MongoDB has become a cornerstone for enterprise data operations, powering modern applications with its dynamic scalability and flexibility.
However, protecting critical MongoDB data is complex.
For MongoDB Enterprise Advanced Customers, Ops Manager serves as the central nervous system for deployment, monitoring, scaling up, and backing up MongoDB Enterprise Advanced deployments, whether on-premises or across hybrid cloud environments. Given its pivotal role in database operations, leveraging Ops Manager to support the scale and complexity of backing up MongoDB is a challenging task to ensure an organization's data security, operational continuity, and overall cyber resilience.
Traditional backup methods fail to meet the demands of dynamic MongoDB deployments. Managing snapshots, ensuring data consistency across shards, and orchestrating recovery in complex distributed environments can be a manual, time-consuming, and error-prone process. The rise of sophisticated cyber threats, from ransomware to insider attacks, further complicates this picture, demanding not just data recovery but rapid, reliable cyber resilience.
That’s why we are excited to announce a significant leap forward in data protection for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced. Rubrik is now officially certified by MongoDB to seamlessly integrate with Ops Manager to offer scalable and reliable backup and recovery for modern applications built on MongoDB databases. Enterprises can deploy business-critical applications on MongoDB and be confident in the recoverability of data and the ability to maintain high application uptime.
What's New: Rubrik Integrates with MongoDB Ops Manager
The integration of Rubrik and MongoDB Ops Manager gives Database Administrators (DBAs) and IT operations teams new tools to manage data protection using Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC). Once integrated with Ops Manager, Rubrik onboards Ops Manager as the source and global SLA policies are applied in RSC. This manages the life cycle of the data from a single location, instead of from separate workflows. Now, the data protection lifecycle of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced becomes an intrinsic part of your Rubrik management processes.
The integration of Rubrik with MongoDB Ops Manager delivers a host of compelling benefits, significantly enhancing your data protection and cyber resilience:
Simplified Management: Protect MongoDB clusters or your other workloads from a single pane of glass via RSC, eliminating manual configuration and drastically simplifying data backup and recovery overhead.
Enhanced Cyber Resilience: Boost cyber resilience with automated, immutable backups and swift recovery, ensuring business continuity even during cyberattacks.
SLA-Driven, Granular Protection: Leverage Rubrik's powerful policy engine to define Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for your MongoDB workloads at the source level, ensuring RPO/RTO alignment with business needs.
Flexible Backup and Recovery Options: Gain unparalleled flexibility with the ability to trigger on-demand snapshots at the source level whenever needed. In the event of data loss, Rubrik provides versatile recovery options, supporting both in-place and out-of-place recovery at the source level.
Precision Point-in-Time Recovery with Log Backups: The integration supports continuous oplog backup for your MongoDB databases. This crucial capability, combined with full and incremental backups, enables highly granular Point-in-Time Recovery.
How Rubrik Works with MongoDB Ops Manager
Rubrik's protection architecture for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is comprised of three key components:
Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) is a SaaS platform managed by Rubrik that serves as the central control hub for backup operations. It organizes and executes these operations based on predefined SLA Domains, which specify the frequency of backups and how long data will be retained. The control plane is responsible for orchestrating tasks, managing policies, and monitoring backup and recovery jobs. This comprehensive management ensures data security and compliance throughout the entire backup and recovery process.
A Rubrik Secure Vault (RSV) cluster connected to Rubrik Security Cloud that secures your data against the evolving landscape of cyber threats. It provides air-gapped, immutable, access-controlled backups to recover when you need to most.
The MongoDB Ops Manager is used to manage the MongoDB deployments. RSC calls the Ops Manager during backup and restore operations, orchestrates the MongoDB clusters into a ready state, and then back to a normal state once the operations are complete.
First, the Rubrik Backup Service (RBS) must be downloaded and installed on the Linux MongoDB source hosts (including the config hosts for a sharded setup) using either the RPM or DEB installation methods. This setup helps Rubrik securely communicate with your MongoDB environment. Rubrik will automatically flag any nodes that lack an RBS connection unless they are intentionally exempt from protection.
Next, administrators connect RSC to MongoDB Ops Manager via API keys and add the MongoDB clusters managed via Ops Manager as the MongoDB source to RSC. Once the cluster is added, Rubrik adds the Ops Manager to the inventory.
Then, administrators can use the RSC to create and assign global SLA Policies to the MongoDB Ops Manager. These policies automate the frequency of data and Oplog backups (snapshots) and define their retention period. Rubrik uses the data path to store MongoDB snapshots in its immutable file system and retrieve them for recovery purposes. The data path employs the Apache Secure Thrift protocol for direct writes to the immutable file system, securing MongoDB data backups and the Oplog.
All internal and external communications between protected objects, Rubrik Secure Vault, your cloud accounts, and RSC are encrypted. Communication between the Rubrik Secure Vault Cluster and RSC via the control path is always encrypted using the TLS 1.2 protocol.
The integration of Rubrik with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced marks a significant milestone in safeguarding mission-critical MongoDB Enterprise Advanced environments. Now, you can protect your MongoDB Enterprise Advanced data with the same powerful, unified backup system you already use for other critical business applications and services.
By unifying operational management with robust data protection and cyber resilience capabilities, organizations can confidently protect, recover, and ensure the continuous availability of their MongoDB data. This collaboration empowers DBAs and IT teams to focus on innovation, knowing their data is resilient against the evolving threat landscape.
Join us for a deep dive webinar to learn more about how Rubrik can help you enhance cyber resilience for your MongoDB Enterprise Advanced environments.
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