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Recipe: Create a CDP Policy with Guest Processing for Linux VMs
Expected deliverables:
A CDP Policy to provide Continous Data Protection for mission-critical VMware virtual machines (Linux) with Guest application-aware processing enabled.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- vSphere infrastructure must have been added to the backup infrastructure and properly configured. That means adding at least 1 vCenter instance, a Source and a Target vSphere Cluster.
- I/O filters for CDP must have been installed in source and target vSphere Cluster.
- We recommend you to configure at least two VMware CDP proxies: one (source proxy) in the production site and one (target proxy) in the disaster recovery site.
- No specific requirement for VMs to be protected with CDP.
- Network between infrastructure components required for CDP must be minimum 1 Gbps. We recommend to use 10 Gbps or faster and MTU 900
- A user account with root privileges if Guest Processing will be enabled
Before you start:
It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment. It’s assumed that you have supported Pre-freeze and Post-thaw scripts.
Assumptions:
It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment. If you need to install Veeam Backup Server, please refer to “Installing Veeam Backup & Replication All-In-One Base system” recipe.
Method:
- Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
- On the Home view. On the ribbon, click CDP Policy > VMware vSphere.
- At the Name step , specify a job name and description. Leave other options by default and click Next.
- At the Virtual Machines step, select VMs and/or VM containers that you want to replicate.
- Click Add, then in the Add Object window select the necessary VMs or VM containers and click Add.
- At the Destination step, select a target host or cluster, resource pool, vm folder and datastore for replicas. Click **Next.
- At the Policy Settings step, select the VMware CDP proxies (recommended) that must be used for the CDP policy, or leave it in automatic.
- Click Choose next to the Source proxy field if you want to select VMware CDP proxies in the production site
- Click Choose next to the Target proxy field if you want to select VMware CDP proxies in the recovert site.
- Also specify which suffix to add to replica names.
- At the Schedule step, configure the schedule and retention policies.
- Set the required Recovery point objective (RPO) in seconds or minutes.
- Set the Short-term retention in hour or minutes.
- Set the Long-term retention: Frequency to create restore points in hours, and retention for those restore points in days.
- At the Guest Processing step, check Enable application-aware processing option:
- If it’s required, choose a specific Guest Interaction Proxy, otherwise leave the default option.
- From the Guest OS credentials list, select a user account that has enough permissions. If you have not set up credentials beforehand, click the Manage accounts link or click the Add button to add credentials.
- Click in Applications, then select a workload from the list and click in Edit.
- In the Scripts tab select Require successful script execution, then in the Linux scripts section, specify paths to scripts for Linux VMs (Pre-freeze and Post-thaw scripts).
- If you want to configure transaction log processing for Oracle or PostgreSQL, select the Oracle or PostgreSQL tab and configure the parameters according to your requirements.
- Click Next.
- At the Summary step, review details of the CDP Policy. If you want to start the job right after you close the wizard, select the Enable the policy when I click Finish check box, otherwise leave the check box unselected. Then click Finish to close the wizard
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