Comprehensive data protection for all workloads
Post Reply
janezk
Enthusiast
Posts: 55
Liked: 11 times
Joined: Jul 25, 2016 10:42 am
Full Name: Janez K
Location: Slovenija
Contact:

How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by janezk »

Hi,

is there a way, that i can set, that a certain Veeam server ( eg. VBR server) won't be used as a Gateway?

br

Janez
foggy
Veeam Software
Posts: 21069
Liked: 2115 times
Joined: Jul 11, 2011 10:22 am
Full Name: Alexander Fogelson
Contact:

Re: How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by foggy »

Hello Janez, you cannot prevent specific server from being assigned a gateway role in case automatic gateway selection is enabled. But you can specify the gateway server explicitly.
veremin
Product Manager
Posts: 20270
Liked: 2252 times
Joined: Oct 26, 2012 3:28 pm
Full Name: Vladimir Eremin
Contact:

Re: How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by veremin »

And if you want to exclude it completely from any Veeam processing activity, just remove it from managed servers. Thanks.
janezk
Enthusiast
Posts: 55
Liked: 11 times
Joined: Jul 25, 2016 10:42 am
Full Name: Janez K
Location: Slovenija
Contact:

Re: How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by janezk »

Hi,

@ foggy: I prefer automatic selection, as I presume is better for load balancing and avoidance of single point of failure. ( I have multiple proxy servers available...)
v.Eremin wrote:And if you want to exclude it completely from any Veeam processing activity, just remove it from managed servers. Thanks.
Just to be clear: Can I remove also Veeam Backup an Recovery Server from "Managed Servers"? I want to avoid the backup traffic being relayed via VBR server as this causes havy load on it.

Thanks

Janez
veremin
Product Manager
Posts: 20270
Liked: 2252 times
Joined: Oct 26, 2012 3:28 pm
Full Name: Vladimir Eremin
Contact:

Re: How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by veremin »

I think you can try to deassign any role a given server happens to have, such as repository and proxy. In this case, it won't have any transport component installed, thus, it won't be able to participate in any processing activity.

It's more like a suggestion, rather than proved course of actions.

Thanks.
rurouni
Enthusiast
Posts: 68
Liked: 6 times
Joined: Jul 24, 2013 7:21 pm
Contact:

Re: How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by rurouni »

I join this thread because i think the question has not been clearly answered.
In my situation we have multiple veeam virtual proxy on each nutanix host to spread the backup/copy jobs load.
We observed that the vbr was used also as copy job gateway and we want to prevent this as it is not neaded. Moreover the gateway role assumed by vbr server has a side effect that overload the vbr server and makes it unresponsive during backup+copy job windows.

How can we prevent this to occur? Regards
foggy
Veeam Software
Posts: 21069
Liked: 2115 times
Joined: Jul 11, 2011 10:22 am
Full Name: Alexander Fogelson
Contact:

Re: How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by foggy »

Do you configure the gateway server for the repository explicitly or leave the default automatic selection mode?
rurouni
Enthusiast
Posts: 68
Liked: 6 times
Joined: Jul 24, 2013 7:21 pm
Contact:

Re: How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by rurouni »

Hi Foggy,
Finally, almost two years later i'll answer your Question :)
By default Gateway server on repository is set to auto selection. We observed that in many situations, vbr is used as gateway server for multiple job as we do not master the auto selection algorythm, we would like to disable the gateway server rôle on VBR since it is not designes to handle this rôle, it should keep on low load since it is hosting the VBR server role and Database Engine. We do not want the VBR to be overloaded because of backup processing.
Regards
foggy
Veeam Software
Posts: 21069
Liked: 2115 times
Joined: Jul 11, 2011 10:22 am
Full Name: Alexander Fogelson
Contact:

Re: How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by foggy »

Based on the gateway server selection rules, If you disable the default proxy and explicitly set the mount servers for the repositories, the backup server shouldn't be selected as a gateway.
rurouni
Enthusiast
Posts: 68
Liked: 6 times
Joined: Jul 24, 2013 7:21 pm
Contact:

Re: How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by rurouni »

Thanks for the answer foggy, i might try that.

Is your remark also applicable in case of sap hana backint backups targetting HPE Storeonce Appliances?

Regards,
foggy
Veeam Software
Posts: 21069
Liked: 2115 times
Joined: Jul 11, 2011 10:22 am
Full Name: Alexander Fogelson
Contact:

Re: How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by foggy »

Yes, the logic is the same.
Zedification
Enthusiast
Posts: 56
Liked: 6 times
Joined: Jul 29, 2010 8:34 am
Full Name: Zed
Contact:

Re: How to exclude certain server from Gateway role?

Post by Zedification »

Hi,

I try this by disable the proxy from the Veeam server. And select the gateway with automatic selection. The two gateways have network traffic and not the Veeam server.

Thanks
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 219 guests