What to use for Veeam B&R 12 physical storage devices

[AlanW]

I am currently using three Dell EqualLogic SANs for the main backup target for all my sites. I need to replace all of them. I have one Veeam B & R server and I have Veeam proxy at each location. So, three proxies total. All of these are VMs running on VMware 7 and soon to be VMware 8. I also have backups going to AWS with capacity tier jobs.

I am trying to find out what is good for physical storage for all three locations. I was thinking of a JBOD but not sure how to connect that to a B&R VM. I was also thinking a NAS but in one of these forms someone said Veeam would never recommend a NAS.

[Mildur]

Hi Alan

If you want to have maximum of protection, then go with a hardware server with local disks and use it as a hardened repository server.
This will allow you to write immutable backups. Connecting the backup storage directly to a VM running on your production environment would work as well. But it doesn't provide you with the same protection against attackers. Therefore we recommend against using a virtual repository on your production environment.

1) Buy a physical server with local disks
2) Install Ubuntu or any other supported linux
3) Add your Linux server as a hardened repository to the backup server:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120
4) Disable SSH and any other remote access to the Linux server

Best,
Fabian

[MOBO]

if you decide to go with a linux hardened repository , these are great blogs/guides by Hannes
https://www.veeam.com/blog/hardened-lin ... tices.html
https://www.veeam.com/blog/installing-u ... itory.html
https://www.veeam.com/blog/backup-repos ... guide.html

[peeky1323]

Hi,

We've been really happy with Synology NAS as iSCSI targets formatted with ReFS. We have about 500TB over 2 sites on them. You can get dual controller units now too.

Matt