Rubrik

The SovLabs vRealize Automation Backup-as-a-Service module for Rubrik enables organizations who utilize Rubrik 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

Rubrik 3.1x
VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) 7.x
VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) 7.x
EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) 4.x

Highlights

  • Create one or more Rubrik Endpoints
  • Create one or more SovLabs Backup Profiles with the following features:
    • Associate Rubrik Endpoint
    • Decouples SLA Domain assignments from blueprints to allow for ease of management at scale
    • Adds VM to selected SLA Domain 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 Rubrik endpoint and/or SLA Domain at time of request
  • Self-service
    • Ability to change SLA domain
    • 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 Rubrik
    • Requires OS-level credentials for restore operations, preventing elevated admin access to non-privileged users
  • End-user notifications for 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

Quick Start Process

  1. Define Rubrik Cluster Endpoint
  2. Define Rubrik Backup Profile
  3. Configure Notification (optional)
  4. Apply Rubrik Backup as a Service vRA Property Group to existing blueprint
  5. Provision!