Back Up To ESXi DAS ?

[tanjum]

Hi,

We have 2 standalone ESXi hosts, A and B, each with its own Direct Attached Storage (DAS).

We have setup Veeam as a VM on Host A, and want to want to Backup VM from it to the storage of Host B.

How can I perform this, I can't seem to add host B's DAS as a Backup Repository, it throws an error as below, is adding a host's DAS supported ?

[Dima P.]

Hello tanjum,

Can you please describe what repository type you were using? Thank you!

[tanjum]

Hi Dima,

I added it as Direct Attached Storage, then Linux repository (not hardened).

[tyler.jurgens]

You cannot add an ESXi host as a repository. You can create a Linux VM on the host B and attach disk from host B onto that Linux VM. Then setup that Linux VM as a repository in your Veeam and send backup/backup copy jobs to it.

[tanjum]

Great, thanks Tyler for clarifying that, and on how to go about it..