[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]DPX vPlus is an enterprise-ready, agentless backup and snapshot management solution for Microsoft 365 and virtual environments. It allows you to reliably improve and automate backup performance, automate recovery tests, and significantly save resources, time, and money. Microsoft 365 backups and virtual machines backups can be stored on-premises, on a local file system or share, or can be stored in the cloud using cloud storage. Wasabi backup storage delivers fast to write, low cost, and reliable cloud object storage, that also provides faster speeds than Amazon S3. Wasabi backup storage charges no egress fees, and provides 100% data immutability, so you can be confident that your backup data is tamper-proof.
This article provides the steps to use Wasabi cloud storage as DPX vPlus backup storage.
Configuration Pre-Requisites
- DPX vPlus version 5.0 or higher
- Active Wasabi account with access to Wasabi console
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Reference Architecture Diagram
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Wasabi Configuration
1. Login to Wasabi console and Click on “Create Bucket” to create a new standard bucket. Please refer to Creating a Wasabi bucket for information to create a bucket. [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15732″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]2. Create an Access key and Secret key for the root user. Make sure to download the key file in order to retrieve your secret key again. [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15733″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]
DPX vPlus Configuration
Follow the below steps to configure DPX vPlus to use Wasabi backup storage: [/vc_column_text][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]1. Log in to the DPX vPlus web UI [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15734″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]2. Navigate to the Backup Destinations Tab -> Object Storage. Then click on “Create Backup Destination” and select “Amazon S3 / S3-compatible.”[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15735″ img_size=”large”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]3. In the Create Backup Destination window, input the name for your backup destination and choose the node configurations as needed.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15736″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]4. In Amazon S3 / S3-Compatible Settings, provide the information about your bucket
- API URL – This is the URL for the Wasabi region. Please refer to Service URLs for various Wasabi regions.
- Backup mode – select your option
- Bucket name – this is the bucket that was created in section 3 above
- Region – Region for Wasabi bucket. Please refer to Service URLs for various Wasabi regions.
Make sure the flags “Path style access enabled” and “Parallel Download enabled” are enabled. [/vc_column_text][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_single_image image=”15737″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]5. Input the Access key and Secret key and then click “Save” to save the configuration. [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15738″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]6. Test the connectivity by selecting the Wasabi destination and clicking “Test Connectivity.”[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15739″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]7. The results can be viewed in the Task Console.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15740″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]8. Click on Virtual Environments and then Backup SLA’s to create a Backup SLA and protect your Virtual Environments, Containers, Microsoft 365 and Applications using Wasabi backup storage. Configure the settings under “General” tab. [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15741″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]9. Configure Settings under the Rule tab. Select the Wasabi cloud storage as the destination, define the retention settings, and assign the policy to a schedule. If you have not yet created a schedule, you can assign this policy to a schedule at a later time.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15742″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]10. If you do not assign the policy to Virtual Machines during creation or want to assign new VMs to an existing Backup Policy, you can do so by clicking on “Virtual Environments” and then “instances.” Select the instance and click “Assign policy” and then select the policy created in step 4.8 above. Click “Save” to save the policy assignment. [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15743″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]11. Start a backup by selecting the instance and clicking the backup icon.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15744″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]12. The progress of the backup can be viewed on the task console. [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15745″ img_size=”full”][wgl_spacing spacer_size=”30px”][vc_column_text]For any support or setup questions, please get in touch with Catalogic Technical Support at dpsupport@catalogicsoftware.com.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]