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Hi!!

 

Everyone knows that OCI currently has some limitations.

But we can protect workloads in OCI or for OCI.

 

In this architecture, we deliver protection for your OCI workloads to another region of the OCI cloud. Each workload is separated via a VCN.

All machines have Veeam Agent to treat the machine as bare metal and use the "Entire Computer" copy method.

The green lines refer to data transfer.

Blue lines refer to metadata or delta traffic.

The Pool allows a VM in a private subnet to send or fetch data from Object Storage over the Oracle private network using a Service Gateway.

 

The design is super simple, just to share the structure's functionality.

 

We also left snapshots of the machines to enable fast restores.

This architecture has already undergone some changes, such as offloading to an on-premises appliance to enable on-premises restores via backup copies.

 

That's all for today. Thank you!

How does recovery work? Can a whole VM be restored from an Agent backup into the OCI?

This is good info, Jean. Thank you!

 

I would caution one thing for OCI users today:

OCI does not currently support object lock functionality to be compatible with immutability for Veeam backups. They have a bucket-level lock option which is not supported by Veeam. There are some creative workarounds out there but many customers with OCI workloads have started using Veeam Data Cloud Vault to have an immutable copy of their backup data. I would recommend to anyone using OCI (or another cloud that does not currently support Veeam immutability functions) to review your options, especially if immutable backups is a security requirement for your company. 

 

Veeam always recommends 3-2-1-1-0 for your data to be highly resilient - 

 

How does recovery work? Can a whole VM be restored from an Agent backup into the OCI?

Hi!

We first need to create a new OCI instance.

Restore all disks to this new instance and manually bring up the machine.

There's no automatic way to use Hyperscale like there is on other platforms today.

This is good info, Jean. Thank you!

 

I would caution one thing for OCI users today:

OCI does not currently support object lock functionality to be compatible with immutability for Veeam backups. They have a bucket-level lock option which is not supported by Veeam. There are some creative workarounds out there but many customers with OCI workloads have started using Veeam Data Cloud Vault to have an immutable copy of their backup data. I would recommend to anyone using OCI (or another cloud that does not currently support Veeam immutability functions) to review your options, especially if immutable backups is a security requirement for your company. 

 

Veeam always recommends 3-2-1-1-0 for your data to be highly resilient - 

 

 

Hello! We know that.

Object locking was removed from the API by Oracle some time ago.

Immutability is delivered via Appliance in the On-Premises environment with Immutable Snapshots.

How to Protect Data with SafeMode™ Snapshots | Pure Storage Blog

 

Some customers use OCI and don't have the option to use other providers due to partnership levels and internal policies.

 

The architecture is designed for these customers.

Not for everyone.

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