We’re currently planning to migrate our DR Commserve from On-prem to Azure Cloud as part of Hardware Refresh project.
Current environment -
- Primary CommServe (Production) hosted in a On-prem data center A.
- DR CommServe configured and running in On-prem DC B.
- Backups are getting backed up locally and connected with Production Backup Server A.
- Currently everything is running on physical backup environment (Media Server, Storage, Primary and DR Backup Server)
- Live Sync backups are configured in every 1 hour between Primary and DR Backup Server.
Planned Changes -
- Onprem DR Backup Server needs to decommission, and it needs to migrate in Azure cloud.
- Primary Backup server will run as is in Onprem DC A.
- Post successful migration, Primary Backup Server will be on physical environment and DR Backup server will run in Azure cloud.
- Hostname will be same of DR backup server in Azure cloud. Only IP will be change.
- No changes for Primary backup server.
Questions / Clarifications Required -
- Best practices to migrate DR Commserve Server into cloud.
- Any dependency on exiting IP as IP will be changed in Azure Cloud.
- Any dependency or compatibility issue if we migrate DR Backup Server in cloud and rest of Backup infra is running in Physical On-prem Backup Infra.
Can we use below strategy for this DR migration.
1 - Perform Physical 2 Virtual of DR Backup Server via VMware option.
2 - Post successful P2V, Take Snapshot backup of DR Backup Server.
3 - Restore server via snapshot backup in Cloud through Commvault.
4- Post successful restore, reconfigure the live sync and everything.
Kindly suggest with your recommendation.
Thank you!
