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?
Thanks
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Re: Just setup 2nd Nutanix cluster for backups
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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Yes, it can be a Windows Server. Are are you going to use it as a primary or secondary repository? Onsite or offsite?
Thanks!
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Re: Just setup 2nd Nutanix cluster for backups
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.
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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Re: Just setup 2nd Nutanix cluster for backups
This is the primary onsite repository "landing zone"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?
Thanks!
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Re: Just setup 2nd Nutanix cluster for backups
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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