On the path to digital transformation, enterprises have increasingly turned to containerized environments to quickly and effectively deploy new revenue-generating applications. As customers increasingly explore alternatives to VMware as their virtualization provider, one key challenge they face is enhancing their investment in traditional virtualized environment infrastructures and applications while forming a plan to run a purely cloud-native environment. In this brave new world of modern virtualization, where virtual machines (VMs) on Kubernetes run alongside containerized applications, enterprises need to protect all their virtualized application data effectively from day one, while continuing to innovate for the future.
To build that path, customers are increasingly employing KubeVirt, an open-source project that allows users to manage VMs on Kubernetes. KubeVirt is an extension of Kubernetes that allows you to run and manage VMs alongside your containers in a Kubernetes environment. Essentially, it brings the capabilities of virtualization into the Kubernetes ecosystem by allowing Kubernetes to orchestrate both containerized workloads and traditional virtualized workloads via VMs. This is particularly useful for organizations that need to manage legacy applications that run in VMs alongside modern cloud-native applications that run in containers.
KubeVirt integrates deeply with Kubernetes by providing custom resources to manage VMs. These resources are treated similarly to pods and deployments, in that they allow users to leverage Kubernetes features like automated scaling, resource scheduling, monitoring, and high availability for VMs and containers. This unified management approach simplifies infrastructure by enabling the orchestration of both VM and container-based workloads by using the same Kubernetes API and tools, thus eliminating the need for separate management systems for VMs and containers.
One of the key benefits of KubeVirt is its ability to enable a hybrid environment, where you can gradually transition from VMs to containers or run mixed workloads (i.e., containerized and virtualized) in the same Kubernetes cluster. This provides flexibility for organizations who have legacy applications that require virtualization but want to also take advantage of Kubernetes’s cloud-native features like auto-scaling, load balancing, and efficient resource utilization.
As they migrate, customers need a data protection solution that is a stable initial platform for protecting containerized VMs, can provide a grow-at-your-own pace model, is cost-effective, and enables the path to future innovation.
Veeam Kasten for Containerized VMs delivers on these needs. Building on a long legacy of Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes innovation, it protects KubeVirt VMs only on Kubernetes for both Red Hat OpenShift and SUSE. It also serves as a logical match to recent market entries like the lower-priced OpenShift Virtualization Engine (OVE), which allows customers to manage only KubeVirt VMs in OpenShift.
Veaam Kasten for Containerized VMs is an edition of Veeam Kasten tailored specifically for the protection of containerized VM-based applications and their data. It delivers secure, resilient data protection and application mobility at-scale. It is designed for multiple virtualization data protection use cases so you can get just the features you need now, while providing a path for growth tomorrow.
Key Features and Benefits
Unified resilience for VMs on Kubernetes: Quickly and effectively implement comprehensive data protection across virtualized environments and automate policy-driven deployments for VMs.
Platform security at scale: Easily protect any size of containerized VM deployment by using key technologies such as role-based access control (RBAC), immutable backups, and encryption.
Broad ecosystem support: Customers can continuously access the latest innovations in data services, storage, and security. Veeam also partners with a broad array of industry solution providers to maximize freedom of choice.
Future-proof: Efficiently invest budget by first protecting containerized VMs only and then upgrading them to full Kubernetes container protection later. Transition to full cloud-native protection when you’re ready at a modest premium.
See the diagram below for a conceptual representation of Veeam Kasten and OpenShift VM and cloud-native workload management.
Summary
Veeam Kasten for Containerized VMs provides a comprehensive data protection solution for your critical containerized VM workloads and data, while offering secure, flexible and cost-effective protection for their backups. Features like immutability and orchestrated recovery ensure workload security. The solution provides a simple entry point to the world of containerized VM protection and allows users to eventually deploy a fully cloud-native protection solution at their own pace.
How Veeam can Help
For more information on how to accelerate your journey to modern virtualization with Red Hat and Veeam Kasten, see this link. For a short, guided demo tour of how to easily deploy, protect, and restore VMs with OpenShift and Veeam Kasten see this link. To access pricing and availability information on the new Veeam Kasten for Containerized VMs, please contact Kasten sales.
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