2. TECH TRACK: RHEV Backup AND Recovery
Michael Ablassmeier
Senior Support Engineer
Ralf Bogner
Senior Pre-Sales Engineer
TECH TRACK: RHEV Backup AND Recovery

3. Agenda SEP sesam RHEV Extension Key Features Functional Principle
Installation
Live Demo

4. SEP sesam RHEV Extension
SEP AG offers a new RHEV Extension to perform consistent backups of virtual machines. The creation and deletion of required snapshots is done completelly automatic and can be controlled by schedule. All functions can be controlled centrally via the SEP sesam GUI.

5. Key features Backup Backup level COPY
For now, only COPY backup is supported for RHEV. With this backup all data defined by the backup task is backed up, regardless of when it was last changed.
Therefore it is recommended to use the SEP Si3 target deduplication for your RHEV backups.
Note that other backup types will be available soon.
Backup of single Node and Cluster
SEP sesam supports backup for RHEV single server and RHEV Cluster with libvirt API.
The backup of individual VMs is supported on RHEV single server as well as on RHEV cluster.
Backup Methods
The following backup methods are available for backing up multiple VMs in a RHEV cluster/data-center or RHEV single server:
A config only backup which backups only the virtual machine configuration
Backup of individual VMs which can be grouped together in one task group running on multiple hosts via the RHEV Manager resource

6. Key Features
Restore Restore of a VM to the original or different location with the same or a different VM name using relocation. Restore of a VM to the same or a different single RHEV server as well as to the same or a different RHEV cluster. You can perform a simple path restore of your selected RHEV virtual machine configuration directly to a directory on any system rather than restoring and importing VM to the RHEV environment.

7. Functional Principle
LAN based Backup

8. Functional Principle
LAN free Backup

9. Installation Documentation Resources Prerequisites - RHEL Version 7
Resources
The components used are still in the development stage! Please send a request to to get the required components.
Prerequisites
- RHEL Version 7
- SEP sesam Server Version V4.4.3 or higher
- SEP sesam Client x with additional components:
- Working name resolution for RHEV nodes and the RHEV resource (RHEV Manager)
- Check the support matrix for the list of supported RHEV versions.
- Access to the RHEV management center (administrative user)

10. Live Demo
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