Hybrid Cloud VM Backup and Restore via Microservice
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional data protection technologies lack an efficient solution for hybrid cloud environments, where application and virtual machine backups are stored across both on-premise data centers and cloud-based storage, and do not facilitate seamless restoration between these environments.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a hybrid cloud protection system that allows for the selection of applications or virtual machines from a cloud interface to restore data from cloud-based backups to on-premise storage, and vice versa, using a connector module and cloud manager to manage policies, replication, and metadata services for consistent backups and restoration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If data protection is implemented using conventional technologies in hybrid cloud environments, then on-premise data centers can store backups, but seamless restoration between on-premise and cloud environments is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal protection framework where a single backup infrastructure serves both on-premise and cloud environments. The cloud-based storage system can store backups from on-premise data centers and also serve as a restoration source, enabling the same system to perform multiple functions (backup storage, restoration source, and cross-environment data transfer) without requiring separate conventional protection systems for each environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a cloud-based storage system as an intermediary between on-premise data centers and cloud environments. This intermediary component enables seamless restoration by acting as a bridge that can receive backups from on-premise systems and deliver restorations to both on-premise and cloud destinations, solving the limitation of conventional technologies that cannot facilitate cross-environment restoration.
2Reliability
If backups are stored across both on-premise data centers and cloud-based storage, then data protection coverage is improved, but management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the management of on-premise and cloud-based backup storage into a single unified cloud-based storage system. Instead of managing separate backup infrastructures for on-premise and cloud environments, the patent combines these into one integrated system that handles both storage locations through a common interface and management plane, thereby improving protection coverage while reducing management complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud-based storage system performs multiple functions including storing backups from on-premise data centers, serving as a restoration source for both on-premise and cloud environments, and providing a unified management interface. This multi-functionality allows the system to extend data protection coverage across hybrid environments without proportionally increasing management complexity, as a single system handles all protection and restoration operations.
3Reliability
If conventional data protection technologies are used, then existing on-premise systems can be protected, but efficient protection for hybrid cloud environments is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud-based storage system acts as an intermediary that enables efficient protection for hybrid cloud environments while maintaining protection for existing on-premise systems. This intermediary component allows the system to efficiently manage backups across both on-premise and cloud environments through a single interface, improving productivity by eliminating the need for separate protection mechanisms for each environment while preserving existing on-premise system protection.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for applications and/or virtual machines (“VM”) are provided. As an example, one method includes registering a storage system configured to store data for a VM; creating a policy for the VM for generating a VM backup by a storage management system interfacing with the storage system and a cloud-based microservice; storing, by the cloud-based micro-service, a copy of the VM backup at a cloud-based storage; receiving, by the cloud-based micro-service, an indication from the storage management system of a successful execution of a pre-restore operation upon unregistering the VM from a VM management system; and copying, by the cloud-based micro-service, VM data from the VM backup stored at the cloud-based storage to the storage system for executing a restore operation to restore the VM backup at the storage system.