Overview
Backup and high availability maintained across a hybrid estate — on-premises hypervisor clusters protected by Veeam, with Azure providing the off-site layer.
Technical challenge
Protection had to span two very different platforms at once: on-premises VMware and Hyper-V workloads, and workloads already running in Azure — without leaving either side dependent on the other to recover.
Architecture
- 01Veeam Backup & Replication covering on-premises VMware and Hyper-V workloads.
- 02Hyper-V failover clustering and VMware high availability providing in-site resilience.
- 03Azure Backup and Site Recovery extending protection beyond the data centre.
- 04Layered model: primary infrastructure, high availability, on-premises backup, cloud backup, recovery.
Implementation
- Maintained hybrid backup and high availability across Veeam, Hyper-V, VMware and Azure.
- Operated failover clustering and high availability for virtualized workloads.
- Used Azure Backup and Site Recovery for cloud-side protection.
- Supported 99.9% service availability across production infrastructure.
Outcome
A layered protection model spanning on-premises and cloud, supporting 99.9% service availability across production infrastructure.