Hi All,
I'm a new Veeam user and have a Veeam Enterprise Plus license. My environment is as follows:
vSphere 6.7 with about 50 virtual machines
All 50 VMs are using Nimble Storage (via a VVol) for their HDDs
I have a Veeam Backup and Replication Server running on a VM that has 8TB storage attached (via a VVol) and I have set all the VMs to be backed up to that storage device.
Is this the best way to do back these virtual machines up? I see Veeam has a way to use the Nimble array as direct storage, but when I go to select that Veeam says that that destination can be used for Primary storage snapshot only.
The other question I have is what is the best way to get a backup offsite? I have a 2nd HPE Nimble at a different location, so how would I set things up to be able to use that as my offsite storage device for backups? One thing I thought to do was to just replicate the 8TB volume using Nimble Replication - but again, is that the best way to go?
Thanks!
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Re: Veeam + VMware + Nimble Storage Questions!
Hi, Steve
1. [EDIT: Apologies, I did not catch that you are using VVOLs, please ignore this answer] The best way to back these virtual machines up is from storage snapshots. If you have already registered your Nimble storage with Veeam, all it takes is a single check box.
2. We recommend using Backup Copy job for this. By leveraging storage-based snapshot replication alone, you're not performing a media break required by the 3-2-1 rule. So the replicated storage snapshots will often have the same exact issues as the original primary storage snapshots.
You can still use replicated storage-based snapshots as additional restore points, they just should not be your ONLY offsite data copies.
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1. [EDIT: Apologies, I did not catch that you are using VVOLs, please ignore this answer] The best way to back these virtual machines up is from storage snapshots. If you have already registered your Nimble storage with Veeam, all it takes is a single check box.
2. We recommend using Backup Copy job for this. By leveraging storage-based snapshot replication alone, you're not performing a media break required by the 3-2-1 rule. So the replicated storage snapshots will often have the same exact issues as the original primary storage snapshots.
You can still use replicated storage-based snapshots as additional restore points, they just should not be your ONLY offsite data copies.
Thanks!
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Re: Veeam + VMware + Nimble Storage Questions!
Vvols can be backed up with HotAdd or NBD processing.
Best performance would be if you rollout HotAdd Proxies on multiple hosts.
Hotadd gives you the best speed.
https://bp.veeam.com/vbr/2_Design_Struc ... oxies.html
Then backup to a backup target and create a backup copy job to your second site nimble storage.
Best performance would be if you rollout HotAdd Proxies on multiple hosts.
Hotadd gives you the best speed.
https://bp.veeam.com/vbr/2_Design_Struc ... oxies.html
Then backup to a backup target and create a backup copy job to your second site nimble storage.
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