Running VBR server under AHV VM - Limitations?

[Voltron]

As with most organizations are doing right now, we are looking to shrink our VMware footprint as a cost-savings measure. We have a full Veeam VBR deployment under VMware. We also have a fairly new Nutanix AHV environment and are running the Nutanix AHV plugin without any issues.

The question is this: What limitations or issues would we run into if we move the VBR server to run as an AHV VM instead of running it as an ESXi VM?

I was unable to really nail down this question in the documentation so here I am - asking.

Thanks All!

[ronnmartin61]

There won't be any issues running it on AHV in fact the current Nutanix Mine w/Veeam product supports VBR running on AHV as a part of that integrated solution. If you're actually relocating the VMware VBR VM to AHV you'll of course need to add VirtIO drivers but I believe Nutanix Move automates this for migrations.

[HYF_JE]

We've been running our VBR server on AHV for well over a year through several upgrades and also a full rebuild/migration on AHV between servers. 0 issues as one would expect.

Assuming your VBR server is not running a VMware proxy role, it's really only there as the management and orchestration system, not as the data plane. If you do move your VBR server to an AHV cluster but still need to backup ESXi VMs, you will need to have a VMware proxy (assuming you're using hotadd transport) still remaining on the ESXi cluster for that function. I believe it's possible to do that with Linux guests but I can't comment with confidence on that, we're a Windows shop.

[Voltron]

Thank you both for the replies. We've been using Move to migrate a lot of our VMs over to AHV. Now if Veeam could easily replicate AHV VMs to ESXi for a DR target, that would be super helpful, but right now I know it's just a pipe dream.

Now to move the VBR server and DB over to AHV..... cheers!