1. Background
Salmon IT are currently reviewing the existing backup solution located in the Co-location suite of Level 3 Datacentre in Hayes. The existing backup solution should provide a full back up of the entire estate that was originally implemented over 7 years ago. Due to the increasing growth of data within the infrastructure the backup solution has become unfit to deal with regular backups and is now struggling to successfully complete the daily backup policies within a 24 hour period.
Recently the IT team initiated a review of the capacity of data being backed up to overcome some of the issues but was unable to reduce the total size sufficiently to maintain a regular and consistent system backup.
The existing backup solution …show more content…
Quorum provides a backup appliance that is situated within the Datacentre. The Appliance too offers Backup to Disk technology and provides the ability to archive directly from the appliance to Quorum Datacentre. Included in the solution is Disaster Recovery with the ability to retain servers in warm standby (passive) so you are able to instantly bring these online if Disaster Recovery (DR) was ever evoked.
This type of solution is similar to our existing Plan-B but provides an all in one backup and DR. The benefits of Quorum is that they support both Linux and Windows platforms so if Salmon decided to move the current Plan-B DR service to Quorum we would be able to provide a (Warm Standby Mode) for priority servers both Linux and Windows operating systems. Quorum also provides an (On Demand Mode) service for less priority servers where you are able to restore the servers as and when the business requires them. This reduces the cost of having all servers in Warm Standby but still provides the ability to …show more content…
Acronis will build a custom appliance with sufficient capacity and growth. The appliance also provides a High Availability hypervisor built in to the appliance. This provides an extra layer of resilience on-site in case of an ESX host failure.
The Acronis solution is primarily cloud based and a portal is made readily available. If Salmon decide to make use of the DR capabilities the portal provides facilities to upload runbooks, instructions and sequence of events that need to take place if DR was ever evoked.
• Recommendation
After reviewing the product comparisons Acronis seems to be the most flexible and robust solution for Salmon Backup. Two of the products reviewed combine both Backup and DR into one solution. Though DR is out of scope for this piece of work it would seem practical to include Salmons DR within this exercise, considering we have limited DR capability within our current infrastructure. Including DR into this piece of work provides Salmon with a fully scalable and flexible DR strategy without the added cost of dedicated hardware and Datacentres.
• Acronis supports Windows and all versions of Linux kernel.
• Salmon are able to implement dedicated hardware.
• Provide custom builds of the
Salmon IT are currently reviewing the existing backup solution located in the Co-location suite of Level 3 Datacentre in Hayes. The existing backup solution should provide a full back up of the entire estate that was originally implemented over 7 years ago. Due to the increasing growth of data within the infrastructure the backup solution has become unfit to deal with regular backups and is now struggling to successfully complete the daily backup policies within a 24 hour period.
Recently the IT team initiated a review of the capacity of data being backed up to overcome some of the issues but was unable to reduce the total size sufficiently to maintain a regular and consistent system backup.
The existing backup solution …show more content…
Quorum provides a backup appliance that is situated within the Datacentre. The Appliance too offers Backup to Disk technology and provides the ability to archive directly from the appliance to Quorum Datacentre. Included in the solution is Disaster Recovery with the ability to retain servers in warm standby (passive) so you are able to instantly bring these online if Disaster Recovery (DR) was ever evoked.
This type of solution is similar to our existing Plan-B but provides an all in one backup and DR. The benefits of Quorum is that they support both Linux and Windows platforms so if Salmon decided to move the current Plan-B DR service to Quorum we would be able to provide a (Warm Standby Mode) for priority servers both Linux and Windows operating systems. Quorum also provides an (On Demand Mode) service for less priority servers where you are able to restore the servers as and when the business requires them. This reduces the cost of having all servers in Warm Standby but still provides the ability to …show more content…
Acronis will build a custom appliance with sufficient capacity and growth. The appliance also provides a High Availability hypervisor built in to the appliance. This provides an extra layer of resilience on-site in case of an ESX host failure.
The Acronis solution is primarily cloud based and a portal is made readily available. If Salmon decide to make use of the DR capabilities the portal provides facilities to upload runbooks, instructions and sequence of events that need to take place if DR was ever evoked.
• Recommendation
After reviewing the product comparisons Acronis seems to be the most flexible and robust solution for Salmon Backup. Two of the products reviewed combine both Backup and DR into one solution. Though DR is out of scope for this piece of work it would seem practical to include Salmons DR within this exercise, considering we have limited DR capability within our current infrastructure. Including DR into this piece of work provides Salmon with a fully scalable and flexible DR strategy without the added cost of dedicated hardware and Datacentres.
• Acronis supports Windows and all versions of Linux kernel.
• Salmon are able to implement dedicated hardware.
• Provide custom builds of the