Veeam on a Dell 2950

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We decided not to carve into our free space from our NAS storage. We are looking to use the Dell 2950 and potentially use 2 TB drive.

Would it be the most efficient if I build the Veeam machine using the Dell 2950 as a windows 2008 R2 with a large secondary volume (raid 5 with 2 TB X 4) instead of creating a Veeam virtual machine and then add the Linux machine in (Dell 2950)? We don't plan to have multiple Veeam machines as of now so a centralize storage location is not a priority.

Thanks,
TS

[dellock6]

Thanks to the configuration backup available in 6.5, protecting the Veeam server has become a lower problem, otherwise a common practice is to have the veeam server in a VM without any proxy or repository role in it, and then add a secondary server with proxy and repository on it (needs to be windows since proxy only runs on windows) or keep the proxy in the virtual machine together with the central server, and only have a physical repository (and here you can also use linux to save on licenses).
I personally prefer to have at least the central Veeam server in virtual so it's more protected, if prefer to avoid the restore effort, even if the configuration backup has made it easier.

Luca.