Orchestrator support for Proxmox (or other option)

[jlb4350]

Hello all.

Before I start, let me explain my infrastructure. We are using Veeam B&R to backup all of our machines using agent backups (Windows and Linux). We have no VMs or VM environments (including no VSphere). We have an on prem datacenter with physical machines and two AWS regions. All three of these locations have their own B&R servers and backup using agent backups. We have always been able to recover to AWS and on-prem without issue. And although I guess EC2 instances are technically "VMs", we are backing them up as physical machines using agents.

We were recently told (by a Veeam rep) that our infrastructure supports the use of Orchestrator and so we upgraded our licenses and now have access to it. What we are wanting to do is to utilize Orchestrator to do test restores for compliance and reporting purposes. However, as I began the configuration of Orchestrator, it appears the only recovery locations available are Azure and vSphere, neither of which we use. I know it doesn't natively (yet) support Orchestration to AWS (even though the B&R consoles do), but the Veeam rep said we could make it work.

So, is there a way to accomplish what I'm trying to do or have I basically spent money on something I can't use? Can I set up a Proxmox environment and do test recoveries to that or must it specifically be vSphere? I did see there was an AWS script written by someone in VeeamHub but I don't have a clue how to use it and the Git didn't provide much detail about it either. I'd hate to have such a powerful software but not be able to use it. We are big fans of Veeam so far after changing to it a couple of years ago.

Any suggestions will be most appreciated.
JB

[Alec King]

Hi JB,
Orchestrator does not yet natively support recovery to AWS; you can accomplish it by using a custom script.
As there will be no AWS "recovery location" configured in Orchestrator, you must pass in all required parameters to the custom script (your subscription, region etc)

It sounds like you have already located the script (created by one of our engineers) on VeeamHub

You should create a custom Step in Orchestrator that uses this script, it's detailed in the User Guide.
If you need assistance, feel free to dm me.

Hope that helps!

[skitch210]

JB, I wrote that script on Github and it is meant to be an example script to show what is possible. It does work, but yes I did not fully document it, so you need to have a little powershell knowledge and AWS cli to get it to work.

[skitch210]

I just did a write up on the script on the Community Hub VRO Hero page. Link here -https://community.veeam.com/vro-heroes- ... cript-8341

[SBaalman]

Please count this as a +1 for Proxmox support