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Just setup 2nd Nutanix cluster for backups

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Hey,

I just setup a 2nd Nutanix cluster to be used as a backup repository. It's a Nutanix 2400 with 2 6000 storage blocks.

I read through the latest Nutanix/Veeam Best Practices document but still have a question:

How should I setup the repository?

All I can find in the document regarding that the Veeam Repository Server is that it should be on a secondary Nutanix cluster. So could it just be a Windows Server? Or is there any best practice on how to setup the repository?

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Hello,
Yes, it can be a Windows Server. Are are you going to use it as a primary or secondary repository? Onsite or offsite?
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Re: Just setup 2nd Nutanix cluster for backups

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Hmm, I don't really follow this scenario... why use Nutanix as a backup target?

Supposedly, Nutanix is designed to run your production VMs. I was under impression that it is very expensive, so probably it is an overkill to use one as a backup target?

This also adds additional level of unneeded complexity between you and your backups - and an extra technology to deal with, something else that can brake or start misbehaving. Follow the Occam's razor principle ;)

Finally, your backups are no longer easy to get to, as they are inside VM, inside Nutanix. Compare that with storing backups on a SAN LUN or a file share, that can be easily reconnected to any physical computer for emergency backup retrieval (even to your laptop!) should all your servers die.

Are you sure this is a good idea? Perhaps you could share some of your thoughts around that.
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Shestakov wrote:Hello,
Yes, it can be a Windows Server. Are are you going to use it as a primary or secondary repository? Onsite or offsite?
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This is the primary onsite repository "landing zone"
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As Anton said it would be "an expensive" backup repository that may potentially complicate your recovery process and increase your recovery time a lot - but answering your original question, Windows Server would be a preferred way of exposing this device to your backup jobs.
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