RHV Plugin: Scope

Bacula Enterprise Only

This solution is only available for Bacula Enterprise. For subscription inquiries, please reach out to sales@baculasystems.com.

The following chapter describes the scope of the RHV Plugin.

IT organizations are constantly being challenged to deliver high quality solutions with reduced total cost of ownership. Virtualization technologies are an important and widely used element of the resulting strategies and accordingly found in most data centers.

Naturally, reliable solutions to protect the underlying data are a critical topic. This chapter presents the Bacula Enterprise plugin and strategy to protect Red Hat Virtualization environments.

The plugin provides several ways to backup virtual machines, image level with a full backup or proxy backup, incremental or differential backup, with a set of options to select different backup sets. To later, recovery them with a set of options to customize the restore process.

Compatibility

The plugin is currently developed exclusively for RHEL Virtualization 4.1 and above environments (RHEL 7-based). It has been tested only on those platforms. Other virtualization platforms based on oVirt, and sufficiently similar to the RHV platform, may also be suitable.

Bacula Systems will add compatible platforms to this list when interoperability has been demonstrated through its development and QA processes. Please contact Bacula Systems Support if you have questions about the currently supported RHV versions.