Protect your Kubernetes cluster with HPE and Kasten K10 by Veeam

[StorageExperts]

HPE and Kasten K10 by Veeam improve recovery readiness while protecting your containerized applications. HPE provides a one-stop shop where validated turnkey backup and recovery solutions can be purchased.

One of the unsurprising trends in IT is the adoption of container technology. By packaging up applications with everything they need to run, containers make it super easy for porting and deploying across different environments. In other words, just run containerized applications on any environment of your choice, be it local desktop, virtual server, physical server, or in the cloud. The other big advantage with containers is that they require so much less space than an equivalent virtual machine  running on a physical server. Just compare tens of megabytes in a container relative to gigabytes in a virtual machine.

It’s no wonder containers are finding their way into AI and analytics applications. Their portability across different environments make them a favorite vehicle to manage the full life cycle of most analytics applications.

Where does persistent storage come into the picture? (Think data protection and recovery)

More and more containers are being used for stateful applications that generate lots of data and need persistent storage. And as soon as we are talking about lots of data, we need to ensure we protect that critical data for failures and disasters, and we put that backup to work by using it in a test/dev environment. But there are key requirements in protecting containerized applications, including Kubernetes. These include:

• Seamless operations and policies both on-premises and in the cloud
• Granular application-centric protection
• Fully automated restores
• Ability to perform dynamic provisioning, snapshots, clones, and restore

What makes HPE and Kasten K10 by Veeam ideal for Kubernetes cluster protection?

HPE and Kasten K10 by Veeam together provide end-to-end enterprise-grade Kubernetes cluster protection, safeguarding them wherever they live – whether on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid – and restoring them wherever they are needed. Even better, HPE provides a one-stop shop where you can purchase validated turnkey backup and recovery solutions through the HPE Complete program. Let’s look under the hood and see what’s involved in this solution:

• Primary storage - Store your containerized application data on your choice of HPE Alletra as the cloud-native data infrastructure, HPE Primera built upon proven resiliency, HPE Nimble Storage with the highest measured availability in the storage industry and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI that delivers a simple, disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure.          
• Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver – Allow containers to perform data management operations on storage resources with HPE CSI Driver for Kubernetes. HPE’s relentless innovation has led to additional functionality to Kubernetes in the form of CSI sidecar containers to modify storage attributes during runtime, using standard Kubernetes constructs exposed to end-users.
• Backup target – Put your backups on cloud storage or on HPE Apollo 4000 Systems with Scality RING Scalable Storage, a scale-out software-defined storage platform designed for multi-application environments needing to store unstructured data at petabyte scale.
• Backup software – Protect your containers with Kasten K10 by Veeam software, a true Kubernetes-native backup solution that automatically captures and protects an entire application stack, including resource definitions, configurations, and underlying data.

What’s the bottom line?

HPE and Kasten K10 by Veeam offer a joint solution for protecting containerized applications with:

• Fully tested, validated, and optimized configurations
• Maximum level of flexibility and granularity for container backup and restore
• Ability to be deployed and managed in hybrid environments including both on-premises and public clouds

Want to learn more?

Mark your calendar to register now for this webinar hosted by experts from HPE and Kasten by Veeam.: Storage and applications in Kubernetes happening on March 17, 2022 at 10 am PT.

You can also check out this solution brief and technical white paper, explore Kasten K10 implementation guide with HPE CSI Driver for Kubernetes and visit www.kasten.io.

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Meet Storage Expderts blogger Parissa Mohamadi, Soluton Product Manager, HPE storage

Parissa leads sales enablement and go-to-market efforts for HPE storage data protection solutions for key workloads such as SAP, Oracle, SQL Server, andVMware as well as for backup/recovery software such as Veeam and Commvault. She also leads solutions for containers and big data analytics.

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