Purchasing a Hybrid Cloud Backup Vault

Procedure

1. Log in to the CBR console.
   1. Log in to the management console.
   2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region.
   3. Click and choose Storage > Cloud Backup and Recovery > Hybrid Cloud Backups.

2. Choose Storage Backups. In the upper right corner of the page, click Buy Hybrid Cloud Backup Vault.
3. Select a billing mode.
   • Yearly/monthly is a prepaid billing mode. You are billed based on the subscription duration you specify. This mode is ideal when the resource use duration is predictable. A longer subscription often means a lower cost.
   • Pay-per-use is a postpaid billing mode. You are billed based on your resource usage and you can increase or delete resources any time.

4. Select a protection type.
   • Backup: A hybrid cloud backup vault stores backups.
   • Replication (cross-region): A hybrid replication vault stores replicas of backups.

5. Select a backup data redundancy policy.
   • Single-AZ: Backup data is stored in a single AZ, with lower costs.
   • Multi-AZ: Backup data is stored in multiple AZs to achieve higher reliability.

   The backup data redundancy policy cannot be changed after a vault is purchased. Plan and select a policy that best suits your service needs.

6. Specify a vault capacity ranging from 1 to 10,240 TB. The vault capacity cannot be less than the size of the server backups.
7. If you have subscribed to the Enterprise Project Management Service (EPS), add the vault to an existing enterprise project.

   EPS provides a unified method to manage cloud resources by project, allowing you to manage resources, users, and user groups in your projects. The default enterprise project is default.

   

   If the CBR FullAccess permissions have been assigned to IAM users, enterprise projects will not be displayed for you to choose from when you create a vault. Go to the Enterprise Project Management console and assign the CBR FullAccess permissions to the target user group.

8. (Optional) Add tags to the vault.

   Tags are key-value pairs, which are used to identify, classify, and search for vaults. You can add a maximum of 10 tags for a vault, and vault tags are only used for vault search and management.

   If you have applied for the OBT of the Organizations service, and then your organization has enabled the tag policy type for CBR and has a tag policy attached, you must comply with the tag policy rules when creating vaults, otherwise vaults may fail to be created. Contact the organization administrator to learn more about tag policies.

   Table 1 describes the parameters of a tag.

   Table 1 Tag parameter description

   Parameter	Description	Example Value
   Key	Each tag has a unique key. You can customize a key or select the key of an existing tag created in TMS. A tag key: Can contain 1 to 36 Unicode characters. Can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).	Key_0001
   Value	A tag value can be repetitive or left blank. A tag value: Can contain 0 to 43 Unicode characters. Can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).	Value_0001

9. Specify a name for the vault.

   The name must contain 1 to 64 characters including digits, letters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-), for example, vault-98c8.

   

   You can also use the default name vault_xxxx.

10. Specify the required duration if you select yearly/monthly billing. The validity period ranges from 1 month to 5 years.

    Determine whether to enable auto renewal. If you select Auto Renewal:

    • Your subscription will be renewed each month for monthly billing.
    • Your subscription will be renewed each year for yearly billing.

11. Complete the payment as prompted.
12. Go back to the file backup or hybrid cloud backup page. You can see the created vault in the vault list.

    You can expand the vault capacity. For details, see Vault Management.

Follow-up Procedure

After a hybrid cloud backup vault is created, you can synchronize on-premises backups to the cloud and use the backups to restore or deploy services on the cloud when needed. But you cannot create hybrid cloud backups on the CBR console.

For detailed hybrid cloud backup operations, see Hybrid Cloud Backup.