Veeam Backup and Replication allow users to store and restore physical and virtual machines from DD series appliance active tier to cloud tier. With Cloud tier, data is natively tiered to the public, private or hybrid cloud for long-term retention.
To configure cloud tier on DD series appliance, the cloud capacity license must be available, and the cloud tier storage should be presented by the cloud provider for the DD series appliance to support cloud units.
- Login to DD System Manager using sysadmin credentials
- Click Data Management on the left pane of dashboard
- Click File System
- Click Disable to disable file system
- Click Enable Cloud Tier
- Click CONFIGURE STORAGE
- Verify the device is available under Addable Storage and click checkbox
- Click ADD TO TIER and verify the device is available under Cloud Tier
- Set passphrase and click ENABLE to enable cloud Tier
- Verify the CLOUD UNITS tab is available now with file system
- Enable the file system and verify the Cloud Tier details under Summary tab
- Click CLOUD UNITS
- Click Add and specify the details
- Name: Specify the name of the Cloud units
- Cloud Provider: Select from the dropdown
- Storage Class: Select the class from the dropdown
- Storage Region: Select the region from the dropdown
- Access Key: Provide the accurate access key
- Secret Key: Provide the secret key accordingly
- HTTP Proxy Server: The No option is selected by default, Click Configure if required
- Click ADD to finish
- The Cloud Unit is added successfully
Note: Data Movement Policy for Mtree is added to which data is backed up by Veeam Backup and Replicatiion
- Click Data Management
- Click Mtree
- Click Add under Data Movement Policy
- Select created cloud unit from the dropdown
- Click ADD
- The Data Movement Policy is created successfully
The Cloud Tier Configuration is completed, and the data can be moved from Active tier to Cloud Tier now.
- Click start to move data from Active Tier to Cloud Tier.
- Data has been moved to Cloud Tier.
- Data can be recalled from Cloud Tier to Active Tier for restore.