Move VBR server to Azure

[dmitryk8]

Hello,

we are using VBR 9.5 (u4 now) for about a year, backuping several Hyper-V clusters and standalone servers. We have one VBR server and some repositories, including cloud connect. I am little confused by the fact that VBR server is running as VM on the same host where protected VMs located. So I'm considering to move the VBR to Azure (our organization already have site2site vpn).
Is there any best practices for running VBR in Azure? As I understand, VBR doesn't send/receive backup traffic - only management - is it completely true?
The simplest way, as I understand, is to use migration guide: https://www.veeam.com/kb1889
Or may be it is a not a good idea at all? Thanks!

[Egor Yakovlev]

Hi Dmitriy!
Make sure to check location(should keep them on-prem) of Guest Interaction Proxy and repository-specific Gateway Servers, as well as Mount Servers after moving VBR Server away to keep on-prem traffic local to primary site.
/Thanks!

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi Dmitriy,

In addition to what Egor advised, in case you are planning to use application items restore capabilities, keep in mind that VBR mounts application restore points to the machine hosting VBR console (from where application restore is triggered).

So, you might also need to setup console on one of your on-premise servers to keep application restore traffic off Azure.
See this post.

Thanks,
Oleg

[dmitryk8]

Thanks for answers, hope that my next post will be about success migration)