Backup Proxy Veeam Backup & Replication

[chakerab]

Hello everyone,

I am new to Veeam and I would need your help. Currently, I am testing the Veeam solution locally in my lab before implementing it on my systems. I have an ESXi server that contains 4 VMs, including VM1 which is used as a Veeam server where I installed the Veeam Backup and Replication console. I created two Backup jobs on the console: one to back up VM2 using the classic method (Virtual machine) and another to back up VM3 and 4 which have Windows 7 OS using the Veeam agent (Windows computer).

I want to limit the bandwidth of my network by using Backup proxies, as I will have many VMs to back up in real life. However, I do not know how to set all this up, especially since there are several types of Backup proxy, including the General Purpose Backup Proxy and the VMware Backup Proxy. I wonder if I should use both or if one is enough to manage everything. Also, I wonder if mixing jobs does not affect the choice of proxy type.

I hope I have summarized my situation well and thank you in advance for your help. I have not found many tutorials that present the same problem as mine, so I am open to any information you can provide me.

[Andreas Neufert]

Can you please explain a bit for what purpose you want to limit the bandwidth by using proxies? What is the background for this?

In general you create a Repository for example a block disk mounted to a server. Then you can define in the global network rules some bandwith throttling between this repository and the agents/Proxy IP addresses. This is usually only used when you go over a shared WAN link and do not want that Veeam grab all the bandwidth. Within a LAN this is not used usually. You control how many VM or physical server disks are processed in parallel by setting "Task Slots" on the repository for it (one task slot is one parallel VM/Physical disk processing).

VMware Proxies (or any proxy role) and the Repository server role can be installed on the same system or on different systems (for scale out).

[chakerab]

In fact, I have around 20 ESXi servers (ESXi 5, 5.5, 6.5 and 7), each with about 3 VMs. So, I will need to create a job using VMware to backup the VMs hosted by ESXi 6.5 and 7 hosts, and another job using the agent to backup the VMs hosted by ESXi 5 and 5.5 hosts, but everything will be managed by the same Veeam server.
If needed, the ESXi servers use their local storage to backup the VMDK files of the VMs.