VMware Cloud + Datrium = Awesome Recovery!!

VMware is the de-facto standard for the enterprise datacenter, and AWS has the broadest set of cloud services with global scale and reach. If you not aware, both companies have jointly engineered a cloud solution that delivers the best of VMware and AWS for customers. The VMware Cloud on AWS has a massive global presence.

Datrium DRaaS with VMware Cloud on AWS is a comprehensive cloud-based backup and disaster recovery service for the protection of Datrium DVX on-premises systems. It encompasses Cloud DVX backup, ControlShift orchestration, as well as VMware Cloud on AWS. DRaaS dramatically reduces costs, keeps data safe and secure, and delivers enterprise-grade failover and failback. It enables organizations to eliminate physical DR sites, provides integrated management, and because it’s delivered as a SaaS solution, it eliminates the complexity of packaged software.

Just-in-Time Deployment

As the name suggests, Just-In-Time deployment will instantiate a VMware Cloud SDDC from scratch and migrate backup data (already in Cloud DVX on AWS) to VMware Cloud upon a click of a button. This deployment model enables customers to have a DR site with networking and everything else needed in 1 hour or less, without incurring in any upfront costs. Yeah, there are other DR modes with lower RTO, check them here.

Yes, it sounds too good to be true, and that is the reaction we get from customers when they see a demo for the first time. It's really groundbreaking!

During steady-state operation, backups are sent to the cloud backup site, and after some processing, land in a cost-effective compressed and deduplicated form in an S3 bucket. In the just-in-time mode of deployment, a cloud DR site is created only following a disaster. VMware Cloud SDDC is deployed only immediately before executing a DR plan.

To make this possible, DRaaS leverages the space and cost efficiencies of Cloud DVX. The protected site replicates VMs or protection groups in their forever incremental format to Cloud DVX, which in turn stores them in a compressed and deduplicated native format within the low-cost S3. During steady-state operation, the costs of data protection are limited to the costs of the Cloud DVX backup service and the cost of the S3 media.

Following a DR event, ControlShift deploys a new SDDC and orchestrates the failover to this SDDC as part of a DR plan execution. This process uses a fast high-bandwidth network link from VMware Cloud SDDC to AWS S3 to get access to backups. The recurring charges for the Cloud DR site start accumulating only after the SDDC deployment.

After the DR event, DRaaS starts to replicate unique data back to the Cloud Backup site, fail all VMs back on-premise and teardown the SDDC.

Visit the DRaaS website for more info.

This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net