Vinchin Guarantees Data Security for Hybrid Datacenter on Ovirt Environment

When I found Vinchin on google search, I realized I've discovered a new land! Comparing with installing agent on 220 VMs for 220 times, using Vinchin Backup & Recovery we only need to install Ovirt backup plugin on our 12 physical hosts for 12 times. Can you imagine how much workload we've decreased? 

Marcelo Leandro, Senior Infrastructure Analyst

Hybrid Data Center

Business Challenge

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Natal-RN Brazil, Hybrid Datacenter is an Information Technology company that is constantly evolving and attuned to technological innovations, constantly adapting to new market demands and with a modern, secure technical infrastructure, and built to support the growth of its client’s business by providing a series of professional services including VPS services, Onsite/Offsite backup solutions and Cloud services etc. The Hybrid Datacenter Solutions is the first Data Center focusing on integrated technology of Rio Grande do Norte Information Services and region. Pioneer to offer advanced technology services focused on the competitiveness of its client.

Hybrid Data Center's IT infrastructure consists of an onsite Ovirt virtualization environment. A total of 220+ Ovirt VMs run as a variety of critical servers such as webserver, file servers, OA systems, Mail server and most important VPS (A virtual private server is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hostings service.). Since these servers has stored not only their own but also their customers' critical data, they urgently need a trustable backup solution for the backup and recovery of these 220 Ovirt VMs, because any loss of the data might be a crashing impact to the company.

"I'm pretty professional on Ovirt virtualization implementation, it's free and very easy and smooth to manage. But since we migrated our business systems to Ovirt, it became a big problem for us to find a VM backup solution for our Ovirt VMs. We have to select some most important VMs and took a long time to install agent on each VM so we can backup them. It’s more than just waste of time, we have to take the risk of losing data and losing customer due to the unskillful backup way." Says Marcelo Leandro, Senior Infrastructure Analyst of Hybrid Data Center

Vinchin Solution

"When I found Vinchin on google search, I realized I've discovered a new land! Vinchin Backup & Recovery provided us the best experience on a real VM level backup and recovery. Only a few days testing in our lab, I've decided to introduce it to my manager, we have to buy it because Vinchin's backup method is absolutely what we are searching for! Comparing with installing agent on 220 VMs for 220 times, using Vinchin Backup & Recovery we only need to install Ovirt backup plugin on our 12 physical hosts for 12 times. Can you imagine how much workload we've decreased?" Says Marcelo.  "Vinchin offered us a best price to buy the full featured enterprise edition after we finished our trial. They also suggested us to install Vinchin on a separate physical host to isolate backup server with our production environment. To minimize the risk of data loss, so we can guarantee our VPS data security and continuously serving our clients without additional worries.”

Vinchin as a Redhat Technology partner, provided a comprehensive backup strategy to Hybrid Datacenter to effectively protect their Ovirt environment:

1. Abandon legacy backup mode, switch to Ovirt + Vinchin agentless backup mode for all VMs by installing backup plugin in each Ovirt host.

2. Configure an isolated network for backup, which is separated from production network and management network to minimize the resource occupation of production and management network during backup task execution.

3. Assign all VMs into multiple backup jobs, and reduce the backup network load by setting different backup time strategies and increase backup efficiency.

4. In case any VM failure, we can instantly recover it from any previous backup timepoint even the backups has been deduplicated and compressed. Make sure RTO < 2 minutes.

Result

Vinchin Backup & Recovery provides Hybrid Data Center with fast Ovirt VM backup, isolated backup network and intelligent backup strategies by using one single software. Now the company can realize automated backup and recovery of any VM at any time without effecting their business. In addition, with an easy to use web console, the company saved time on job execution and job monitor. For Marcelo and his IT colleagues, the most troublesome problem has been solved, they no longer need to spend much time on installing agent in 220 VMs. After all, what's really matters to them is thinking about how to improve their VPS hosting service quality to serve better their customers.