Part 2 – PowerProtect Cyber Recovery – Abilities and Improvements in the Cloud
Thu, 26 Jan 2023 21:42:07 -0000
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In my previous blog I talked about the new abilities on the cloud for the PowerProtect Cyber Recovery 19.11 release, which also covered Cyber Recovery on Microsoft Azure.
This time I want to focus on the latest release of Cyber Recovery 19.12 that supports a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) deployment with the entire Cyber Recovery Vault content.
As in AWS and Azure, the architecture remains the same: there’s a dedicated VPC with a Cyber Recovery Jump Host running in its own isolated subnet, and another isolated subnet that runs the Cyber Recovery Management Host and the Vault DDVE. The entire solution is secure with GCP firewall rules that prevent access to the vault. Only the Cyber Recovery Jump Host can access the Cyber Recovery Management Host and Vault DDVE.
You’ll notice in the following architecture diagram that the vault has a second VPC with a subnet, which doesn’t exist in the AWS or Azure deployments. That’s because this is how GCP handles and allows the DDVE to have another NIC (that’s intended for replication).
The deployment process is similar to the deployment process for other cloud platforms and is based on a template that deploys the entire Cyber Recovery Vault and its components.
Note: Deploying PowerProtect Cyber Recovery in the cloud must be performed by Dell Technologies Professional Services.
Now that we’ve talked about GCP, we should talk about CyberSense on AWS, which I know a lot of people have been waiting for. Starting in the Cyber Recovery 19.12 release, CyberSense 8.0 is also available for deployment on AWS using an AMI that can be shared with the customer’s AWS account.
Cyber Recovery users who run their vault on AWS can now deploy CyberSense in their vault, connect it to their Cyber Recovery Management Host, and use it to analyze their CR copies.
CyberSense was improved for this release and uses DDBoost (instead of just NFS) to read data from the DDVE, to make the analysis process much faster!
There’re other exciting new features coming out in Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery and CyberSense – so make sure to check out the latest release notes and documents.
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Author: Eli Persin, Principal Systems Engineer