Comprehensive data protection for all workloads
Post Reply
unsichtbarre
Service Provider
Posts: 234
Liked: 40 times
Joined: Mar 08, 2010 4:05 pm
Full Name: John Borhek
Contact:

Cloning / Templating VBR server

Post by unsichtbarre »

Howdy, Happy Holidays!
I have a client that has many branch offices which all have independent VBR environments. My challenge is: How can I create a "template" of the VBR server which could be deployed via OVA or Content Library? Each server would get a new hostname and IP, otherwise identical. We'd configure the repositories and proxies after configuration.

I've tried this before and it seems like the database or registry causes issues?

THX,
-John
John Borhek, Solutions Architect
https://vmsources.com
Vitaliy S.
VP, Product Management
Posts: 27301
Liked: 2775 times
Joined: Mar 30, 2009 9:13 am
Full Name: Vitaliy Safarov
Contact:

Re: Cloning / Templating VBR server

Post by Vitaliy S. »

Hi John,

Yes, having the same installation ID (generated automatically) for backup servers will mess up the integration with VSPC/Veeam ONE/EM/usage reporting, so cloning backup servers is not recommended. If I were you, I would just script the installation or use VSPC to do that for you, since you're going to configure repositories and jobs later anyway.

Thanks!
tyler.jurgens
Veeam Legend
Posts: 382
Liked: 215 times
Joined: Apr 11, 2023 1:18 pm
Full Name: Tyler Jurgens
Contact:

Re: Cloning / Templating VBR server

Post by tyler.jurgens » 1 person likes this post

Create a template.
Drop the applicable ISO into your template.
Create a quick script to install VBR in unattended mode. Place that on your template.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

You could also use something like Chocolatey to do it.
https://community.chocolatey.org/packag ... ion-server

Maybe not perfectly unattended cradle to grave, but a fair amount of it could be setup to quick click if needed.
Tyler Jurgens
Veeam Legend x3 | vExpert ** | VMCE | VCP 2020 | Tanzu Vanguard | VUG Canada Leader | VMUG Calgary Leader
Blog: https://explosive.cloud
Twitter: @Tyler_Jurgens BlueSky: @tylerjurgens.bsky.social
Mildur
Product Manager
Posts: 9573
Liked: 2539 times
Joined: May 13, 2017 4:51 pm
Full Name: Fabian K.
Location: Switzerland
Contact:

Re: Cloning / Templating VBR server

Post by Mildur » 1 person likes this post

@tjuergens
I recommend to use the new silent installer from v12.1 (unofficially available since v12.0).
Our silent installer with an answer file requires only a single command to install all required components. While the old unattended install mode requires you to install each component with a dedicated command in the right order :)

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

Best,
Fabian
Product Management Analyst @ Veeam Software
tyler.jurgens
Veeam Legend
Posts: 382
Liked: 215 times
Joined: Apr 11, 2023 1:18 pm
Full Name: Tyler Jurgens
Contact:

Re: Cloning / Templating VBR server

Post by tyler.jurgens »

Awesome, thanks Fabian!
Tyler Jurgens
Veeam Legend x3 | vExpert ** | VMCE | VCP 2020 | Tanzu Vanguard | VUG Canada Leader | VMUG Calgary Leader
Blog: https://explosive.cloud
Twitter: @Tyler_Jurgens BlueSky: @tylerjurgens.bsky.social
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Baidu [Spider], Semrush [Bot], takafumi.arihama and 57 guests