CloudStack-KVM integration for Veeam B&R

[yadvr]

Just wanted to share some progress on our work of the CloudStack-KVM integration for Veeam B&R, and build excitement with the CloudStack & Veeam user community.

Thanks to great work in progress by @shwstppr @abh1sar @weizhouapache we've now a fully functional CloudStack-KVM integration that works with Veeam B&R v13. This work will be submitted to the community soon after a final round of checks, review and QA.

We're hopeful of targeting this for ACS 4.23, but there are some moving parts and dependency on the Veeam team to validate/certify CloudStack as a platform in Veeam.

The architecture looks like this, the integration is largely turnkey:

This will require some global settings to be enabled and configured, along with an option for a service account:

The integrations enables Veeam driven B&R with self-service backups coming in future version when B&R APIs are made available for UHAPI platforms:

Restore example:

Incremental backup example:

Restore of an incremental backup example:

[mvds-vdsc]

Would this setup also work for Xenserver/XCP-NG Hypervisors? Since Veeam has an XCP-NG agent in Beta I hope your work would be reusable for XCP-NG. Great job by the way!

[yadvr]

I think Veeam already supports XCP-ng directly, though not keeping cloudstack aware of out of band changes (such as restoring backup such that they create new instances). That said, the agent based backups should work -- you should really check Veeam docs though.

[BaptisteTellier]

XCP-NG is supported by Veeam directly, it has nothing to do with UHAPI. Wait for official support in the coming month

[wido]

Looks great! Hope this motivates others to work on such integerations.

The first screenshot shows /ovirt-engine in the config. Does this integration share a lot of similarities on the Veem side with oVirt?

[shwstppr]

@wido yes, the integration API that Veeam supports via its UHAPI concept is largely the same as oVirt APIs
https://www.veeam.com/company/press-release/veeam-data-platform-v13-cyber-resilience-data-protection-security-ai.html

[yadvr]

@wido wot he said ^^ once our integration work is validated and tested by Veeam, they'll add a plugin/support for CloudStack as a platform; so longer term if everything goes well, users will see the management server end-points listed under CloudStack (and not ovirt -- this is just for development sake).

[flolicht]

That's awesome! This will make migrating existing VMware environments so much easier from the backup perspective.
Will the Veeam KVM implementation require specific primary storage backends, such as NFS or Ceph RBD?