Cohesity
The SovLabs vRealize Automation Backup-as-a-Service module for Cohesity enables organizations who utilize Cohesity for backup and recovery to now have fully automated policy-driven backups and self-service file and folder-level recovery directly within vRealize Automation, reducing the support burden, lowering risk and increasing end-user satisfaction.
Compatibility
Cohesity | 4.x+ |
VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) | 7.x |
VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) | 7.x |
EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) | 4.x |
Highlights
- Create one or more Cohesity Endpoints
- Create one or more SovLabs Backup Profiles with the following features:
- Associate Cohesity Endpoint
- Decouples protection job assignments from blueprints to allow for ease of management at scale
- Adds VM to selected protection job(s) based on backup profile
- Backup profile can be pinned to VM component of vRA blueprint or applicable vRA constructs
- e.g. business group, compute resource, or any supported hierarchy for vRA custom properties
- Ability to allow the end-user to choose the Cohesity endpoint and/or protection job at time of request
- Self-service recovery
- File/folder-level recovery options
- Granular permissions using vRA entitlements; can be granted to end-users or administrators
- VM and file-level recovery resource actions can be entitled separately
- Restore point selection and filtering
- None, Latest backup, backup since date/time, or select date/time range
- Allows for requester to select their time-zone, auto-calculating difference to Cohesity
- Requires OS-level credentials for restore operations, preventing elevated admin access to non-privileged users
- End-user notifications for self-service file and folder-level recovery
- Includes SovLabs Notifications Module
- Pre-configured HTML and text-based notification templates can be customized
- Includes SovLabs Template Engine to include custom logic or any VM-level vRA custom property
- Notification scenarios/templates include job started, job completed, job failed
- Defaults to notifying requester for all recovery notifications
- Allows requester to specify additional email recipients for recovery notifications
- Optionally configure additional email-based recipients for all backup and recovery notifications
- Can be entitled independently, e.g. to end-users or administrators
- Ability to change protection job(s) on VMs
Quick Start Process
- Define Cohesity Cluster Endpoint
- Define Cohesity Backup Profile
- Configure Notification (optional)
- Apply Cohesity Backup as a Service vRA Property Group to existing blueprint
- Provision!