topic Re: Backup and restore for Tanzu and OpenShift based K8s cluster with CommVault in HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software

Backup and restore for Tanzu and OpenShift based K8s cluster with CommVault

PiyushJain — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 05:50:24 GMT

Hello Experts I would like to know if Morpheus support backup and restore for Tanzu and OpenShift based K8s cluster with CommVault. From documentation it looks like it only supported for VMware and OpenStack based workload but our customer is also looking to extend the same for K8s clusters. Is there any guidance that you can provide would be vary useful or any similar experience with other customers.

Thanks
Piyush Jain

Re: Backup and restore for Tanzu and OpenShift based K8s cluster with CommVault

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:06:45 GMT

Hi @piyush.jain the CSI plugin is for storage, I dont see how it can backup application state which is immutable.

Re: Backup and restore for Tanzu and OpenShift based K8s cluster with CommVault

PiyushJain — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:29:39 GMT

Hello @aabraham, Here is link which I am talking about:
https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/essential/123634_protecting_kubernetes_with_commvault.html

In my understanding, CSI plugin would provide the persistent storage for container application, same way as VMware datastore provides storage for VM’s.

Re: Backup and restore for Tanzu and OpenShift based K8s cluster with CommVault

PiyushJain — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:49:28 GMT

Thanks @aabraham for quick response. Customer would like to also check on container application (running on external K8s cluster) backup and restore using CommVault thru Morpheus?

Re: Backup and restore for Tanzu and OpenShift based K8s cluster with CommVault

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:13:56 GMT

Would work for deployments as it is adding to a job and the job has a schedule. Won’t be applicable for nodes.

Re: Backup and restore for Tanzu and OpenShift based K8s cluster with CommVault

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 10:29:13 GMT

Hi @piyush.jain External K8s cluster added to morpheus have to be scoped to a cloud. If the cluster is scoped to vmware cloud which has the CV integration enabled then during new deployment (instances) the backup option would should show up. I am not 100% sure if it would do the intended type of backup in CV.