Mixing roles with VBR

[mdiver]

For several good reasons it is not supported to install a VBO server onto a VBR server.

What about just a single role?
Eg. if a customer wants to have his O365 backups be created on the same repository server as his vSphere backups: would a VBO repo be able to live in friendly co-existance with a VBR repo on the same Windows system? Is it a supported scenario?

Thanks,
Mike

[Mike Resseler]

Hi Mike,

It IS supported to install a VBO server into a VBR server. As a service provider, you actually need to do this (for now) to offer cloud connect access if your tenant wants to use a Veeam explorer locally to restore data.

For the repo's: Yes, that is possible as long as it is another folder. A VBO repo is a Jet Database file (or an object storage repository but I doubt you are going to use this, although I would recommend it) and can live in the same windows system. You will need to keep into account the memory and CPU usage though

[mdiver]

Thanks Mike.

I remember I once heard from one of your colleagues (VMworld 2019) that the Veeam explorer versions might bite each other because they could slightly differ.
Even better if the products can fully co-exist. We plan to become a provider for M365 backups as well. Currently we do only VMs. On-prem we're not doing S3 currently.

Regards,
Mike