Migrating from Veeam 9.5 to Veeam 10

[Mboraie]

Hello All,

I have the following enviroment,

Veeam B&R 9.5.0.1038 (U2)
Managing 2 vCenter 6.0.0 ( 172.20.100.x) & (172.20.190.y)
2 Proxy
Proxy1 + Repository1: on the same VM that has the serever
Proxy2 + Repository2: on another VM
Reprository 1 on VNXe1
Reprository 2 on VNXe2

I need to upgrade or migrate to Veeam B&R 10 & use another storage device to be the repository
Repository 1 will be connected to Data Domain 1
Repository 2 Will be connected to Data Domain 2

I know if i am goiong to ugrade to veeam 10 , i will need to pass to Veeam 9.5 U3 .


Is it recommended and possible to upgrade or should a start installtion of Veeam 10 from scratsh?
what recommendations/ steps should i follow & can i copy the old backups ( on VNXe) to the new destination ( Data Domain)?

Thanks in advance.

[Gostev]

Hello!

If a clean v10 install is an option, then of course you should just do that. Otherwise, I'd recommend downloading Update 4b from here and upgrading to it first, the upgrading to v10.

I don't think you can just copy your backups to Data Domain, because it's not a regular file system (we use DDBoost SDK to populate it with data). Unless you're using it without integration, just as an SMB/NFS file share - in this case yes, you can simply copy backups and map your existing backup job into them.

Another clean approach would once you're on v10, create a SOBR with VNXe and Data Domain as two Performance Tier extents, and point your existing jobs to that. Then, seal the VNXe extent. This way new backups will go to the Data Domain extent, while retention policy will slowly clean up backups from VNXe extent.

Having said that, please note that we don't recommend using deduplicating storage as a primary backup repository for performance reasons (especially with restores). You will certainly notice a big performance impact there comparing to VNXe.

Thanks!

[foggy]

Here's the thread with some hints on migrating data to DDBoost.