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Status Under review
Workspace Storage Defender
Created by Guest
Created on May 22, 2024

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Data Protect as part of IBM Storage Defender and improvement for cluster-failover

Assume there are two Data Protect Clusters in metro-distance (<30km). Both clusters are loosely coupled only. Just backup data itself are mirrored asynchronously, but no meta-data. 
What are the issues with that?

  • As a consequence, in case of a failover, the "new" backup starts with a full backup. It doesn't consider CBT (Changed Block Table)
    This is not acceptable for a HA scenario. For software upgrades and other tests we switch between the two main DC. For us it is a HA. 
    To do a full backup for 10.000+VMs would create significant load on the VMs athough the written data to the backup cluster will be very little. 
    For clarification: In a real DR scenario this could be accepted. 
  • The backup jobnames in the other DC (after a failover) are different ones. This creates issues for monitoring (backup completed Y/N), for automation and so forth.

Idea: (1) Do a "clever" metadata replication to have a HA solution which respects CBT.  (2) Find an intelligent way to continue with current backup job-names

Idea priority High

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