Veeam Infrastructure Appliance: Capacity expansion

[redZonk]

Hello all

I have a question regarding expanding the capacity of a Veeam Infrastructure Appliance (repository).
I found a Q&A for Veeam Infrastructure Appliance viewtopic.php?f=2&t=100070&start=0 and have a question about expanding its capacity.
Has anything changed in that regard? According to that Q&A, it wasn’t possible at the time to expand the capacity within a single server. Is that on the roadmap?

From my perspective, there are two options for capacity expansion.
First: If I have an HPE Alletra 4120 equipped with 12 LFF disks and configure a RAID 6 array with those disks, I could install additional disks in the server and expand the RAID. After that, however, I’d need to be able to expand the partition and the file system. As I understand it, that’s not currently supported.

Second: If I install another 12 disks and create a new RAID6 with them? Is there a way to create the partition and the file system and then incorporate it into a SOBR?
Or do you see another option?

We currently have a customer who needs to procure a new server. However, this server needs to be expandable in the future.

Thanks
Patrick

[Mildur]

Hi Patrick

Storage Management for our appliances is part of our upcoming version 13.1.
In v13.0, you will need to deploy a new Infrastructure Appliance for the new disks. There are unsupported ways in v13.0 to extend backup storage, but I strongly recommend to wait for the v13.1 release if you need to extend today.

Best,
Fabian

[chaos]

Will it be possible to expand a VHR with 13.01 After the Upgrade to 13.1 or do we have the rebuild it?

[Mildur]

Hi Chaos,

I double-checked with my colleagues.
Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1 will allow you to mount new disks as new storage. With this new storage, you can configure a second backup repository on the same appliance. However, expanding existing storage with new disks is not included in v13.1 yet.

Best,
Fabian

[chaos]

Hi Fabian,
Not the answer I hoped for, but at least an answer we can work with.