Overview: Backup & Recovery for OpenStack
Storware is a company that offers a solution of Backup & Recovery for the protection of corporate data, Agentless and suitable for various development environments. It supports Virtual Machines, containers, storage, and applications running on-premise and in the Cloud. Storware Backup and Recovery is a reliable and scalable choice for business organizations of all sizes that can help you protect your data from a wide range of threats.
We say CloudFire we choose Storware As it is one of the Prime technologies able to offer a service in mode Agentless, ensuring extreme versatility both for the supported platforms and for the target repositories, and all this fully matches the values and characteristics shared by CloudFire. In this Case study, let's retrace the challenges and solutions achieved with Storware.
Business Challenge
In CloudFire, with about 40 hosts and 1500 VMs, we faced several challenges in the backup and recovery processes of OpenStack environments. Specifically, what slowed us down the most, resulted from:
- Dependency on agents: the installation of agents on each virtual machine, in fact, made the operation expensive in terms of time and work;
- Complexity: monitoring capabilities were limited and complex work management resulted in operational inefficiencies;
These difficulties, and the respective backup solutions previously implemented, were based on installations of agents with autonomous management or centralized server architecture: solutions that were not in line with the objective of simplifying and optimizing backup and recovery processes.
Solution
OpenStack environments are usually complex and differ significantly from one another. That's why protecting them requires excellent suppleness on the part of the software architecture, and it is with this approach that it is designed Storware Backup and Recovery.
Storware has provided us with a revolutionary approach to addressing backup and recovery challenges, offering:
- Agentless backup: eliminated the need to install agents on every protected machine, simplifying the backup process and reducing time and effort;
- Centralized management: the Storware software offers CloudFire a centralized console that provides complete visibility and control over all hypervisors and virtual machines within the OpenStack environment;
- Improving efficiency: with Storware, we have seen an improvement in work efficiency and a minimum waste of time, allowing us to focus on more critical activities;
- Increased security: Storware's agentless approach has improved security by eliminating the need to access customer VMs to provide backup services.
Conclusion
Storware met our business and technological expectations, after the PoC and the subsequent implementation, in fact, we were especially thrilled with:
- Ease of use: Storware's intuitive interface has made it easy for our Team to navigate and manage backup and restore processes;
- Real Time Console: the activity console provided by Storware allowed CloudFire to monitor and manage backup processes efficiently;
- Multiple backup strategies: Storware Backup & Recovery offers multiple backup strategies that can be easily adapted to customer needs. For example: the transfer of images to disk, volumes, or Ceph based storage;
- Numerous backup destinations: the Storware solution offers a wide range of supported backup destinations, giving CloudFire flexibility in data storage options;
- Quick setup and planning: Storware's intuitive configuration and backup scheduling features have simplified the installation process;
- Overall efficiency: We liked the simplicity and efficiency of Storware's components and architecture.
CloudFire - Roberto Bondavalli, CTO & Founder
We have successfully overcome the challenges of backup and recovery processes with Storware, achieving greater efficiency, greater security, and overall operational excellence within our OpenStack environment!
