Creating a Replica Task in Nakivo Backup & Replication

Continuing with Nakivo! After having the solution perfectly deployed and having performed a Backup Job, In this other post we will see how to perform a replication task! This will allow us to have our virtual machine environment fully replicated, thus in case of failure of the data center or main server, We will be able to lift the entire infrastructure in a matter of seconds!

Installing Vembu BDR

I wanted to bring you a backup solution that may not be so well known but that surely meets the needs of the vast majority, we will see in this post how to install and deploy Vembu BDR, What is a Backup product & Disaster Recovery that will allow us to make backups and replicas of our virtual or physical platforms!

Initial Nakivo Backup Setup & Replication

Continuing with the deployment of Nakivo, after installing it, that you have seen that it had no mystery, or if we have deployed it on an appliance or installed on a NAS. Now, We will need to continue with an initial setup, where we will add our inventory, Transport nodes and repositories! It will therefore be where we add our virtual infrastructure or cloud, then those that will manage the backups or replicas and finally where we will store the copies!

vSphere Storage Appliance – VSA

vSphere 5 vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA), a solution designed for small businesses that do not have the budget to purchase a storage array and want to have high availability in terms of storage or have features such as HA or VMotion, DRS… Thanks to this small appliance that runs on each host and through the VSA Manager, we will have the local datastores replicated between the ESXi hosts.

Installing and Configuring a VMware View Connection Server 4

Se debe instalar por lo menos un segundo servidor VMware View Connection Server para disponer de alta disponibilidad o balanceo de carga, This is called having a replica server. When installing Connection Server in Replica Mode, an ADAM instance is created (Active Directory Application Mode) and the View LDAP data will be initiated that will allow all Connection Servers to be kept with the same information, ua that will use the same Active Directory replication technology to replicate data between the Connection Servers. Logically, before carrying out this installation, we will need to have a Connection Server installed.

Using Veeam Backup & Replication to make backups and replicas of our virtual environment

This Veeam product called Veeam Backup and Replication, offers us the possibility of both backups and replication of our VMware virtual environment, for both VMware Infrastructure 3 How to VMware vSphere 4 (VMware ESX or VMware ESXi, depending on the license purchased, that the product is paid for, but very cheap). It will allow us to make backups of the virtual machines that we indicate in the location that interests us, We will be able to keep as many copies of the same virtual machine as we are interested in, as Veeam will store them incrementally. Personally, what I like is the replication, since the backup is given to us by VCB or VMware Data Recovery, replication can be carried out in another storage array that we have and the replicated virtual machines will be optionally placed in the VMware inventory, just like backups, We can have so many replicas […]