Velero Plugin for vSphere in Vanilla Kubernetes Cluster

Compatibility

Velero Plugin for vSphere Version	vSphere Version	Kubernetes Version	vSphere CSI Driver Version	Velero Version	Deprecated	EOL Date
1.4.1	8.0	1.24-1.25	2.7.0	1.9.2	No	N/A
1.4.0	6.7U3 P06 - 7.0U3	1.20-1.23	2.2.2, 2.3.1, 2.4.1, 2.5.1, 2.6.1	1.8.1	No	N/A
1.3.1	6.7U3 P06 - 7.0U3	1.19-1.22	2.2.2, 2.3.1, 2.4.1	1.7.0	No	N/A
1.3.0	6.7U3 P06 - 7.0U3	1.19-1.22	2.2.2, 2.3.1, 2.4.1	1.7.0	Yes	December 2022
1.2.1	6.7U3 P06 - 7.0U2	1.19-1.21	2.1.2, 2.2.2, 2.3.1	1.5.1	Yes	June 2023
1.2.0	6.7U3 P06 - 7.0U2	1.19-1.21	2.1.2, 2.2.2, 2.3.1	1.5.1	Yes	December 2022
1.1.1	6.7U3 P06 - 7.0U1c/P02	1.17-1.19	2.0.1, 2.1.0	1.5.1	No	N/A
1.1.0	6.7U3 P06 - 7.0U1c/P02	1.17-1.21	2.0.1, 2.1.0	1.5.1	Yes	December 2022

Note: Velero Plugin for vSphere 1.0.2 and earlier: EOL. Note: Velero Plugin for vSphere 1.2.x does not work for TKGm which is fixed in 1.3.0+. Note: Velero Plugin for vSphere does not support vSphere CSI Driver deployed as a process with multiple replicas in a Kubernetes multi-node control plane setup.

Prerequisites

Meet the prerequisites of vSphere CSI driver on vSphere roles and privileges - please refer to vSphere Roles and Privileges of vSphere CSI Driver.
Meet the prerequisites of Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK).
- Please refer to Credentials and Privileges for VMDK Access of VDDK Programming Guide. Note: please apply privileges at the vCenter Server level.
- Please make sure to open port 902 on any ESXi that hosts Kubernetes node VMs. This port requirement is specific to the NBD transport mode of VDDK. Below is an example of networking setup in Vanilla cluster on vSphere.

Install

Install Velero
Install Object Storage Plugin
Create VC Credential Secret
Create Velero vSphere Plugin Config
Install Velero vSphere Plugin

Install Object Storage Plugin

Volume backups are stored in an object store bucket. They are stored in the same bucket configured for the object storage plugin of Velero. Before installing the vSphere plugin, a Velero object storage plugin is required.

Currently, only AWS plugin is supported and compatible with vSphere plugin. Please refer to velero-plugin-for-aws for more details about using AWS S3 as the object store for backups. S3-compatible object stores, e.g, MinIO, are also supported via AWS plugin. Please refer to install with MinIO.

Create VC Credential Secret

You can retrieve these values from Secret vsphere-config-secret in vmware-system-csi namespace for 2.3 and later vSphere CSI driver OR Secret vsphere-config-secret in kube-system namespace for 2.2 or earlier vSphere CSI driver. In other cases these values can be obtained from vSphere Admin.

% cat csi-vsphere.conf
[Global]
cluster-id = "cluster1"

[VirtualCenter "10.182.1.133"]
user = "user@vsphere.local"
password = "password"
port = "443"

% kubectl -n <velero-namespace> create secret generic velero-vsphere-config-secret --from-file=csi-vsphere.conf

Create Velero vSphere Plugin Config

The config map provides information about the cluster flavor and VC Credential Secret created in the previous step during install.

% cat <<EOF | kubectl -n <velero-namespace> apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: velero-vsphere-plugin-config
data:
  cluster_flavor: VANILLA
  vsphere_secret_name: velero-vsphere-config-secret
  vsphere_secret_namespace: velero
EOF

Install Velero vSphere Plugin

velero plugin add <plugin-image>

For Version 1.3.0 the command is

velero plugin add vsphereveleroplugin/velero-plugin-for-vsphere:v1.3.0

Please refer to velero-plugin-for-vsphere tags for correct tags for versions 1.3.0 and higher.

Install in Air-gapped environment

If it is an air-gapped environment, please refer to Install Notes with Customized Images for extra required steps.

Install with self-signed certificate

To use velero-plugin-for-vsphere with a storage provider secured by a self-signed certificate, please refer to velero-plugin-for-vsphere with a storage provider secured by a self-signed certificate.

Upgrade

An alternate to upgrading would be to Uninstall and do a fresh Install

Scale down Velero and plugin components
Create vSphere Credentials Secret
Create Velero vSphere Plugin Configuration
Update the plugin image
Scale up velero deployment

Scale down Velero and plugin components

The following command scales down the velero deployment and deletes backup-driver and datamgr-for-vsphere-plugin

kubectl -n <velero-namespace> delete deploy/backup-driver
kubectl -n <velero-namespace> delete daemonset datamgr-for-vsphere-plugin
kubectl -n <velero-namespace> scale deploy/velero --replicas=0

Create vSphere Credentials Secret

You can retrieve these values from Secret vsphere-config-secret in vmware-system-csi namespace for 2.3 and later vSphere CSI driver OR Secret vsphere-config-secret in kube-system namespace for 2.2 or earlier vSphere CSI driver

% cat csi-vsphere.conf
[Global]
cluster-id = "cluster1"

[VirtualCenter "10.182.1.133"]
user = "Administrator@vsphere.local"
password = "password"
port = "443"

% kubectl -n <velero-namespace> create secret generic velero-vsphere-config-secret --from-file=csi-vsphere.conf

Create Velero vSphere Plugin Configuration

The config map provides information about the cluster flavor and VC Credential Secret created in the previous step during install.

% cat <<EOF | kubectl -n <velero-namespace> apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: velero-vsphere-plugin-config
data:
  cluster_flavor: VANILLA
  vsphere_secret_name: velero-vsphere-config-secret
  vsphere_secret_namespace: <velero-namespace>
EOF

Update the plugin image

kubectl -n velero set image deployment/velero velero-plugin-for-vsphere=vsphereveleroplugin/velero-plugin-for-vsphere:v1.3.0

Scale up Velero deployment

kubectl -n <velero-namespace> scale deploy/velero --replicas=1

Uninstall

To uninstall the plugin, run the following command to remove the InitContainer of velero-plugin-for-vsphere from the Velero deployment first.

velero plugin remove <plugin image>

To finish the cleanup, delete the Backup Driver deployment, Data Manager daemonset and their related CRDs.

kubectl -n velero delete deployment.apps/backup-driver
kubectl delete crds backuprepositories.backupdriver.cnsdp.vmware.com \
                    backuprepositoryclaims.backupdriver.cnsdp.vmware.com \
                    clonefromsnapshots.backupdriver.cnsdp.vmware.com \
                    deletesnapshots.backupdriver.cnsdp.vmware.com \
                    snapshots.backupdriver.cnsdp.vmware.com
kubectl -n velero delete daemonset.apps/datamgr-for-vsphere-plugin
kubectl delete crds uploads.datamover.cnsdp.vmware.com downloads.datamover.cnsdp.vmware.com

Backup

Backup vSphere CNS Block Volumes
Backup vSphere CNS File Volumes

Backup vSphere CNS Block Volumes

Below is an example command of Velero backup.

velero backup create <backup name> --include-namespaces=my-namespace

For more backup options, please refer to Velero Document.

Velero backup will be marked as Completed after all local snapshots have been taken and Kubernetes metadata, except volume snapshots, has been uploaded to the object store. At this point, async data movement tasks, i.e., the upload of volume snapshot, are still happening in the background and may take some time to complete. We can check the status of volume snapshot by monitoring Snapshot/Upload CRs as below.

Snapshots
Uploads

Snapshots

For each volume snapshot, a Snapshot CR will be created in the same namespace as the PVC that is snapshotted. We can get all Snapshots in PVC namespace by running the following command.

kubectl get -n <pvc namespace> snapshot

Here is an example Snapshot CR in YAML.

apiVersion: backupdriver.cnsdp.vmware.com/v1alpha1
kind: Snapshot
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2020-12-17T22:34:17Z"
  generation: 1
  labels:
    velero.io/backup-name: test-dp-1217
    velero.io/exclude-from-backup: "true"
  managedFields: ...
  name: snap-20d44de3-bd67-4b0f-be4b-278c62676276
  namespace: test-ns-mctwohb
  resourceVersion: "2515406"
  selfLink: /apis/backupdriver.cnsdp.vmware.com/v1alpha1/namespaces/test-ns-mctwohb/snapshots/snap-20d44de3-bd67-4b0f-be4b-278c62676276
  uid: 6ead6881-be4f-45fa-b01d-0505d540615f
spec:
  backupRepository: br-fa2b8bec-e99b-407a-9f95-dce31ff2bca6
  resourceHandle:
    apiGroup: ""
    kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
    name: etcd0-pv-claim
status:
  completionTimestamp: "2020-12-17T22:37:42Z"
  metadata: 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
  phase: Uploaded
  progress: {}
  snapshotID: pvc:test-ns-mctwohb/etcd0-pv-claim:aXZkOmQ4NzQwNDE0LTZmZjMtNDZjNi05YjM4LTllNDdlNDBhZmIwNjozZDU3MDU3ZC1lMDcwLTRkNDktYmJlNC0xY2Y0YWYxM2NiNjQ
  svcSnapshotName: ""

Snapshot CRD has a number of phases for the .status.phase field:

New: not processed yet
Snapshotted: local snapshot was taken
SnapshotFailed: local snapshot was failed
Uploading: the snapshot is being uploaded
Uploaded: the snapshot is uploaded
UploadFailed: the snapshot is failed to be uploaded
Canceling: the upload of snapshot is being cancelled
Canceled: the upload of snapshot is cancelled
CleanupAfterUploadFailed: the Cleanup of local snapshot after the upload of snapshot was failed

Uploads

For each volume snapshot to be uploaded to object store, an Upload CR will be created in the same namespace as Velero. We can get all Uploads in Velero namespace by running the following command.

kubectl get -n <velero namespace> upload

Here is an example Upload CR in YAML.

apiVersion: datamover.cnsdp.vmware.com/v1alpha1
kind: Upload
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2020-12-17T22:34:37Z"
  generation: 3
  labels:
    velero.io/exclude-from-backup: "true"
  managedFields: ...
  name: upload-3d57057d-e070-4d49-bbe4-1cf4af13cb64
  namespace: velero
  resourceVersion: "2516001"
  selfLink: /apis/datamover.cnsdp.vmware.com/v1alpha1/namespaces/velero/uploads/upload-3d57057d-e070-4d49-bbe4-1cf4af13cb64
  uid: d9457028-732e-43f5-b286-2902b1273000
spec:
  backupRepository: br-fa2b8bec-e99b-407a-9f95-dce31ff2bca6
  backupTimestamp: "2020-12-17T22:34:37Z"
  snapshotID: ivd:d8740414-6ff3-46c6-9b38-9e47e40afb06:3d57057d-e070-4d49-bbe4-1cf4af13cb64
  snapshotReference: test-ns-mctwohb/snap-20d44de3-bd67-4b0f-be4b-278c62676276
status:
  completionTimestamp: "2020-12-17T22:37:42Z"
  message: Upload completed
  nextRetryTimestamp: "2020-12-17T22:34:37Z"
  phase: Completed
  processingNode: k8s-node-0797
  progress: {}
  startTimestamp: "2020-12-17T22:34:38Z"

Upload CRD has a number of phases for the .status.phase field:

New: not processed yet
InProgress: upload is in progress
Completed: upload is completed
UploadError: upload is failed
CleanupFailed: delete local snapshot failed after the upload, this case will also be retried
Canceling: upload is being cancelled. It would happen if velero backup delete is called while the upload of snapshot is in progress.
Canceled: upload is cancelled.

UploadError uploads will be periodically retried. At that point their phase will return to InProgress. After an upload has been successfully completed, its record will remain for a period of time and eventually be removed.

Migrated CNS block volume

If the CNS block volume is migrated, refer to CSI migrated volume support.

Backup vSphere CNS File Volumes

The Velero Plugin for vSphere is designed to backup vSphere CNS block volumes. vSphere CNS file volumes should be backed up with the Velero Restic Integration. File volumes must be annotated for Restic backup. Block and file volumes may be backed up together.

To use Restic backup for file volumes, please use the --use-restic flag to velero install command when installing Velero. Annotate all PVs backed by vSphere CNS file volumes before running any velero backup commands by using the following command for each pod that contains one or more file volumes to back up:

kubectl -n YOUR_POD_NAMESPACE annotate pod/YOUR_POD_NAME backup.velero.io/backup-volumes=FILE_VOLUME_NAME_1,FILE_VOLUME_NAME_2,...

Restore

Below is an example command of Velero restore.

velero restore create --from-backup <your-backup-name>

For the volume restores with changing storage class, please refer to StorageClass Mapping

For more restore options, please refer to Velero Document.

Velero restore will be marked as Completed when volume snapshots and other Kubernetes metadata have been successfully restored to the current cluster. At this point, all tasks of vSphere plugin related to this restore are completed as well. There are no any async data movement tasks behind the scene as that in the case of Velero backup.

Before Velero restore is Completed, we can check the status of volume restore by monitoring CloneFromSnapshot/Download CRs as below.

CloneFromSnapshots
Downloads

CloneFromSnapshots

For restore from each volume snapshot, a CloneFromSnapshot CR will be created in the same namespace as the PVC that is originally snapshotted. We can get all CloneFromSnapshots in PVC namespace by running the following command.

kubectl -n <pvc namespace> get clonefromsnapshot

Here is an example CloneFromSnapshot CR in YAML.

apiVersion: backupdriver.cnsdp.vmware.com/v1alpha1
kind: CloneFromSnapshot
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2020-12-17T23:32:40Z"
  generation: 1
  labels:
    velero.io/exclude-from-backup: "true"
  managedFields: ...
  name: fa218f2d-e6b3-48ab-a2ce-4820bfe2e16f
  namespace: test-ns-mctwohb
  resourceVersion: "2525829"
  selfLink: /apis/backupdriver.cnsdp.vmware.com/v1alpha1/namespaces/test-ns-mctwohb/clonefromsnapshots/fa218f2d-e6b3-48ab-a2ce-4820bfe2e16f
  uid: 94b49e3e-26ae-4534-ad0f-3ee89a8d0bc4
spec:
  apiGroup: ""
  backupRepository: br-fa2b8bec-e99b-407a-9f95-dce31ff2bca6
  cloneCancel: false
  kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
  metadata: 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
  snapshotID: pvc:test-ns-mctwohb/kibishii-data-kibishii-deployment-0:aXZkOmNmNmExMWY2LThiZjMtNDk4MC1iMmZlLWU3ZjQ3OTFiYWI4MjpkYzM1ZDMyNy05MjczLTQ3ZmItYWY3OC05MWVmN2FhOTUwMTk
status:
  completionTimestamp: "2020-12-17T23:33:19Z"
  message: Download completed
  phase: Completed
  resourceHandle:
    apiGroup: ""
    kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
    name: ivd:bd95c217-6d02-4e3c-a250-24a621a1f077

CloneFromSnapshot CRD has some key phases for the .status.phase field:

New: clone from snapshot is not completed
Completed: clone from snapshot is completed
Failed: clone from snapshot is failed

Downloads

From each restore of volume snapshot to be downloaded from object store, a Download CR will be created in the same namespace as Velero. We can get all Downloads in Velero namespace by running the following command.

kubectl -n <velero namespace> get download

Here is an example Download CR in YAML.

apiVersion: datamover.cnsdp.vmware.com/v1alpha1
kind: Download
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2020-12-17T23:30:08Z"
  generation: 2
  labels:
    velero.io/exclude-from-backup: "true"
  managedFields: ...
  name: download-3d57057d-e070-4d49-bbe4-1cf4af13cb64-95787192-bdb8-4486-8687-41da136b0d8e
  namespace: velero
  resourceVersion: "2525216"
  selfLink: /apis/datamover.cnsdp.vmware.com/v1alpha1/namespaces/velero/downloads/download-3d57057d-e070-4d49-bbe4-1cf4af13cb64-95787192-bdb8-4486-8687-41da136b0d8e
  uid: cba567a1-9911-4ab2-bec5-01eb46e0900c
spec:
  backupRepositoryName: br-fa2b8bec-e99b-407a-9f95-dce31ff2bca6
  clonefromSnapshotReference: test-ns-mctwohb/78e8ef4d-51ed-4238-abdf-2c1691efe792
  protectedEntityID: ivd:84539900-da90-4f12-a175-beb1bcbb4536
  restoreTimestamp: "2020-12-17T23:30:08Z"
  snapshotID: ivd:d8740414-6ff3-46c6-9b38-9e47e40afb06:3d57057d-e070-4d49-bbe4-1cf4af13cb64
status:
  nextRetryTimestamp: "2020-12-17T23:30:08Z"
  phase: InProgress
  processingNode: k8s-node-0583
  progress: {}
  startTimestamp: "2020-12-17T23:30:08Z"

Download CRD has some key phases for the .status.phase field:

New: not processed yet
InProgress: download is in progress
Completed: download is completed
Retry: download is retried. When there is any failure during the download of backup data, download will be retried
Failed: download is failed

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Velero Plugin for vSphere in Vanilla Kubernetes Cluster

Table of Contents

Compatibility

Prerequisites

Install

Install Object Storage Plugin

Create VC Credential Secret

Create Velero vSphere Plugin Config

Install Velero vSphere Plugin

Install in Air-gapped environment

Install with self-signed certificate

Upgrade

Scale down Velero and plugin components

Create vSphere Credentials Secret

Create Velero vSphere Plugin Configuration

Update the plugin image

Scale up Velero deployment

Uninstall

Backup

Backup vSphere CNS Block Volumes

Snapshots

Uploads

Migrated CNS block volume

Backup vSphere CNS File Volumes

Restore

CloneFromSnapshots

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Velero Plugin for vSphere in Vanilla Kubernetes Cluster

Table of Contents

Compatibility

Prerequisites

Install

Install Object Storage Plugin

Create VC Credential Secret

Create Velero vSphere Plugin Config

Install Velero vSphere Plugin

Install in Air-gapped environment

Install with self-signed certificate

Upgrade

Scale down Velero and plugin components

Create vSphere Credentials Secret

Create Velero vSphere Plugin Configuration

Update the plugin image

Scale up Velero deployment

Uninstall

Backup

Backup vSphere CNS Block Volumes

Snapshots

Uploads

Migrated CNS block volume

Backup vSphere CNS File Volumes

Restore

CloneFromSnapshots

Downloads