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Streamline Data Replication Effortlessly with Veeam

Discover the efficiency and reliability of Veeam replication solutions, designed to simplify and automate data replication tasks across diverse environments. Ensure data availability and business continuity with Veeam's robust replication capabilities. To Know more: https://stonefly.com/white-papers/a-guide-to-veeam-replication-in-azure-cloud/

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Streamline Data Replication Effortlessly with Veeam

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  1. StoneFly and Veeam BEST PRACTICES Backup & Replication from On-Premises to Cloud © 2023 StoneFly, Inc. | All rights reserved

  2. 1 Introduction Enterprise IT is embracing the hybrid cloud as a means for hyper-availability. While this trend gives organizations more flexibility overall, it puts more pressure on IT to manage backup and recovery in a more complex environment. By leveraging a single platform for backup and disaster recovery, IT can ensure Availability and simplify management across every cloud and any application. StoneFly and Veeam offer state of the art backup and disaster recovery solutions via a single platform; on-premises, in the cloud or complete hybrid cloud solutions. Utilizing Veeam Backup Engine, StoneFly offers high performance, elastic and always available IT infrastructure solutions. This whitepaper discusses the backup and disaster recovery solutions, both cloud and appliances, offered by StoneFly and have Veeam as the backup & replication engine. It also discusses the deployment best practices of Veeam Backup & Replication. StoneFly Backup & Disaster Recovery Solutions Veeam Cloud Connect Backup to Microsoft Azure Commercial and Government Cloud Veeam Cloud Connect for the Enterprise makes it easy for Veeam customers to extend their backup to the cloud. With StoneFly, Veeam customers can store their backups offsite in the Microsoft Azure Cloud both Commercial and Government. The solution offers a complete backup and recovery solution for physical and virtual environments (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV). Currently, StoneFly is the only Veeam Cloud Service Provider that offers Veeam Cloud Connect Backup to Microsoft Azure Government - an industry compliant Backup solution to customers at the Federal, State and Local level. To learn more about the StoneFly Veeam Cloud Connect to Microsoft Azure click here. Veeam Cloud Connect Backup in Amazon AWS S3, Glacier and EC2 With StoneFly Veeam Cloud Connect to Amazon AWS you can utilize AWS object storage as a cost-effective and scalable cloud repository for offsite backup and recovery. You can send your on-premises data to AWS S3 to protect it and achieve long-term retention on Glacier storage to further reduce the backup and restore costs. You can start by purchasing the storage that you need now and only add more storage to scale out as your cloud backup storage needs grow. To learn more about the StoneFly Veeam Cloud Connect in Amazon AWS click here. © 2023 StoneFly Inc. | All rights reserved. All trademarks used belong to their respective owners.

  3. 2 Veeam Cloud Connect Backup & Replication to StoneFly Cloud Veeam Backup & Replication to StoneFly Cloud helps you enable 24.7.365 availability and business continuity of your IT environment. You can instantly spin up your virtual ma- chines (VM) in StoneFly’s private cloud to achieve business continuity and avoid down- time of production VMs or restore backups for individual files, entire VMs and application items. This solution offers data protection for ALL workloads including virtual VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments, as well as physical and cloud based work- loads –offering a complete cloud-based disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). To learn more about Veeam Cloud Connect Backup & Replication to StoneFly Cloud click here. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft provides a wide-array of powerful services with Office 365, but a comprehensive backup for your Office 365 data is not one of them. With StoneFly Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 you can: 1) protect your Office 365 data from security threats and accidental deletion, 2) quickly restore individual Office 365 items and files, and 3) Meet legal and compliance requirements with easy and efficient eDiscovery of your Office 365 backup archives. To learn more about the StoneFly Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 click here. DR365V™ Veeam Enterprise Backup & Replication Appliance DR365V™ is StoneFly’s purpose-built Backup, replication and disaster recovery appliance. You can spin up replicated Virtual Machines (VMs) on-premises in seconds and recover mission-critical workloads with a single click. StoneFly DR365V™ also comes with a cloud connect gateway to Microsoft Azure cloud, Amazon AWS Cloud and AWS S3 compatible © 2023 StoneFly Inc. | All rights reserved. All trademarks used belong to their respective owners.

  4. 3 clouds for offsite backup and disaster recovery delivering Recovery Time and Point Objectives (RTPO) of less than 15 minutes. Leveraging Veeam’s latest software, Veeam Backup & Replication V9.5, StoneFly DR365™, delivers hyper-availability for physical and virtual servers with automated business continuity. To learn more about the StoneFly DR365V™ Veeam Enterprise Backup & Replication Appliance click here. DR365AK™ Veeam Backup Appliance for Nutanix StoneFly DR365AK™ is a complete backup and disaster recovery appliance delivering business continuity and disaster recovery for Nutanix infrastructures – on premises and in the cloud. DR365AK™ leverages Veeam Backup & Replication software to deliver RTPOs of less than 15 minutes. DR365AK™ also provides cloud connect gateway to Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Clouds for offsite backup. This appliance ensures business conti- nuity and hyper-availability for Nutanix users. To learn more about the StoneFly DR365AK™ Veeam Backup Appliance click here. © 2023 StoneFly Inc. | All rights reserved. All trademarks used belong to their respective owners.

  5. 4 Veeam Backup & Replication Deployment Best Practices Veeam Backup Server Veeam Backup Server is the core component of Veeam Backup & Replication. It is respon- sible for job scheduling and management, indexing tasks, and general orchestration of the backup and replication environment. Veeam backup server can be deployed in the StoneFly DR365V™ or StoneFly DR365AK™ appliances. Component requirements and features will affect how you install the backup server, for instance one or multiple data- center locations. Whether to install additional backup servers or services in remote loca- tions to optimize data streams. You may deploy the Veeam Backup and Replication Server as either virtual or physical server. It will run on Windows server 2008 R2 or higher with 64-bit operating system type only. It is recommended to install Veeam Backup & Replication and its components on a dedicated machine. 1.Virtual deployment In most cases, virtual is the recommended deployment. It provides high-availability for the Veeam Backup Server component through features like vSphere Fault Tolerance, vSphere High-Availability or Hyper-V Failover Clustering. It also provides flexibility in scaling and sizing as the environment grows. The virtual machine can also be replicated to a secondary location such as a disaster recovery (DR) site. If the VM itself should fail or in the event of an infrastructure/datacen- ter failure, the replicated VM can be powered on. Best practice in a two site environment is to install the VBR in the DR site. In the event of a disaster, the backup server is already available to initiate the recovery. 2.Physical deployment In small to medium environments (up to 500 virtual machines (VM)), it is common to a single physical server running the Veeam Backup and Replication server, backup reposito- ry and backup proxy components. This is also called an “ApplianceModel” deployment. This Appliance can be StoneFly DR365V™ or DR365AK™. In large environments (over 2500 VMs) running the Veeam Backup and Replication services on separate servers either physical or virtual will provide better performance. When running several jobs concurrently, consuming large amounts of CPU and RAM, scaling-up the virtual Backup and Replication server to meet the system requirements may become unpractical. © 2023 StoneFly Inc. | All rights reserved. All trademarks used belong to their respective owners.

  6. 5 One advantage of having the Veeam Backup and Replication server running on a physical server is that it runs independently from the virtual platform. This might be an ideal situation when recovering the virtualized platform from a disaster. In an enterprise environment, you may choose to install an additional Veeam backup server to speed-up the recovery process in the event of a disaster. You may reuse existing availability components such as a repository server or proxy for the standby Veeam Backup and Replication server. Backup Proxy A backup proxy is a lightweight Veeam architecture component that sits between the data source and the backup target, processing jobs and delivering backup traffic. Backup proxy tasks include retrieving VM data from production storage, then compressing, dedu- plicating, and sending that data to the backup repository. Using more than one virtualized (or physical) backup proxy lets you easily scale your backup infrastructure based on the size of your system. • In a simple deployment scenario for smaller environments, the Veeam backup proxy is automatically installed on the Veeam backup server as part of the Veeam Backup and Replication installation. In advanced deployments, the proxy role is manually assigned to one or more windows servers. This way, the Veeam backup server is offloaded, resulting in smaller backup window and better performance. • Backup Repository A backup repository is a storage location used by Veeam Backup and Replication jobs for storing backup archives and their related metadata for future restores. The repository may be a Linux or Windows server, a third party NAS device, or a deduplication appliance. Repositories can be physical or virtual, depending on available hardware and require- ments. A backup repository can be used to store multiple jobs, but a job can be stored only in a single repository. The 3-2-1 backup rule The 3-2-1 backup rule states that for an environment to be properly protected, it has to have 3 copies of the data, stored in two different storage media with one copy stored in a different location. Each part of the 3-2-1 backup rule requires the use of a storage device, this is why the Veeam backup repository is an essential component in the Veeam deploy- ment. The StoneFly DR365V™and StoneFly DR365AK™come with internal Backup Repos- itory and cloud connection for offsite backup & replication. © 2023 StoneFly Inc. | All rights reserved. All trademarks used belong to their respective owners.

  7. 6 Veeam Component Sizing Sizing Veeam Backup & Replication servers depends on the number of concurrent jobs, the total number of VMs, and the estimated repository size. The sizing guidelines in the table below are the minimum that Veeam recommends. The Veeam proxy VMs, used only with vSphere, should not need additional resources. Physical backup proxies are supported, but are not ideal. A general rule for a physical proxy is one core per 50 VMs, but this number greatly depends on VM size and the number of concurrent backups. Proper testing for your environment is critical to ensure that you can meet backup windows and RPOs. You may need to upsize the Veeam Backup & Repository server for your environment. Veeam Backup Server 4 GB RAM plus 500 MB RAM for each concur- rent job. Disk space: 2 GB for product, plus 10 GB per 100 VMs for guest file system catalog, and at least 10 GB for the VM recovery cache folder. No CPU or memory reservations required. Apply additional sizing consider- ations if the backend SQL server is deployed on this server. See Veeam’s technical docu- mentation for additional guidance. —Virtual environment: One vCPU for every 50 VMs (recommended minimum: two vCPUs), 4 GB RAM, 300 MB disk space for installed components, and VMXNET3 NIC for vSphere. No CPU or memory reservations are required. —Physical environment: One CPU core for every 50 VMs, 2 GB RAM for each concurrent disk backup. As the environment grows, ensure that you have one (v)CPU and 2 GB of RAM for each concurrent task. The Veeam Repository can be co-located with the backup server role for small deployments, or placed on a dedicated server (physical or virtual Windows or Linux server, NAS device, or backup appliance), and requires sufficient free space to store all backup job data. If a vSphere VM is used, we recommend using the VMware PVSCSI controller for the disks that store backup data. Veeam Backup Proxy VM (vSphere) Veeam Repository © 2023 StoneFly Inc. | All rights reserved. All trademarks used belong to their respective owners.

  8. 7 Backup Job Best Practices StoneFly and Veeam recommend using the forward incremental method with synthetic full backups. This method is the default setting for jobs newly created in Veeam Backup & Replication V9.5; you can also select it for existing jobs if you are upgrading from previous versions. When using this method, Veeam performs a full backup on day one, then cre- ates incremental backups for all subsequent days. On a weekly basis, the solution syn- thetically combines the available daily incremental backups with the original full backup to create a new full backup, without the need to retrieve all the data from production storage. The day-one backup may have lower throughput, because it reads all VM data, which may be in the capacity tier as well as in the performance SSD tier. However, for hypervisors supporting a CBT mechanism, all subsequent backups only read changed blocks. To enable parallel processing and increase backup performance, configure your jobs to back up multiple VMs. Also, when you increase the number of VMs inside the same job, Veeam-native deduplication can be more efficient. There is no need to manually config- ure which proxy VM the backup operations use; Veeam Backup Server automatically distributes the VMs scheduled for processing to all available proxies. Restore Options Veeam Backup & Replication solution offers a range of options to easily recover and verify your replicas and backups. These features are implemented using the Veeam vPower technology. This allows instant recovery of a VM in Hyper-V and VMware environments. Instead of waiting for the VM to restore from backups, instant-VM-recovery allows you to run the VM directly from the backup. vPower technology performs the following tasks: • Instant-VM-recovery. • Recovery verification (SureBackup, SureReplica). • Universal Application-Item Recovery (U-AIR). • Multiple-OS file-level recovery. Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to perform both file-level and image-level restores of replicas and backups. You can restore an entire VM and start it on the target server, or recover only VM hard disks, VM files (.vmx, .vmdk, .vhdx, and so on), or VM guest OS folders and files and save them on your local machine. You can restore files or VMs at any of the available restore points. All restores occur via the network, and you do not need special procedures to restore your data. © 2023 StoneFly Inc. | All rights reserved. All trademarks used belong to their respective owners.

  9. 8 Conclusion The StoneFly Backup & disaster recovery solutions provide an Industry leading perfor- mance with the ability to scale-out your backup solution whether you need to backup to an appliance, to the cloud or both. StoneFly offers robust support of both Hyper-V and VMware vSphere environments, allowing the customer to choose which hypervisor best meets their requirements. StoneFly’s Cloud and appliances are a natural fit with the rapid deployment and architecture flexibility of Veeam Backup & Replication Engine. StoneFly also offers solutions that ensure availability and simplify management across every cloud and any application by leveraging a single platform for backup and disaster recovery. About StoneFly StoneFly, Inc. is a pioneer in the creation, development and deployment of the iSCSI storage protocol. Beginning with its registration of the iSCSI.com Internet domain name in March 1996, StoneFly has made iSCSI into a standard which is now used by IT profes- sionals around the world. StoneFly, headquartered in the Silicon Valley, was founded to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable enterprise-class storage optimization and disaster recovery protection through iSCSI, Fibre Channel SAN and NAS solutions. Advanced storage offerings include Hyper-Converged Unified Storage & Server™ applianc- es and gateways, Scale Out NAS, Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Enterprise Cloud Storage solutions. StoneFly is a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF), a leading maker of high-performance storage systems. Other divisions include DNF Storage, DNF Security, DNF Defense, and DNF Consulting Services. StoneFly is a member of the Storage Net- working Industry Association (SNIA), the founding member of the IP Storage Institute (IPSI), a VMware TAP Elite Partner, a VMware Professional Solution Provider Partner, and a certified Microsoft Azure Marketplace Partner. To learn more, visit http://www.StoneFly.com © 2023 StoneFly Inc. | All rights reserved. All trademarks used belong to their respective owners.

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