Replication using 2 VBR servers

[PeterC]

At the moment we have the current infrastructure;

HyperV domain consisting of 15 * 4 node HyperV clusters
Backup domain consisting of VBR Enterprise Plus(Server 2012R2) , repo's and Enterprise Manager. Nightly backups of all VM's on the HyperV environment.

We are going to renew the hardware and we want to move all VM's to this new HyperV environment.

So we are going to build;
Azure HCI consisting of 4 * 4 node HyperV cluster in the same old HyperV domain.
New VBR Enterprise Plus server (Server 2019 or 2022) with new repo's in the same backup domain as the old environment.

We want to use Veeam B&R replication to replicate the VM's to the new environment.
My question is if this is possible?
In the old environment we are using SCVMM 2016 as source for our HyperV servers and for the new environment we are going to use SCVMM 2022.
So we are going to use 2 seperate SCVMM sources for 2 seperate Veeam VBR servers.

In the replication job I can only select a destination host that is available in the backup infrastructure of that Veeam VBR. So I am wondering if there is a way to use Veeam replication in this scenario.

[Mildur]

Hi Peter

For the replication job to work you have to add SCVMM 2016 + SCVMM 2019 to the same VBR server.
After the replication you can remove it from the configuration.

Thanks
Fabian

[PeterC]

Hi Fabian,

Thanks for your fast answer. So it is not sufficient to add the new VBR server to the Enterprise manager where the old VBR is already present?

And if it is only possible to add both SCVMM versions to the same VBR server, do you have any idea if it is possible to install both SCVMM Admin UI (console) versions on the VBR?
Hope to hear from you.

Grtx
Peter

[Mildur]

Hi Peter

You're welcome.

So it is not sufficient to add the new VBR server to the Enterprise manager where the old VBR is already present?

No. The VBR Server needs to talk to the Hyper-V environment directly.

do you have any idea if it is possible to install both SCVMM Admin UI (console) versions on the VBR?

You don't need that for the replication job. Just connect both SCVMM server to the same VBR server:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110

Thanks
Fabian

[PeterC]

Hi Fabian,

Thanks for your answer. We need to look into this a bit further because we also need the backup to keep continuing after the replication and failover has finished.

Grtx
Peter