Installing Veeam on the same VM as Virtual Center

[Choodee]

To cut down on VM sprawls, I'm planning to install Veeam on the same VM as virtual center. Will i have any issues backing up this VM? Is this setup typical?

Thanks
Sandee

[J1mbo]

Personally I would keep them separate. Assuming you have Windows Datacentre licensing, so the only cost saving would be a few GB of RAM, but RAM is very cheap.

[foggy]

Sandee, general recommendations are to configure the backup job for this VM using standalone ESX(i) host and Network mode without VSS.
Please refer to the following threads for details:
What is the best way of protecting the Veeam Backup server?
Backup Replicate vCenter VM
Unable to backup vCenter/Veeam server in v6
vCenterVM as VEEAM proxy

[kschyff]

Hi

To save costs i would like to know if it would be possible to use the same physical server for both veeam backup (free edition) and vcenter server (vsphere 5.1)?

Thanks
Karl

[veremin]

Hi, Karl. Yes, it’s possible to have both VB&R Server and vCenter being deployed on the same physical server. Though, be aware that this might create additional resource load on the given machine.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.