Control the deployment of the veeam proxy appliance during Azure restore

[b.vanhaastrecht]

Hello,

In Azure we have a hub-spoke network architecture with a Firewall at the border, therefore a route table is set to forward all traffic thru this border firewall. Public IP addresses applied to NIC's do not work as the default route of the VM is towards the Firewall.

We want to restore a on-premise VM to Azure. We deployed an Azure Proxy appliance in a resource group which is excluded from our hub-spoke so a Public IP on a NIC works. When restoring the on-prem VM we choose to use this particular Azure Proxy. It uses him to perform the data transfer. When it's time to do the conversion B&R deploys a second VM called "veeam-proxy-appliance-azure-xxxxx". There seems to be no control on where this VM is deployed and it picks a random resource group and associated vnet which is part of the hub-spoke. So the conversion fails because it can't contact this "veeam-proxy-appliance-azure" VM via its NIC applied Public IP.

My concerns and questions:
- Why isnt the chosen Azure Proxy appliance used for the conversion?
- How can we control the deployment of this "veeam-proxy-appliance-azure-xxxxx" VM?

Kind regards,
Bastiaan

[b.vanhaastrecht]

Ok, have found part of my question myself. In Managed Cloud Credentials you will have an Azure account, within this you will have the option to deploy an Azure Helper Appliance. This appliance is used for the conversion of a Azure restored Linux VM.

This again raises some questions:
- Why is the VM called "veeam-proxy-appliance-azure-xxxxx" while in B&R it's called a Helper Appliance, this is confusing as we also have Azure Proxy Appliance.
- Why is a Helper Appliance needed when you also have a Azure Proxy Appliance. Can't those functions be consolidated?

[veremin]

- Why is the VM called "veeam-proxy-appliance-azure-xxxxx" while in B&R it's called a Helper Appliance, this is confusing as we also have Azure Proxy Appliance.

Good suggestion, we will change the default appliance name in one of the next product updates.

- Why is a Helper Appliance needed when you also have a Azure Proxy Appliance. Can't those functions be consolidated?

Linux VM (helper appliance) is needed to restore Linux-based machines, but at the time when the feature was originally developed Linux VMs were not able to run data mover component (like they currently do - think about linux proxy), so we couldn't reuse proxy machine. We will consider it as an one of the future enhancements.

Thanks

[b.vanhaastrecht]

Alright, thank you for listening to my proposals.