VBO365 on a VM

[slackhouse]

As I understand it, Veeam does not support having a backup repository that has dedup because of the live JET database. i.e., Cohesity, Nimble, Exagrid, etc.

In the case of VBO365 running in a virtual environment, does it matter what the underlying storage is. For example, the VM vmdks are on a Pure Storage Flash Array datastore. Can you then create an additional disk on that VM and use that disk as the backup repository for VBO365?

[nielsengelen]

That is perfectly possible. Fast disks are advised but as you are talking about a pure storage array it shouldn’t be that much of an issue.

[slackhouse]

So, there isn't a problem with this even though Pure eventually does deduplication to all data that lives on it?

[nielsengelen]

The JetDB shouldn’t be affected as it isn’t happening directly to it. You could perform some tests to see if it indirectly affects it but I haven’t heard reports on that.

[slackhouse]

Thanks for the quick reply