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Veeam and GCP confidential vm restore

  • March 15, 2023
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Andanet
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hi all… has anyone tried to restore a confidential VM instance in Google cloud? IS it possible? 

I can’t find anythings in Veeam documentation. 

thanks 

 

Best answer by Andanet

Thanks folks… at the moment we are working with another backup software with some error during keyring restore. We are looking for other solution and we will try Veeam for this use case. 

When we have tested I’ll post the results. 

Thanks all.  

Antonio D'Andrea | VMCE 2021 | VMCA 2022 | VMTSP2024 | Veeam Legend | VUG Italy Leader | Object First Ace | VCP6-DCV | I want it written on my tombstone "Please start a restore to the last valid backup"
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Chris.Childerhose
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Chris.Childerhose
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It is possible and here is the Veeam documentation on restoring to GCP - Restore to Google Compute Engine - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com)

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Andanet
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  • March 15, 2023

Thanks @Chris.Childerhose I had already seen the documentation but not talk about confidential VM that use encryption keys even when is in use.

There are some differences with a classic GCE instances due to encryption best practice… keyring are stored on a different project to segregate key from instance. 

 

 

Antonio D'Andrea | VMCE 2021 | VMCA 2022 | VMTSP2024 | Veeam Legend | VUG Italy Leader | Object First Ace | VCP6-DCV | I want it written on my tombstone "Please start a restore to the last valid backup"
Chris.Childerhose
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Chris.Childerhose
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Thanks @Chris.Childerhose I had already seen the documentation but not talk about confidential VM that use encryption keys even when is in use.

There are some differences with a classic GCE instances due to encryption best practice… keyring are stored on a different project to segregate key from instance. 

 

 

Ah ok.  Not sure on that one and hopefully someone that knows will chime in.

Chris Childerhose - VMCA2024 | VMCE2023 | VMCE-SP2024 | Veeam Vanguard 8* | Veeam Legend 5* | VUG Canada Leader | vExpert 6* | Toronto VMUG Leader | VCAP-DCV/VCP-DCV | Object First Ace | Cisco Champion | Twitter: @cchilderhose | Blog Site – https://just-virtualization.tech
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Iams3le
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  • March 17, 2023

Hello @Andanet, I have not tried this but Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can help restore GCP Confidential VMs since this backup solution is specifically built for this environment, and capable of creating an image-level backup!. 

I know it was not spelt out emphatically in this guide. Please test and share your findings: https://www.veeam.com/google-cloud-backup.html 

[Microsoft MVP 2x | Veeam Legend (2021 -2025) | VMware vExpert 5x | Cisco Champion 3x | Object First Ace 2x]
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Andanet
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  • March 17, 2023

Thanks folks… at the moment we are working with another backup software with some error during keyring restore. We are looking for other solution and we will try Veeam for this use case. 

When we have tested I’ll post the results. 

Thanks all.  

Antonio D'Andrea | VMCE 2021 | VMCA 2022 | VMTSP2024 | Veeam Legend | VUG Italy Leader | Object First Ace | VCP6-DCV | I want it written on my tombstone "Please start a restore to the last valid backup"
Chris.Childerhose
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