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Status Under review
Workspace Storage Fusion
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 26, 2024

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Provide backup policy selection criteria for OCPVirt VM workloads that is more granular than OCP project level.

  • Goal: minimize potential for "backup storms" overwhelming CPU and network

When a cluster admin installs and configures OpenShift virtualization they need to make design decisions up front about how to support grouping of VMs into specific Project/namespaces. The project/namespace boundary is a very convenient and powerful control for grouping VMs by org, team, security/data isolation requirements, etc. NetworkAttachmentDefinitions are namespace scoped. Traditional VMW operating environments may have tens to hundreds (if not thousands) of VMs grouped together within vSphere resource groups, network boundaries, org/team etc. A Resiliency/BU/DR solution for OCPVirt VMs must provide more granular selection/grouping criteria than OCP Projects/namespaces.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 26, 2024

    I got some feedback that the above description is a bit confusing... More details:

    The goal of this idea is to eliminate future (near term I think...) problems with how BU processing works for OCP VMs workloads in particular. Today, when you choose what to backup you have to select a project. Whatever is inside that project gets processed. This is true for both the Fusion BU service and DF+ACM DR.

    • The project boundary in OCP looks to be a very good way and convenient way for grouping multiple VMs together so that you can apply a consistent set of project level controls, labeling, NAD access etc to a group of VMs. ...Nice

    • However, this presents a processing & I/O scale problem if there are many VMs in the same project. Just like there would be for any project with 100s of large PVs, esp if you are generating large deltas between snaps. (VMs!). This is table stakes for Cohesity, VEAAM, Commvault, etc...

    So my idea is to look at how we can provide a different (more selective...) type of selection criteria than project level, so we don't march OCPVirt envs toward a cliff when it comes to supporting large amounts of VMs that happen to be grouped within the same project. This suggestion is adding another way of controlling for "backup storms" if you will, in addition to the current development toward making more powerful and efficient snapshot delta processing available to OCPVirt.

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