Questions regarding Community Edition and Feasibility

[BruceLee]

Hi everyone,

I'm still quite unexperienced with Veeam and till now have worked with paid versions and with VMWare only.
I have a new client with an extremly low budget.
Planned setup is one Physical Windows Server 2019 Host with two Hyper-V Windows Server 2019 virtual machines.
The hosts purpose is Hyper-V only. And I want to install Veeam backup software on the host.
The two VM's are for File/RDS and AD.

I want to use the Community Edition and
-schedule job(s) that run each night
-that make a daily FULL backup of those 2 VM's and if possible the host itself too
-store it directly on rotating USB Harddrives
Is that possible from licensing, functionality and technical point of view when using the Community Edition?

Thanks for any feedack and support.
Best
BruceLee

[PetrM]

Hi BruceLee!

Yes, you can use Veeam Community Edition in the environment mentioned above. Veeam Community Edition provides a possibility to protect up to 10 Instances at no cost.

I'd suggest to review this comparison table to get the list of features for every available edition.

Thanks!

[BruceLee]

Thanks PetrM,

from you comparison I can see that this is covered
- daily FULL backup of those 2 VM's
- store it directly on rotating USB Harddrives

Licensing seems no problem too if we have (1x physical = 3 instances plus 2x VM's each 1 instance = 5 total instances)

But what about
- backup host itself (from technical pov)
- and especially scheduling
?
In the past scheudling wasn't possible in free edition and it's not mentioned in the list.
Thanks a lot
BruceLee

[PetrM]

Schedule settings are available in the Community edition so you can create a job for 2 VMs.

By the way, you may use Free version of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows to create a dedicated backup job for the host, schedule should be available as well.

Thanks!

[BruceLee]

Thanks a lot for your help PetrM. That sounds great. All questions answered.

[BruceLee]

HI PetrM,

one more question. I stumbled across this article:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... l?ver=95u4
It mentions:
It is not recommended to install Veeam Backup & Replication directly on the Hyper-V host. Instead, install it on a VM on this host.

Like I wrote this is exactly what I want to do. Install it directly on the Hyper-V host.
You wrote that it's ok. Client won't buy a new server license to virtualize on more VM just for Veeam.
The 2 VMs are a Domaincontroller and a RDS server. So I definitely can't install it on those.
Whats the reason for this warning to not install on Hyper-V Host directly?
Will it work or does it damage something?
Thanks a lot
BruceLee

[DGrinev]

Hi Bruce,

It shouldn't have any impact on the host since the customer has a very small environment.
The reason behind this warning is just an additional resource consumption during the backup processes.

Thanks!

[BruceLee]

Perfect PetrM, once again thank you very much.