Most DR planning skips the business layer and jumps straight to configuration. This post covers how to set RPO/RTO targets by workload tier, what DR actually costs on hyperscalers versus OpenMetal’s fixed-cost model, and what SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS auditors specifically ask to see.
Category: Backup and Disaster Recovery
Veeam Backup & Replication doesn’t support OpenStack virtual machines, and it’s not on their roadmap. This guide explains the technical reasons behind this gap, compares proven OpenStack backup alternatives, examines when bare metal with Veeam makes sense, and provides a framework for choosing the right backup solution for your private cloud infrastructure.
Discover how to architect multi-site high availability infrastructure that maintains continuous operation across geographic locations. This comprehensive guide covers OpenStack deployment patterns, Ceph storage replication, networking strategies, and cost-effective approaches to achieving five nines uptime.
Downtime isn’t an option. This guide details five failover strategies for OpenStack clouds: active-active, active-passive, cold standby, storage replication, and automated disaster recovery. Understand the trade-offs in cost, recovery time, and complexity to choose the right approach for your needs.
Ceph RBD mirroring offers a streamlined way to handle disaster recovery for private OpenStack clouds. RBD mirroring also reduces downtime and supports business continuity by enabling a smooth failover to secondary clusters during primary site outages. This functionality lays the groundwork for a resilient disaster recovery strategy and ongoing improvements.
Explore asynchronous replication in OpenStack clouds for improved application performance, cost savings, and flexible disaster recovery. Learn its benefits, common use cases with Cinder and Swift, conceptual setup, and key considerations like managing RPO and resource usage for a resilient deployment.
Automating backups in OpenStack is crucial for managing large-scale deployments efficiently while reducing risks of human error. Here are the 8 top tools that help streamline OpenStack backup processes for consistent data protection and quick recovery.
Summary Use your favorite automation and infrastructure management tooling to backup your data to OpenMetal’s On-Demand OpenStack Private Cloud. OpenMetal’s On-Demand OpenStack Private Cloud provides the tools and high-density storage