Managing VIA as a backup proxy and scaling

[MLang]

Hi folks,

we are currently planning to migrate our Veeam environment from a Windows-based backup server to the Veeam Software Appliance. As part of this process, we would also like to migrate our current ~ 30 backup proxies from Ubuntu to the Veeam Infrastructure Appliance. Until now, we have maintained a virtual template for the Ubuntu-based backup proxies and cloned the proxies from it during initial setup or as needed. What is the recommended procedure with the VIA? Can I use a template and clone from it initially? How do I then change the host certificates before adding the proxy to the backup server for the first time? Or is this not supported at all, and do I have to install 30 proxies individually? I couldn’t find any information on this in the documentation. Are there any best practices or other relevant guidelines for this? How do the rest of you do it?

Regards, Marc

[david.domask]

Hi Marc,

Unattended installations will help with mass-deployment. I will also share a tool which helps automate the customization.

Basically, create an unattended installer and deploy from that. This post shares more details on an example workflow in their environment.