{"id":21287,"date":"2017-06-28T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=21287\/"},"modified":"2020-03-15T18:08:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T17:08:43","slug":"starwind-cloud-vtl-aws-veeam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/starwind-cloud-vtl-aws-veeam\/","title":{"rendered":"StarWind Cloud VTL for AWS and Veeam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21291 size-full\" title=\"starwindcloudvtlawsveeam01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/starwindcloudvtlawsveeam01.jpg\" alt=\"starwindcloudvtlawsveeam01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>StarWind Cloud VTL for AWS and Veeam is a new product by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">StarWind<\/a> that eliminates the need for the physical tape by emulating industry-standard tape hardware.<\/p>\n<p>This solution adds the cloud storage tier to the backup infrastructure ensuring the compliance with <strong>3-2-1 backup rule<\/strong>. It creates an <strong>additional backup copy<\/strong> replacing the expensive local\u00a0storage with cost-efficient cloud storage like <strong>Amazon S3<\/strong> and <strong>Glacier<\/strong>.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>StarWind Cloud VTL for AWS and Veeam can be <strong>integrated into the existing backup infrastructure<\/strong> without adding third-party software.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The 3-2-1 backup rule<\/h2>\n<p>To ensure you have always <strong>data availability<\/strong>, a good backup strategy should follow the 3-2-1 schema rule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 copies of your data<\/li>\n<li>2 different media types<\/li>\n<li>1 located offsite<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21292 size-large\" title=\"starwindcloudvtlawsveeam02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/starwindcloudvtlawsveeam02-600x136.jpg\" alt=\"starwindcloudvtlawsveeam02\" width=\"600\" height=\"136\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How it works<\/h2>\n<p>Backups based on tape media is not only time-consuming, but must be <strong>organized carefully<\/strong>. The IT staff needs to manage tape media, rotate tapes, monitor backups, and so on. Tapes and their storage in a off-site location requires additional costs and there is a certain risk of failure since it's a complete manual process.<\/p>\n<p>The concept behind this solution is the <strong>replacement of physical tapes<\/strong> in the existing backup infrastructure providing a fully automated replication and tiering to Amazon cloud storage. Data are replicated to fast <strong>Amazon S3<\/strong> cloud storage and provides smart de-staging to more cost-efficient <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/glacier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glacier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21293 size-large\" title=\"starwindcloudvtlawsveeam03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/starwindcloudvtlawsveeam03-600x395.jpg\" alt=\"starwindcloudvtlawsveeam03\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This new solution brings the following key benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Implementation of Disk-to-Disk-to-Cloud (D2D2C) backup strategy<\/li>\n<li>StarWind Cloud VTL is a <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/veeam-backup-and-replication-9-5-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Veeam<\/a>\u00a0ready solution<\/li>\n<li>Ability to \u201ctier\u201d backups between cloud storage with different performance and efficiency characteristics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What is VTL<\/h2>\n<p>Using a tape-based backup, the <strong>transfer of data is generally slow<\/strong> and increases the RTO. To speed up the process the only possible solution is the use of <strong>cache of disk drives<\/strong>. Using the cache as\u00a0virtual tape library, data are written to the cache (SATA HDD) in a faster way fitting the backup windows and eliminating the load to the infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21303 size-large\" title=\"starwindcloudvtlawsveeam04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/starwindcloudvtlawsveeam04-600x269.png\" alt=\"starwindcloudvtlawsveeam04\" width=\"600\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) converts inexpensive SATA drives into virtual tapes <strong>emulating real existing tape hardware<\/strong>\u00a0with the possibility to offload data to public cloud storage like Amazon Glacier and Amazon S3 definitively less expensive.<\/p>\n<p>This solution\u00a0<strong>provides a compliance<\/strong> to the 3-2-1 backup rule.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Veeam integration<\/h2>\n<p>StarWind Cloud VTL is a <strong>Veeam ready solution<\/strong> and each software component has been pre-tested and checked for compatibility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VTL technology<\/strong> will be introduced in the upcoming Veeam Backup &amp; Replication v10.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21301 size-large\" title=\"starwindcloudvtlawsveeam05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/starwindcloudvtlawsveeam05-600x339.png\" alt=\"starwindcloudvtlawsveeam05\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>StarWind Cloud VTL for AWS and Veeam is available as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veeam.com\/blog\/leverage-vtl-on-amazon-aws-object-storage-s3-glacier.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30-day trial<\/a> for testing purposes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StarWind Cloud VTL for AWS and Veeam is a new product by StarWind that eliminates the need for the physical tape by emulating industry-standard tape hardware. This solution adds the cloud storage tier to the backup infrastructure ensuring the compliance with 3-2-1 backup rule. It creates an additional backup copy replacing the expensive local\u00a0storage with cost-efficient cloud storage like Amazon S3 and Glacier.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2138,1787,933],"tags":[1669,1774,584,1785],"class_list":["post-21287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-backup-en","category-starwind-en","category-veeam-en","tag-cloud","tag-starwind","tag-veeam-en","tag-vtl","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}