server and Veeam Proxies is deployed into the management domain as virtual machines (VMs).
This architecture pattern deployment is summarized as follows:
- Deploy an IBM Cloud VPC virtual server instance into the management subnet and attach its vNIC to the management security group. Add required DNS A and PTR records to the DNS service according to the Veeam documentation and your solution requirements.
- Plan and size your deployment. Install and configure Veeam VBR into the Virtual Server instance. Obtain a license through the VMware Solutions console.
- Provision the required number of VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) file shares to the primary backup storage and attach it to the virtual server instance. Attach and configure storage to Veeam VBR.
- Provision IBM Cloud Object Storage and create buckets for the secondary backup storage. Attach and configure storage to Veeam VBR.
- Create the required number of bare metal server VLAN interfaces with reserved IP addresses by using consecutive IP range into management subnet for Veeam Proxies. Attach to equivalent management security groups. Add relevant entries to the DNS Service.
- Deploy Veeam proxies to VMs by using the management DPG and the allocated IP addresses in the management domain of the consolidated VMware Cloud Foundation deployment.
Considerations for deploying Veeam on VMware Cloud Foundation consolidated architecture
When you design or deploy this architecture pattern, consider the following information:
- Follow the Veeam best practices when you design your solution.
- When you are using Veeam as a backup solution, design the wanted resiliency with storage selection, for use IBM Cloud VPC file shares or block storage in combination with IBM Cloud Object Storage.
- When you replicate with Veeam to on-premises or other VMware cloud, you must establish connectivity to the replication source or target, depending on the wanted target.
- Design your connectivity by using the available connectivity pattern for Veeam replication.