Decommissioning of virtual backup appliances

摘要

Various methods and techniques are disclosed to manage resources of virtual backup appliances in a backup and recovery network. In one embodiment, a backup server receives a request to decommission a virtual backup appliance (VBA) of a first primary storage system. The backup server is configured to manage backup operations to back up data from a plurality of primary storage systems to a backup storage system over a network, where each primary storage system has one or more VBA that carry out backup operations. In response to the request, the backup server transmits a first request to the first primary storage system over the network to delete data and metadata related to the data associated with the VBA. The back up server then determines whether the backup storage system contains data associated with the requested VBA. Upon the determination, the backup server transmits a second request to the backup storage system to delete the data associated with the requested VBA from the backup storage system. The backup server then deletes a second metadata associated with the VBA, and then unregisters the VBA from the backup and recovery network.

主权项

1. A method for managing resources of virtual backup appliances, the method comprising:
receiving, by a backup server, a request to decommission a virtual backup appliance (VBA) of a first primary storage system, the backup server configured to manage backup operations to back up data from a plurality of primary storage systems to a backup storage system over a network, each primary storage system having one or more VBAs that carry out backup operations respectively; in response to the request, transmitting a first request from the backup server to the first primary storage system over the network to delete data and first metadata related to the data associated with the requested VBA; determining whether the backup storage system contains data associated with the requested VBA that has been backed up from the first primary storage system; upon determining that the backup storage system contains the data associated with the requested VBA, transmitting a second request to the backup storage system over the network to delete the data associated with the requested VBA from the backup storage system; deleting second metadata associated with the requested VBA from the backup server; unregistering the requested VBA from the backup server, wherein unregistering the requested VBA results in completely removing all references of the requested VBA from a central data backup and recovery network; and providing an option to either continue or abort decommissioning of the requested VBA if the first primary storage system in unavailable over the network.