{"id":37300,"date":"2019-01-29T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=37300"},"modified":"2020-03-21T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:41:00","slug":"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-backup-replication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-backup-replication\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Disaster Recovery with Nakivo Backup &#038; Replication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37382 size-full\" title=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-01.jpg\" alt=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To ensure <strong>data protection and business continuity<\/strong>, a Cloud Disaster Recovery plan is what an administrator should consider in his backup strategy design.<\/p>\n<p>A Disaster Recovery plan must <strong>consider several factors<\/strong>\u00a0before its implementation, such as budget constraints, VMs to protect, available bandwidth, latency, required <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/how-calculate-rto-reduce-downtime-nakivo\/\">RPO and RTO<\/a>, and so on.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A cloud solution provides the possibility to quickly restore VMs regardless of the geographical location. This is a big benefit since you can decide <strong>where to implement your DR site<\/strong> with a deep eye on costs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37385 size-large\" title=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-02-600x319.jpg\" alt=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-02\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits of Cloud Disaster Recovery<\/h2>\n<p>A big pros of having the Disaster Recovery running in the cloud is the <strong>non dependency on the physical infrastructure<\/strong>. You don't have to maintain servers, storage devices with expensive contracts, investing time to keep the infrastructure healthy. VMs run in the cloud in the same way they run on-premises, it is completely transparent from the administrator point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Using the <strong>pay-per-use model<\/strong>, the Disaster Recovery in the cloud takes advantage of <strong>services provided by MSPs<\/strong> to ensure business continuity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Backup as a Service (BaaS)<\/strong> - defined the requiements (space, retention, etc.), the MSP is responsabile to store data backup providing agreed recovery performances in terms of RPO and RTO (RTO strongly depends on the available bandwidth).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Replication as a Service (RaaS)<\/strong> - replication is a backup that relies on a <strong>short RPO<\/strong> in order to be as close as possible to present time <strong>reducing data loss<\/strong>, restoring the VM functionality in a matter of seconds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)<\/strong> - MSPs provide all services required to provide failover capabilities to ensure business continuity and data availability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You just <strong>pay for the services you need<\/strong> and you don't longer need to worry about <strong>hardware failures<\/strong>, <strong>software updates<\/strong>, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>If your resource requirements grow or must be reduced, the <strong>cloud-based model is scalable<\/strong>\u00a0and allows to quickly and easily adjust the configuration needs simply informing your MSP about new parameters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37387 size-large\" title=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-03-600x312.jpg\" alt=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-03\" width=\"600\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let's talk about huge disasters such as earthquake. If the building integrity is serioulsy compromised due to earthquake, a cloud-based Disaster Recovery allows you to restore your workloads in\u00a0<strong>different geographical regions<\/strong> keeping your business alive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Cloud Disaster Recovery with Nakivo<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakivo.com\/partner\/cloud-provider-program\/backup-as-a-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cloud-based strategy<\/a>\u00a0is supported by Nakivo and can be used for Disaster Recovery of <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-vsphere-6-7-released\/\">VMware<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/nakivo-backup-replication-7-1-now-supports-microsoft-hyper-v-failover-clusters\/\">Hyper-V<\/a> virtual machines and <strong>Amazon AWS instances<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To implement a valid Disaster Recovery plan, Nakivo provides several useful features.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Backup copy to cloud<\/h4>\n<p>To meet the 3-2-1 backup rule, a <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/nakivo-backup-replication-storing-backups-aws\/\">copy of your VM backups<\/a> can be <strong>stored in the cloud<\/strong> to ensure VM data protection also in case of serious issues in the on-premises infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37389 size-large\" title=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-04-600x200.jpg\" alt=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-04\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Replication<\/h4>\n<p>An <strong>identical copy<\/strong> of production VMs (replica) can be stored in the Disaster Recovery site to <strong>quickly restore<\/strong> the VMs functionality in case of a disaster in the production site. With <strong>Network Mapping<\/strong> and <strong>Re-IP<\/strong> capabilities, VMs in the DR site can connect the production site in case the production site has a failure.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/nakivo-backup-replication-configure-vmware-replication\/\">Replication<\/a>\u00a0is a requirement to implement the Automated VM failover feature.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37391 size-large\" title=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-05-600x192.jpg\" alt=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-05\" width=\"600\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Failover<\/h4>\n<p>Nakivo provides an <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/nakivo-backup-replication-automated-vm-failover\/\">Automated VM failover<\/a> capability in order to quickly restore the failed VM in the production site in a matter of seconds. With Network Mapping and Re-IP capabilities, VMs in the DR site can connect the production site in case of production site failure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37393 size-large\" title=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-06\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-06-600x203.jpg\" alt=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-06\" width=\"600\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Multi tenancy<\/h4>\n<p>Edition oriented for service providers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakivo.com\/blog\/delivering-baas-draas-multi-tenancy-draas-configuration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multi tenancy<\/a> allows to provide BaaS, RaaS, and DRaaS services to customers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37395 size-large\" title=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-07\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-07-600x186.jpg\" alt=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-07\" width=\"600\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Drawbacks of Cloud Disater Recovery<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Bandwidth and latency<\/strong> are factors that heavily affect the Disaster Recovery efficiency. A <strong>high Internet bandwidth<\/strong> is required to implement a Disaster Recovery in the cloud to ensure acceptable performance and speed. Makes no sense to implement a cloud-based solution if you have a poor bandwidth with high latency.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37397 size-full\" title=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-08\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-08.jpg\" alt=\"cloud-disaster-recovery-nakivo-08\" width=\"454\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since data are stored outside the organization, the <strong>internal policies<\/strong> may clash with storing data externally.<\/p>\n<p>Implementing a Disaster Recovery plan in the cloud offers <strong>several advantages<\/strong> to the organizatons: scalability, reliability, pay-per-use model that allows to keep costs under control, no dependency from the hardware or expensive maintenance contracts.<\/p>\n<p>To implement and test a cloud-based Disaster Recovery, Nakivo Backup &amp; Replication can be downloaded as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakivo.com\/resources\/download\/trial-download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30-day trial<\/a>.<\/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>To ensure data protection and business continuity, a Cloud Disaster Recovery plan is what an administrator should consider in his backup strategy design. A Disaster Recovery plan must consider several factors\u00a0before its implementation, such as budget constraints, VMs to protect, available bandwidth, latency, required RPO and RTO, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37382,"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":[903,2138,1697],"tags":[579,1956,1957,582],"class_list":["post-37300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-backup-en","category-nakivo-en","tag-backup-en","tag-cloud-disaster-recovery","tag-failover-en","tag-replication-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37300","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=37300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}