Suggested Architecture for Physical Veeam Server

[JohnnyK]

Hello,

Currently we have Veeam 7 on a VM on a Compellent SAN which backs up to a Synology. It is attached to VCenter with 10 VM's of various sizes and we are getting inconsistent performance to our Synology target which seems to have issues with IOPS.

We are planning on adding a Dell R720xd 2008R2 with 12-3TB disks in a RAID-5 configuration and using that as the backup device and connected it to both the LAN and the ISCSI network switches, So do we merely install another instance of Veeam on the physical server and use the local disk as the backup repository or is there a better approach that is more efficient?

Thanks for a push in the right direction.

JK

[Gostev]

Hello, in your case it is best to do all-in-one deployment from LAN-free backups in Direct SAN processing mode. Basically, you should move all Veeam roles to that new physical box you are adding. To enable direct SAN access, the box must be connected into the SAN fabric, of course. Thanks!