migration and update of Veeam environment

[SAVANTIS]

Hi all,

I hop you can give me some advice on the following:

I need to upgrade and expand my Veeam environment from 6.5 to 7.x

My situation:

- one Veeam Backup & Replication (B&R) server, with local SQL database. This has to be upgraded to version 7
- Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager (BEM) with SQL database on remote server. TBEM itself has to be migrated to anothaer server ánd upgraded to version 7

New situation:

- upgraded B&R and BEM server
- Veeam One installation


Some help/advice would be very appreciated.


Pim
System Admin
The Netherlands

[foggy]

Pim, install Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager v7 on a new server pointing it to its previous SQL database during installation, then perform Veeam B&R in-place upgrade to v7. General upgrade recommendations are outlined in the release notes document available with your download. Thanks.

[SAVANTIS]

Hello foggy,

thanks for the reply. Do I need to "unlink" my B&R server from the current BEM server?

I have run through nearly all the documents, but could not find one specific for my situation.

Thanks again.

Pim

[veremin]

Nope, you don’t have to do it. Just upgrade backup server after completing the upgrade of Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager server.

Thanks.

[dellock6]

Hi Pim, it all comes down to the size of your infrastructure. In small environments, is common to see all components (VBR, EM and their SQL) installed on a single server. This is by far the most simple deployment, and a decent VM or physical machine is enough to manage everything.

On larger infrastructure, the split of components can be a better solution, or if there are specific needs as for example exposing EM to the external network for users access. In this case I would place EM in a dedicated VM and configured its network to run in a DMZ. Also, in these situations Veeam One would probably needs its own server, since a large infrastructure would put a significant load on it for all the monitoring activities.

Luca.

[SAVANTIS]

Hi Luca,

I would not call our infra large (around 70 VM's, 3 ESX hosts).

We have a VBRCatalog around 35 GB, but that also contains data from old jobs which we will use for "historical reasons".

What do I do with that database?

Pim

[dellock6]

Well, since you said in the first post EM needs to be migrated, I would first migrate it into the VBR server: detach db, move it to the VBR sql server, install EM on the VBR server pointing at the migrated db.
Once all components are in the same server, a simple upgrade to v7 will be good, first EM and then VBR.

Luca.

[Vitaliy S.]

We have a VBRCatalog around 35 GB, but that also contains data from old jobs which we will use for "historical reasons".

What do I do with that database?

You can move this folder to the new server by following these instructions > http://www.veeam.com/kb1453 (the KB should be valid for version 7 as well)