I know that VSAN is not supported since it is in beta, etc.
But, I was wondering if there is anyway to allow Veeam to backup VMs (unsupported) residing on my VSAN cluster for lab use. It's use is a home lab / testing ( quite popular use of VSAN right now). I miss using Veeam to backup my lab
Obviously, I know any way to enable to completely unsupported, and in no way would I receive support for a problem
Here is the snipped from the weekly forum digest 4 days ago that you did not get because you have registered on the forums a few days later
gostev wrote:
I've been getting some questions regarding VMware vSAN support. Indeed, it was possible to perform backups with B&R versions prior to v7 in certain processing modes, as those versions were released before vSAN beta became available. However, you may note that v7 has this capability disabled. Our testing has uncovered a number of issues (not immediately obvious) that we need to address before claiming full vSAN support. Also, we need to "teach" our intelligent load-balancing to work optimally with vSAN. Most work is already done on our side, so we are just waiting for vSAN to be officially released. We do not want to waste time chasing the ever changing beta code (by the way, it was recently updated), or deal with possible data corruptions in the pre-release code.
Lewis, I never tested VSAN yet, but if it's in beta, how can VDP support it?
If you mean "it works", well I would say any backup solution using hotadd could work, since it only sees a datastore with a VM inside. So, even if (repeated again) is totally UNSUPPORTED, also Veeam in HotAdd mode should work.
Luca.
Luca Dell'Oca Principal EMEA Cloud Architect @ Veeam Software
I'm not sure what you mean by "hot add mode" but what we are complaining about here is that Veeam will not even attempt to backup a VM that resides on a VSAN datastore.
Of course we are asking for a totally unsupported solution here. it would just be nice to run Veeam on top of VSAN in an "unsupported" mode.
davedunaway wrote:I'm not sure what you mean by "hot add mode"
Hotadd (aka Virtual Appliance mode) is a transport mode used by Veeam B&R proxy server to retrieve VM data from the source datastore by directly attaching its disks to itself.
I've read the following posts (http://forums.veeam.com/vmware-vsphere- ... 19841.html and http://forums.veeam.com/vmware-vsphere- ... 20997.html) which say VSAN backup support should be available soon. We've got some critical licensing decisions and HW purchase decisions to make in the next couple of weeks and I'm currently having to look at dropping Veeam for VDPA to get guaranteed support for VSAN backups. I really don't want to do this as we don't actually need to implement Veeam backup for VSAN for another month or so (though we need to make the purchasing decisions in the next two weeks).
I just wanted to see if support for VSAN backups is still "on track" and if we can still expect to see it released in the next few weeks (as speculated a couple of months ago in the linked threads).
Do you know if there will be any notable limitations in the initial VSAN support in Patch #4?
Also, one of our backup targets is a local Data Domain 640 which then replicates to another offsite DD640 for DR. When we were looking at possibly having to switch to using VDPA, we found out that VDPA requires you to license Data Domain Boost (DDBoost) on the DD640. Will Veeam have a similar requirement when VSAN support is added (it doesn't currently)?
LukeAd wrote:Also, one of our backup targets is a local Data Domain 640 which then replicates to another offsite DD640 for DR. When we were looking at possibly having to switch to using VDPA, we found out that VDPA requires you to license Data Domain Boost (DDBoost) on the DD640. Will Veeam have a similar requirement when VSAN support is added (it doesn't currently)?
) to enable this functionality in the current release.