Series: Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF In Part 1, I laid out the four-site, four-layer architecture. In Part 2, I built the floor: two stretched domains across Site A and Site B, vSAN ESA under the management plane, NetApp MetroCluster NFS under the SAP workloads, and three referees at Site C. Everything in those … Read more
I added a second node to an Ootbi cluster in the lab this week. The flow is short and mostly gets out of your way, but a firewall rule or a certificate will decide whether it goes smoothly, so here it is with the screens in front of you. The node came up on 1.7.82.12645. … Read more
Every backup storage vendor says their product is immutable. The word is on every datasheet in the category, which means it no longer tells you anything useful on its own. So the question is narrower. Put an Ootbi next to the other appliances you would consider for the same rack slot, and what is actually … Read more
Series: Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF In Part 1, I laid out the overall architecture: four sites, four layers of high availability, and a separate recovery site built on Veeam and Object First Ootbi. That post was the map. This blog post Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF — Part 2: Compute and Storage … Read more
Part 1: The Architecture Series: Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF If you’ve been reading my blog, you know my background is in VMware, virtualization infrastructure, and backup. That is where I have spent most of my career. SAP is not my primary area, and I will not pretend it is. Years ago, though, I … Read more
Choosing between block storage and object storage is one of the most important design decisions in any backup environment. It affects not only your primary backup repository but also your archive tier and your off-site protection strategy. Each option brings advantages but also strict limitations that can change how your backups behave once immutability and … Read more
After vacations, it’s time to start writing some blog posts, and today I will begin updating some of the features from Object First(Ootbi) and Veeam. Suppose you need a primer on Ootbi (Out-of-the-Box Immutability) architecture. Why object storage fits backups, and immutability basics, read this first: Object First Ootbi: The Ultimate On-Premises Backup Storage Appliance … Read more
