Migrate VBR from physical to VM AHV

[matteu]

Hello,

I need to migrate VBR from physical server to VM in Nutanix AHV with a new VBR server name.
I'm not familiar with AHV and I would like to know what is the process I need to do ?

For vsphere, it would be just backup and restore the configuration but here, I can see on documentation (https://helpcenter.veeam.com/archive/vb ... store.html) there are some consideration with the proxy appliance.
Do I need to restore the configuration on the proxy appliance or on the VBR server ?

There are 2 prism central and 2 backup appliance. VBR is 12.3 last patch.

Thanks for your help.

[Mildur]

Hi Matteu,

It should be sufficient to restore the configuration of your Veeam Backup & Replication server, as the Nutanix AHV appliance configuration remains unaffected during the VBR migration.
Starting with V13.0.1 and Nutanix AHV version 9, the appliance is no longer used, and the entire configuration is stored directly in Veeam Backup & Replication. Maybe you can wait for the upcoming version with your migration project.

Best,
Fabian

[matteu]

Thanks for your answer.
The vbr server change his name. Is it a problem ?

I finally did it today.
I restore the configuration, remove the proxy appliance without removng the appliance from the virtualisation infrastructure (let uncheck the box when i remove the appliance) and add it back a proxy with the step "connect an existing".
It worked fine.

Just for my information, when prism central is using is it possible to have several appliance per cluster or I shoumd have only one and improve cpu + ram + task to speed up backup because default configuration is only 4 tasks.

[ronnmartin61]

@matteu no we don't support multiple appliances per cluster however you're free to deploy as many worker VMs as you like to scale out backup/restore processing across clusters. See - https://helpcenter.veeam.com/archive/vb ... rkers.html

[matteu]

Thanks for your answer.

I believed appliance + worker were the same components but they are not after reading your link.

I understand really better now how to speed up the backup + recovery !

Thanks