07-07-2022 12:02 PM
There are a lot of misunderstandings about Azure Stack solutions and how to protect each one of them. I want to help you better understand each solution within Azure Stack portfolio and how to protect them using Veritas NetBackup.
As you already know, Veritas NetBackup is an enterprise-class backup and recovery suite that provides unified data protection for multi-cloud, virtual and physical environments that can be globally managed from a single console, including all Azure Stack solutions.
The usual misunderstanding is to think Azure Stack is a solution itself, but Azure Stack is a portfolio of products comprised of three distinct offerings – Azure Stack Edge, Azure Stack Hub, and Azure Stack HCI. Azure Stack solutions help you extend Azure services and capabilities to your environment of choice – from the data center to edge locations and remote offices.
The confusion kicks in mostly between Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack HCI and how to protect them.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/operator/compare-azure-azure-stack?view=azs-2108
The most important feature of HCI is that it can run “disconnected” from Azure, in other words, HCI is just like your branch office server. It is a box that contains compute, power, storage, and network connections and holds Hyper-V based virtualized workloads and it has the option to connect to some Azure services.
And so, as it is like a Hyper-V server, you can use Veritas NetBackup Hyper-V policy type to protect it along with all the features Veritas NetBackup already provided for Hyper-V:
For details on how to protect Hyper-V, please check the NetBackup for Hyper-V Administrator’s Guide on the following URL: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/21357025-151824041-0/v21357050-151824041
On the other hand, Azure Stack Hub is really the on-premise extension of the Azure public cloud. Almost everything you can do in the public cloud, you could also deploy on Hub: from VMs to apps, all managed through the Azure portal or even Powershell, including things like configuring fault and updated domains.
In this case, you can still use the same deployment of Veritas NetBackup to protect your in-cloud workloads. The cloud data protection framework leverages the CloudPoint infrastructure to drive faster proliferation of cloud providers, since v8.3, CloudPoint can protect assets in AWS, AWS Outpost, Azure, Azure Stack hub and GCP clouds. Features includes:
For details on how to protect Cloud Assets, please check the NetBackup Web UI Cloud Administrator’s Guide on the following URL: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/150074555-150074602-0/v130722342-150074602