Easy Snapshot Automation with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:05:53 +0000

Amazon has announced a new service that will help customers manage their EBS volume snapshots in a very simple manner. The Data Lifecycle Manager service lets you setup a schedule to snapshot any of your EBS volumes during a specified time window.

In the past, AWS customers might need to come up with their own solution for snapshots or backups. Some apps moving to the cloud might not even need backups based on their deployment method and architectures. For everything else, we assume we’ll need to at least snapshot the EBS volumes that the EC2 instances are running on. Prior to the Data Lifecycle Manager, this could be accomplished through some fairly simple Lambda functions to snapshot volumes on a schedule. Now with the new service, there is a solution right in the EC2 console.

SAN Snapshots vs VMware Snapshots

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:33:24 +0000

I found people have a hard time understanding that a SAN Snapshot and a VMware snapshot are fundamentally different. I think because unless you’re a storage administrator, you’re probably not dealing a whole lot with snaps to begin with. VMware has made it more commonplace for System Administrators to deal with snapshot technology.

SAN Snapshots

Lets first look at how traditional SANs take snapshots.

To start we have 6 blocks being used. The file system has marked blocks which blocks are being used.

Snapshot on The IT Hollow

Easy Snapshot Automation with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager

SAN Snapshots vs VMware Snapshots