OpenStack Native Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution
Uniview Vault Is Workload Protection with Graceful Integration, High Standard Application Consistency, One Click Automation, Offsite and Mutlile OpenStack Recovery, and Multiple-Tenancy!
UniVault
Uniview Vault is an integration and add‑on layer of open source to accomplish an OpenStack‑native solution for workload protection, whether for disaster recovery or simply rolling a workload back to a prior state. In response to the industry call for well‑integrated, rather than highly complex, siloed, and proprietary backup solutions, Uniview Vault is a showcase of how open-source OpenStack has potentials to accomplish one of the most desirable features through an orchestrating wrapper, when its comes to ecosystem comparing with VMware+Veeam, let's say. UniVault features:
Multi-tenancy and seamlessly integrated into user console
Different from traditional backup solutions which often uses centralized storage, Uniview is more focused on multiple-tenancy storage and backup readiness at 2nd OpenStack Infra, to improve its accessibility and RTO. However, CSP still can have option of centralized storage by GCS/NFS/S3 etc. With Uniview Vault, users have never had such accessibility to a workload protection solution in the OpenStack ecosystem. From creating and scheduling backups to restoring, all is one click away. Multi‑tenant backup and protection are highly secure and operable. Uniview Vault is fully integrated with the Uniview user console without the need to hop back and forth between different places and systems. Uniview Vault can function simply as a backup solution.
Easiest in the industry without intrusive integration with OpenStack controller/compute
Unlike many other solutions that often install movers or executors into the controller and hypervisor—significantly increasing solution cost and overhead and being too intrusive—Uniview Vault fully leverages Uniview core and the OpenStack API only to accomplish the same tasks efficiently. Nothing is required on Nova/Cinder controller, nova‑compute/Ceph; no proxy or agents are needed, while it still achieves the desirable filesystem‑consistent backups required to meet industry standards in the OpenStack world.
Such easy integration is critical that often brings TOC (Total Ownership Cost) of a backup solution to the minimal. Solutions depending on hypervisors and controllers often have huge overhead on solution maintenance and evovolving, very tied with every cells of OpenStack install, upgrading, and daily performance, whereas Uniview Vault doesn't pose this by respecting the integrity of an env.
Manageable, transparent, operable, and affordable — a perfect balance of open source and thin proprietary engineering
Uniview Vault leverages open source APIs and services to turn a highly complex and often expensive process into a well‑accessible, reliable workload protection solution native to OpenStack. Uniview Vault also orchestrates various services to accomplish workload recovery with traceable logs and events. Uniview Vault easy install and daily administrating over intuitive UI is natural as requiring nearly no extra efforts, which is a signficant difference from other solutions when dedicated administrator and complex process are required due to the complex topology.
Highest Standard of Source Application Consistency While Agentless to Ensures Best Recoverability
Uniview Vault implements a high standard of application consistency by coordinated quiescing and application freezing in a graceful way, so that data backed up from volumes or snapshots has the best recoverability. All processes are achieved through orchestrated API calls without agents. Supported storage media include AWS S3, Swift, NFS, GCS (Google Cloud Storage), Ceph, and other common storage systems. Full and incremental backups are available within a few clicks.
Backup-In-Motion that Has Workload Instantly Recovered at 2nd OpenStack With Nothing Shared
Uniview Vault is the only Backup-In-Motion solution in the industry that can perform one‑click backup and recovery of VMs from one OpenStack environment to another without requiring any shared components between them. This is made possible through the powerful Uniview User Console of OpenStack and its clustering capabilities, which automate the entire process. Backup, Put in Motion, and Recover are all by one click as simple that there is no room for mistaking.
Backup-In-Motion makes mutli-OpenStack truly meaningful to business as one failover solution at disaster when data sync can be well faciliated by Uniview Vault. From taking backup at env A, puting in motion to have it replicated to B, to recovering by one click, it can be as short as minutes, and all process is within same console without hoping off/on by a few clicks.
High Efficiency and High Reliability
Uniview leverages the potantials of existing systems to orchestrate them into a desireable feature, such as ceph rbd copy, rbd diff, nova quiescing, cinder backup, neutron api and swift/rgw cluster etc.
Uniview Vault barely requires local storage or network for data transit, hence it is more reliable and efficient to compare with a data mover installed at each compute node way.
Data moving is within Ceph or storage to storage at server side.
Its performance is ensured by the way of data handling too, when there is no need of delta computing that data movers often do. Uniview doesn't need data mover.
Instead Uniview delta computing leverages Ceph RBD metadata only without touching real data. Different from data mover or proxy when it does download and upload locally, Uniview Vault does only server side copying without local download/upload.
Frequenlty Asked Questions
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What Data Consistency by Uniview Vault Backup Data?
Under the hood, Uniview leverages Nova Quiesce, Cinder Snapshot, Cinder Backup, Ceph RBD, full APIs all together to achieve data consistency to be file system consistent. With generic qemu-guest-agent or user self extension when needed, Uniview can accomplish desirable application consistency.
Does Uniview Vault Require qemu-guest-agent too?
YES. Uniview Vault is agentless, and instead it relies on qemu-guest-agent too to freeze the file system for getting consistent backup data. The image should have properties setting of such, as most solutions require, and VM is highly recommended to have it at boot, such as by user data. User can choose easy enablement at instantiation or edit instance to signal its capacity to Nova and Uniview Vault, if quiescing is applicable to user workload at backing up.
What RPO and RTO Is Anticipated with Uniview Vault?
With support of Uniview scheduler and incremental backup, RPO can be as minimal as minutes technically. Taking backup has impacts on performance of application in short manner, in real world, the incremental backup frequency practice can be optimized to have a balance.. With well orchestrated services by Uniview Vault, RTO can be a few minutes to restore an env. Liternally one click with a few seconds RTO is possible to automatically rollback and restore workload running env to the state it was.
Is Uniview Vault Compatible with My OpenStack Install?
Yes! Different from solutions that often install data mover or API into compute and controller node, which needs to work with binary, socks or container installed by installers such as Canonical Juju and Redhat OpenStack, Uniview uses only API, and there is no constraint to work with known distros, regardless how it was installed.
With Uniview Vault, Do I need other such as Storware or Trillio?
That depends. Uniview faciliates ultimate workload safety by backup to 2nd storage and multiple nothing shared OpenStack at the same time, and chance of data loss of all three independent storage and systems is very low. Given the real business can be multi systems ecosystem, for those that used to classic central files backup, there is always value to have multiple safety measures from backing up angle. Uniview Vault doesn't provide file level granular recovery. If a business requires, this can be a good reason too.
Is Uniview Vault Scalable?
Uniview Vault works with multi-tenant storage such as Swift Cluster, and there is unlimited scalablity by underlying Swift Cluster or Ceph RGW. All data copying inccurred by Uniview is high efficient server side copy, CEPH rbd copy, Ceph network copy and there is no local traffic generated. There is no network bottleneck along the path.