Clumio’s Rapid Recovery is amazing, and you should know more about it.

You might not have heard of Clumio before. Clumio is an upstart SaaS-based backup solution for both cloud and on-premises environments where the storage endpoint is in the cloud instead of a storage platform in your own datacenter. I’ve been exploring their offerings, since I’m a data nerd and always intrigued by these sorts of things. I gave their Rapid Recovery architecture a solid once-over with the flagship SQL Server availability solution architecture called Availability Groups.

The physical environment that I performed the tests on consists of:

Two HPE DL380 Gen9 serversVMware vSphere 6.7, latest updatePure Storage //M20 all-flash SAN10GbE iSCSI connected storageVAAI is active in the vSphere architecture

The SQL Server testbed VMs were configured as the following.

Four total virtual machinesTwo SQL Server 2019 Enterprise edition and two SQL Server 2016 Enterprise edition VMsvHardware compatibility level 154 vCPUs, 16GB RAMSix hard disks, spread amongst multiple VMware Paravirtual SCSI controllers, for a total of 500GB of consumed space per VMWindows Server 2019 Datacenter operating systemA fileshare witness for the Windows Server Failover Cluster was configured on a third VM

Two SQL Server Availability Group pairs were configured, each on 2016 and 2019 respectively. The database VMs were then setup with Clumio to replicate …

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