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Add physical as stand alone tape server or migrate all Veeam roles to physical?

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Hi
We have Veeam running inside a VM which has been working great for a long time. We also have Microsoft Data Protection Manager running with a physical tape library which used to backup all the physicals. Now there is really nothing left for DPM to backup so what I would like to do is use the physical server (DL360 Gen 9) and tape library (MSL2024) to backup VM's using Veeam. Really I want to get offline copies of all the servers to protect against ransomware etc etc.
I'm trying to figure out if I should just erase the DPM server and install Veeam from scratch and configure a new instance of Veeam and have it running all on one server (the physical) or I should just install the physical as a tape sever to the existing Veeam VM. I have about 10 ESX hosts and 140 VM's. My job setup is very simple and I am not too worried about migrating etc.
What are your thoughts and is any particular setup better when recovering from disaster?
Many thanks
Phil
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Re: Add physical as stand alone tape server or migrate all Veeam roles to physical?

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Hello,
yes, makes sense. Thumbs up 👍

With a standalone Windows system (no domain to prevent against malware with domain admin permissions), you can avoid any chicken-egg issues and with the tape you have real air-gap

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Re: Add physical as stand alone tape server or migrate all Veeam roles to physical?

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Hello Phil,

Mind me asking what type of repository you are using to store the disk backups and how you plan to connect this repository with your tape device? Thanks!
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Hi, I am using a EMC Data Domain for the disk repository. The tape drive will be connected to the physical server via SAS cables. Therefore I am guessing the backups will traverse the network to get to the tapes.
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Re: Add physical as stand alone tape server or migrate all Veeam roles to physical?

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You could install tape server role on top of DD gateway server and conned tape library with it. That would isolate the traffic within single component.
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