A cloud architect is tasked with designing a solution for guest virtual machine backup system integration for an organization’s vRealize Automation (vRA) private cloud. During requirements gathering, the backup system vendor confirmed that REST API methods are available for the following:
Install and configure backup agent
Initiate incremental backup
Initiate full system backup
Uninstall backup agent and remove number of nodes form license node count Only authorized users should initiate full system backups
Which design solution addresses this scenario?
A. Execute backup system REST APIs using vRA custom properties.
B. Execute backup system REST APIs using vRA software components.
C. Execute backup system REST APIs using vRealize Orchestrator workflows at appropriate vRA lifecycle state/event.
D. Execute backup system REST APIs using a third-party configuration management solution.
I think C is corret. You can integrate backup system with vRO and call it’s workflow using vRA subscription and events.
As authed users should be enabled to do on-demand backups, how sould that work with C?! Once the machine is provisioned, the states normally dont change. So you cant trigger a backup on-demand like that.
Software Components are not meant to be used to trigger on-demand actions, but only for software deployment and lifecycle management (install, configure, update, uninstall).
So I would suggest D to manage these request via REST calls with an external system.