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EntraID Backup data placement


lukas.k
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Dear folks,

As we all know from VeeamON (thrill still present ;-)) Veeam has announced EntraID backup with VBR.

My company is also working with CommVault and we currently discuss abount the EntraID backup data placement.

 

What do you guys think where the backup data should be stored? Does it make sense to deploy VBR on an Azure VM and use Azure onboard tools to make the data as redundant and available as possible? At least customers should deploy this within a differnt tentant not have to backup data within the tentant that is to be backuped…?

 

Most of my customers are using VBR onpremise so the first scenario could be to store the backups on the onpremise repositories, correct?

I’m trying to think a step further - what about customers who do no longer have an onpremise environment (cloud only)? As from my experience these customers do not have a VBR installation running in Azure, usually they use Veeam for M365 and Veeam for Azure.

 

Do we already have information about pricing in more detail? CommVault will charge around 70ct per user per month...would be sweet to stay somewhere below. :-)

 

Thanks for your thoughts and best regards from Germany!

Lukas

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coolsport00
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  • August 14, 2024

Hi @lukas.k -

The Entra product is still in beta, so answering a lot of what you ask would just be guesses because a lot of features, etc. could change by the time it goes GA 😊

I haven’t heard anything about pricing either...but I believe there is nothing additional because the Entra product is supposed to be included within VBR...not a separate component.

Maybe @Rick Vanover can provide more insight? Or, @Matt Crape ?


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I think this is a perfect example of red/blue tenants. Similar to a child domain in AD with a one way trust for security purposes, having a different tenant running VBR and storing backup data in it would be my go to method. I am not a fan of taking data out of the cloud and bringing it on prem, so keeping it in Microsoft’s network and using that 100gb backbone for fast restores is my preferred recommendation. 


lukas.k
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  • August 14, 2024

Thank you!

@TidusandYuna I do agree! I don’t see any reason to keep the backups onpremise...what to do with the data in case of an emergency? There is not onprem service that is able to work with the data since Entra ID is native…


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