Should I put the B&R Server at our DR-Even if we're all HyperV?

[scottmr]

I understand the recovery aspect but since Veeam B&R won't user off host proxies for Hyper-V, does a B&R Server at the DR still only orchestrate the backups from the DR? Will traffic increase over the VPN Connection?

[johan.h]

Veeam Backup and Replication can support off-host, but its honestly not a common scenario and only recommended in very specific situations where you have a known good hardware VSS provider.

The VBR server itself at the DR site can be used to orchestrate backup or replication. VBR is the control plane, instead the Hyper-V itself (on-host) is generating the backup traffic. If your Veeam Backup Repository is local to the Hyper-V server in production, the data flow should stay within that site for example.

Replication of course would generate traffic between production and DR, and if you're using a VPN for this, then that would be something to consider.

[scottmr]

Got it. That answers my question. Thank you. Repo and Hyper-V are local to each other.