Benefits of load balancing Cloudian with Veeam

Load balancing Cloudian with Veeam provides the following significant benefits:

• Highly available backups
• Quicker recovery
• Performance at scale
• Multisite resilience

About the combined Cloudian and Veeam Solution

Cloudian with Veeam is an integrated data protection solution that uses Veeam’s backup and recovery software with Cloudian HyperStore, an on-premises, scale-out, S3-compatible object storage platform.

It creates a robust, highly scalable, and cost-effective backup target right inside your own data center, often with superior ransomware protection through immutability.

While Cloudian and Veeam are both market leading providers, together they can only deliver the very best high availability solution when using a load balancer.

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How to load balance Cloudian and Veeam

Veeam delivers backup, recovery and replication for all workloads. Cloudian HyperStore serves as the on-prem storage target for Veeam backup and is a multi-tenant distributed storage platform that is 100% compatible with Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage protocol. The S3 Object Lock on Cloudian HyperStore allows backup data copies to be made unchangeable for a set period of time, which prevents hacker encryption or deletion and ensures a clean data copy for reliable recovery.

Loadbalancer.org sits in front of the Cloudian deployment and manages the traffic distribution between Veeam and Cloudian for high availability (HA).

The architecture contains both a primary backup repository as a performance tier and the S3 object storage as a capacity tier – the latter being Cloudian HyperStore. The backup meta-data produced by Veeam is kept locally in the performance tier for intelligent search and browse capability. Then Veeam moves or copies the backup data from the performance tier to Cloudian HyperStore – an extension of the primary repository used for longer data retention periods and/or to store immutable backup copies.

Both performance and capacity tiers can be load balanced as they are storage systems. Depending on which performance tier is chosen (for example Cloudian HyperFile or Qumulo), we can load balance the traffic for HA.

As for the capacity tier, Cloudian HyperStore architecture supports HA clustering by putting a load balancer in front of it. The load balancer ensures that traffic is distributed evenly across the nodes optimising the load on each node. It also monitors and performs health checks on a node to ensure traffic is routed correctly to healthy nodes. Without the use of a load balancer, an offline or failed node would still receive traffic, causing failures.

For deployments that are distributed across multiple sites, the GSLB functionality of a load balancer can provide the failover required when one or more sites are down. It uses DNS to provide HA across multiple sites and provides optional location affinity to ensure clients connect to their local HyperStore service.

Load balancing deployment concept

Here is an example of a typical on-site deployment:

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