This article provides information about Veeam® Backup & Replication™ 10 support for VMware Cloud Director services.
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Here is a summary with use cases, solution components, and support information.
Veeam Backup & Replication provides support for VMware vCloud Director. Veeam Backup & Replication uses vCloud Director APIs to back up vApps and VMs and restore them directly to the vCloud Director hierarchy.
The main entity with which Veeam Backup & Replication works during backup is a vApp. A vApp is a virtual system that contains one or more individual VMs along with parameters that define operational details — vApp metadata. When Veeam Backup & Replication performs backup of VMs, it captures not only data of VMs being a part of vApps, but also vApp metadata. As a result, you can restore vCloud Director objects back to the vCloud Director hierarchy and do not need to perform any additional actions on import and VM configuration.
Use Cases
- Backing up the vCloud Director VM
- Querying the vCloud API for what objects are defined in Organizations, VDCs and more
- Backing up and restoring vCD-specific constructs, such as an entire vApp with its VMs and configuration data
Figure 1: VMware vCloud Director Hierarchy
Figure 2: Backing up and restoring individual VMs with rich features (whole VM, guest file, application items) as they move around the infrastructure within the Cloud Director Service context.
Figure 3: Self Service portal for allowing tenants to create their own backup jobs.